Invisible Zipper Installation Instructions

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Image 1: Cut front & back of pillow the same size. Cord front. Cut Invisible Zipper 2" longer than bottom width of pillow.
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Image 2: Put pin across end of zipper (keeps you from pulling slide off). Open zipper the full length.
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Image 3: Turn zipper UP SIDE DOWN & center at bottom of pillow cording. Push zipper teeth up tight to cording and stitch in tape not worrying about getting close to teeth.
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Image 4: Roll teeth flat (open) & stitch in ditch. Remember: if you get too close to teeth or stitch OVER them, the zipper will not work.
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Image 5: Start & stop your stitching about 1-2" from end of pillow, just where the cording starts to go around the corner.
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Image 6: Close zipper 2/3 across pillow to help line up front & back of pillow.
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Image 7: Pin across bottom of pillow on wrong side. Open the zipper back up to pin.
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Image 8: In the tape, stitch the zipper in place. Then go back to about 1" from edge & fold the teeth flat. Stitch in the ditch.
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Image 9: Now you are ready to sew pillow all the way around. Fold the zipper inside the seam.
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Image 10: Turn whole pillow over with the cording stitching up. Starting just inside where you stitched the zipper, back stitch across the zipper then reach inside where the zipper is & pull the tape out of the seam. Move your cording foot up on to the cording. Finish stitch around the remainder of your pillow.
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Image 11: As you come around to where the zipper is, come just around the corner watching for your zipper stitching.
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Image 12: While you are still on the cording, pull the zipper tails out of the seam but keep them positioned over the top of each other.
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Image 13: Back stitch over the zipper tails.
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Image 14: Zipper & Pillow Complete!
 
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