Sewing up the last bit of a woobie after turning it inside out or outside in, finished updated with pictures

[zacattack]

This may be a dumb question, but I’m about to tackle a woobie and was wondering what’s the best way to sew up the last little bit after you Sew the other sides and reverse it and put the insulation on the inside?

 

[flyinsquirel]

I don't know what the best way is, but I just sew it shut with the machine. Yes, it looks different in that area, but I don't care.

 

[WoodBow]

You only need to leave enough area unsewn to pull the rest through. Then just fold those raw edges inwards and hem that section.

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[zacattack]

This is kinda what I thought, but wanted to be sure I wasn’t missing something obvious

 

[ozyclint]

On the one I made I turned it right way out then used the opening as an opportunity to integrate a stuff pouch. Sewed it on there and it looks like it was all meant to be.

 

[Bender]

Zac - We leave enough open in one corner to pull the guts through and then top stitch around the perimeter. This closes up the hole and lays everything flat. I would recommend you start 2-3" before a corner and backstitch a few times to start and stop. This will keep you from having to negotiate the corner when you topstitch the opening. The backstitching will keep the opening from coming un-done when you pull everything through. Shoot me an email if you have any questions.

 

[zacattack]

Zac - We leave enough open in one corner to pull the guts through and then top stitch around the perimeter. This closes up the hole and lays everything flat. I would recommend you start 2-3" before a corner and backstitch a few times to start and stop. This will keep you from having to negotiate the corner when you topstitch the opening. The backstitching will keep the opening from coming un-done when you pull everything through. Shoot me an email if you have any questions.

awesome thanks

 

[zacattack]

Finished, it’s not bad for my first real project other than some stuff sacks and practice. About halfway through I discovered it’s much easier to just sew with the insulation on the bottom, instead of using tissue paper to keep it from getting caught in the foot.

my only problem was that it’s a hell of a lot smaller than it’s supposed to be. Like the length is probably 20” shorter and the width is almost a foot. I expected it to be some shorter but not this much. My insulation actually turned out to be the correct length, I had to stuff the extra inside and it’s kinda lumpy in two corners but whatever. What did I do wrong?

 

[Erict]

Measure twice, cut once?

Hard to see details from your pics but it looks fine and I'm sure it will keep someone warm.

Not sure how you ended up that short. I just made my first one and found that the two fabrics varied in width by a bit. Sewed them together using straight stitch, 10 per inch, 90 needle, then sewed the 5 oz. Apex to the two. Sewing insulation down worked fine on my machine, though it seemed to work best insulation down with a strip of newspaper under the insulation. Crease the newspaper along the stitch and it comes off quickly and cleanly. The big advantage to sewing fabric side up was that I could see my original stitch and I could sew the insulation very close to the "outside" of the original stitch (when turned, this puts the insulation stitch "inside" the two fabric stitch. After all was sewn, I trimmed everything up and turned it inside out.

The fabrics are very slippery and if you don't go slow, use enough pins/clips or tape and watch the guide then you will end up with the pieces not square to each other. I found it best to sew a long edge, smooth the whole thing down on the floor, then pin a side, then 3/4 of a long edge, then the bottom. I used many sandbags to hold the fabric down on the floor as I pinned the next edge to be sewn.

 

[zacattack]

Measure twice, cut once?

Hard to see details from your pics but it looks fine and I'm sure it will keep someone warm.

Not sure how you ended up that short. I just made my first one and found that the two fabrics varied in width by a bit. Sewed them together using straight stitch, 10 per inch, 90 needle, then sewed the 5 oz. Apex to the two. Sewing insulation down worked fine on my machine, though it seemed to work best insulation down with a strip of newspaper under the insulation. Crease the newspaper along the stitch and it comes off quickly and cleanly. The big advantage to sewing fabric side up was that I could see my original stitch and I could sew the insulation very close to the "outside" of the original stitch (when turned, this puts the insulation stitch "inside" the two fabric stitch. After all was sewn, I trimmed everything up and turned it inside out.

The fabrics are very slippery and if you don't go slow, use enough pins/clips or tape and watch the guide then you will end up with the pieces not square to each other. I found it best to sew a long edge, smooth the whole thing down on the floor, then pin a side, then 3/4 of a long edge, then the bottom. I used many sandbags to hold the fabric down on the floor as I pinned the next edge to be sewn.

Yeah I was super paranoid I would cut one of the pieces wrong so I laid all three uncut on each other, spread them out flat and then measured and cut all three at once. I used a 90 needle with somewhere between 8 and 10 stitches per inch. Who knows, I may try your method of sewing the fabrics together first and then adding the insulation, trying to handle three pieces at once got tricky a few times.