Trousers zipper fly tutorial

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The zipper fly-front is a traditional zipper application for men’s trousers. Nowadays, most of women’s pants have the same kind of front closure. The only difference really is in the plackets lap direction: in women’s clothes it laps right over left (as shown in this tutorial); and in men’s wear it laps left over right. And even that doesn't seem to be a set rule anymore, since most RTW companies do zipper flys on women's pants where left laps over right. Same goes for jeans. 

PS This is no “entry level” self-fly tutorial.

Sewing Tutorial - Attaching belt loops on jeans + sewing bartacks on home sewing machine

Bar tack is a series of straight stitches covered by zig-zag stitches used for reinforcing areas of great stress on a garments or accessories. You’ll see them on belt loops, bottom of a zipper fly, pocket openings and so on. They are also heavily used on military uniforms, luggage and sporting gear. Most of the time bar tacks are apart of the items design.

In clothing industrie, bar tacks are made using a special machine that most of the time has over 50 different bar tack designs varying in length and with, stitch count and length.

Tutorial - Flat-felled seam

I’ve seen many flat-felled seam tutorials around the web, but sadly not one of them mimics industrial flat-felled seam.

When you look at the flat-felled seams on your store bought jeans you see two rows of stitches on both right and left side; cutting edges have been nicely tucked between two details on the outside and on the inside and the back center is right between those two rows of stitches.

And here is how you can do same looking flat-felled seam at home on your commercial sewing machine.