No Hand Sewing Updated Sewing Machine Closure Wig Tutorial

One, oh, hey everybody. As y'all know, i like to jump right into my videos. We have my zinger heavy duty. I have the model 4411 know the model number does not matter. Get the cheapest model number of this zinger heavy duty that you can find, because the differences between the models is the amount of stitches you get and we only use two and they come on all of them. So with that being said, we're going to get into our settings we're going to have our settings between a three and a four for the length, a five and a six for the width, we're going to have our needle position in the middle and our tension. At a five, if you can see that little arrow going to the four that kind of gives you an indication on where you should be at i'm gon na try to focus this frame, so you could go ahead and freeze screenshot. So here i'm going to put the link in description: how to do these guidelines. This is a 5x5 closure and it's also going to show you how to hotcomb a good way to hotcomb all the hair in the center, because we're going to be sewing our closure on with the machine. Yes, that's with the machine. We will not be hand sewing. This first and we're going to be sewing it on last. So if you know how to do guidelines, you may not have to watch that video, but i will have it available for you guys to be able to watch it along with this tutorial now. This is a five by five closure um on a mesh dome cap. As you can see, i threaded my needle and i'm gon na hold the thread. While i sew to make sure it doesn't come out the thread because we all know it can get very frustrating um having to rethread that over and over again, so i tell my students to get the track on the cap first before you start lining up with Your guidelines because, as you know, it can get real frustrating that that hair comes out or off the cap. So once you do that, you got you pretty much go on the guide that you already created. Now i will say all bundles are not the same. So you have to kind of know what you're working with because most of the time um, especially with longer limbs - and there are only three bundles - i will single weft the first three to four. What is it three to four um lines and then double the rest? As you can see here, i'm back stitching and then i'm gon na go in and cut and then i'm gon na go to the end just so i can assure that i got to the end of the line, but back to the bundles. Please pay attention to you know how many bundles is being used, whether it's three or four, whether it's five or seven, whatever you have to pay attention to that, to know whether you're going to be doubling the whole thing. If you got a quadruple triple all those things play a part in there, so my golden rule with getting the track and the cap underneath the presser footer is the pinch inch pinch an inch away from your guideline in your track to be able to hold the Hair and slide it under the presser footer always remember to have your needle up and make sure your presser foot is down. While you're sewing a lot of times, you get bunching and jamming because you forget to put the presser footer down um so remember to never stretch your cap when i say never stretch your cap, do not be pulling the opposite way of your sewing machine and make Sure your hands are always moving. I have that issue with a lot of my students. They want to keep their hands still and that's causing stretching, and it may seem like it's not stretching, but imagine you're, keeping your hand you're, holding something while it's being pulled that automatically makes it stretch, even though you're not physically stretching it it's being stretched because the Machine is going the opposite way of where you are. That was a mouthful. I do apologize if i'm rambling a little bit, i'm just trying to keep up with the video. What'S going on, i didn't speed up anything. I actually want everything to play, so you could watch it a couple times um just in case you missed something or you need to go back whatever you need to do to catch the concept. I know this is something very new to people. It will take a couple of tries, do not give up. Practice makes perfect. You'Re like i went to a one-on-one class before i started watching online tutorials, and things like that. So one-on-ones are different than online tutorials because you have some somebody there to correct you when you're doing something wrong. As you can see, those lines are looking good. We got our zig zag stitch. If you want to, you can cut the extra thread off but um. I can't talk sorry before or after you finish your week. So if you want to go line by line and cut those extra hairs thread off, you can, but you can wait to the end as well. So we're just going to repeat the same thing again like i said, you're going to do this for two to three, even four lines. Just depending on the length, i don't remember the length of the hair, i'm using unfortunately um but like if you were doing shorter like anything under 16, then you probably wouldn't have to single the wefts. But again that really has to do with the type of hair and how it is um wefted. And if you have to move your cap in different directions and turn it inside out, you know anything to be able to make it easier to be under the needle. Go ahead and do that like there's nothing wrong with it, it doesn't have to be completely flat throughout the video you'll. See me flip it inside out hold it different ways like do what you need to do, to make it comfortable for you and to ensure that you're not stretching your cap, which in turn will change the size of your wig um. I will i'm gon na try to post some standard measurements for a ready to ship wigs, and that would be a weed that you make beforehand without taking custom measurements. It'S like a small, medium, large, usually small, being a 21 medium being a 22, a large being a 23.. Now here we're going to be doubling our wefts as we sew now. What you see me doing is putting the two wefts together, so i can attach them to the cap, and so i'm just lining my ends up um to be able to sew. I'M gon na do the pinch in each same way, just with the double wefting um and then make sure everything is aligned. I tell my clients, my students, just to make sure look, get it on the cap. First, if you haven't, you know, because it's new something new to you, it's going to be a little harder, so just get it on the cap and then line it up um. As far as the back stitching goes. I know some people do three or four me personally. I only do that one's back and then go forward, um, there's no right or wrong way about the amount of times that you backstitch on your ends. You just want to make sure that that doesn't come up. Um, so it can, you know, have longevity with your client that that wep is not coming off and, as you can see, i'm doing the same exact thing as i would with a single, but i'm just making sure i always say make sure both the wefts are In the legs of the presser footer and that's how you can assure that it's going smoothly as you can see, this bundle is ending right at the end of my fourth line um. So it worked out perfectly um and if you're not ready for this, that's okay. There'S a video i have to show you how to double your wefts prior to um, putting it on the cap so either way it's fine! It'S just once you start to get your speed up and you start to get comfortable. You start to get your little hacks and shortcuts, and this is one of them to be able to double the weft. While you sew opposed to doubling it before it shouldn't. Take you long to double your with um, even if you do it before once you get the hang of things with your machine now for me, when i close close when i sew my closure on um with the machine i sew up into the last, i guess The second to the last line, so i should have one line left before i put on my closure um and that's where i'm going to stop i'm going to put my closure in a ponytail. If i haven't done already just to hold those hairs out, the way like it makes it so much easier when the hair is all going towards the center, so nothing is getting caught, nothing getting snagged um, it happens, i fix it. You know i use my nails if you need to you, can use the end of a rat tail comb to kind of get in there and move stuff around if need be. But again, if you have to watch the landmark landmark, is the guideline video to see the landmarks that i'm talking about when it comes to sewing on the closures i'm going to line up my corners or where i put my little dots. That'S how i'm going to line up to know where to start where that i'm at a corner in the center and all the way at the end, now there is a ton of ways to sew your closure on with the sewing machine. This is just one of them: i've seen at least three other ways. This is what works for me. I'Ve seen people actually cut um, go all the way to the top um sorry, i've seen people cut the cap and sew the wefts all the way to the top and then sew the closure. For me, i just follow the guidelines. Again, i have my landmarkings in several different spots on the closure as well as on my cap to, let me know, okay, i should be here at this point here at that point, if i'm not there or if i'm over that mean, i did something wrong. I need to cut it opposed to finding out, at the end that it's uneaten, so my land markings is like you know just like when you go, you know going to to the store. You have landmarkings to be able to keep up with stuff. I know that was kind of crazy analogy, but that's what i use i use the guidelines and the landmark is on my closure. That'S why it's very important that you watch the guideline video. So you can see what those landmarkings are exactly here. I'M just trying to focus so you guys can see what's going on. But if you even look you see my middle land marking in the middle of the closure, and so i'm going to do just like i would do a track. I'M going to line it up with the guidelines and use my landmarkings to make sure i'm on the right track. Um several times, you'll see me try to move the hair outside of the lid, because what happens is if you're caught you're going to see me move this cap plenty of times to make sure i'm not stretching it to get it out the way to ensure that It'S flat, like you, guys, really have to figure out ways to move move that cap without stretching, even if you have to turn it inside out any you know find your way like. Please do not give up. Try, try, try again until you get it. This is something that you really want to do. Please do not give up on it, because at one point in time i gave up on it and left it alone, and if i would have just kept trying i would have. I would be so much further if i didn't give up um, so i'm encourage you. Please don't give up just keep trying keep trying. You got to take the wig apart and do it again just keep trying if you need to reset do that, but i literally just follow the guidelines all the way to the end and then do a back stitch um and it's really important to try to get As much hair as and get that hair into the center as possible because it makes it force like, if you don't it's going to take you a little longer than it is taking me, the all these videos are in real time. I didn't speed up any of these videos, so you can see you know my pace of what i do. Closures are easier for me than frontals um. Let me know in the comments section, if you like, a frontal video or even if you would let like another method of sewing the closure on. As you can see, it's all stitched on really good and all i'm gon na do is go in with the rest of the tracks that i have and close up this wig. I usually do a double stitch on that. You know on that last line and if i have enough hair left i'll, do a single stitch around the entire closure. It just depends on how much hair i have left because there's been times why i do not have enough hair to really do that. Last little last little track that i would like to do um, because i do do ghost wig making um if you're interested if you're a busy hairstylist. I understand hit me up. I do do ghost wig, making um there's a minimum of at least 10 weeks. That needs to be made. We could go over all the details once you contact me, which i will leave in the description box box um. I love it. So, let's talk about it, but other than that that is the wig like, like i said, you're gon na close it up. Like you see me here, it does get a little tight in there. If you need to take off i've, seen some people take off the um, i guess that's the stage of the sewing machine. It can slide out i've something seen people take that off to help um be able to sew better. Do what you need to do. There'S seven ways to skin a cat and just get it done like the wig world is so lit right now, so don't be afraid, don't be afraid to mess up. I feel like messing up is how you learn. Like you see how, especially if you plan on wanting to teach, you can be able to say hey. This is what you did wrong, because i did it wrong, so i know what to do now differently. If you want to one on one hit me up come to chicago, i might start offering in miami um, we can do it if you feel like you need more correction or you just can't grasp it or a refresher any of those things i do offer in Person i rather um be able to help at a one-to-one. I actually like one-on-ones better, because i can really see what you're doing wrong and be able to correct you via youtube. I can't do that. I can only give you so many tips and sometimes the verbiage can get off when you're asking me questions, and i don't always understand - or vice versa, so one-on-ones are great. I don't think i would do a group class just because everybody moves at different paces and i like to give that one-on-one attention to make sure you got it before you leave making sure. So this is what it looks like after that last guideline is done and i'm going to go ahead and put a single track in between those lines. I wouldn't put the double. I mean you can put a double there, but just to ensure a little bit more flattening. I would do the last one be a single just, so i don't have that little. I guess quote-unquote hump um between the closure and your last track. Um. So again, i'm just gon na go around and around until i get to my finish line, let me if i wrote you a symphony just to say how much you mean to me. What would you do if i told you you were beautiful? Would you date me on the regular, well baby, i've been around the, and this is our finished product as far as sewing that lash track? Has a nice slimless look, so you can go ahead and part it off and do what you need to do without any gaps. So then, we're gon na go ahead and flip it inside out, as you can see those lines, looking pretty good um and then we're gon na cut that excess cap from underneath the closure, because obviously we don't need that so don't give away. Would now we're going to grab our elastic band? I do wholesale these on my website. I will put a link in the description um. This is my adjustable band um. I do cut it sometimes depending on the cap, not even depending most of the time i cut it um just to give it a little more um security and then over time it's going to kind of it's going to loosen at the end of the day, because You'Re going to wash it dry it all these different things are going to loosen, so i make it possibly a little more tighter than need be and then you're going to burn the edges to kind to amend the rubber that would be trying to unravel um. So you don't have the jagged edge in the jagged um cloth or whatever it's called um, and i just i line it up with the closure. So you're going to see me part it off the closure from the tracks and i'm going to line i'm going to put it on a line of that first track, not on the closure, because one you may have to replace your closure and you don't want to Put too much tension on your closure, especially if you got like a hd lace that is very delicate or whatever like that, so i always just put it and then i do a single a straight stitch too. So i don't know if you guys see me put the straight stitch on, but it's needed to do the straight stitch. I don't recommend doing a zigzag, stitch and you're going to go back and forth like three or four times with the straight stitch um, and make sure that if you notice that i got the flat side in because you don't want the um side, where the clasp Is on your client's braids, you want that to be on the outside facing the wig itself. Where'D you go. I want you to, and now we have a completed wig with an elastic band um. This was a size 22 that i use, which is like a standard size, um wig size, which would be a considered a medium and yeah. I mean i don't have too much to say after that, it's done um. If you have any questions, please let me know i will try my best to answer them. If you have any suggestions on videos for closure wigs, i will try to get to them and do them for you, and this is what it looked like on my head. No glue um. This is a nice lace for sure um, a little lace thing. It will really blend into my skin. I didn't style this. This was one of my ghost wig making contracts, so i gave it to them as is, and that's it y'all. If you have any more questions again, please do not hesitate to leave them in the comments section until next time see you later sleigh babies, you