Zip Repair Question.

[Paul_B]

I've got a mountain equipment hoodie fleece I really like. As in I'm hardly ever out of it when I'm not at work or in the outdoors. I don't know what happened but the zip has no stop to the bottom end of the neck zip. This means one side comes out of the zipper.

Is there an easy way to budge a stop to keep the end of the zip together? It holds if you keep the zip done up a bit bit I'd like a better, real fix.

 

[Toddy]

If I'm reading what you've said right, and it's the bottom end of the zip you mean, then simply stitch over both strands of the closed zip right down close where there ought to be a 'stop'. It's easy to do, just double up a normal thread and it'll bed down right in among the teeth of the zip.
Do it a few times and knot it off securely, and it'll hold. If you use a matching coloured thread it'll not even be noticeable.

M

 

[birchwood]

The easiest way is to sew a ‘stop’ across the zip. Just oversew a few stitches across it.

Toddy posted while I was typing

 

[Paul_B]

Obvious solution. Should have thought of it myself.

Thanks for the solution.

 

[Janne]

Reinforce the thread with superglue.

 

[Toddy]

Thing is though, that risks dribbling it everywhere, and it's on the front of a top.

Honestly, just the thread will be fine. It holds very well indeed. Himself is wearing a pull on windproof top that I've repaired this very way. It's an awful lot quicker and simpler than replacing a zip, especially one sewn into a neckline/yoke/collar.

You can buy new metal 'staples' that replace the one that's sprung out, and I have used them, but for something like this, the stitches are an awful lot easier and quicker.

M

 

[Janne]

Of course, that is the risk!

I do the stiching and superglue on all flies on my trousers, I hate it when the zip pull gets stuck at the lowest point, in that tiny 'pocket/void" between the zip and folded fabric.

 

[Janne]

Flies as in trouser flies, not bird food flies!
( just to clarify...... )