Quick Tips: Tube Turning With Yarn

If you're making a project that requires a tube or a strap, that can be the most tedious part of the project. Whether it's you're trying to create maybe uh some straps on a tank top or your own draw string. For a little bag, it can be really hard to make that little tube and get it turned right side out, um, in a, in a very efficient manner. So I'm gonna show you a quick way that you can do that using yarn. You could also use a heavier string ribbon pretty much anything you have on hand. What you wanna do is you have your strip that you are going to be turning into your tube. And I like to start with my strip a little bit longer than it needs to be. That way. I have something I can trim off when I actually get it turned right side out. So with this, I just kept the measurement that my strip needed to be and then kept the salvage on the end because I know I'm gonna trim that off anyway, then I want to have a piece of string or yarn or that is longer than my fabric is because I want to be able to sew it into one side and still be able to grab it on the other side to be able to turn my tube right side out. So all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take and at the top edge here where I know I want to be trimming this end off, I'm going to lay my yarn right there in the middle and I'm gonna fold my piece right sides together. So this is the tube I'm creating, I would just be folding it right sides together and stitching all along the edge. I want to start up here in the corner and I'm going to do a couple stitches forward and a couple of stitches backwards to really secure that yarn between the layers of the fabric. Now, if you are using something that's a little bit more dense like a string or maybe a flat ribbon, you might not have to do as many stitches forward and backwards. But because I have yarn which has all these plies kind of twisted together, I wanna make sure that it is nice and secure. So I'm gonna secure that at the top and then I'm just going to stitch my tube together. So use whatever seam allowance, your pattern calls for whatever seam allowance you're using in your project and stitch down the long raw edge. Now I'm gonna go a little bit at a time and then I'm going to stop because I'm not pinning my pieces. I'm simply turning this right side together and I wanna make sure that my yarn never gets out of the crease here on the left hand side. So I wanna just go a little at a time, make sure my yarn is staying right in the crease of that fabric and then I can sew a little more once I've stitched all the way down, I can go ahead and clip those threads and then I'm gonna do just a little bit of trimming of my seam allowance because anytime you're making a strap or a drawstring or something that is this thin, you don't wanna have all of that extra seam allowance on the inside. It's just going to make it a little bit more difficult to turn it right sides together. So you could use a pair of scissors. You can use a ruler with this. You can kind of just freehand trim it with your rotary cutter. All we wanna do is remove about half of whatever our steam allowance was. I'm gonna go ahead and trim this corner here at an angle just a little bit. It'll make it easier to get started. And now all I have to do is take pull on the end of my yarn and that is going to pull up here at the top and it's going to pull that seam that we, that we secured that yarn in into the center and now it's gonna be a little bit tricky to get it started. You just wanna get it sort of folded in. And now as I pull on it, it's going to turn the tube right side out. So let's get it started. So once you have it started, now you're just going to hold on to the edge and kind of keep pulling it down as your string or your yarn pulls this tube right side out. Now with this a yarn like this, I don't wanna pull too hard where I shred that yarn and accidentally pull it out of the, the seam where I stitch it into. So as soon as I get to where I can see my fabric, I wanna now grab onto my fabric to turn that the rest of the way right side out rather than again pulling on that string. So here is a, a very skinny tube that would have been pretty difficult to try and use a pencil or another tube, turning tool like a chopstick or something to be able to turn it right, set out a little bit tricky to get it started with the yarn. But then once you do, you just pull it and it comes right out. Now, up here at this upper edge, this is again why I like to have my strip a little bit longer than I need it to be in the first place because rather than having to pick out this seam uh or undo that to get my yarn free. All I'm gonna do is come in trim that off and now I am ready to go use this as my drawstring, my strap on a tank top, but just like that, you've got it turned right side out.