hi I'm Tova with Professor pincushion and today I'm going to show you how to insert metal eyelets into your projects eyelets are a type of fastener allowing you to lace your garments or project they are entirely practical and yet can also be used as a design feature even if you've never done eyelets before you'll easily be able to master them let's go ahead and get started if you've never put in eyelets before is best to purchase a package that comes as a kit so you get some eyelets and then you get the tools to help you put those eyelets and now there are two parts to the eyelet we have the top of the eyelet and you can see that this middle part is taller than this one over here this one definitely has a shallower middle part and this is the bottom and this is the top the fabric that you're attaching our eyelets to needs to be reinforced with interfacing you can see I already have interfacing attached to the wrong side of my fabric this is just going to make our fabric more stable to hold that eyelet if you're putting in an eyelet in connection with a pattern your pattern piece should have a symbol on it where that eyelet should be placed in my particular case it's right here you may have to look at your individual pattern to see what the symbol is going to look like now you need to make sure you transfer this to your fabric piece and I don't necessarily need to do this whole circle but I at least want to mark the very center on my fabric next I'm going to be cutting my fabric right at that point and the trick is you really don't want to make it too big because once it's too big then you're really in trouble so I start small and then I try it out and then I try to make it bigger if I need to be it just needs to be big enough to fit the center section not this top part where it's kind of bigger but just the center section needs to be pushed through so I'm using embroidery scissors just because I feel like I get more of a precise cut but you can use regular scissors too so I just fold my fabric and I just do a little cut just to get it started and then I can stick my scissors in here and I usually kind of form like an X or a cross and then I can try it out so you can see it's a little bit of a hole right there then you're going to take the top of the eyelet and I'm looking at the right side of my fabric so I'm be putting it in like this so you're going the middle part is going towards the wrong side of the fat right so I'm just going to kind of push through to see if it will fit and I can flip it over to the other side and you can see it coming through so the size that I cut it was pretty good again you want to start small and then just see if it works and then if you need to cut your fabric a little bit bigger you could try that the next part you're going to want to place everything on a hard flat surface like a table and probably put something on the table just to protect the surface so if you have any extra scrap fabric just lay it on the table underneath this part so first you're going to start with the anvil which is this part right here and it has two sides there's a flat side and there's a side with a groove so you're going to do it with the grooved side up and first I'm just going to show you without the fabric involved so we have the top of the eyelet is going to be placed so it fits right in that groove and you can see the middle part is sticking up and the fabric will be on it then I'm going to take the bottom of the eyelet and the center part is still going to go down towards so it's just going to slip right over my top eyelet so if you look at this you're going to see a flat surface now you're going to take your tool part which is this section and you can see there's a groove so that's going to fit right in there like that and then you have your little tower with your eyelet in the middle and you're going to take your hammer and you're just going to lightly tap the top of it you really don't have to use a lot of force with this just gently tap it make sure that nothing shifts or anything like that and what's going to happen how you know if it works is this Center part is going to spread out and lock in that bottom eyelet there so it's all going to be sandwiched together so now let's do it with my real-world sample so here's my ayat that I put in my fabric it's going to go down this way so you're not going to see the anvil anymore but it's fit right in that groove the center part is sticking up bottom of the eyelet so the flat side is going to be on top and I'm just going to slip it over the center part of my eyelet I can hold on to it here there we go and because there's fabric kind of sticking up around its going to want to pop up once you put your tool in you can hold it into place and then I'm just going to hit it with the top of my hammer here's the front or the right side of my fabric and flip this over and we'll look at the wrong side so now my eyelet is in there now if you make a mistake it's really hard to redo it so you may want to practice on a few scraps first just so you get the hang of it but once you get it in you'll see it really is pretty easy to do and if you have another IO to put on you can go ahead and move on to that one and that's all there is to it new tutorials are released weekly so please subscribe to be notified at the next release make sure to check out our other videos and visit professorpincushion.com to view our complete library well over 200 sewing video tutorials including our exclusive premium content our premium membership is only $5 a month for unlimited access and only available at professorpincushion.com also don't forget to download our mobile app for videos on the go thanks for watching