Zipper madness

Well I have finished knitting and felting my coin purse.  After having to start over about 10 times it only took about 3 days of knitting to complete the project.  Of course it helped that we were on vacation in the mountains and I didnt have much to do.  I will post pics of the progress.  For now I am in a zipper catastrophe.  I flunked the sewing part of my home-ec class in middle school and am now regretting it.  I cant figure out how to hand sew the zipper into the purse.  Now I have actually BROKE and TORE the zipper so I will have to tear it out and but a new one to try and sew in.  I have searched for tutorial videos to no avail.  I shall be devastated if I am not able to do this last step in my coin purse!