How To Gather Fabric With Elastic By Hand
Fashion designer Anastasia Chatzka shows you the easiest way to do it on a home sewing machine. Cut a piece of elastic the size of the smaller piece of fabric and stretch the elastic to match the center and edges with the ones on the larger piece.
Jun 23 2018 With the sewing machine needle down pull the elastic to match the center pins of the elastic and fabric.
How to gather fabric with elastic by hand. Pull the elastic to. Cut a piece of 14 knit elastic to the width of your finished bodice- or area you are gathering to. Feb 28 2015 The easiest way for me to do this is to grab the fabric behind the needle with my left hand and the fabric in front of the needle with my right hand and pull in opposite directions keeping the fabric flat as you sew.
Make a second row close to the first row on the seam allowance. This works best with lightweight fabric and doesnt always gather enough. You can mark 18th too if you have a larger item to gather.
Do this without stretching the elastic thread. Change the settings on your serger to gather the fabric as you sew. Feb 15 2019 How do you gather fabric.
Make the first row of stitching as close as possible to the seam line of your ruffle but in the seam allowance. Knit fabrics are best gathered with elastic but this also works well with woven ones. If you want to have greater space to be safe do it at 38 or 12.
Wind the elastic thread on the bobbin until the bobbin is full. Choose the upper thread or bobbin thread gently tugging the threads to gather the fabric. I often have to add tucks to make the gathered piece small enough.
Mark centers and quarters on both elastic and skirt- or what is being gathered. Just sew a couple of stitches. Start at the beginning of your fabric and make a backstitch approximately 14 from the edge of the fabric.
Basically what you do is guiding the edge of the fabric with your left hand and start to sew a straight line. Sew in a zig-zag while stretched. Learn several easy ways to gather fabricSubscribe for more project and technique videos and hit the bell icon to be notified when we post new content.
I only had one hand to use for the picture Dont let the fabric go under the needle all ruffled. Tired of basting stitches that brea. Jul 03 2018 Use a serger to gather the fabric.
To sew with elastic thread you must hand-wind the bobbin. You can pin the two center points together or just hold and match them as you stitch. If at all possible make a third row of stitching.
To gather with elastic. Continue stitching on the edge of the elastic.
