this is a sewing for beginners sewing tutorial it's an easy way to gather on a
sewing machine I was able to gather this particular piece of fabric really
quickly and as you can see this is perfect for a skirt or putting on a
cushion to gather it all up for this sewing tutorial I'm going to use the
baby lock soprano there is a gathering foot for this particular machine but
for this sewing tutorial I am going to show you this particular way so what
settings do we need to change to gather fabric on the sewing machine the most
important thing that we have to change when we gather fabric is this here we
are going to lengthen our stitches to a really long length so my machine goes to
5.0 and keep all the settings the same on your sewing machine my sewing foot is
just a regular J foot on the babylock - J foot for any other brands I'm not
quite sure but whatever you use for straight stitching that is the sewing
foot you'll be using and my sewing needle is a 90 / 14 micro Tex needle and
I'll be using a regular polyester thread to gather fabric. A Gather is going to
work on any type of fabric you'll see that this one is a slightly thinner
cotton and this one is a much more heavier weight of cotton it will work on
a knit it's going to work on a on a stretchy fabric this will work on any
type of fabric that you were going to do. To gather fabric on the sewing machine
we're going to pull both of these threads you're gonna grab your bobbin
thread and your top thread that's for your sewing machine needle and you're
gonna pull it and you're gonna pull it so about 20 inches in length then you're
going to put your fabric in and you're going to place your you presser foot
down on your sewing machine and put your needle in the down position now I'm
going to show you how to gather fabric easy. So let me know in the comments down
below do you normally gather fabric by hand or do you gather fabric with the
sewing machine when you come to the end of the fabric you want to gather you're
going to lift your presser foot up lift your needle up and then you're gonna
pull this thread out and you're gonna once again leave about 20 inches of
thread and you're going to cut so if you generally gather fabric by hands this is
what it's going to look like and when you gather fabric on the sewing machine
this way it's going to look like that too so let's create the gathered fabric
all you're going to do is grab one of the threads and you're gonna start
making gathers into your fabric so you you pull and you just push these down
I'm gonna do it a little bit at a time and you're gonna push and you're gonna
pull one end and you're gonna push and as you see you start creating a gathered
fabric so this post of my fabric here is right on the middle so I'll take one end
and do my gathered fabric going right to the center and then I will go from the
other end here and start to gather the fabric the other
way I have all this fabric gathered here and now I'm going to take it from the
other end and join it to the center once complete this is what my gathers will
look like obviously you will have your dimensions for the length of the gather
because don't forget the gather is going to shrink up to like half the size of
the original fabric because it's all condensed up into this gather so bear
that in mind when you want to gather something you're probably going to need
twice or three times as much as the length that you're going to require and
it also depends on how much gathers you want in your fabric another thing to
bear in mind when you are gathering fabric you want to be careful when
you're pulling these threads here cuz they're very easy to snap off and you
don't want to have to do them all over again and in order to keep the gathers
secure I will I think I'm just going to chop a bit of this off and I will tie a
knot right in the very end of this thread here so my gathers don't fall out
on me like if I'm making this for a skirt or a pillow case then my hard work
isn't going to be lost just like that and then you can just cut these ends off
my baby look soprano comes with all of these amazing stitches and one of the
ones I want to show you today is the basting stitch so the basting stitch
that I'm going to show you that's going to help us with our gathering is this
stitch here so a stitch number eight and it's gonna help to gather our fabric
this is my machine all set up for the pre-programmed basting stitch I'm going
to pull these tails back and I'm going to put my fabric into my sewing machine
and put the needle in the down position and I'm gonna baste this
when it comes to the end I will lift my presser foot up and raise my needle
and pull the fabric away from the sewing machine again about 20 inches I'm just
gonna use this cutter here and it does this really lovely wide basting stitch
so I just grab one of these tails and I'll starts pulling to create the
gathers in the fabric as you can see with this particular basting stitch
because they are so wide it's made it really easy to gather this fabric up out
of the two ways that I showed you I really like this way best one because
it's got these really wide stitches and the second it was like really quick to
do and it was really easy for me to gather these without the worry of
snapping a threat cuz the other way where I just used the longest basting
stitch that I had by lengthening my stitch it doesn't go quite as wide as
this preset stitch it's absolutely fabulous and then at the end here what I
would do because it is a super wide basting stitch this stitch is gonna come
loose on you so you want to keep that into place by tying that knot which way
do you prefer this way is like so much nicer so you would just do a double knot
securing that end so you don't lose that gather because that wouldn't be
good to do all that effort and lose that gather so here you go
this is what it's gonna look like I'm gonna put both these samples
side-by-side again so you can see so this one you can get it super tight
because then stitches are really close together
so it will create a really tight gather on this one the stitches were much wider
so it's going to create a much less gather i'm thinking I mean it's still
effective don't get me wrong well this one you can clearly see it's very
very tight and creates a lot of gathers and then this one it's going to have the
same effect but it doesn't gather as many so tightly I hope you've enjoyed this
easy way to gather fabric let me know in the comments down below how you
generally gather your fabric I upload videos every single Wednesday don't
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