the Bernina ruffler is an ingenious accessory something that can handle both lightweight
fabrics and heavyweight fabrics no matter what project you're doing the ruffler is the one to
go to whether you just need lightweight gathers or actually full-on pleats so I'm gonna break
this down into three parts so you can really see what it's all about first off when you're
just gathering a single layer of fabric you'll slide it in where there is an actual scoop to
the refere foot so as you actually stitch it's going to push the fabric to the needle now did
you notice how much fabric went on that one single stitch right now it's set up to do quite a bit of
ruffling now that could be spaced out by adjusting stitch length stitch like this next adjustment it
could actually be made for this particular foot now we can adjust that so it doesn't do as full
of pleats each time we take a stitch this by caking this screw here and bringing it back out
aways this will make the scoop not push as much fabric to the needle each time it takes a stitch
see how much gentler that gather is and that can put a nice finish on any project you're working
on now any time I do a hem to a piece of fabric it makes it easier or later so if I've ruffled
it I'm not trying to uncurl it so you can see I've added the using the Hemmer foot from last
month's video to this project before I started so right now do you notice it's actually stitching
at every single stitch giving it a little tiny pleat now if we want to change that right up
here at the top there's a one a six and a twelve and right now it's been on one so if I actually
go and change that to six by that over now we'll actually count 6 stitches before it takes a pleat
now I am going to go ahead and put the screw back in so it takes a little deeper pleat this
gives it a nice classic look as it stitches there and then that way it just kind of goes
along takes a little pleat as you go there's also number 12 spreading those plates out even more
likewise we could take the same piece of fabric and ruffle it to a base fabric to
do so take the base fabric and slide it completely underneath the ruffler the one
you want to ruffle is actually gonna go down through the foot and that little scoop area now
anytime you're doing the rough floor you're definitely going to want to take and make a
little sample of using the fabric you're going to use on the project then you'll know the type
of ratio you'll need to set both the screw and your stitch length but right now we have
it set on six and a nice deep pleat so I'll just take six stitches and then a nice please
and then when we're done you can see it has a very nice consistent ruffle to the entire
project so much easier than gathering threads and pulling them all the way through isn't it
now to do the ruffles shown on the pillowcase what you want to do is take fold your fabric
in half and press it together do a little line of stitching along the raw edges to help keep
them together as it goes to the rough ler then set it for a setting of either 6 or
12 pleats for every stitch taken and then just go ahead and run it through
to get this part to stay flat and be easily inserted into your project what you want to
do is pin it to your ironing board at both ends and then with a steam iron press these ruffles
in to their natural position and then they'll stay there forever use a ruffler for ruffling
right down the middle of a bias strip for some neat embellishments for a variety of projects
whether it's a little girls dress you're ruffling a fabric that is of a home deck
wait that's doubled up or like the quilt that's right behind me where they've added
ruffles after the quilt has been quilted using the bias strip fabric and then roughly knit and
then applying it to the quilt this is one accessory that you won't want to be without