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You want to see a quick way to gather? This is a cheat way to gather. I would prefer a
ruffler or a gathering foot. If you put on your Foot Letter C, it’s the manual buttonhole
foot. We used this foot when we showed you how to do corded buttonholes.
You can use, with a little bit of cord divided by half, hook it around the back little heel
of this foot. Set your fabric that you want to gather underneath it. This is great, especially
if you have really heavy fabric, home deck fabric or something for a pillow.
The stitch we’re using is stitch number 23. It is a gathering or bridging stitch in
your manual. Just go ahead and stitch all the way down. What it’s doing is going a
bite out to this side, a bite in the middle, a forward bite, and then it bites outside,
giving a little bit of a mountain bite.
It’s securing the cord in two places all the way down the fabric. Because we have looped
it around the first, where we started, that means this part is secure. All you have to
do is take the cord and give it a pull.
It’s not like you’re pulling on threads that could break, this is a cord that is actually
drawing up inside your fabric. Then, you can go ahead and pin it into your project and
stitch it in place to have the perfect gathers.