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Sara: If you want to stitch elastic onto your fabric, from row 1, use stitch number 13.
It is elastic easing stitch. Now, once you put it under your foot B, which it recommends,
and you start stitching … go ahead and get it a couple stitches in here … You want
to pull the elastic. Now, how much you pull depends on how much gathered up of the fabric
you want. I’m going to just pull gently and let the fabric kind of be stitched in,
and by using the lines on the foot, you can kind of keep the elastic guided down the middle.
Since you are sometimes stitching into the elastic, if you ever get any skipped stitches,
switch to a stretch needle. A stretch needle has a great coating that will laminate the
stitches that you’re skipping when you use stitching through the rubber part of the elastic
here. Let’s see what we’re looking at. All right.
This is what it looks like on the top side where the … or the back side where the elastic
is, and this is what it’s going to look like on the back side; kind of starting to
shear up, so the more I pull, the more that will gather up for your project.