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From: laught0omuch
Date: 01-25-2005, 02:49 AM (1 of 2)
| I am so glad to have found this forum ! I can sew basic stuff but I am still pretty new to sewing. My daughter is having a birthday party and with a clown theme. I need to make a clown costume (not for her) with multiple ruffles on the pants and sleeves. How do you do MULTIPLE RUFFLES ? Please remember I am new and explain as simple as possible =D THanks |
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Member since: 01-25-2005 Total posts: 3 |
From: paroper
Date: 01-25-2005, 08:57 AM (2 of 2)
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The placement is not really that hard. You need to decide where you want them and mark your fabric on the outside with tracing paper. When you place the ruffle over the marks they will be covered. You'll need to decide how large you want your ruffles and if you want any of the lower fabric to show through. That will determine how close together you want your ruffles. If I didn't want the fabric to show, I'd plant to overlap the ruffles at least an inch. The fullness will take up some of the lap space because the ruffles stick out. You need to plan to have at least 2 1/2 times the width of the area you plan to cover for the width of your ruffle. You will need to have a ruffle "top" which you might want to plan to be 5/8-3/4 of an inch plus the hem. The bottom, that is up to you. Short ruffles are very stiff and stick almost straight out...just depends on the look you want. The longer the ruffle, the floppier they are. Decide your length of ruffle and add an amount for the hem. The easy way to finish the ends of your ruffle is the sew the ends into the seams. If you don't you will need to hem the end of your ruffles. It is also easier to apply the ruffles before the garment is put together so that you can lay it flat to sew. Finish to top and bottom of a strip of fabric with a serger rolled edge if you have one. If you don't you can fold under 1/8 inch and then fold the edge again 1/8 inch and then stitch on top to make a rolled hem. A lot of clown ruffles are finished with rick rack. You can zig zag the bottom edge and sew the rick rack to the top, then turn the rick rack under and just have about half the rick rack showing from the bottom of the ruffle, it will make the ruffle a bit heavier and sitffer at the bottom so that it sticks out a little more. Sometimes the ric rak is sewn on top of the ruffled edge after hemming. There are a couple ways to gather your ruffle if you don't have a ruffler or a gathering foot. You can make a row of gasting stitches at the point where you are going to sew them on... 5/8 in for instance. The sew another row of basting stitches at 3/8 inch. Then, holding the two rows of basting stitch together, pull this stitches until they fit the width of your aloted space. Adjust the gathers so that they are even. Then, pin the ruffle to your garment at one of the marked lines and sew it using the lower gather line for a guide. I prefer to pin the lower ruffle first so that I don't have to fight with a ruffle that lays over it. You may remove any basting threads that you wish. I always remove the 3/8 inch thread. I may or may not remove the one at the seamline. The other easy way to gather, and often the least frusterating is to take a length of sting...it can be kite string, fishing line, dental floss, crochet thread (not yarn), lay it at your stitch line and zig zag OVER the string. Then, holding the string, slide your gathers over the string to adjust. Follow the rules above for placement. Have fun!!! pam
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