A shirring special - on a sewing machine or a coverstitch machine
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Shirring TOP TIPS with a coverstitch machine or sewing machine. .Getting started shirring #shirreddress #Shirring #shirringonacoverstitchmachine #shirringoneasewingmachine #sewtoon
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Great video. I really like your use of shirring on the cuff. I have avoided shirring because I didn’t want to deal with winding bobbins. I will try using my coverstitch. Thank you
It’s tighter than regular shirring so worth a play first
Wonderful Alison….I love your enthusiasm. You are such a hoot. 💕
Awe thank you 🥰
Just found your vlog today. I too use David Drummond, great service. New to cover stitch but not sewing
How are you finding your coverstitch Fay
@@SewLikeDotty loving it. Going to spend some time this afternoon getting to know it better. Can see so much I can use it for.
Love your dress. I don’t have a cover stitch. But really enjoyed your vlog. And you had me smiling with you at your excitement.
I'm so glad 🙂
Never tired shirring but i give it a go thank you
Go for it 🥰
Where is that mind blown emoji when you need it!!! Thank you for sharing this new method. I too love how shirred bodice looks but doing it on my machine sucks the life out of me. I’ll give it a go on my cover stitch. So thank you
Ooof fab I’m excited for you - just leave a long tail on your looper at the end of the row so the elastic doesn’t fly back 😍
Wow this is a revelation 😄 just tried it on my coverstitch machine and with a lot of fiddling it worked a treat 👍 thanks so much xxx
So pleased it worked 🥰 its amazing isn’t it just have to make sure the elastic doesn’t ping back through the looper- I got fought out a couple of times x
@@SewLikeDotty I got caught out more than twice 🙈. Just ordered the modern wardrobe book to try the shirred dress. Yours look fab xxx
Oooo fab let me know what else you make 🤩
Thanks so much for this blog Alison, I'm definitely going to give shirring it a go! 😀 I love that blue flowered fabric and it looks fab with the shirring dress looks gorgeous! 😍
Thanks Angela give it a go it’s much easier than I thought 😊
Hi Alison,what a beautiful dress.My aim is to master shirring during my holiday which starts tomorrow.I really need to try shirring with my Baby Lock, mine is a combination machine too (very old one but it works like a dream 👌) I always enjoy your vlogs 👏👍👍Wishing you a great week
Can’t wait to hear how you get on. Be warned it’s addictive 😂
Thats lovely Alison, no wonder you are excited. It looks so floaty and comfortable xx
It really is looking forward to more in the summer
Fabulous Alison. When you were telling us about the length of time to create the shirring I shouted out “40 minutes “ at the same time as you. It was so lovely to meet everyone on Sunday. All of you guys were such an inspiration to me. Will be challenging myself and taking myself out of the comfort zone I’m in to create something a bit more special. Thanks again
Your dress looks really lovely on you. 🤓🏴
Awe it was lush to see you Mags look forward to seeing your makes on instagram x
That's such a difference in time between the two! Yet another lovely dress :)
I know what a difference😊
That’s brilliant I haven’t tried shirting but now that I’ve watched you I might give it a go. Thank You n love love love your dress. 🙌💙💚💜
Go for it Sarah I’m so pleased I persevered with it x
I tried shirring with my machine (a pretty old computer machine) and didn’t work. Now I just bought a cover machine because I wanted nice hems and chain stitch for muslins because they are easy to unravel for alterations. I also had a nice overall with a too small bodice and it had a shirred chain stitch. I am sooooo happy to see it works as I imagined it. No more hand winding of the bobbin, just chain stitch and that’s it! ❤❤❤
Wonderful! 😍
I’ve not seen anybody else wearing that fabric!! I made a WBM Norma Jean wrap from it in the hot weather….such bliss!! I might need to buy more!
It so soft I love it
Oh Alison how exciting. I have a Babylock desire 3 so will definitely have a go at shirring -your vlog was amazing. Thank you x
So pleased it’s helped jenny - happy shirring x
You're amazing and I just love your enthusiasm. May I please ask if there is a need to adjust coverstitch settings apart from stitch length 4? Differential feed? Needle and chain looper tensions? Many thanks and I look forward to more of your videos.
The machine I used had auto tension so you may need to play with that just to see
thanks Alison :)
I’m going to try this on my cover stitch when I get home from Turkey 🇹🇷 🤣.
Ooo have a fab time the outfits I’m making are for our holiday there too
@@SewLikeDotty it’s boiling 🥵 cx
Oooo good -There’s a bar and umbrellas 😂 it’s boiling here I’ve just got work lol
Have a fab time x
Have I got it right? You just put the Shirring elastic on the looper? I’ve been Shirring today it took sooo long. I’ve got a coverstitch so I’m excited too now. Thanks Alison, you’re a star x
Love the dress
Yes Tina I altered the stitch length too to 4 mines auto tension so I didn’t have to adjust that, just change the needle position to the one that suits you. When you chain off leave a long chain so it doesn’t spring back through the looper x
The blue dress is so pretty on you. Maybe I should buy a coverstitch machine!
Suzanne
Thank you 😊
Don’t blame you for being excited. I did it recently on double gauze and regardless of setting tests could not get it tight. I wondered if I could use the serger with the blade disengaged. I don’t have a cover stitch machine. I do have a manual Brother from the 1990’s and it may work better. I did test the same settings on double gauze and poplin and the poplin shirred more as expected. This was fun to see. Great that you figured out a speedy solution.
I’m not sure a server would work as it forms a different type of stitch to a coverstitch machine. But it works on a sewing machine it just takes longer
Looks good Alison,the blue is so pretty,I have not attempted shirring yet,but looks interesting Hugs xx Jean.
Thanks jean ☺️
Love it I would be just as excited 😆 I haven’t tried stirring but will give it a go because I bought the GBSB book to do that dress too xx
Brilliant this is that dress Jac let me know how you get on x
Hmmm I might need to try shirring on my coverstitch.
Go for it 😊
I’ve done a lot of shirring over the years making sun frocks for 3 girls when they were little BUT I had no idea you could use your coverpro to shir. We didn’t have cover-row back then, but I do now and I now have 3 granddaughters to sew sun frocks for so WHOO HOO how good is that, I love my coverpro and now I’m going to love it even more! Thanks Allison for sharing this and while you were more serious - how else would you be when you’re imparting knowledge, I found everything you said so easy to understand. I’m going to have to raid my stash and try out all you’ve explained now, it’s going to be fabulous and so quick by comparison. 🌹❤️
Ooo have fun- just watch the elastic doesn’t head back through the looper at the end of each row. Just leave a little extra when you cut it
@@SewLikeDotty thanks for the heads up! 🌹
Found your U Tube on shirring very helpful. I have a combination overlocker / cover machine too, but when I used the cover machine chain stitch for shirring recently, I found it to be very non-stretchy compared to using a bobbin with shirring elastic on an ordinary BERNINA. Any hints?
Hi it’s defiantly tighter with the coverstitch I don’t tent to steam it. I find it best when doing a big piece then cutting the bodice from that
Hi Alison, loved seeing your video and immediately went to try it on my babylock. Tried several times and also rethreaded a couple of times. When i start it goes allright, but after a couple of stitches, or sometimes a row, the upperthread doesn't catch the elastic anymore. Any idea what the reason could be?
Was that coverstitch - the only thing that happens with mine sometimes is the elastic doesn’t come off the spool as easily as it should I just release it x
Yes, a Coverlock, also a babylock, so I don't know what i'm doing wrong.
Greta video Alison, I'm still yet to try shirring. I don't have a coverstitch, but will give it a go on my sewing machine at some point.
How do you know how much fabric to use for a bodice?? Also do you usually cut too pieces of fabric, one for the back and one for the front?? Xx
The dress I make is 2 rectangles 1 front and 1 back but I just join it together and shirr it as 1 piece
Generally people say 1.5 x your measurements I tend to leave a little extra you can run the seams in if needed
Some use a rectangle for the sleeves but the gbsb pattern has sleeve heads and I like that shape
Will drop you a message from the group x
@@SewLikeDotty thank you so much, that's really helpful 😃. I'm excited to try it out! Xx
I have tried shirring with both of my machines and with several types of elastic thread. I never was able to get the tension right because I get no real stretch at all I spent days and gave up and just put in lines of narrow elastic instead.
Awe no 🥲
How did you finish off your rows to keep them from unraveling? Same as for regular chainstitch or is something else required? I want to shirr a waistband on some lightweight (challis) pants instead of creating channels and threading thin elastic through.
On the flat just chained off as that’s ok with babylock - I can’t remember what I did in the round just ended the row as I normally would adjust the thread and pull out I think
thanks for getting back to me, very helpful!
what settings are you using on your machine? I find that no matter what I do, the knitting thread becomes too tight and breaks 😔…
When I recorded this o had a machine with auto tension so I didn’t need to change anything on it- there are some other vlogs I looked at before I tried it - they may help with settings- sorry couldn’t help more
I have a baby lock cover stitch machine and I find that it doesn’t shirr well what technique are you using? I did not see you explain that part.
Elastic through the looper and regular thread in the needle mine has auto tension so I don’t adjust anything there. At the end of the row trim the threads but hang on to the elastic so it doesn’t ping back up the looper
What tension did you use on the cover stitch for shirring
My machine has auto tension Amanda- it’s a lot tighter than shirring with a sewing machine but worth having a play
Hello Alison,
Is it possible to use thick nylon thread such as “ Dritz “ elastic thread? Is it not too thick?
Ooo I don’t know - try it on some scrap see if it works
Thank you for your response