A little while ago I mentioned that I was planning on doing a whole lot of shirring after seeing an easy tutorial on the net. I also mentioned that my attempts did not go so well after discovering the limitations of my machine. Well, I’m determined to complete what I started and after asking around I found another way to do the shirring. Lauren mentioned that you can get the same effect by doing zig zag stitch over elastic and feeding it through rather than wrapping it around the bobbin (I was using the thinner shirring elastic for that of course).
So, yesterday morning I had a go at it. I discovered a few things that I need to be more careful about such as making sure not to sew into the elastic (you can tell I’m an amateur can’t you) and also how careful to be when pushing the fabric along. You have to have a go and make mistakes to learn, right? Here’s my very first attempt:
Those who sew and know what they are doing will be able to see my mistakes here!
The finished dress. L loves it, she did twirls when I put it on her. Now I need to make the other five that I drew up before I found out how challenging it could be.
