How Form 2220 Allowance 2023-2024

Hi, I'm Jennifer from Workroom Social. Today, I'm going to show you how to gather fabric. So, we have our fabric piece right here that we want to gather. The first thing we're going to do is go to our sewing machine and make sure that we're on a straight stitch. Then, we're going to turn our stitch length up as high as it'll go. On my machine, it's a 4, so we're going to use a large stitch length. Next, we're going to take our fabric and for this project, we're going to assume a 5/8 of an inch seam allowance. Knowing that, we're using a 5/8 of an inch seam allowance, the first thing I'm going to do is sew a line at 1/4 of an inch seam allowance just on the 1-ply fabric. Before I start, I want to make sure that I have long thread tails going out the back because we're going to use these to gather the fabric. So, I'm just going to lay those there. Then, I'm going to put my fabric in the machine and for the 1/4 seam allowance, I'm just going to use the edge of my presser foot and sew all the way across. When you get to the end of your fabric, you want to pull your fabric out and keep these long thread tails. So, I'm going to cut just in the middle so that I have a long tail on my fabric and a long tail on my machine. I'm going to pull that to the back and now I'm going to sew another narrow seam, another quarter from the seam that I just sewed. So, if you add them together, a quarter and a quarter, you would want the raw edge of your fabric aligned on the one-half inch...