How To Gather Fabric Like a Pro Using a Serger/Overlock Machine / 2 Simple Methods

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Learn how easy it is to gather fabric like a pro using a serger/overlock machine. I’ll show you two simple methods and share some great tips that make this process a snap.
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0:00 Introduction
1:43 Serger Stitch Settings
2:13 Method 1 (Regular Presser Foot)
4:10 Method 2 (Gathering foot)
6:48 Gathering Knit Fabric
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@notesfromleisa-land Жыл бұрын

Great demo. Sergers are great tools. I've been enjoying getting reconnected with mine. Sergers (and coverstitch machines) are often intimidating. In addition to the threading (for those of us with no airfeed!) the tension can be fiddly for beginners until it becomes second nature. And they are so darn fast. A nice quality machine will last a lifetime. My is 30 years old.

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

@heavenshairanavarro2419 8 ай бұрын

I was having a hard time sewing together a gathered very stretchy fabric and then i saw your video! Thank you so much!!!!

@JanHowell 7 ай бұрын

You are so welcome

@gracielaguzman9366 2 ай бұрын

I love your video. Thank You so much for sharing your knowledge with us ❤😊

@paulasiefert2059 4 ай бұрын

Your videos are always so complete! Thank you.

@JanHowell 3 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@terricampo9178 28 күн бұрын

That is AWESOME!

@JanHowell 24 күн бұрын

Thanks and you are so welcome

@odettepross2435 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jan…im so new at using an overlocker ❤️

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome. Just keep using your serger and it wil become more comfortble.

@Liguorienne Жыл бұрын

Woohooo Thank youuuu 🥰

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome.

@angelamcgovern1525 2 жыл бұрын

Really helpful as not long had a serger so great for me, thank u xx

@JanHowell 2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

@knitntea1672 2 ай бұрын

It IS awesome!!! Thank you for sharing 😊

@JanHowell 2 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@araceliadams34 2 жыл бұрын

Such Beautiful work I need one of those machines. Thank you for the demonstration. I can't wait to see how to do the same on my reg machine.

@JanHowell 2 жыл бұрын

I just posted a new video showing how you can gather fabric with a regular machine. Here is the link. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZpNgrbF4z6jOqY0.html

@harleyquebecenrevue3580 3 ай бұрын

Excellent demo, thank you !

@JanHowell 3 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@jessicadarby1806 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely brilliant thank you so much!!!🎉😊

@JanHowell 4 ай бұрын

Thanks and you are so welcome

@Dreyah88 Жыл бұрын

This was a helpful tutorial on how to ruffle n attach. Thanks Jan!

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome

@SewAndTellwithDori 10 ай бұрын

Very, very helpful tutorial!!! I've heard of using your serger for gathering fabric, but never saw a video on it. A huge THANK YOU for taking the time to make this video. Can't wait to give it a go! 🥰

@JanHowell 10 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@ln6974 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@JanHowell 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@MamaSquid1 Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@JanHowell 24 күн бұрын

You are so welcome!

@lynnecarville1 Жыл бұрын

So Happy to have found you 💃🪡🧵✂️

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

So happy you did too. Hope you continue to enjoy the content.

@Joy-eq6qg Жыл бұрын

Have a new serger & hopefully it will have a gathering foot. Thank you for a great video tutorial😊

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome

@rebeccalofty8552 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@sonjawade6799 Жыл бұрын

Having felt somewhat intimidated by overlock machine for some years. I decided to take the plunge after watching your tutorials. They really are very detailed for beginners, and you don’t race thru leaving any guess work! Thank you

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome.

@carmengalarraga6561 Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

thanks

@sparkling_punk 3 ай бұрын

This is amazing! I have been gathering by hand using my sewing machine not knowing I could just use my serger to do this! Thank you!

@JanHowell 2 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

@vixster181 6 ай бұрын

Brilliant tutorial and works perfectly on my machine that i have just bought, ive been putting this off for so long and cant wait to think of how much time i will save!

@JanHowell 6 ай бұрын

wonderful

@amritkelowna18 6 ай бұрын

Awesome and easy understandable explanation 🙏🏻👍🏻

@JanHowell 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@shakilathanthrimudali4677 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much .❤️🇱🇰🇱🇰🇱🇰

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

You're welcome 😊

@madelaine3209 10 ай бұрын

Thank you My Victory is the best. Thought I would never be able to use a serger.

@JanHowell 10 ай бұрын

Aren't they wonderful!

@karenegan1688 2 жыл бұрын

Wow…how easy was that? 👏🏻♥️👏🏻

@JanHowell 2 жыл бұрын

Right!

@catherinebiggs4052 2 жыл бұрын

Very helpful video! Thank you! I have never used my serger for gathering or applying elastic. Any chance of a future video on applying elastic with a serger? Love your videos and your patterns!

@JanHowell 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks you and great video suggestion!

@notesfromleisa-land Жыл бұрын

There is an elasticator foot that helps with this task.

@MagdalenaTheremin 11 ай бұрын

Fantastic tutorial! Now I understand why the overlock/serger is really helpfull and why I should buy one if I want to learn sewing one day. If you have a overlock/serger machine can you also do exact the same stitches as using a regular sewing machine?

@JanHowell 8 ай бұрын

No. The sewing machine can do a lot more stitches

@DavidSL64 Жыл бұрын

That was a great demo, I especially like the foot that gathers on the bottom fabric and sews the top. Neat. I just purchased a serger, and have just started experimenting with it. To me, the trick will be to be able to gather the lower hem of a sleeve to the exact length to add a cuff. It seems to me that may take a bit of experimenting with the differential setting in order to get the correct amount of gather that will match up with the cuff. Any thoughts here? I noted from your video that you can use the middle needle thread to adjust the gather. Is that how you would accomplish?

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

Yes, it takes a little practice. I recommend testing the gathering before sewing on your project. It gets easier the more you practice. Yes, you can use that middle thread to adjust if needed.

@deborahjordan2247 Жыл бұрын

Great video, thank you. How do you know what setting to use for gathering? For example, to join two tiers of a gathered skirt, where the width of the pattern pieces is important? Does 2 mean twice as gathered and 1.5 mean one and a half times gathered?

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

Are you talking about the differential feed? I'm not sure about those settings 2 and 1.5. You can always test it on a scrap piece of fabric.

@SarahBroten-ku1ll 8 ай бұрын

Wow thank you for the tutorial Curious do you know if this special technique would work on jersey knit fabrics?? Thank you 😊

@JanHowell 8 ай бұрын

Yes it will. Just practice on scrap fabric pieces

@tex1622 2 жыл бұрын

Jan, do you know how to use a coverstitch machine? You teach so well, I'd love to see you do some tutorials for beginners if you have the wisdom! I bought a coverstitch machine, and it terrifies me! Love this gathering technique too, thank you. :D

@JanHowell 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I used to have one, but I hardly ever used it so I sold it.

@isabelloza3580 Жыл бұрын

If you gather two pieces together, like you would a top to a skirt, can you loosen/tighten it if you end up with the skirt not matching ? Great video, thank you!

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

If you use the gathering foot to sew onto a flat piece of fabric you have to unpick to adjust. It takes a little practice to get it to end up exactly the same length. I would do a test piece using scrap fabric the length of your project. You'll get so you can hold the under piece and kinda feel how much to hold back so it comes out even. I hope that was helpful.

@gamadebdegamadebde 2 жыл бұрын

All these years I have never used my serger for anything but binding edges. It came with several extra feet but never watched the VHS tape.. shows how long I have had a top of the line Seeger.. that shows how to use. Now I am curious, thanks Jan.

@JanHowell 2 жыл бұрын

I hope you give it a whirl.

@darknessfierce4209 8 ай бұрын

I forgot to reset the serger after using the gathering, took me a minute on the next project to figure out what was going on Thanks for teaching us

@JanHowell 8 ай бұрын

Glad I could help!

@ireneclark1217 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Are you using 4 threads or 3?

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

4 thread

@joyjurs4462 2 жыл бұрын

Please more serging lessons

@JanHowell 2 жыл бұрын

You got it!

@abdulazim3345 11 ай бұрын

Will you sewing Danim fabrics making gather? As a use same machines.

@JanHowell 8 ай бұрын

Possibly

@carolanblack2848 10 ай бұрын

I set my Imagine baby lock surgery like you said snd it barely ruffled...looks like wrinkles...I need help!!

@JanHowell 9 ай бұрын

Try holding the top fabric and let the bottom fabric slide through. It does take a little practice

@thatrandomeditor1499 Жыл бұрын

When you attach & gather at the same time, how can you make sure the bottom fabric would gather to the length of the top fabric?

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

Practice on some scrap fabrics to know how much you machine gathers. Mine is about 50% so I make the fabric I'm gathering twice as long. It just takes a little practice.

@puppies914 7 ай бұрын

If I want to do the option where it gathers and attaches to another non gathered fabric how do I make sure the gathered section and the non gathered section will be the same length in the end? Do I just double the length of the gathered fabric while leaving the non gathered fabric at the length I want the finished piece at?

@JanHowell 7 ай бұрын

I recommend do some test runs. Every machine and different types of fabric will give you different results. You get hang of it when praciting holding the two fabrics.

@lisacobb7525 Жыл бұрын

I have the exact same machine. I followed your directions. Even took the thread out & retreaded everything 3 times to make sure it was correct. Made sure it runs a perfect chain stitch in regular settings with the regular foot. I made sure the fabric was underneath the gathering foot. Still just a straight chain. It’s just a piece of cotton broadcloth so nothing too thick or too thin. I even tried adjusting the foot pressure knob. Still straight no gathering. What am I doing wrong?

@JanHowell Жыл бұрын

The only thing that I can think of that is going on, is that you're holding the fabric too tight and not letting it feed through without any resistance. That is so strange. You are using the gathering foot, right? Did you adjust the settings like I explain in the video? Let me know if you get it to work.

@lisacobb7525 Жыл бұрын

@@JanHowell I think I figured it out. No I’m just guiding the fabric not holding firmly and I set everything exactly as you showed step by step. I was watching the video again and noticed that the piece on the bottom of your foot is much lower than mine. That extra piece that sort of hangs down? Yours had a bigger gap between the top and bottom of the foot. Where you would feed that fabric that wouldn’t be gathered. I pulled it down and it seems to work. It doesn’t gather as much as I would like but it did gather. I’m scared to pull too much. Don’t want to bend the foot. The metal must have been compressed in storage. Maybe a tip for us newbies. Thanks!