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Posted by Pogonip on February 9, 2008, 4:13 pm
Kirsten Sollie wrote:
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>> Kirsten Sollie wrote:
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>>> I am at work on the costumes for another play (How the
>>> West was Dun) and am making cancan outfits. The jr. high
>>> kids are making them rather so I need a simple way to get
>>> that lace on the inside. All I can find online is white,
>>> ivory and pale pink. Any ideas?
>>> Kirsten
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>> Aaack!!! Several of my bookmarked costume sites are gone. I googled
>> "ruffled tulle" and got hits, but trust me, you don't want to do to
>> some of them. ;-} I didn't locate any sites for pre-gathered tulle
>> of any width.
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>> You might take a look here for pre-gathered lace:
>> http://www.gatheredlace.com/GatheredLace.htm
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>> The also have lots of colors in may widths of flat tulle:
>> http://www.gatheredlace.com/tullesales.htm
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>> Teaching them to run gathering stitches in tulle should be a fun
>> experience... NOT!
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>> Beverly
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> Thanks Beverly,
> That is closer to what I am looking for. Each skirt needs 17 yds. of
> gathered lace so I really want to avoid gathering it ourselves. However
> I did not know you could buy tulle precut in rolls. If I use my
> overlock and adjust the differential, maybe they could run it through
> and gather it.
> Or am I nuts? They are 6th, 7th and 8th graders.
>
> Kirsten
Do you have access to an old staight-stitch Singer and a ruffling foot?
Making ruffles that way is the least painful way I know of. It's like
magic, really, as you set it for the amount of ruffling you want, then
just feed the fabric to the presser foot, and perfect ruffles come out
the back of it.
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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