I don’t know about you, but when I see a sewing project that requires ruffles or gathered trim, I take a deep breath and generally choose another project. Ruffles and gathers just aren’t one of my favorite sewing techniques. Last year while I was attending a meeting with Clover, I was introduced to a fusible gather tape. I tried to be discreet as I rather quickly grabbed the sample to study. I was skeptical!
Back at my sewing studio, I couldn’t wait to give the product a try. Certainly, this fusible tape wouldn’t hold up to gathering ruffles. Wrong! It held up and it made gathering or ruffling extremely easy. So, here’s a little tutorial on how to work with the Fuse ‘n Gather tape. Perhaps you’ll be as impressed as I am!
Fuse ‘n Gather tutorial
Note from Nancy—The photos were taken during the testing of the gather tape. Not all the fabrics are the same in each photo. Oh well!
- Press the Fuse ‘n Gather to the wrong side of a strip of fabric (for trim) or along the top of the piece to be gathered. (Follow the iron setting as detailed on the package.) The stitches are tinted blue on the side of the tape that must face upward.
- Pull the blue gathering threads at both ends, creating a 2″–3″ thread tail.
- At one end secure the threads by wrapping them in a figure-eight style around a pin.
- On the other end, pull the blue gathering threads to create the gathers.
- If you have a long length to gather, wrap the threads around a pen or pencil (marking pen featured) to assist in the gathering process.
- Evenly distribute the gathers when creating trim as featured for a ruffle. Every once in a while you’ll feel a very slight “pop” of the threads as they release from the fused areas. Not to worry, the tape remains secure!
- For trim, pin the gathered fabric to the base fabric. Zigzag the trim to the fabric, stitching down the middle.
- When creating ruffles, proceed as if you’d sewn two rows of basting stitches. The tape is lightweight and stays in the seam allowances. Talk about fast!
You can find the Fuse ‘n Gather in two different packaging options: 6 yards and 15 yards.
Tell me what you would create using Fuse ‘n Gather for a chance to win a 6 yard package.
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I would make chalkboard placemats. Love the idea, reminds me of drapery pleater tape I used to use in my drapery business.
I would create all kinds of ruffled gathered feminine masterpieces.!!! Starting with matching dresses for my sweetheart granddaughter and her dolls. Then baby quilts and other quilts, curtains, lingerie, blouses jackets skirts, Lions and tigers and bears would all be ruffled lol.
I would make some pillows and some skirts.
Wow, just when I needed something to use to make a 4″ ruffle around the hemline of a woman’s nightgown…about 110″.
I may wait to see who wins before I finish it. It sounds like a sewer’s dream.
Even if I don’t win I’ll still buy some of it. Matter of fact I order some things last week & have received the order already…darn! Oh well. So will have to order it separately .
Isn’t it wonderful that someone, somewhere, is always looking for ways to make sewing not only easier, but more efficient? I will love using this product to embellish my neutral (boring) table linens and kitchen curtains. Great way to add that wow factor.
I would use it to “pretty-up” some clothes I’d like to make for low-income school children where my niece teaches. What a great product!
My two year old grand daughter would look beautifull in a little ruffled dresf lie the one shown. I could do that.
I have a pillow that I want to finish for my father in law’s car club. This looks easy!
This stuff looks awesome! I have been wanting to make a layered ruffled tote but have been intimidated by all those ruffles. This definitely would take the fear factor from a project like that!
I have been doing the old fashion way, gathering 1inch pieces of knit and adding them to plain T’s ….dresses the T up a tad.
Fuse ‘n gather tape looks like it would simplify the process and speed up my sewing time and we can all agree that is the goal !
DeeDee
Clover always has the best products! Thanks Nancy for sharing this. I’m making a quilt for my Niece and Nephews new adopted baby. I’m going out to get some tomorrow to put a ruffle around the edge of it.
Fuse and Gather makes it all so easy. I think I would use it on curtains or the bottom of a girls dress or those pillow cases to give away.
I would make some ruffle curtains!
First of thank you for sharing this tutorial Nancy, I would add pretty ruffles to a blouse and a baby girl dress I am working on, thank you for the chance yo win!
Have a wonderful day!
I have a ruffled purse project that I’ve been putting off because of the gathering. This would be great.
I would use it to put pretty lace trim on my bedroom curtains.
I have the fabric but the thought of yards and yards of ruffles were keeping me from making Vogue 1255, a beautiful dress or tunic designed by Rebecca Taylor. With this product, my fears will go way!
Wow…this is neat! I am planning to decorate a bra for an event called the Bra-Ha-Ha (an event that raises money to offer mammograms to those that cannot afford it) and I was going to do ruffles. i don’t plan to do LOTS but this will still help.
This is perfect, I’m making rouched shirts for my grandaughters for school. This would help a lot, since I’m not quit sure how to rouche the shirt sleeves. Thank you for the great giveaway, have a great day!
I think I would use it to make a bed skirt that would be long enough for my high poster bed.
School starts in three weeks. This product would really help speed up sewing. I would use it on dresses for my little girl.
I have a skirt pattern I’ve been putting off because of the ruffles
I am making a photo pillow for my youngest granddaughter. It has her older sister’s photo on it. Her older sister is going to college in a few short weeks, and I want to give it to her for her room. This may ease the loss of her sister as they were roommates. I am sure this will be a difficult transition for her . Ruffles framing her photo would be just perfect!!!
I make pillowcase dresses for Africa (“Rays of Hope for Africa”), so I would use the trim to help make cute ruffle effects on several dresses. Thank you for the Tip!
I would like to put some gathers on a christmas pillow that I am getting ready to make. Sure wished I had had this tape when my girls were young! I used to make all their clothes.
I have eleven granddaughters and lots of 18″ dolls to sew for. I would love this gathering tape.
I would use this to make nightgowns for my granddaughters. Every thing I make them has ruffles on it and boy, would this make life easier. Sounds like a good product!
I would love to try this for nightgowns for my granddaughters! Everything I make for them has ruffles and this would make my life easier! Sounds like a good product!
Hi! I, also, usually run away from ruffles! But this looks like just the ticket I need to get past my fears! I would make some wonderful dresses and matching ruffled pants for my 2 great-nieces, because all I have are 3 grandsons!! LOL Of course I could make some tea-towels and pillows and pillows and bedskirt and bedspread, etc. The ideas are limitless!
Just finished making little S’korts for my dancing grand daughter which she loved. I used different things to trim the front flap and can see using this product to make ruffles for that flap.
I have several grand-nieces that I would enjoy sewing for and girls must have ruffles. Even my frilly cow-girl grand-niece from birth would enjoy cow-girl skirts with ruffles as well as her ballet outfit. Her parents took her right out to see the horses upon coming home form the hospital. Her second cousin is a farm gal with the love of ballet and all things swirling girly, so ruffles will be great for her. There are more Grand-nieces who also would enjoy ruffles and any notion to assist me in creating fun sewing for them, I am all for. Thanks for this opportunity.
Where has this product been all my life? I make Hawaiian dresses for myself for a dance group I am in and this would make the ruffles so much easier for the hemline, around the sleeves, the neckline. Love it.
Thank you for the ways to use the fuse-n-gather tape. I plan on trying it for some tops I want to make for my granddaughter. I tried to click on the link to win a package but instead every time I clicked on it I was taken to an apple contest site that required a monthly fee of $9.99 for surveys in order to win. Sorry, won’t do it. Is this something that you have or did someone change your site with an add on?
I make quilts for charities. I would use it on a baby quilt
I make quilts for charities.I would use it on a babt quilt.
I make window treatments and bedding and this would be perfect for those gathered dust skirts and ruffles on duvet covers, balloon shades and pillows. Genius!
This looks like a great product! Would love to try it! I’d probably use it first on a ruffled edge of a pillow.
Wow, this looks like something I could really use when making all these little dresses for my granddaughters.
I have pieced a lovely little quilt just perfect for a baby girl. I thought what a girly touch a ruffled finish to the edge would be! Well, the project is still unfinished as I keep thinking of the yards of ruffled fabric needed. This tape may just be the means of finishing this quilt!!!!
Oh where was this when I made my granddaughter that last dress with 3 ruffles about 100 feet long? I make a lot of her clothes and they all have a ruffle around the leg. This would really come in handy.
I make bags with ruffles. This would make the process so much faster.
I would use it to make all those ruffles that I put on American Girl doll clothes–love the look, hate the ruffling!
Just learning how to sew at the age of 60, and this looks like something that would so very helpful, and much cheaper than the ruffle attachment that I would have to buy for my sewing machine. Would try it on an apron, or maybe pillows, or adding ruffles to embellish a T-shirt or such.
I would make 18″ doll clothes for my granddaughters. I am going to buy it if I do not win it. It looks like a great product.
I would use it on the doll dresses I make for my granddaughters. Even if I don’t win it, I am going to order it. It looks like a great product.
I am a sewing instructor who also does service projects. We are currently making back to school clothing for the children in OK (Sewing to Rebuild). This tape would REALLY come in handy. We have over 40 garments to send at present with our dealine the 31st!
Wow, some of these responses are quite impressive but I just have to be honest. I don’t do ruffles anymore because they are too much of a pain in the neck. So if I won this amazing notion, I would just put ruffles on something. LOL The little girls in my life will love me even more. (smile).
Thanks for the info and the chance to win! I am making a duvet cover and would add a nice ruffle to it with this product…
I love ruffles! This looks like a great product to make lots of ruffles quickly! I would make oodles of ruffles to trim my beautiful granddaughters’ dresses!
I love ruffles! Would make oddles of ruffle trim for my granddaughters’ dresses!!
I make lots of tshirt dresses for my granddaughters. This would make short work of gathering the skirts to attach to the tshirts! Will have to look for it in the store but would love to win a sample!
I would make a ruffle for a pillow or an apron. Or better yet ruffles for both of them. How neat!
I’m still learning how to sew, though I just retired, and the Fuse n’ Gather would really help. I belong to a small quilt guild whose members are making t-shirt dresses for for African orphans. Others already know how to embellish with things such as ruffles. I would use all of the Fuse n’ Gather on the little dresses to give them a little more flare in the skirt.
oh my! what would I do with fuse and gather tape? Finish the stack of dresses, jackets, skirts & ruffly panties for my daughters and grand daughters that I have started & keep putting off because of the ruffles. this could be the beginning of a beautiful ruffly relationship lol
I would use it to make something for my granddaughter
Great product! I am finishing up a feathered star quilt for our bed and I am going to make new curtains for the windows to match. I wanted to add a ruffled bottom to them but was shying away from it because of the hassles that go along with making the ruffles. This new ruffling tape is just the ticket for my problem. Thanks Nancy, as always, you save the day!
I make crib bedding that has ruffles around the bumpers, ruffles around the blanket, and the dust ruffle. This would help out so very much.
Oh, I am planning to make bags for all of the girls/granddaughters in my family for Christmas. Ruffles would be great. I have worn out 3 ruffler attachments making dance costumes. How I would have loved this then.
I would love to win this and use it on dresses for my 2-yr old granddaughter. I love making “girlie” clothes for her
I am not sure what I would use it on but if it is my notions it
would be ready to use on my next project as I do a lot of
sewing. thanks for a chance to win it.
I would love to win this and I would make another purse with layers of ruffles…I love the purse I made, but I said never again would I make this purse. It was too hard to control the ruffles. Love the looks of this product.
I would love to try it on the doll clothing I am making to fit the American Girl dolls.
I’d love to teach this new way of gathering to my students. Creative possibilities can be great. No more frustration putting threads! I have a purse pattern called Six in the City that would be a get project to try this on.
I would make something with lots of ruffles for my new granddaughter. After having only sons and grandsons before she was born, I am excited to be able to do anything frilly.
I’m thinking of a girlie pretty new lampshade for my craft room. Swweeeeeettt!!
I would make a beautiful gathered skirt for my 5 year old great niece. She is a real Diva and loves everything shiny and frilly
How about a dust ruffle? Or the top of drapes to “smock” them? I am redecorating and this sounds awesome!!!
I have never seen anything like that here in Australia! That is amazing. I have been wanting, forever, to make an overshirt with ruffled ribbon sewn randomly on top – this would make this project incredibly easy…J
Have a request for a pair of double ruffled pants from my little great grand daughter’s mother. This would be wonderful to use on them. Love ruffles on little ones, but oh, what a chore! This sounds great! Thanks for the giveaway.
Ruffles have been the bane of my sewing experience since I started in 1958. Thank goodness someone has invented a resolution to my difficulties with ruffles!
Love ruffles on bags to add a personal touch can’t wait to try this new easier way thanks
Boy, could I have used this the last few weeks! Made some outfits for a new (first) great-niece, and almost lost it with the 9 little ruffles. LOL! Love the trim look on the pillow. Think I’d like to try that look on a handbag. Thanks!
What a great helper and idea for making ruffles.I immediately thought of how I would use this. My nine year old granddaughter has already chosen a pattern she wants me to make for Christmas. It is for a cute apron with RUFFLES and this would be so helpful. Thanks for the tutorial and introducing this product.
I sure with I had known about this when I made my self a 4 tier, gathered skirt. Making my granddaughters dresses will be much easier now. Thanks
I just love to learn new techniques. The new notions help us make handmade things look storebought. I would use this to make dresses with ruffles for my 7 year old granddaughter. She is a real girly girl.
This looks like it would be fun to use and save a lot of time. I’d like to try it on some ribbon to decorate a tote or duffel bag.
I would gather ruffles for the bottom of my granddaughter’s dress. AND, with whatever is left off, I would gather ruffles for a valance above the shower doors.
I needed something to pull up over my hips and chest but leave my shoulders bare so that I could get a little sun while outside watering my plants (I know the dangers of too much sun, but I am elderly and low on vitamin D, plus I have the kind of skin that doesn’t burn), so bought some cheap fabric at Wal-Mart. It is gathered with elastic in a band about a foot wide across one selvage (which will cover my flat chest) and has a pattern across the other selvage which will remain unhemmed. I bought too much because it was a bolt end and very cheap. I would use the gathering tape and the extra fabric to make a long ruffle to place along the only seam I will have to sew on my fancy sun dress. Look out sunshine, here this 75 year old sun loving gardener comes!!!
What a great product! I would love to try it out on a blouse pattern that I have cut out and not finished yet. Thanks for making it look so easy!!!
I have a blouse pattern that has a ruffled edge that I would use it on. Seems like a great product.
I would put ruffles on my daughters’ clothes and their doll clothes.
I’d like to introduce this product to my sewing students!!!
I have several summer dresses that are a little too short for me and I have been planning to add a ruffle to the bottom. The fabric has been sitting there next to the dress for several months. This looks like it will be easier and I plan to try it so I can enjoy the dress.
Thanks Nancy and as always so appreciate everything you share and teach us! I have been making pillow case dresses for a ministry in Haiti and Dresses(shorts) for Africa…. I really wanted to give this batch a lil more pizazz and use my new Nancy Ellisimo but I am not sure my Brother ruffler / pleating foot will work on my Babylock…. So the tape looks great for time savings!
Cheers and so looking forward all this Summer for August when your new Sewing With Nancy episodes start up!!!!!
Ronda in Bend
Where oh where was this item when my daughter (the high school dance teacher) decided that she could make cancan skirts for her 16 grade 12 dance students with Mom’s help. Of course, you all know who helped whom. Mom did most of the sewing and gathering of the netting that is needed. We only had 3 weeks to do this which made it quite challenging since she lives about 15 miles from me and we only had the weekends to do this. I felt like we were gathering forever, especially when the thread broke repeatedly due to the length of the netting needed for these skirts. Of course since she initially thought this would be an easy project, she in her wisdom decided that 3 rows of netting would be very pretty on these skirts and it was but OMG what a time we had. Needless to say that was the first and last time we did THAT ! ! Now I just sew for my granddaughter who loves to wear frilly nighties to bed. The last 2 I made for her made her mom, my other daughter, feel on top of the world because her friends asked where they could buy them for their 3 daughters. My daughter of course told them that her mom, me, had made them. Pat on the back for me ! !
Although I have no problem creating ruffles/gathers in general (thanks to tips from Nancy!), this looks like too much fun. I’d use it to make ruffles to trim the heart-shaped bib on a retro apron for my daughter.
How perfect is this?! My next project is a crib dust ruffle…3 times fullness! Might take a lot of packages of Fuse & Gather, but it sounds worth it!!
Ruffles on back to school clothing for OK tornado victims!
wow – no more picking out double rows of stitching, or zig-zagging over dental floss! Sure wish they’d had this product a few years back, when I was adding miles and miles of ruffles & flounces to my square dance dresses – oh, you just haven’t lived until you’ve ruffled a full circular skirt 6 or 8 times! I can see using this wonderful new product on pillows, dresses for my little granddaughters & even those round table cloths! Thanks for letting us in on it!!
I’m from Minnesota and last week i attended a funeral near St. Louis, Missouri. After the funeral we stopped at a department store and bought a quilted bedspread with shams and a bed skirt. When i got home and tried it on the bed, it was too narrow even though it was a king spread set. Since I can’t return it without driving for another long day, i have decided to take the bed skirt apart as it is the same color as the spread and use the bed skirt as a ruffle around the bottom of the spread. I would certainly like to try the “fuse and gather tape” and see if it works better than sewing 2 seams around the bottom of the quilt and then pulling the thread. There’s a chance for a lot of thread breakage!! Thank you, Nancy, for offering this chance to win the “fuse and gather tape”. It will certainly simplify my project.
Something for my granddaughter!
Thank You for sharing this, I have three grand daughters and I would use it to make skirts that have ruffles from top to bottom.
Love to square dance and this would be a God Send for all the ruffles on the dresses!
Is there a pattern for this precious little dress somewhere? I can’t find one on Nancy’s Notions. I would like to make one just like this.
Linda, the pattern is no longer available at Nancy’s Notions, but it is available through Indygo Junction. Here’s the link: http://www.indygojunction.com/patterns/children/uptown_tops_trousers/
Ruffles on my two granddaughters dresses.
I would make ruffle
dresses and skirts for my graddaughter , thats all she wants to wear.
this sounds so easier than any method Ii have used. I would like to try it to make some pillows.
I would use the fuse ‘n gather to make a new Christmas tree skirt.
Hi, What a neat product! I’d make two items: a sundress for my granddaughter and a mstching dress for her American Girl doll.
I need new pillows for the couch. This is how I would use this great product.
I would make pillows for my Daughter,who just moved into an small apartment with her family,after loosing her house.
I’m not sure I believe that Nancy Zieman shies away from any sewing project!!
I just made a quilt with ruffles and embroidery. Ruffles on almost every block! It took much longer than it should have because I had to build up the courage to make the ruffle strips.
I have DVR’d multiple “Sewing with Nancy” episodes featuring gathering. I have used the serger, coverlock, changed the tension of the machine and pressure foot, have broken a “ruffler foot” and I still haven’t been able to achieve even ruffles. With two little grandgirls to sew for, I hate to shy away from gathers. My mom did them so beautifully, but mine always are bunchy and uneven. Maybe this is the trick.
Besides clothes for our granddaughters and their dolls, aprons for our daughters and a few to give away.
I’d use this wonderfully-easy-sounding tape to sew a ruffle down the front of a new blouse I’m making for myself!
Wow, I always hated ruffles…I would use it on some of the school clothes I am making for grandchildren…ages 6 and 8. Thanks!
I love this tutorial. I am working on 2 xmas tree skirts for a craft show and was thinking about adding ruffles to the bottom instead of ric rac. this product would work wonderful.
What a fantastic product. I would like to try it along the top of a dress or top. I love how it transforms a simple cushion front.
I hope this product comes over to the UK.
Nancy you are awesome! Thank you for sharing this tutorial! I have a little girls dress that I have been putting off just for this reason – so now I can go ahead with confidence! Thanks again!
Great idea ! Think the ruffled tote bag would be sensational! Anything to make sewing easier and quicker makes me very happy!
I would love to try this product for making clothes for my granddaughter and her dolly. I think I would even make a pillow or two. My mom used to make ruffled pillow covers but I have never been brave enough to attempt something like that. Sounds like a great project!
I am making aprons that have ruffles on the bottom and have been leaving that part out. I’d love to try this product.
What a great idea. I would love to try it on dresses for my 2 year old grand daughter. I can see a dress made of ruffles and bows. Claire love to wear fancy dresses just like her Mom did when she was little.
I would use it to make ruffles on a baby blanket for my niece who is expecting a baby girl.
Hooray! An easier way to gather the multitude of ruffles for my granddaughters skirts and doll clothes to match. Thank you!!
I’m about to make a bed skirt for a day bed and some decorative pillows. Surely this will be handy for gathering the bed skirt fabric. I hate the thought of hand gathering all that yardage. I wonder if 6 yards would even be enough.
I’d use it to make ruffled fabric bracelets. Fun to match outfits!
I will try this on a cute tote bag, covered in rows of ruffles, with an embroidered panel I already have made with a peacock. Thank you for introducing us!
I will try this product on making ruffled curtains. The hardest part of the curtains is the making ruffles. This will be great.
Interesting product. I have never shied away from ruffles, but doing double rows of basting stitches then (cross fingers for no thread breaks) pull to gather is challenging. This product sounds much more sturdy. I’d use it for making a new dust ruffle.
This would be great for the tiered swing skirts I have made for granddaughters with matching Tee Shirts with ruffles on the sleeves of those also.
This would speed up sewing projects for my new granddaughter and for her older cousin. Thanks for running this contest.
I’d love to try this I think I would use it to make a pillow for my niece.
Hmm?? I can edge a quilt or tablecloth.
I sew for 2 little girls ages 7 and 11. I would use the tape for gathering ruffles for the bottom of the skirts. Both girls are in to ruffles and twirls.
My mom wants me to add a 3 ruffle extension to her existing ottoman cover & I know this would make the job so much easier. Thank you Nancy for the opportunity to win this.
Oh man! i wish I knew this existed this week!! I just had to add ruffles to 2 formals with 136″ bottoms. This probably would have helped…. You could probably mark your centers and quarters on the tape and see it clearly. I make lots of dresses every year and have to ruffle often. The 14 yo just saw a top that had rows of ruffles, I’d try it on that.
I would use it to make matching dresses for my granddaughter and her doll.
I would make little dresses for my great-granddaughter.
What a cool idea.
I would love to use this product to put a gathered border on the bottom of a toddler girl’s skirt.
I don’t know what I would use this for. I need to have it in my hand before inspiration hits me.
I really could have used this product for a project I was asked to do for our courts. When there is a trial, the jury is not allowed to see the prisoner in shackles so I was asked to make 2 modesty panels for the tables where he/she would sit. I decided to make a slightly gathered skirt. We stapled velcro under the table and sewed velcro to the skirt so it could be added or removed. The fabric was 10 yards long. BUT I made it work and it now hangs in a closet until needed.
I’ve been buying and using this tape for girls’ dresses as I take lessons to learn to sew. I love this product and will continue to use it to make school dresses for my grandchildren.
I have been redecorating a bigger bedroom for my youngest daughter since my older two have left the nest. I could put ruffles on the window shades, or on the pillows for the window bench. I have been wanting to make a pillow using decorative stitching, pleating, ruffles, whatever inspires me when I sit at my sewing machine!
I would use the tape for the ruffles on the bottom of a skirt. This would save me so much time! Right now I am sewing skirts for a family of 11 children, 7 of which are girls. Can you imagine the time that itwould save?
Thanks for the chance to win this gathering tape,
Shirley
Little girl dresses! I have 2 grand daughters and I love to sew for them! I just finished a dress with 3 layers of ruffles all the way around. This product would of made the job so much easier!
This would be great for a ruffle on a new square dance dress!
Wow! have not heard about this product. I know what I would like to try this on…..since I don’t have any little girls in my family, I would like to use this for gathered inserts in a purse. I am always looking for something to add a decorative touch to purses. This product would be great for that “shirred” look.
I just finished a crib skirt for my new granddaughter. Boy would this have made the jog sooooo much easier. Next project a ruffled dress:)
I would make a twirly skirt for my great granddaughter.
Thanks for the chance.
I would try it on the serger quilt with a matching pillow for my granddaughter’s pre school ensemble.
After seeing the info on the ruffles, have been thinking of making new curtains which would look great with a ruffled edge. Thanks for making my life easier.
Sounds perfect for the ruffle around the throw pillow I am making.
I would use the Fuse n’ Gather to put ruffles on the bottom of kitchen curtains.
I have been guilty of the ‘pass’ mindset when it comes to ruffles or other techniques I think are too hard for me.
I have no specific project in mind but like you Nancy, I would love the chance to play with this product and see what I could create… pillow, child blanket or toy, clutch purse with a ruffle…. who knows where my imagination would take me?
Tea Towels and Guest Hand towels for hostess gifts …… and my home too!
I would use it to put ruffles on my pillowcases.
I make a lot of ruffled garments – so that’s what I would use it for!
thanks for the opportunity to win! x
Wow – what an amazing product! I would make more dresses for my granddaughter since this makes gathering so easy!
I would use this to help make my daughters dress for her first day of kindergarten. She will be starting in a month and I still can not believe it!
I have to get some of this tape to try, it looks so easy.
I think I’d make some cute outfits for my twin 2year old nieces & matching ones for their dollies (that I made for their birthday this year). One *must* have well-dressed dollies.
Being surrounded by sons, I would also make a girly, ruffled quilt in soft yellows & apple greens to match my bedroom. It is nice to have my bit of Girly Space.
What caught my eye was the little top. One granddaughter and one on the way! On the pattern hunt…
I’d dress my granddaughter in ruffles from head to toe.
All I can say is Wow. I have walked away from many a project due to ruffles or a gathered edge. I will need to seriously rethink those projects. A certain baby blanket comes to mind. Thank you.
What a neat product! Your comment about “take a deep breath and choose another project” made me laugh. That’s exactly how I feel about some of the patterns my child picks out. I would make one of the patterns that has ruffled self-fabric trim on the bodice and skirt edge with the Fuse ‘n Gather Tape for her upcoming birthday!
If I attach it with a small decorative stitch down the middle and use it as a puffing strip insert it might have an interesting effect. Nancy, I’ve watched you from the early years on TV and i learned how to sew from you. I am still passing along tips I learned from Nancy, so thank you for being such a good teacher.
I would use this on clothing for my great granddaughter. I enjoy sewing one of a kind outfits for her and a lot have pieces to gather. Love all your tips and watch your show through the week.
I would love to try this on a ruffled bedspread and matching sham for my grand daughter. This would be perfect!
Thanks for sharing with us Nancy.
Wow, I think even I could do that, it would be useful to make some pretty underwear, frilly knickers I think, rainbow frills.
Fuse n Gather would be perfect for the table runner that I love to make. Here is the link to it:
http://www.sew4home.com/sites/sewmk.mervideo.com/files/images/articles/0569-20100505-5DMkII-IMG_0892-1.jpg
Oh, it is so nice when it is done!
I’d love to try this product for an apron and dishtowel set using ’50s retro fabrics for my nephew’s bride-to-be.
I just bought a pattern that has ruffled panties and sun dress for a little girl, this would be wonderful to try on it.
I’ve already tried this on a ruffled dress for my grand daughter and it worked great. But I went to reorder it and I couldn’t find it in your catalog. Fortunately I have some left to use on another outfit. I just hate to run out of it and need it for another project. So i will be calling Nancy’s Notions to get some more!! It sure beats the old way of gathering ruffles.