Episode 233: Gathers, Shirring, and Flounces

Love to Sew Podcast

Helen Wilkinson

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4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we share all the info you need to get gorgeous gathers, stretchy shirring, and fluttery flounces. This episode is packed with techniques and tips! We also recommend lots of patterns and share pattern hack ideas. Plus: a listener writes to us about gathers in quilting.

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0:00.0	We are recording today on the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Kwakwakiwak peoples,
0:06.2	including Slaywa Tooth, Squamish, Musqueam, and Komok's First Nations.
0:14.0	Hello and welcome to Love to Sew! I'm Helen, the designer behind Helen's
0:18.0	closet patterns and cedar quilt coat, and I'm Caroline, the owner of Blackbird Fabrics.
0:22.9	We're two sewing buds who love to sew our own clothes and want to encourage you on your sewing journey, too.
0:28.4	Join us for today's topic, Gathers Shearing and Flounces!
0:38.0	Oh my gosh, happy me made May everyone!
0:41.3	Oh, happy me made May! I love this time of year for the weather, the me made May of it all. I mean,
0:47.4	it's great. I know when I think about May, I think about documenting handmade outfits and flowers.
0:54.7	Yeah, it doesn't get better than that. It doesn't get better. If I can combine the two, even better.
1:01.4	Outfits with flowers on them. Yeah, or take some photos in front of a blooming plant.
1:06.6	Oh yeah, that's great. For the first week, you get photos in front of blooming plants,
1:11.3	and for the rest of it, you get bathroom selfies. Yeah!
1:16.7	I'm excited, though. I always feel so inspired during me made May, and I hope everyone
1:22.8	has a great time if you're participating or not. It's just a really fun and exciting time to be
1:29.3	a part of the sewing community. Yeah, and for anyone who doesn't know what me made May is, it's just
1:33.8	when you wear and optionally share your me made outfits online, but it can just be wearing them,
1:40.4	and I think I'm just going to try to get dressed for work every day and not wear sweatpants,
1:44.5	even though my sweatpants are handmade. Yeah, you can have a sweatpants day once in a while.
1:51.2	Yeah, they're handmade. Exactly. Yes, I'm very excited to see what all of the birdies wear,
1:59.1	and I'm going to try to document a little bit. We'll see what happens. That'd be fun.
2:03.7	Low pressure. Well, we have a very timely episode this week because I feel like this time of year,
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