AUGUSTINE
AUGUSTINE
AUGUSTINE
GATHERS
Gathers are small, soft folds made in garments. Gathering is one of the easiest
and best ways of controlling fullness. It may be worked by hand or machine.
Gathers are commonly used in:
Children’s clothes
Making lightweight skirts, etc.
1. Choosing fine and soft material to gather e.g. cottons, silks rayon and fine
woolens.
2. Having the right quantity of material to gather up.
3. Setting in the gathers very evenly.
METHOD
1. Allow up to twice the width of the material for gathering as required for
finished width.
2. Thread the needle and hold the fabric in place.
3. Start with a back stitch and make the first row of running stitch above
the stitching lines.
4. Make a second roll of running stitches below the stitching line. The first
gathering stitches will be the same as the second gathering stitches.
5. Pull both lines of gathering stitches up together to the required length
and fasten off.
6. The gathered material ready for sewing.
SHIRRING
patterns.
EVALUATION
DARTS
Darts are small tapered folds of fabric. They are stitched on the wrong side of a
garment section. Darts can be
Control fullness
Turn fabric into shapes to fit the human figure
Give a good fitting and shape to the finished garment.
1. Mark pattern lines for darts with a tailors chalk or tailor’s tack.
2. Fold the material from the wrong side along the pattern lines.
3. Pin and tack the dart on the pattern lines.
4. Stitch from the broad end towards the narrow point bringing the
stitching right to the fold.
5. Knot the end of threads together at the narrow point.
6. Press the dart to one side of the stitching. If the material is too fat to lie
really flat, cut the fold.
7. Open the turnings.
8. Neaten the edges with blanket stitches.
TUCKS
Tucks are small stitches folds in garments. They may be of different widths. The
fold is formed on the right side of the garment. They take up three times the
finished width of material. They may be worked on straight grains or in any
direction of the material.
METHODS
PLEATS
1. a) Knife Pleat: One single pleat is called a knife pleat. For knife pleats, the
several pleats are facing the same direction. The width of the pleats may
be wide or narrow depending on the style.
2. b) Box Pleats: This is made when two knife pleats turn away from each
other; the folds of the pleats meet on the wrong side.
3. c) Inverted Pleats: This is made when two knife pleats turn towards each
other and the folds meet on the right side.
1. Working from the right side, fold the material on the fold line. Pin and
tack fold separately.
2. Place the fold against the next line marked on the right side and pin it
down flat.
3. Baste (i.e. to sew with long stitches) through the centre of the pleats.
4. Press the pleats thoroughly.
EVALUATION
SMOCKING
EASING
READING ASSIGNMENT
Arrangement of Fullness: Home Economics for JSS 1-3 by Anyakoha. Pages 290-
292
WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT
THEORY