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Originally Posted by dawn27  That is exactly what is happening! 
Not with a really stretchy fabric just a cotton blend with some give to it.
The curves are good it is when I try to add the ruffled skirt to my semi finished item. Dress is turn right side out, seem allowance turned under and ironed down and ruffle skirt pinned in place. Sewing form one end to the other. (I pull the pins as I sew.)
When you say stay stitch do you mean a sewing/base stitch or the product called stay stitch ? |
I'm confused. So are you having bunching problems on the bodice part of the dress? I"m assuming that you have the bodice part and the ruffled skirt part. Are those two not being sewn together in a straight seam? Why not?
Also, are you sewing with the non ruffled (bodice) part on the bottom and the ruffled (skirt) part on top? The gathered/textured side should always be on top.
As for the stay stitch, it is particularly helpful when you need to make two pieces of fabric fit together, when one side is clearly longer than the other. Often times you can "walk" a tape measure along the sew line, and they can measure the same or close enough, but if you are not accurate with the stitching, 1/8" of an inch here or there will cause a lot of trouble when you get to the end, especially in tiny garments such at yorkie clothes. In human clothes, the difference between one size and the next is usually 1" in total circumference, so in dogs, a size difference should be much less than that, though most dog clothes are several inches difference between sizes. Why is that?
I think it's actually harder to learn to sew on dog clothes or baby clothes. No room for error, or error is very evident.