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| Start with a strip of fabric, your desired width, and one and a half to two times the length of what you're sewing it to |
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| Adjust your machine to a strait stitch, in the longest stitch length available. Then loosen your top thread tension all the way |
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| Sew two parallel lines down the side of your strip, leaving long threads at the ends |
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| Then find the bottom (bobbin) threads.... |
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| And pull them with one hand, while gently pushing your fabric away from them with the other hand. |
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| Once your strip is the right length, gently scoot arrange your gathers so that they are even. (Do this while still holding your bottom threads, otherwise the gathers may slide further down your threads, changing the length of the strip.) |
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| Then pin your ruffle to whatever it is your sewing it to, with right sides facing each other. |
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| When you sew your ruffle on, change your stitch length/tension back to normal, and be sure that you sew your new stitches above your gathering stitches, so they don't show when it's done. |
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| Then you may pull out your gathering stitches, if you'd like! |
