Ruffles and Flourishes...

Who would have thought that, if you took this...

and then, attached this...

You'd get something as cool as this?

Miss Ellie has all kinds of bells and whistles, but this little attachment really takes the cake. I'd never used it before yesterday, but just couldn't get myself enthused about making ruffles the "old-fashioned" way. I decided to see if I get this ruffler attachment to work, and find out if it would actually save some time making ruffles. I figured there might be a learning curve, but my concerns were unfounded.

I put the mechanical foot on my machine and only had to spend about 10 minutes trying to find out what the different numbers on the foot meant. (Scrap fabric, change setting, run fabric through. Repeat through the four or five different number settings...) I was up and running in less than fifteen minutes. No more zigzag stitch over a length of pearl cotton to make gathers or ruffles such as these!

Handsome walked in while the machine was running, just in time to see the ruffles jumping off the back of the attachment. He muttered something about "dark magic" on his way out of the studio.

Kes Update: Thank you for all your kind comments and concern for Kes. We all appreciate hearing from you. Wednesday night was a rough one, with Handsome and me taking turns letting her out or cleaning up where she got "a little sick". The skies brightened on Thursday to a still-sore ol' girl, but when the sun set, she was getting back to her old self. She's getting a lot of sympathy and TLC around here, and didn't turn one little bit of it away. I'm sure she'll feel better by the hour and will be back to her old self very soon. Then, look out! I can hardly wait.