Tips for Purchasing a Used Smocking Pleater Machine
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- If you want to delve into the wonderful world of smocking, hand pleating and purchased inserts will only take you so far - you need a pleater, and new pleaters are expensive! But used pleaters are plentiful and available. Here are things to keep in mind and my recommended brands when purchasing a used pleater.
Helpful Videos:
How to Clean a Pleater: • Cleaning Your Pleater
Pleating Woven Fabric: • Pleating Woven Fabrics...
Get Started Smocking: • Get Started Smocking -...
How to Hand Pleat Fabric for Smocking: • How to Hand Pleat Fabr...
Blog post on Generic Smocking Needles: www.pinkhollyb...
Reed & Amanda Jane Pleater Needles (fits Sally Stanley machines): www.pinkhollyb...
New Pleaters can be purchased from:
Creative Sewing & Smocking: www.smocking.com/
The Tosca Company: www.toscacompa...
All Brands: www.allbrands....
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Thank you so much for creating this video! It's helped me to figure out how to make a decision about what sized pleater I'm looking for. Extremely informative!
I am so glad it was helpful! Good luck purchasing pleater.
Good information. I pulled out my Amanda Jane pleater a few days ago afire rediscovering smocking. The receipt was in the box. $125:00 receipt date 3/18/97. I am glad I didn’t get rid of it.
I am glad you rediscovered smocking and hope you enjoy it!
Princess Pleaters are still being made and sold in the UK.
I have heard they are wonderful.
Thank you for the information!
You are welcome; I hope it’s helpful.
@@PinkHollybushDesigns I did. I have purchased my plaster and can’t wait to get started!!
@@1961Lara you are just in time for Christmas smocking - enjoy!
You can still buy genuine Sally Stanley needles as well.
My husband's grandmother gifted me a little miss muffet pleater, I'm very new to this side of the sewing space if you could point me in the direction of people that know about this machine that would be so helpful.
Daisy, I wish I could help but that is a brand I have never heard of.
@@PinkHollybushDesigns thank you for your time and general videos as well ❤️
You are welcome. I hope you can find some information about the pleater.
Thank you 😊
I hope it is helpful Patti!
Thank you for such a wonderful comprehensive tutorial about pleaters. I have a Martha Pullen pleater with 2 full sets (I think they are full sets) of extra needles that the original owner purchased but never used. I don't think she ever used the pleater either- but how do you get the knob off so that it fits into the box??
Thank you for your kind words. I am glad that you found the video helpful. I have never worked with the Martha Pullen pleater so I am not sure how the knob comes off.
what about martha pullen pleaters. Can we still buy needles that would fit them?
The Tosca company sells needles that they say fit the Pullen Pleater.
¿Me podría decir cuál es la distancia entre cada punto tanto de altura como de separación que tiene esa máquina? Para hacer el plisado manual ya que aquí en Costa Rica son muy caras esas máquinas
Pleating threads are typically 1 cm or 1/4-3/8" apart in both width and height. Check out my hand pleating video that you can find at: czcams.com/video/rkokJAZa5Io/video.html
Hi there, greetings from bavaria. I´m going buy a pleater for my "Trachtenverein". We want to pleat our skirts by machine because hand-pleating is so time consuming. Our skirts have about 4m heavy woven fabric, do you have any recommandation for a pleater with a big diameter at the holes? And second question. Do you know if its possible to insert heavy yarn into the neadles? By handpleating we usually use crochet yarn or comparable yarn, because we need to "shrink" the 4m into 80cm waist with. Thank you so much for your videos.
Hi Maria in Bavaria! It isn't possible to put crochet thread through the needles. Only regular thread will fit. We use hand quilting thread here in the US which is a little stronger than all purpose sewing thread. You can put heavier fabric through the pleater such as lightweight wool coating and corduroy but you do take a chance on breaking the needles. I would look for an Amanda Jane pleater if you can find one. They have a pin that holds the bar in place so it can't pop out if pleating heavier fabric. It and the Sally Stanley have the same size holes on the side. I hope that helps and good luck finding one.
Hi, could this handle fabric with lining sewn together for pleating?
You can pleat 2 fabrics together. The fabrics need to be basted together first. It does depend on how thick the fabrics are.
Where can I get a box that holds spools of thread? I would love to find one where the spools slide onto dowls
Shiela, Amberlane in Canada sells them. Otherwise I would check the destash sites on Facebook.
Do any of the pleaters needles come in a size that I can get an elastic thread through?
Each pleater only has one type of needle that works with it. There aren’t different size needles for the same pleater. The eye of the needle is generally the same size for all brands. You can get quilting thread and fine fishing line through the eye but I don’t know if you can get elastic thread through. If you can’t get it the the pleater needles that you have, then you aren’t going to be able to get elastic thread through the needles. I hope that helps.
Hello and good day. Today I chose to work with voile fabric. There are skipped pleats. What would cause that?
June, I am sorry but without seeing you pleat it, I don't know.
@@PinkHollybushDesignsThanks for replying . It was the new needles mixed with the old. The fabric was so thin it made a skip. Your lessons are very good. I've learned a lot.
@@junemoores1146 I am so glad you were able to figure it out. Thank you for your kind words about my videos.