Hello fashion sores in this tutorial I'm going to be showing you how to use Shearing Elastic and Colleen Gilly and this is fashion soren blog TV. Here is a sample of Shearing and a technique of Shearing is all about gathering of fabric. Now if I just pull this so there on top you've got your fashion thread that you've used to suit your fabric on the reverse side you have the elastic and the elastic still come in different colours so remember it's a method of gathering and it's mainly used as a decorative feature on any part of the garment. Here we have the Shearing Elastic and as you can see it just looks like any regular thread other than the fact that it looks thicker and it's elasticated. Now I've got my bobbing here and you have to actually hand-wined it onto your bobbing and the reason being is that your machine really can't cope with the tension that needs to wind your thread on so that's elastic and you need to pull it to some extent not too tight and wind it round your bobbing just wind it round until it's more or less ball really that's all you need to do. Now I've got a plain piece fabric here which is cut on the bias and Shearing's best done on the bias or on the cross grain of your fabric but to get a really good effect. You can either do this two ways you can use either use the guide on your foot to do your first sewing line or I'm just going to use a ruler just so that I can make this a little bit clearer. Remember you've got 1.5cm 5-8s of an inch seam allowance so you need to make sure that you start within the seam allowance. Do not start on the edge so I'll start roughly about there and you're going to sew well I'm going to chalk the first line all the way straight down and it's going to go straight into the seam allowance again stops about there and then I'm going to take it to my sewing machine and then show you how to actually stitch. I'm now at my sewing machine and it's just a straight forward stitch so I'm going to take a couple of stitch forward and then reverse just to secure that stitch and remember I started within the seam allowance and I'm going to follow that line straight down. Keep going and just doing a straight stitch. That's going to seam allowance for this, spread that stitch, hook, and go out. So what you need to do next for your second row of stitching is to make sure that you're going to be using the width of your feet to line up against your first stitch line. Make sure it's lined up. As you can see the side of the foot is going to be using this as a guide, my first row of stitching. Then just pull your work out gently so you get that straight line sewn. Then do the same again. Keep it going. As you see it's starting together. So I'm going to complete all this and then I'll show you what it looks like at the end. Now this is the first sample that I did to show you in order to help you with your first line stitch and your second line stitch and all the other stitch in thereafter. As you can see it's quite wide and once you've put as many rows of stitching on your work, this is what you're going to end up with. Now it's just cooled on itself, it's cooled. That's what happens. And it's all to do with the fat, the lap, the elastic is pulling all that work together. There you have the rows of stitching and that's what it looks on the front. I can just pull that out. So that's a sharing technique using sharing the elastic. Just before I go I just want to recap what we've actually done so far is that in order for you to get that effect on your work you need to make sure that you hand-wind the shear elastic onto your bobbin and you insert it the exact same way that you would do with any other regular thread that you use. And also when you actually finish doing your work it's a good idea that when you actually come to press your work you just need a steam iron on top of your work. Just hovering over it, don't put it down onto work, just help hold it so that it's actually hovering over it. And also one other problem that I found that if you are using a front loading machine so you actually have a bobbin case it's a lot easier to get the elastic inserted and coming up through in the plate. If you are using a top loading machine you may find it a little bit more difficult. Now I tried both and the front loading one is brilliant, it's easy to do. The top loading one is a little bit more trickier and I found that if you get a pin and try and help the thread to slot into the areas in which it needs to go into it will help but it's a little bit more slower and just be aware of that. Any questions that you have please put them in the comment box below and I'll see you next time.