Originally Posted by
toogie
I was self taught and when I first started, I had no pleater, so every time we were in the car I was stitching from dot to dot, to make my pleats. My husband asked me on the way to a wake one time, (yes I was stitching on the way-lol) how much a pleater cost. When I told him, he said order one. He didn't have to tell me twice. That was my last dot to dot gathering-lol
I would like to know what a pleater would do. Does it look like smocking? I have a "ruffler" which does pleating, too, but it doesn't do something that would look like smocking.