Calculating Pleats and Spaces w/ Ginny Conner - Item # DVD-CONF-033c4c

2003 Custom Home Furnishings Conference Seminar: Whether it's for pinch pleats, goblets, slouched panels, or some new and unique header, one of the secrets to productive and profitable fabrication is quick and simple pleat and space calculation. In this class you will learn how to calculate the pleats on multi-width panels while assuring proper seam placement. You will learn the relationship between fullness, pleat size, and space size. You will also learn how to figure your spacing to attain the correct finished panel width. Ginny will explain and demonstrate a method of sewing pleats using a measuring tape on the sewing machine, eliminating the measuring and pinning of the actual panel. This class will include sample headers with guidelines, calculation methods, and charts to reduce the time spent figuring the pleats and spaces of almost every pleated treatment. (180 min)