 so let me get all this to that point and i'll meet you back here to talk about the ruffle okay yay there she is in all her glory this is how the facing looks she's done okay so let's talk about this ruffle the ruffle in the pattern is actually the very last two steps which i didn't really see the point of that um especially since the bottom of the skirt is already done so let's just go ahead and get the ruffle let's just get that out of the way now because this sleeve is going to be something else um so while these are flat this is my little hem tip that i give in every sew along that i do but i'll take the flat ruffle and i will go it to my iron and i will go ahead and press up the seam allowance pressing up to the 5 eighths and then again up to the one and a quarter so i'll do that flat on all of these pieces i'm not actually going to sew them down yet but i'm going to go ahead and do like a pre press um to get them nice and crisp and then after i sew my vertical seams then i'll come in and actually stitch down the hem we could already do the gathering seams too i don't see why not so um press up your hem put in your two rows of gathering stitches do your vertical seams stitch the hem okay so lots of work to be done here um and at the iron and at the machine so just get after it and one side will be anchored once we do our vertical stitches so you just rinse and repeat that on all three panels and then sew them however you're finishing your seams i'm going to do french seams on mine um and then i'll meet you back to show you how to attach it to the skirt jump scare you guys are still watching the same sew along even though what is happening right we went from flowers to animal print well i made the worst error you can make as a youtuber and i thought i was filming and i wasn't so my dress um is done the the ruffle is completely done like i sewed the whole thing up thought i was filming and i wasn't so i decided you know what when life gives you lemons make lemonade and or make the same exact pattern in you know some really fun print um i actually don't have enough to make the whole bodice so this is going to be a skirt so it'll be a lot of fun anyways bear with me it's been a day okay i told you all the things that went wrong during this so along specifically you would be shocked it all when it rains it pours right okay but um some things to note one um you will have a center back seam okay you'll have one on yours i don't have one on mine but you will have one um and then you will not have a center front seam okay i can you tell i'm just trying to make it work so according to the pattern we are going to line up our one of our um one of our ruffle seams your ruffle should be completely hemmed and you should have your gathering stitches at the top and we are going to line up one of these vertical seams with the center back of our dress and they're going to go right sides together so one of them goes on here like this and if you guys are sewing like normal and not doing french seams oh yeah i did french seams on this one too don't you worry um you are going to do them right sides together like this and then there are actually there's a dot on your center what is it called front side side front side piece this little dot right here at the hem that is where the other two vertical seams of the ruffle so i marked those with a little notch right there okay so that's one notch and that is going to be matched up with my other vertical seam of the ruffle like so and then the third one as you come around will be on the other side piece right here okay so that's where this vertical seam goes it looks like we're gathering up about 12 inches into each section but i do love how they do it this way they break it into three they make it totally manageable um that pin must have been hit by a machine needle okay so um they broken it up into three so it's just like a lot more manageable to get your head around all of this gathering so you have this whole big piece here and this is your bodice i'm sorry this is the top part of your skirt this has to fit into here so you come over to where your gathering stitches are you pull up your basting stitches so grab your um bobbin threads pull up your gathers like so and all you have to worry about doing is gathering this one section one third of your ruffle and your skirt so you're pulling it up until they're a roughly one to one and i will pull all of these to one side like this i mean maybe a little bit more where are they all of these to one side like so okay that feels pretty good and then i'll take those threads those bobbin threads and i'll start wrapping them around this pin just to hold and anchor that in place because when we do in some more finagling with this piece and i don't want it to get stretched out i don't want to lose any of the gathers that i put in so i just wrap it around like a figure eight a couple times and now that's locked in place so now i can focus solely on spreading out these gathers and making sure they are distributed evenly throughout this skirt so i'll do like a little bit and then make sure that the dress is nice and like taut and then i'll put in a pin and then i'll do a couple more inches of the gather making sure it's just as even as the last part and then i'll put in a pin and you just go around all the way until you get all three sections completely gathered up into each out into each other go to the machine surge around it at your five or sew around it at your five eighths seam allowance and then finish your seams however you normally would and tada with the help of youtube you have a finished ruffle and skirt combo told you i had done it um so this is what it looks like on the inside you come in here and you pull out your uh basting threads this one was easy to do because i use that orange thread i don't always do that but sometimes and um yeah just come in here and clip your threads then we have basically a sleeveless dress okay and the next video will be our last video of the sewing where we will work on these super super fun sleeves pray for me to go smoother than today's video did um but it is really really cute you should be able to try the whole thing on now be a little careful that you're not stretching out your arm size but you should be able to try the whole thing on give an idea of the length um of the full fit and then the sleeves are just the icing on the cake all right so that's it for today good luck with your ruffles um you don't have the added element of filming so you should be just fine um and i'll see you all very soon