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Read 32 Needle, 32 Row Commercial Grade Smocking Pleater Machine, Made in South Africa - FREE "Perfect Pleats for Smocking" DVD Instructional Video



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- 32 row pleater has 32 needles - 33 half spaces - Brass rollers pleats 12 inch width of fabric - Left and right hand turning knobs - Mounted on large base... Read more

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32 row pleater has 32 needles
33 half spaces
Brass rollers pleats 12 inch width of fabric
Left and right hand turning knobs
Mounted on large base
Instructional Video
Made in South Africa
Uses New Style READ Needles Only!

US Warranty: 1 year parts, 90 days labor on defects in materials and workmanship.
Non-US Warranty: 30 days parts and labor

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Cheryl Johansen, Creative Smocking
First, all fabrics pleat differently and not all fabrics are intended to be pleated by a pleater, any brand, any size. The easiest fabrics to pleat are batistes and broadcloths, which have been pre-washed to remove the sizing (stiffness of the fabric). Fabrics other than these two types are at your mercy, as the pleater manufacturers (all) design and test the pleaters to work only with batiste and broadcloth. This is not to say that any given pleater won't pleat other fabrics, just might have difficulties doing so. So what type of fabric have you been attempting to pleat? Needles. The needles bend and break just like your sewing machine needles. If you feed a questionable fabric through the pleater, chances are any or some or all of the needles are now ever-so-slightly bent and will not necessarily pleat perfectly from that point on even if pleating with the lightest weight batiste. When the needles bend, they're bent and not suitable for pleating. Dowel. Are you using a dowel to wind your fabric around for pleating? Absolutely mandatory. The dowel can be anything from a 3/8" wooden dowel purchased at a place like Home Depot to one of a couple dowels available in the market place for pleating, such as the Magnetic Dowel or The Pleater Dowel. It is an absolute necessity to keep the fabric tight/taut around the dowel as the fabric feeds into the back of the pleater, if not, air bubbles of fabric (bubbles-bumps) will form as the fabric feeds thru the pleater. If there is an air bubble, the needle needing to grasp the fabric at that point will have nothing to grab because the fabric is a bubble of air. Also necessary to pleat very slowly, pulling the pleated fabric off the needles and down the gathering threads about every 3 turns. The more fabric that builds on the needles, the more likely the needles will break--too much pressure on the needles. Threads. You can use any thread from regular weight sewing machine thread to lightweight quilting thread. DO NOT USE thread heavier than LIGHTWEIGHT QUILTING THREAD, as the thread will be difficult to get thru the eye of the needle and make it difficult to run the needle through the fabric when pleating. I do not know if you have personally taken the needles out of the pleater, however, there is a right and wrong way to put the needles back into the pleater. If you have taken any needles out make sure you get them back in "pointed tip DOWN", plus the two "side plugs" (look like gun bullets) must be in the pleater properly too--tightly. Rollers. There is a right and wrong way for the rollers to fit in the pleater. The removable roller (which you remove to replace needless) has a right and left. Make sure you put it back in the pleater the way it arrived and not the opposite direction. On the Little Amanda this is difficult to tell which was right and which was left, as the entire roller is made up on 1/2 space rows, unlike the other size pleaters except for the Super AJ. Needles and Rows for Smocking. Only pleat with the exact number of needles you require for your smocking piece; remove all other needles. Leaving the excess needles in the pleater will put HOLES in your fabric. BEGINNING PLEATING INSTRUCTIONS: Start with a scrap of fabric about 6" x 4", preferably the same fabric you intend to pleat your first project. DO NOT THREAD ANY NEEDLES. Roll the scrap of fabric around a dowel. Feed the fabric on the dowel into the back of the pleater. Begin pleating. When you can successfully pleat this scrap of fabric, proceed on to a larger scrap of fabric without threading the needles again. Mission accomplished, thread 4-5 needles and using a scrap of fabric again, pleat. Continue practicing in this method until you can pleat fabric with the needles threaded until the fabric pleats perfect pleats! You are now ready to begin your first project! DO NOT BEGIN WITH A BISHOP!!!! These are tricky even for the most experienced pleater/smocker! If all this fails for you, there is the "bible of pleating" called The Pleater Manual. You can purchase one thru Allbrands. The book is 72 pages in length and covers every question you might have. You should have received Allbrands Pleating DVD when you purchased the pleater--I hope you've had time to watch it. If all this fails, there is an additinoal pleating DVD which you can also purchase through Allbrands called the Pleating Video.

Tania, Massachusetts
Excellent product, great customer service!

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