Job Description:

• 1) Operates sewing machine equipped with shirring attachment to shorten or decorate edges of material with gathers or puckers for use in fabricating articles, such as buffing wheels, curtains and tie-backs, casket interiors, hats and caps, and decorative folds in fabrics for garment trimmings: Turns screws to adjust tension of thread, length of stitch, and spacing and width of shirred runnings.

• 2) Presses knee control to raise gathering device, positions edge of material beneath needle, and lowers gathering device onto material.

• 3) Trims excess thread and material from shirred material, using scissors or knife-blade attachment.