Get to Know Your Overlocker

Name: Get to Know Your Overlocker
Start: 2026-02-28T10:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-28T16:30:00+00:00
Location: Knoll Business Centre (Bizspace)

Schedule

Sat Feb 28 2026 at 10:30 am to 04:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Knoll Business Centre (Bizspace) | Brighton, EN

Get to know your overlocker with Julia Hincks, best selling author of 'The Overlocker Technique Manual'
This is the ideal workshop for those who have an overlocker but don’t know how to use it (or are too scared to get it out of the box!!).
Those thinking about buying an overlocker are also welcome so you can test one out for the day.
You will learn how to:
Thread, unthread and rethread your machine
Adjust the tension dials to create a perfectly balanced stitch
Overlock corners and curves
Use the stitching guidelines on the foot or needle plate
Finish off the thread ends to stop unraveling
Fix mistakes or unpick your stitching
Adjust the stitch length and width
Adjust the cutting width
Adjust differential feed on your machine and discover the effects of this
Adjust foot pressure
Create simple hemming techniques, exclusive to overlocking
Use your newly learned skills to create a snood