Sew Start To Finish - Essential Clothing Techniques

Name: Sew Start To Finish - Essential Clothing Techniques
Start: 2024-10-31T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-31T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Tudor Rose Patchwork

Schedule

Thu Oct 31 2024 at 11:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Tudor Rose Patchwork | Bedford, EN

Come along and join Geraldine to improve your sewing knowledge with essential techniques in clothing creation.
You can attend one day at £35, 2 days at £65, 3 days at £90 or all four days at £110.
Full day 10am - 4pm
Day 1 - 30 May 2024: The Joy of Embellishment and Measurement
This day is all about decoration of a garment and includes:
- applique - applying fabric onto fabric
- working with lace
- using the embroidery stitches on your sewing machine to decorate

Plus some of the difficult issues around the use of commercial patterns whether mainstream or indie:

- how to measure the body correctly
- how to read and use a commercial pattern
- selecting the correct fabric for your garment
- select and construct seams suitable for the chosen fabric and finishing the seam.
Day 2 - 4 July 2024: Tying it Together
Knowing what fastenings are available and how to put them into a garment can make the garment move from a well made outfit to that WOW piece of clothing and includes:
- selecting the correct fastenings for your garment
- looking at different fastenings to use
- knowing which is the most suitable zip to use for a chosen garment
- insert 3 different types of zips into different fabrics
- how to sew on hooks and eyes, press studs and decorative frogs.

Day 3 - 29 August 2024: What a Difference a Pocket or Button Can Make

Buttons and pockets don's seem a logical mix until you realise what a welt pocket of bound buttonhole might do. The day includes:

- pockets in general
- buttons, covered buttons, buttonholes including a welt buttonhole
- making pockets to insert into trousers and jackets and patch pockets to shirts and blouses.

Day 4 - 31 October 2024: How to Look Flat and Square

Sleeves, hems, facings and collars can be a real challenge until you master interfacings and which one to use when. Plus getting everything to sit flat ad remain so whilte stitching. The day includes:

- choosing the right interfacing for your project
- the need for pressing
- types of sleeves
- inserting sleeves
- the best way to sew on facings
- making collars work
- hems.