Sewing Basics - Let's Get Started With Kay

Come along on Wednesday nights and we will brush up on sewing basics:

Some topics we’ll cover are:

- Sewing techniques and terminology

- How to thread up and use a machine

- Stitches- how to adjust them and which to use where

- Making accurate measurements, cutting out fabric and following a pattern

- Know your fabrics- how they behave and matching fabric to project

- Shop for suitable fabrics (from either op shops or retail shops)

- Using and maintaining an iron

Each night the aim will be to complete a simple item that practices aspects that you are learning.

We will start with easy achievable items and build up to making a simple useful garment by the end of the term.

My aim is that at the end of this course you will have found the joy and satisfaction that creating with fabric brings, and to build confidence to continue sewing on your own.

Purchase / Bring your own:

- Good sharp dressmaking scissors (or rotary cutter, self-healing cutting mat and special ruler)

- Small sharp snipping scissors

- Seam ripper (quick unpick)

- Tape measure

- Pins (glass headed are best)

- Machine needles (Universal size 80 and jeans needles)

- Bernina thread bobbin (if you are going to use our school Bernina machine)

- Thread (black and white)

- 1/2metre-1metre of black calico (washed before class) this can be used for lining of bags etc.

- Fabric scraps (for practicing stitches or piecing to make larger