Sewing Course 1

Overview:

This exciting course for beginners is aimed at people who have little to no experience in sewing or using a sewing machine. We will equip you with the skills and language of essential sewing to enable you to read and follow a commercial pattern and to understand and complete a project.

This course gives you a strong foundation in sewing therefore you will be able to sew your own garments, gifts, and projects and even build a business of your own from it. This course will open a vast new world of ideas, for you to implement for your own benefit.

You Will Learn:

How to thread and operate a sewing machine. The thrill of overlocking your projects. How to take measurements and find the correct pattern size. How to trace a particular size from a master pattern.

How to lengthen or shorten a pattern according to preference. How to do straight stitching, zig-zag, back tacks, pivots, seams, hems, and overlocking. How to use the various interesting features on the sewing machine.

The placing, pinning, and cutting of pattern pieces onto fabric using grainlines and selvages. How to use interfacings and fusings. To master necklines, facings, and slits. The correct way to insert a zip