"BETTER THAN BASIC" SEWING CLASS (September - October 2012)
Get step by step instructions to make your own custom fit SKIRT pattern. Then, learn to assemble your fitted skirt, installing regular or lapped zippers, clean finish seams inside, waistband, darts, interfacing, various hand stitching, hem stitching, and more…
Project: CUSTOM FIT SKIRT WITH ZIPPER … Made by YOU, for YOU!
Skills & Techniques:
•Make your own custom-fit pattern
•Sewing-machine basics
•Tools and terminology
•Stitches: Regular stitch, topstitch, basting, stitch-in-the-ditch
•Seam finishes: Zig zag, Booked Seam
•Preparing, marking, and cutting fabric
•Garment construction including fitting techniques and adjustment
•Installing regular zippers, waistbands, and interfacing
•Hemming a garment properly
Cost: $199 plus tax (+ $25 reference/instructional manual, required)
Fabric and Supplies: To be provided by student (see list)
Course duration: 4 weeks, 3 hrs each class
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"BEYOND BASIC" SEWING CLASS (October- November 2012)
Get step by step instructions to make your own custom fit Sleeveless Top pattern. Then, learn to assemble your Top, attaching neck and armhole facings, interfacing, understitching, darts, topstitching, clean finish seams inside, various hand stitching, hem stitching, and more…
Project: CUSTOM FIT SLEEVELESS TOP… Made by YOU, for YOU!
Skills & Techniques:
•Make your own custom-fit pattern
•Sewing-machine basics
•Tools and terminology
•Stitches: Regular stitch, topstitch, basting, understitching
•Seam finishes: Zig zag, Booked Seam
•Preparing, marking, and cutting fabric
•Garment construction including fitting techniques and adjustment
•Attaching facings and interfacing, sewing darts, clean finishing armholes and necklines
•Hemming a garment properly
Cost: $199 plus tax (+ $25 reference/instructional manual, required)
Fabric and Supplies: To be provided by student (see list)
Course duration: 4 weeks, 3 hrs each class
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"BYE BYE TO BASIC" Sewing Class (November - December 2012)
After making your own custom fit Dress pattern, continue to hone your sewing skills learning to assemble your Little Black Dress...just in time for the holidays. Sew concave and convex curved (princess) seams, install invisible zipper, learn specialty seam finishes, pressing techniques, neckline and armhole binding, etc.
Project: CUSTOM FIT "LITTLE BLACK DRESS"… Made by YOU, for YOU!
Skills & Techniques:
•Make your own custom-fit pattern
•Sewing-machine basics
•Tools and terminology
•Stitches: Regular stitch, edgestitch, basting stitches
•Seam finishes: Zig zag, Booked Seam, Bound Seam
•Preparing, marking, and cutting fabric
•Garment construction including fitting techniques and adjustment
•Sewing curved princess seams, attaching bindings and closures
•Installing an invisible dress zipper
•Hemming a garment properly (various techniques)
Cost: $245 plus tax (+ $25 reference/instructional manual, required)
Fabric and Supplies: To be provided by student (see list)
Course duration: 4 weeks, 3 hrs each class
Prerequisite: "Custom Fit SKIRT" Class and "Custom Fit SLEEVELESS TOP" Class
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SEPTEMBER CLASSES:
CUSTOM FIT SKIRT with ZIPPER
Saturdays 2:00pm - 5:00pm
4 weeks: Sept 22nd & 29th, Oct 6th & 13th
OCTOBER CLASSES:
CUSTOM FIT TOP with FACINGS
Saturdays 2:00pm - 5:00pm
4 weeks: Oct 20th & 27th, Nov 3rd &10th
NOVEMBER CLASSES:
CUSTOM FIT "LITTLE BLACK DRESS"
with INVISIBLE ZIPPER
Saturdays 2:00pm - 5:00pm
4 weeks: Nov 17th, Dec 1st, 8th, 15th