Learn to Sew : Make Buttoned Pillow Cover & Zip Pencil Case
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Brief Introduction
Learn and apply essential sewing techniques: seams, button, buttonholes zips. Make your own pillow cover and pencil caseDescription
This course is laid out into sections and lectures. It is a follow on to my Learn to sew with a sewing machine course, were you learnt some basic skills in sewing. The technique you will learn in this course forms building blocks for any and every sewing projects. We would dive into the world of seams, buttons, buttonholes and zips.
The techniques you learn would be applied in the sewing projects which are part of this course.
As with learning a new skill, practise is paramount, download the resources provided and practise alongside the video.
Requirements
- Requirements
- Sewing Machine safety
- How to drive the sewing machine
- Winding and loading a bobbin
- Threading a sewing machine
- Know the sewing machine parts
- Sew straight stitches
Knowledge
- Start and stop stitching properly (Reverse stitching)
- Understand seams
- Know how to sew with an even seam allowance
- Know how to finish their seam edges
- Understand the Throat Plate
- Use the throat plate as a guide to sew straight stitches
- Sew buttons
- Sew buttonholes
- Sew basic zip
- Make a pillow cover with buttons and button holes
- Make a zip pencil case