Join this pattern making mini-course to learn how to check and finish your sewing patterns.
You'll learn about checking your seams match, grainlines, facings and labelling patterns, how to add seam allowance, and a 'Finishing your patterns' checklist to get your patterns ready to start sewing!
All the material is pre-recorded so that you can go at your own pace.
Course Lessons:
- Pattern terminology
- Tracing a pattern
- Lengthen/shorten patterns
- Lengthen/shorten sleeves
- Checking patterns - Walking the seams
- Checking patterns - Fixing uneven seams
- Truing the seams
- Squaring off a pattern
- How to check if a sleeve fits
- Truing a dart
- Creating a facing
- Creating a hem facing
- Creating a turn-up hem
- Grainlines
- Labelling patterns
- Truing seams
- Adding seam allowance