Better Dressmaking
Learn loads of tips and techniques to make your home sewing look less – well- ‘homemade’ at this 6 week Better Dressmaking Course run by Artisan Stitch!
About Better Dressmaking
Thursday 02/10/2025 - Thursday 06/11/2025
Learn tips and techniques to make your home sewing look less – well – ‘homemade’
Course Description:
Level: Intermediate. You need to have confident machine skills and ideally, some experience of dressmaking using commercial paper patterns although this is not essential as an introduction to using patterns will be included. I recommend that you have completed one of my Beginners Courses and have made a couple of garments first to get the best out of this course.
Do your seams look wrinkled or puckered? Do your facings refuse to lie flat, and are you tired of wonky zips? Or do you even avoid zips altogether? Yes? Then this is the course to help you raise your sewing game.
I’ve observed a few areas where home dressmakers commonly struggle, and rolled them all up into ‘Better Dressmaking’. First developed as a 3-day Summer School, it’s now available in regular weekly sessions. Week by week, it will teach you loads more tips and tricks to improve the fit and finish of your home dressmaking projects and avoid that ‘homemade’ look that is the downfall of many sewing projects.
Through a series of tutorials, and practical sessions, you’ll be working samples of each technique, so you can practise the skills learnt in that session. We’ll start with getting the groundwork right. How to choose the best size of pattern, and making some common adjustments for a perfect fit. Then I’ll teach you the lingo of pattern terminology. I’ll show you how to improve the appearance of your seams with pressing and trimming, and adding the WOW factor with perfectly straight and even topstitching. Darts, interfacing, buttonholes, zips, sleeves and waistbands are covered too. Each session expands on the skills learnt in the previous one, building your knowledge and technical ability over the 6 weeks (15 hours in total). By the end of the course, you’ll have a library of new techniques at your fingertips to take home so your sewing will be more ‘high end’ than ‘high street’.
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