Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress
Influences
A course by Juliet Uzor , Seamstress and Content Creator
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Do you want to know about my love for fabrics and fabric designers?”
In this video lesson Juliet Uzor addresses the topic: Influences , which is part of the Domestika online course: Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress. Learn how to use a sewing machine and start creating unique outfits from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences I'm very much inspired by fabric and fabric designers, and in this lesson, I would go a bit more into detail about my influences. I am Nigerian, and growing up in Nigeria, I watched my family members use these African wax fabrics that come in different patterns and colours to make gorgeous garments. And, over the years, these fabrics have evolved into a lot more contemporary designs, and I absolutely love them because they come in beautiful colours, beautiful patterns, some bold and some small scaled, and in different textures, because some are lighter weight than the others. It ...”
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Course summary for: Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress
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Category
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Areas
DIY, Fashion Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing

Juliet Uzor
A course by Juliet Uzor
Juliet Uzor is an elementary school teacher based in London with a passion for sewing and inspiring others to create their own fashion pieces. She is a self-taught seamstress and the 2019 winner of BBC’s reality TV show Sewing Bee.
Juliet shares her passion for sewing through a diverse mix of content that includes writing a blog, creating video tutorials, sharing tips on Instagram, and writing clothes-sewing columns for a series of British craft and sewing magazines.
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