Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress
Tools and Materials
A course by Juliet Uzor , Seamstress and Content Creator
About the video: Tools and Materials
Overview
“In this session, we will learn about the key tools and materials required for getting into sewing clothes. ”
In this video lesson Juliet Uzor addresses the topic: Tools and Materials, 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
“Tools and Materials In this lesson what I'll do is I'll share with you all the different tools that you'll need for making clothes at home. I'll start off with a sewing machine. For making clothes at home, you definitely need one. A basic sewing machine is perfect to start with. anything that can sew straight stitches, zigzags stitches and a buttonhole will be excellent. You don't need to go fancy with it, start with a simple machine, Could be borrowed, could be rented or it could be a second-hand one. Now for your sewing machine, you would also need bobbins. You need more than one bobbin, ...”
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Course summary for: Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress
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Category
Fashion -
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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