Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress
Seam Finishes
A course by Juliet Uzor , Seamstress and Content Creator
About the video: Seam Finishes
Overview
“There is a range of seam finishes needed to have clean and pro-like garments, we will be learning about those in this lesson, which will get us ready for the next unit, where will prepare the materials for sewing. ”
In this video lesson Juliet Uzor addresses the topic: Seam Finishes, 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
“In this lesson, we'll take a closer look at how to finish the raw edges of fabrics. Earlier on, I shared how to sew two pieces of fabric to create a seam. But what happens to the edges of the Fabrics. over a period of time they'll start to fray and look not presentable at all. So the ideal thing would be to finish them off. There are different ways of finishing off raw edges of fabrics. And the most common one would be to use... pinking shears. And these are affordable as well. So pinging shears, like I shared earlier with you, it has serrated edges and they create zigzags around the edges....”
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Course summary for: Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress
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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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