Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress
Preparing the Sewing Pattern
A course by Juliet Uzor , Seamstress and Content Creator
About the video: Preparing the Sewing Pattern
Overview
“In this lesson, we will start by preparing the pattern for our dress and I will teach how to identify the correct size to cut. ”
In this video lesson Juliet Uzor addresses the topic: Preparing the Sewing Pattern, 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
“Preparing the Sewing Pattern In this lesson we'll start preparing our sewing pattern for sewing our dress, but first of all, I will demonstrate how to cut out the right size for your dress. The sewing pattern for your dress, you can download as an attachment at the end of the unit. So do, first of all, identify your size and print out the right size for yourself. Here, I have mine all cut out, but I am going to demonstrate what I actually did before identifying the right one to cut out for myself. We have our size chart here, and the size chart you would also find as an attachment at the en...”
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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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