Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress

Overview

“The second half of the dress is what we will focus on in this lesson to enable us to attach the bodice to it. So, to start off with, I will prepare and stitch the pockets to the skirt's front pieces. ”

In this video lesson Juliet Uzor addresses the topic: Preparing the Skirt 1, 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're going to start sewing the skirt parts of the dress. heel I have the pocket pieces. Remember we cut out two parts of the pockets? This part here will be 3 centimetres, so there'll be a 3 centimetre fold. First thing you do is to fold in the fabric at half a centimeter I have my ruler here to help me as a guide. So I'm going to fold it in at half a centimeter. which would be just a tiny little bit of a fold. When you fold it at half a centimeter, you then fold it at 2.5 centimeters. and press it in place as well. I'm just pinning it in place so that the fold won't move. ...”

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Course summary for: Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress

• Level: Beginner
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• 5 units
• 26 lessons (5h 5m)
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• Category

  Fashion

• Areas

  DIY, Fashion Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing