Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress
Tips for Matching Bold and Patterned Fabric
A course by Juliet Uzor , Seamstress and Content Creator
About the video: Tips for Matching Bold and Patterned Fabric
Overview
“I will, in this session, share my best tips for matching the patterns on fabrics. ”
In this video lesson Juliet Uzor addresses the topic: Tips for Matching Bold and Patterned Fabric, 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
“Tips for Matching Bold and Patterned Fabric In this lesson, I'll share a few tips with you on how to match fabrics that aren't plain coloured. Over here, I have this fabric, that will be very easy to work with because it doesn't have any bold patterns on it, and it isn't so fussy in that sense. So with this one, you can place your patterned pieces at any position before you cut them out. Over here I have this fabric, which isn't so tricky to work with, and you might not need to do a lot of patterned matching. These are not as evenly spread out, and they are not directional, so you might not...”
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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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