Dressmaking: Draft and Sew a Shirred Dress
Preparing Your Fabric 1
A course by By Hand London , Sewing Patterns Brand
About the video: Preparing Your Fabric 1
Overview
“With our patterns ready, I will now show you how to cut your fabric and transfer your markings. I'll start by laying out the fabric in the right way, then I'll show you how to position the pattern pieces on it, and I'll finish by cutting! This first step will be a good opportunity to teach you some useful terms about fabrics.”
In this video lesson By Hand London addresses the topic: Preparing Your Fabric 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Dressmaking: Draft and Sew a Shirred Dress. Create your own made-to-measure garments by learning how to draft and cut patterns before sewing your fabric together on a sewing machine.
Partial transcription of the video
“Preparing Your Fabric In this lesson, we'll be preparing our fabric and pinning our pattern pieces into place, cutting them, transferring our markings all ready to start sewing our dresses. Before we start pinning our pattern pieces into place, we must lay our fabric out the right way. I've started by taking my length of fabric and I folded it in half lengthways and laid it out on my table here. Before we start, I'll give you a little bit of a fabric anatomy lesson, to familiarize yourself with all the terms that I'll be using. On our length of fabric here, we have our selvedges running dow...”
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Course summary for: Dressmaking: Draft and Sew a Shirred Dress
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Arts & Crafts, DIY, Fashion Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing
By Hand London
A course by By Hand London
Elisalex is the founder of By Hand London sewing patterns, where she encourages and supports people who want to create their own made to measure clothes. Sewing, knitting, crochet, and DIY have always been her sanctuary. Elisalex delved back into the world of making with an old school friend when taking time off work to be a full-time mum. Motivated by the ability to breathe new life into dressmaking through social media, they founded By Hand London in 2012.
Since then, By Hand London’s reputation for original patterns has prevailed, with many more available sizes and patterns to choose from on their online store. The brand has recently collaborated with John Lewis to create printed patterns and Elisalex was awarded Designer of the month in August 2021 by Craft World.
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