Sewing for Beginners: Make a Unique Dress
Assembling the Top of the Dress
A course by Valentine , Content Creator and Sewing Expert
About the video: Assembling the Top of the Dress
Overview
“Let's go for sewing! Here I will move on to assembling the pieces of fabric to form the top of the dress. For this, I will first assemble the back pieces, then the shoulders. I will then put the neckline on the bias.”
In this video lesson Valentine addresses the topic: Assembling the Top of the Dress, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sewing for Beginners: Make a Unique Dress. Make a dress that reflects your personality with a simple sewing pattern, the fabric of your choice, a sewing machine, and the advice of an expert.
Partial transcription of the video
“Assembling the top of the dress In this lesson, we will move on to fitting the top of the dress. This is my favorite part. It begins to become concrete and the dress begins to take shape. To begin, we will assemble the two back pieces. You are going to position your piece with the right side facing you and you are going to position on top, we say place against place, the other back piece. The edges must match. We say we put the seams edge to edge. To help you, you can use pins to hold the two layers together. We will pass under the sewing machine to make a seam 1 cm from the edge all the wa...”
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Course summary for: Sewing for Beginners: Make a Unique Dress
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DIY, Fashion Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing

Valentine
A course by Valentine
After an initial career in engineering, Valentine decided to take a completely different path: that of creative arts and textile design. Nowadays, she runs her own blog Happy as a bee and an Instagram account with thousands of followers. She shares her lifestyle favorites, DIY tips, and sewing patterns that anyone can try their hand at.
Her popular and original textile creations are inspired by fashion and have already caught the eye of brands such as My Little Coupon, Jacadi, Ma Petite Mercerie, and Pilot.
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