Sewing and Design Specialization

Overview

“In this lesson, you’ll assemble and gather your skirt, join it to the bodice, and complete the hem—bringing your dress to life! Starting with the main skirt and the hem frill, you’ll sew side seams, press, and gather for that perfect fit. Once the hem frill is attached, you’ll gather the waistline, align it with the bodice, and sew everything together.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Finishing Your Dress - Part 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sewing and Design Specialization. Master sewing techniques: from using a sewing machine to creating garments like dresses, trousers, peplum tops, and backpacks.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson we're going to be assembling and gathering our skirts, joining them to the bodice at the waistline and hemming them and finishing our dresses. So you'll remember from when we were cutting out our fabric that we had our bodice and our sleeve which we've since sewn and then we had a pile of rectangles ready to become our skirts. So I have two rectangles here, the slightly larger rectangles that are going to be the front and back of my main skirt and then we have some longer and shallower rectangles here that are going to make up the hem frill that gets attached to the bottom of...”

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Course summary for: Sewing and Design Specialization

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (51)
• 10253 students
• 11 units
• 83 lessons (15h 27m)
• 36 downloads

• Category

  Craft, Design, Fashion

• Areas

  Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Botanical Illustration, DIY, Embroidery, Fashion Design, Fiber Arts, Pattern Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing, Textile Design, Upcycling