This 9 week course is designed for anyone who has previous sewing experience or has completed the sewing course for beginners. All skills taught on this course are used for clothes-making and interior design.
The knowledge and expertise you gain will be:
- How to sew a concealed zip in a project.
- Mastering a variety of seams, stitches and finishings.
- Sewing shoulder-straps for a bag.
- Making a bag with zipper closure.
- Sewing a pocket with a zip fastening.
- How to repurpose old fabrics into new projects.
- Experiment with colours, pattern and fabric properties.
- How to sew darts, corners and curves.
- Making your own samples useful for future references.
The aim is to expand your skills, make products you like, increase your confidence and having a enjoyable and relaxed learning experience.
Some of the skills you learn and the projects you will be making: sewing in an invisible zips, cushion cover with lapped zip, crossbody bag with zipped closure, zipped pockets, strap and more.
We work in small groups with plenty of time to ask questions, receive guidance and tuition with a great deal of demonstrations.
Daytime course:
When: Friday mornings 10am - 12noon.
Where: Sewing Shed Stroud.
Date: 10th January - 14 March. No sewing on 17 January.
Fee: 220 pounds.
Spaces: 1 left.
For any questions please email.
The Sewing for Improvers Course was enjoyable, really useful and very good value. I'm delighted with my bag, apron and cushion cover and know I've acquired new skills I'll use again: making bias binding, inserting an invisible zip and using fusible fleece. Martha gives clear instructions and is very patient and encouraging. The two hours went by incredibly quickly each time. I shall miss the Wednesday evening lessons in friendly company.
I met Martha after I was given a 20+ year old Singer overlocker. Sixty-something, male, and barely capable of bodging the task of sewing on a button, it was time to face down the demons of fabric and thread.
The ten-week Sewing for Beginners course was great fun. Martha was comfortable working with a range of sewing machines, some provided by those attending the course and others others available in her well-equipped Sewing Shed. We made items that were attractive and useful. We achieved. We created a network of friends who still swap ideas and solve problems.
It is telling that the Beginners class signed up en masse for the follow on course, and now that has ended, for yet more sewing. The tentative sounds of sewing machines operating at their slowest have been replaced by the confident sounds of machines operating swiftly, all against a background of cheerful chatter.
The ten-week Sewing for Beginners course was great fun. Martha was comfortable working with a range of sewing machines, some provided by those attending the course and others others available in her well-equipped Sewing Shed. We made items that were attractive and useful. We achieved. We created a network of friends who still swap ideas and solve problems.
It is telling that the Beginners class signed up en masse for the follow on course, and now that has ended, for yet more sewing. The tentative sounds of sewing machines operating at their slowest have been replaced by the confident sounds of machines operating swiftly, all against a background of cheerful chatter.
