This 10 week course is designed for anyone who has previous sewing experience or has completed the sewing course for beginners. All the skills taught on this course are interchangeable between making clothes and interior.
The knowledge and expertise you gain will be:
- How to sew and application of a concealed zip.
- Making and applying bias binding.
- Mastering a variety of seams, stitches and finishings.
- How to repurpose old fabrics into new projects.
- How to restore, repair and look after textile products.
- Experiment with colours, pattern and fabric properties.
- How to sew zips, corners, curves and darts.
- Making your own samples useful for future references.
The aim is to expand your skills, having a fun and enjoyable learning experience, make products you like, and increase your confidence.
Some of the skills that we cover are invisible zips, making and applying your own bindings, mastering pleats, folds and tucks whilst creating several projects on the way.
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: Starting Wednesday 17 April till 3 July (no sewing at half term break on 29 May and 5 June).
Where: Sewing Shed Stroud.
Time: evenings 10am - 12 noon.
Time: evenings 10am - 12 noon.
Fee: 245 pounds.
Evening course:
When: Starting Wednesday 17 April till 3 July (no sewing at half term break on 29 May and 5 June).
Where: Sewing Shed Stroud.
Time: evenings 7pm - 9pm
Time: evenings 7pm - 9pm
Fee: 245 pounds.
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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.
