Sew Smarter: 30 Professional Techniques
Step up your sewing savvy with professional techniques and expert guidance. Tame challenging fabrics and tricky sewing to create your most sophisticated garments yet.
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Step up your sewing savvy with professional techniques and expert guidance. Tame challenging fabrics and tricky sewing to create your most sophisticated garments yet.
Designed to Succeed
Meet your instructor, Katrina Walker, learn more about building your sewing reference notebook and review fabric factors that can affect your work and design decisions.
Fabric Prep & Choices
Testing your fabric will help you understand how it will perform in your projects. Katrina demonstrates how to evaluate your fabric, how to pre-stabilize slippery fabrics and how to work with plaids.
Darts & Gathers
A dimpled point is the mark of an amateur dart. Get some dart-sharpening tips, whether your darts are straight, curved or double-pointed, then learn how to create gathers without grumbling.
Tricky Patterns, Curves & Corners
Match patterned fabric with Katrina’s professional guidance and learn how to tackle sewing inside and outside curves with two great techniques.
On the Edge
Polish your edges with fabulous facings, truly invisible zippers and lapped zippers. Katrina shows you how!
Caution: Construction Area
Get a handle on tricky seams as Katrina shows you how to sew a welt seam, double topstitched seam, lapped seam and more. You’ll see how to handle bulky or sheer fabrics and will practice on the exclusive chiffon capelet pattern provided with your class.
Finishing Up
Hem up your finery with Katrina’s expert assistance. Learn about bound hems, interfaced hems, baby hems and more. Even the trickiest fabrics will bend to your will!
