Sewing With Silks: The Liberty Shirt

Class Preview

Gain silk-sewing confidence and a gorgeous garment as you stitch along with Linda Lee and her Sewing Workshop pattern. Note: Pattern not included.

Introduction

Meet your instructor, fashion and sewing designer Linda Lee, and discover what you’ll learn and create over the course of this class.

Preparing to Sew

Linda demystifies silks, explaining how to prepare and straighten your fabric to achieve the best results. Then she walks you through pattern preparation, offering helpful tips that will save time and make sewing easier.

Lay Out, Cut Out & Structure

Lay out your pattern, mark all the pieces and fuse the interfacing along with Linda’s step-by-step tutorials as you learn how to achieve the structure you desire.

Sewing With Silk

Time to sew! Learn how to select the best thread and needles for the job, pick up valuable tips about stay-stitching and prepare and sew the shirt hem.

Back Hem & Mitered Corners

Pressing with templates makes hems and mitered corners easy! In this lesson, Linda walks you through techniques for sewing a mitered corner and topstitching.

Sewing French Seams

Discover how to create a beautiful French seam, leaving your garment without any raw edges. Then sew together the shoulder and side seam in this style with Linda’s encouraging guidance.

Collar Construction

Creating a gorgeous, crisp collar is not impossible, and in this lesson, Linda shows you how. Learn how to trim, press and turn corners, edgestitch, hand baste and attach the collar to achieve stunning results.

Adding Facing & Finishing Hems

Explore options for facing and hem connection as you prepare and attach the facing, gain valuable pressing and clipping tips, and finish the hems and facing for a gorgeous end result.

Sleeves

Basting the sleeve cap is key to setting in the sleeve. Learn how to press using a template, baste the sleeve cap, sew the sleeve seam, sew the vent and topstitch the sleeve hem using Linda’s helpful tips.

Buttons & Buttonholes

Learn how to achieve the perfect button and buttonhole alignment with Linda’s helpful tips as you space, mark and sew your buttonholes, ripping out as needed. Discover Linda’s helpful tips on how button choices and spacing can make a huge difference in your garment!

Alternate Seam & Hem Finishes

Add even more stylish seam and hem finishes to your collection with Linda’s take on slipstitching, zigzag stitches, baby hems and handkerchief hems, including pointers on when and how to use different finishes to varying effects.