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Step Up Your Sewing-Darts & Facings
April 2, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
£59.00
Darts and facing are a functional part of any garment. Darts provide shaping that will make a garment three dimensional
A facing is a piece of fabric used to finish raw edges of a garment at open areas, such as the neckline, armholes, and front and back plackets or openings
WHO’S IT FOR
- Those Sewists new to sewing and are new to dress making
- Those Sewists who can sew but are entering into the world of dressmaking
- Those who are returning to dress making and wish to refresh
- Sewcial sewists who like gaining additional techniques for their sewing
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
We will guide you through how to create perfect darts from marking out – stitching and pressing How to attach a facing – under stitch and finish with bias binding for a special finish
- How to create busts darts
- Make fish-eye darts
- Couture Darts
- Facings – how to under-stitch
- Adding binding to your facing
WHAT YOU WILL NEED –
Basic sewing kit – paper scissors, tracing wheel, dress makers carbon, pins, fine-line pencil
WHATS INCLUDED
A sample toile for you to work on and create your darts, attach facing and bias binding
Work pack for making notes
COST
£59.00