Saturday Morning Sewing School Videos 2021

• Cutting a bias dress on the fold

• Stitching Velvet using the walking foot

• Hems and necklines using stay tape

• Magic Fabric to create texture

• Sashiko free style

• A faux fur tippet

• Shapes, sizes, measurements

• Piecing and use of fabrics

• Borders and Mitred Corners

• Hand stitching Guide

• Embellishments

• Lace tassel

• Faux fur pom poms

• Adding a Fishtail

• Inserting a Godet

• Lengthening a bias dress with fishtail

• Zip insertion in a bias cut

• Draping a midriff panel

• Adding a front drape

• Rouloux fastening for neckline

• Restyling a dungarees pattern

• How to add pleats

• Making a pair of dungarees

• Adding a bias binding as a facing

• Top stitching and pleat making

• Classic bound button hole

• Fun bound buttonholes

• Understanding the Pattern

• Suitable Fabrics

• Trouser Pockets

• Fly front Zip placement

• Couture Waistband

• Trouser hooks

• Dissecting patterns… 4 quarters make a whole

• Understanding the fabulous front twist

• Stitching the T shirt fabric

• Adding a neck facing

• Twin needle top stitch

• Stretch hem

• Setting in T shirt style sleeve

• Preparing for border prints

• Reshaping hemlines for stripes

• Making a border fit a shape

• Bias Binding

• Elastic hem

• Boning a summer dress

• Fusible interfacing placement

• Cheats appliqué…free style

• Choosing the correct shirt interfacings

• Shirt Collar and Stand construction

• Self facings

• Sleeve hack

• Sleeve vent

• Covered buttons

• Inside out button holes

• Mixing Fabrics

• Shirt front placket with mitred point

• Shirt cuffs

• Elastic covered belt

• Covered press stud for non slip belt

• Elongating the top to a maxi dress

• Coordinating fabrics

• A right side decorative facing

• A mitred lace point

• Decorative cross strip insert.

• Creating texture using fabric rose petals

• Ideas for embellishments

• Building suitable trims

• Seams with pockets

• Adding trims

• Order of making The Bomber

• Adding a open ended zip

• Knitted ribbing. Waist, Collars and cuffs.

• Alternative fabrics

• Elastic waistbands for joggers!

• Making a tiered skirt longer

• Changing the grain of the circular pattern pieces

• Adding lining

• Attachment of lining

• Clastic casing for waist

• T shirt with a twist

• Re-shape the top to style

• Ideas for vintage embellishment

• Removing seams to avoid pattern match (to save on fabric)

• Moving Centre Back zip to side

• Stabilising zip opening for stretch fabrics

• Re-shaping garments around the body

• Off the shoulder neckline supported with horsehair braid

• Using the Selvedge edge as decoration

• Pattern Alteration - Raise neckline method 1

• Raise neckline - method 2

• Alternative fabric ideas

• Adding lace with a French seam

• lace insertion

• lace appliqué - Janet Reger style

• Straight lace around a curve

• Machine lace freestyle

• The Trapeze dress with no waist seam

• Elongating a Top to dress pattern extension

• Pattern matching long seams

• Interlining sleeves

• Turning up extended hemlines

• Interlocking chain stitch for button loops

• The Patch Pocket Template

• Cutting and shaping the pocket

• Interlining and lining

• Re-enforcing the pocket edge

• Machine Stitch lining

• Hand Stitch main pocket

• A balanced bust dart

• Interlining bodice

• Boning Midriff darts

• Boning the Neckline

• Cutting the interlining for the skirt

• Attachment of skirt interlining

• Hemming with Horsehair braid

• Shaping Horsehair braid

• Sizing of pattern

• Suitable fabric for design

• Resizing neckline

• Pattern neckline hack

• Reshaping sleeve

• Sleeve hack with cuff detail

• Pattern and sizing

• Stretch lined bodice

• False bound neckline

• Stitching curved seams

• A straight split opening in a curved seam

• Soft shoulder pads

• Butterfly appliqués

Week 18

• Description of border prints

• Pattern hack to add a hoodie

• Stitching stretch fabrics

• Stretch bound neckline

• Selvedge edge decorative neckline

Week 17

• Pattern sizing

• Alternative ideas for details

• Exposed zip with facing

• A line hem in Scuba

• Tattoo Sleeve

• Alexander Henry Prints

• Alternative fabric ideas

• Alternative patchwork

• Dividing the pattern front

• Stitching and finishing Scuba

• A-line skirt Pattern hack to create panels

• Levelling hems

• Covered press studs/snaps/poppers

• Locking stitch

• Adapting a stretch pattern for a woven fabric

• Adding darts

• Treatment for open woven fabric

• Correct Interlinings

• Adding trims

• Making fringing

• Lace appliqué ideas

• Easy fit stretch cardigan - Ted Baker style

• Order of making

• Adapting for not enough stretch

• Adding a neckband in stretch ribbing

• Stabilising a stretch shoulder seam

• Adding a dart to the neckband for less stretch fabrics

• How to adapt the sleeve cuff to make it easy to sew

• Embellishing with vintage jewellery

• Brooches, belt fastenings and pendants instead of buttons

• How shall we fasten?

• Pattern hack for sleeve from long to short

• Add elastic to change the style

• Setting in a sleeve flat

• Checking the fit

• Support the head of the sleeve with the sleeve cap

• Vertical buttonhole for a placket

• Trick for waist level buttonhole

• Design tip for button arrangement

• Interfacings for cotton shirts

• Trouser discussion

• Comfortable waistband with pull-over ribbing and grip elastic

• Video Choosing the right size

• Making the bodice

• Adding a wide bias binding with interfacing

• A machined deep hem

• Idea for a sleeve pattern hack

• Applique

• Preparing for an applique brooch

• Incorporating a silk scarf into a design

• Cutting the silk scarf to create the hem

• Creating a silk-lined hoodie

• Adding a flash of colour/designer detail

• Stitching seams for fine fabric

• Edging Chiffon

• How to finish seams without an overlocker

• Understanding the difference styles

• Fabulous side-to side pockets

• Various ways to top and edge stitch

• Creating a hoodie

• Various ways to use a funnel neck

• Changing the grain so it becomes a cowl

• Beading using re-purposed materials

• Drawstring hem

• Exposed zip, inside seams

• Achieving a perfect centre-front opening with facing

• Layered seams - Yes or No

• Frill collar

• Rouleaux

• Decorative stitches

• Flower tassel

• Free-machine stitching on applique

• Understanding the pattern pieces

• Adapting the sleeves to fit

• Connection of pattern pieces

• Making Raglan shoulder pads

• Decorative topstitching

• Interfacing?

• Covered piping chord

• Jumbo Cord

• Lifting the centre-front neckline

Understanding Cheque match

• Elasticated waist

• Marking the centre back

• Gathering

• Interfacings?

• Waistband with Tie

• Draping a sari or shawl length into a skirt

• Stretch underskirt using ribbing fabric

• Pattern Hack - top of one dress and skirt of another

• Curved hem on light weight fabrics

• Stay tape for seams (Armhole reinforcement tape)

• Finishing a facing with fusible interfacing

• Which interlinings for general use

• Application of fusible interfacings

• Ideas for a classic, stylish top

• Dropping in a bust dart when there isn’t one

• Re-designing a stretch top into a Chanel style woven top

• Hem skirt using the fringed salvaged edge

• Mitre the hem point

• Every day waist bands

• Folding in a great square corner

• False button placket

• Biased weave cross-grain interlining

• Fringing and Trims

• A straight fitted Chanel style skirt from a block sloper

• using trims to create Chanel style

• creating the perfect dart

• Turning a straight skirt into an A-line skirt

• New look Chanel style skirt with extended side seams.

• Lace applique as an embellishment

• Illusion hemline

• choosing the correct interlining

• preparing and pressing princess lines

• FBA- Full Bust Adjustment

Please note - due to a technical issue at the time of recording, there is a small jump in filming towards the end of this tutorial but no information has been missed.

• Add a centre button front-facing

• Changing the grain to control the stripes

• Interfacings and stabilising bias grain

• Draping the pockets on (number)

• How to press open a curved seam / Satin hems / False hem

• Setting a zip into a dart

• The French Dart

• Seam stay tape

• Stay tape stretch seam

• Pattern hack joining bodice (number) to skirt (number) to eliminate volume in skirt and bulk in waist