Description
What You’ll Learn:
Patchwork Basics: Understand the principles of patchwork, including fabric selection, cutting techniques, and piecing methods.
Designing Your Smock Dress: Learn how to incorporate your patched pieces into a simple smock dress pattern that showcases your patchwork design. You will learn how to eliminate darts too!
Garment Construction: Master the steps of assembling a smock dress, including sewing binding , creating gathers, and finishing techniques.
Embracing Sustainability: Explore the creative potential of fabric scraps and how to reduce textile waste by upcycling fabric from your stash.
The workshop will be divided into two sessions:
Week 1.
Begin piecing together your fabric scraps using an overlocker.
Learn how to incorporate your patchwork panels into the smock dress pattern and cut out your fabric pices.
Week 2
Sew your dress! Practice essential sewing skills such as altering pattern, eliminating darts, gathering, hemming, plus making and sewing bias binding.
What to bring:
- Assorted fabric scraps from your stash (cotton or linen recommended). Enough to make approximately 3.5meters of patched fabric.
- Thread to match
- Feel free to byo sewing kit.
Provided:
- Sage Smock Dress Pattern or the Summer Fling Dress Pattern (printed for you)
- Sewing machines and all of the tools needed.
- Overlockers
- Tea, coffee, biscuits
- Expert instruction
Please Note: Due to limited time, we will only be sewing the sleeveless version in class however, if you would like to add sleeves you can do so at home.
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