Start the New Year CREATIVE!
Our Beginning Sewing classes are fun and give you real results.
Sewing is a great way to get your hands and ideas working together. I promise you will laugh, feel creative and you may wonder why you waited so long to sit at a sewing machine
Sewing 101: Beginning Sewing
Thursday Mornings March 28 – April 11 9:30 – 12:30
Class Cost $300
you will learn in Sewing 101:
- use a sewing machine
- trouble-shoot simple machine issues (that happen all the time)
- make a variety of finish seams
- sew a buttonhole and button
- make and use a simple pattern
- fabric facts
- the mysteries of thread choice
- the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of sewing supplies
- repurposing tips and more
After three weeks you will go home knowing your way around the sewing machine, with a simple market bag you designed in hand and ready for Sewing 102: Working with a Pattern.
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What you need for the Adult Sewing 101 class:
Much of what you need for this class is already in the studio. We have machines and all the sewing tools you will need, HOWEVER if you have a sewing machine you would like to learn to use, please bring it with you. If you do, bring everything you got with it: sewing feet, all the plugs and cords and the instruction book.
Repurposing is a huge part of what we do at Sew Kailua and it is my hope to show you that there is unused fabric everywhere in your life. To that end I have lots of repurposed fabric in here in the studio, most of which is free to Sewing 101 students.
Here is what we are going to be doing in Sewing 101:
- week 1: You learn how to use the machine and get a little history that will change the way you look at a sewing machine and everything in your closet. We will learn the basic functions of the sewing machine and do some practice stitching that is both functional and fun and learn a few finish stitches (these are the things on the inside of your clothes).
- week 2: You will learn to draft, draw and cut a simple pattern based on your bag design (you get to design to your needs instead of fit your needs to a design). We will learn some fabric cutting skills and start making your unique bag using the skills from day 1. If you bring your own fabric you will need 1 yard of cotton or cotton blend – no stretch, please.
- week 3: You work on your bag with step by step instructions and a good guide. You will go home as “one who sews”
