Techniques & Tutorials

TUTORIALS

Clothes Making
- Laying fabric out for cutting
- Cutting fabric out  
- Pattern preparation
- Transferring pattern markings
- Block fusing
- Sink stitch
- Hems
- Rouleau Loops 

Fabric
- Fabric construction 
- Fabric preparation before using

Fashion Design: Follow my fashion design classes with these posts
- Post 1: Drawing Matchstick Men
- Post 2: Filling out the fashion figure
- Post 3: Technical Drawings
- Post 4 – Templates 

Fitting 
- Simple skirt lengthening 

Pockets

Seam Finishes
- Post 1
- Post 2 

Skirt pattern making: Follow my pattern making classes with these posts.
- Post 1: Straight Skirt Pattern. Drawing a straight skirt block.
– Post 2: Pencil Skirt
- Post 3: Pivot & Slashing. Making a fuller skirt
- Post 4: Yokes
- Post 5: First skirt pattern 

DECORATIVE TECHNIQUES

Applique: sewing shaped pieces of fabric on to another piece of fabric to create designs and patterns.

Blanket Stitch

Cable Stitch

Chain Stitch

Couching: uses a thick cord or thread, which is laid on top of a fabric in the desired pattern.

Fagotting: bringing two pieces of fabric together with open stitches that are usually criss-crossed.

Italian Quilting: a decorative effect, using two layers of fabric and a corded channel.

Pintucks

Reverse Applique: Rather than sewing a layer of fabric on to another as in applique, reverse applique involves removing fabric to expose the layer underneath.

Satin Stitch

Trapunto: a method of quilting that creates a puffy, decorative feature. Trapunto uses at least two layers of fabric,  producing a raised surface.