PRIVATE SEWING COURSES

You can book a 1:1 session or join with friends and I can tailor tuition to your needs or a project you have in mind. Bring your own machine or work on one of mine. Includes a steady supply of tea and biscuits.

£30 per hour

An introduction to your sewing machine that will help you start using it with confidence, includes threading, bobbin winding, bobbin placement and basic seams.​

£60 | 2 hours

Aimed at young people 9 years up. Get to know how a sewing machine works and create a unique cushion featuring your own appliqué motif i.e. a rabbit, a star or heart, or a washbag as shown.  

You can book one of my machines, or bring your own. ​

£60 | 3 hours

The pattern course concentrates on accurate patterns that aim to fit first time. Anatomical fit, combined with fabric considerations and commercial tolerances are all covered. Aiming to ensure perfect patterns are created.
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Make a perfectly fitting Pencil or A line skirt to your own measurements, Inserting a zip, making a waistband.
You will have your pattern to use again.

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Learn how to make beautiful and professional looking curtains, with linings, and lovely mitred corners with weights.
Pattern repeats and direction are explained so that you have perfectly matching curtains.
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Create a unique cushion in the fabric of your choice, learn how to finish the edges with contrast piping cord and a side zip.
We also discuss how to make a ‘Box cushion’.

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Amend the size of a dress, hem some trousers, bring along a few projects and we will see how many we can complete.
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I will make you an individual pattern to fit you personally. You will also be given a lining pattern which if you can add later to the dress.
We make the darts, insert an invisible zip, complete the side seams, apply the facings to neck and armholes.
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For beginners or improvers; you will learn all the basic seams, darts, curved seams, how to make and apply a bias binding, making piping, channel zip, exposed zip and concealed invisible zip.  Neck facings, hand stitched lovely hem, and making buttonholes.

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Upcycle a long sleeved shirt into a sleeveless summer top. Learn how to make a shirt into a modern sleeveless style, or ​transform a pair of jeans into a tote bag - this is a bespoke course intended to teach you to upcycle a wide range of items.​

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