Sewing tutorials: Introduction

Sewing tutorials: Introduction

Ladies check out this wonderful Blog/site! Lots of good information on all kinds of sewing issues.

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Teen Fashion Camp

As many of you know I just completed a week of teaching to young girls at Nicolets summer camp. I taught a Fashion Design class where the girls designed a "line" of clothing which had to include a wrap skirt. We spent 2 sessions learning how to develop a sportswear line, and how to sketch using Croquie's to produce proffessional finished design sketches. On the 3rd day we all began sewing our skirts. The girls were introduced to the machines, grainlines, proper pinning and cutting. They learned how to do a roll hem, straight seams with finishing, darts, and a simple ribbon waistband. Although they had 3 days to sew the sessions were only 2 hrs long! There were 2 sessions a day with 2 groups of girls, 12 girls in each group.

I am so thrilled that first of all we had 24 girls total who were interested in sewing!

On top of that the majority of the girls finished their skirts! I am so proud of their results! My only regret is that I could not spend more individual time with girls teaching, it was fairly chaotic what with only 2 adults, 12 teens, and 6 machines. Hopefully we will see some of them at Sewing Cafe as a number of them showed a geniune interest in learningmore.

I do regret that I did not get more pictures of the completed skirts, but here are some of them along with some of the sketches.

Enjoy and I look forward to reading your comments.

I would like to extend a very special thanks to Peggy Jordan and Sandra Bethke for assisting, as well as the Oneida 4-H who supplied the sewing machines. Additionally many of the girls were interested in entering their skirts at the Oneida County Fair, so please look for them when you attend in August.

Pattern reviews?

I recently found a web-site that invites members to write reviews of patterns, notions, machines, books, etc. I thought you all might be interested in checking it out.

Wondering if spending money on a new notion or gadget will be worth the expense? Go to this site, do a search of the item and read what members have to say about it.

Worried that a pattern will be to difficult, or having problems understanding the directions? Again go to the site, search for the pattern and read how members rate the difficulty level and their suggestions for constuction.

They also have on-line classes for beginners to experts, and when you register you get to take one class for free!

This site has over 181,000 members so you get a wide variety of opinions from around the globe and there was not a pattern company that was not represented. They also offer discounts to members from their merchant gallery.

I have posted their link on the toolbar at left under Pattern review.

Check it out - Enjoy! - and let us know what you think

Lynne