Difficulty Level: Beginner
Number of Weeks: 4
Class Duration: 2 hours / per week
Course Cost: $200 + hst + materials
Prerequisite: None
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Ready to start your sewing journey? Join our four-week beginner sewing class and learn the essential skills to bring your creative ideas to life. You’ll make three easy and practical projects: a drawstring bag, a fabric basket and a cozy set of cuffed bed pillows. Perfect for total beginners, this class covers everything from learning how to thread up and use your machine to mastering basic sewing techniques. Machines and tools are provided, materials are available for purchase at our studio.
Keep useful items like cords and cables, shoes or winter accessories organized with a drawstring bag and a lined, co-ordinating fabric basket. Then, make matching, hand-made pillowcases to co-ordinate with your bedroom colour story - these cheerful, easy-to-make accent pieces are sure to become a family heirloom.
Perfect for those who have never used a sewing machine before - by the end, you’ll walk away with handmade projects and the confidence to tackle new ones on your own!
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Threading up and using a sewing machine
Tracing and cutting fabric from a simple pattern
Measuring and pressing double-fold hemmed edges
Working with fusible interfacing
Sewing linings, boxed corners and french seams
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Drawstring Bag
0.5 m quilting weight cotton
1.75 m herringbone tape
Fabric Basket
Exterior - 0.5 m canvas weight cotton
Interior - 0.5 m quilting weight cotton
Batting - 0.5 m fusible fleece interfacing for added structure
2 x Standard Bed Pillow Cases
Main fabric - 1.5 m quilting weight cotton
Cuff fabric - 0.5 m contrasting quilting weight cotton
We recommend purchasing materials at our studio 15 minutes before your class starts to ensure you have everything you need.