Hemming & Alterations
Sewing Lab
Advanced Machine Techniques
Zipper Class
Mad Men Sewing
Copy a Garment/Copy Jeans
Hemming & Alterations
One-session class limited to 4 students.
Sunday June 3, 10:30 am-1:30 pm–4 spaces left
Cost: $55; $5 extra to rent a machine
Got a closet full of clothes you don’t wear because they just don’t fit properly? In this class we’ll go over techniques to take in and let out skirts, dresses, pants and shirts, as well as hemming sleeves, shirts and 3 types of hems: Blind, rolled and mock cuff. Bring a few garments that don’t fit and we’ll make them more flattering! Basic machine skills required.
Photo by Pamela Sharma
Advanced Machine Techniques
3-hour class limited to 6 students.
Thursday, June 7, 6-9 pm–3 spaces left
Cost: $50,
$5 extra to rent a machine.
Puzzled by all the stitches on your machine and want to get more experience using them? In this advanced beginner class, we’ll go over a wide variety of stitches and sewing techniques: different stitches for elastic, knits, picot edging, applique, blind hem, buttonholes, sewing buttons on using the machine, free motion quilting and darning foot, smocking on the machine, shell tuck stitching, sewing with elastic threads, and the walking foot. You’ll leave knowing much more about your machine and all the things you can do with it!
New Class: Mad Men Sewing
prerequisite: Ins and Outs of Commercial Patterns and/or experience cutting out patterns and basic machine skills.
Two-day class limited to 5 students
Two Sundays, May 20 & 27, 10:30 am-5 pm–2 spaces left
Four Tuesdays, July 3-24, 6-9 pm–5 spaces left
Cost: $150; $10 to rent a machine.
Inspired by the fabulous vintage clothes on Mad Men? Make your own custom vintage style dress! In this class, you’ll fit a reproduction 1950′s or 60′s pattern and cut it out , refine the fit and learn techniques often used in vintage clothes: darts, gathers, invisible zippers, facings, collars and blind hems. You can bring your own vintage pattern, or choose from a variety of modern vintage reproduction patterns!
Zipper class
Class limited to 5 students, basic machine skills required.
Thursday March 29th, 6-8 pm–5 spaces left
Cost: $40, $45 to rent a machine
Learn 3 types of zipper installation : Centered, lapped and invisible. Leave with a sampler of zipper types and confidence to use them in your projects! No supplies required.
Copy a Garment/Copy your Jeans
Two-session class limited to 5 students.
New Class Dates: Two Sundays, May 20 & 27, 10:30 am-5 pm–2 spaces left
Cost: $150 ($160 if you use my machine)
prerequisite: Intro to the Machine or basic sewing skills. Experience cutting out and using patterns helpful.
The dress on the left was copied from a vintage slip on the right
Got a favorite garment that’s wearing out or that you want in different colors? Copy it!
In this class we’ll take a garment (pants, jeans, skirt or blouse) and make a pattern from it WITHOUT taking it apart. Bring 2 or 3 simple garments to the class to choose from. You’ll make a pattern from it and go on to cut, sew and finish a new version of the garment in fabric of your choosing. Alteration techniques to make the new garment fit better will also be covered, as well as minor alterations you can make to change its look.
Sewing Instruction, San Francisco