Essential Guide to Tailoring: Finishing

Description Master traditional and modern garment finishing techniques with School of Sewing founder Alison Smith. Begin class with Alison’s tips for getting a tailored jacket ready for finishing. Then, expand your decorative possibilities with piped bound buttonholes, and see how to select the best fabric for your jacket lining. After your fabric is chosen, Alison will guide you through installing a lining, back pleat and hanging loop with your machine. Wish to capture the Old World beauty of hand-sewn garments? You’ll learn traditional methods for installing a jacket lining by hand, as well as how to match the join of facing, hem and lining flawlessly. You’ll even discover how to place the lining around a vent in a skirt or sleeve. You’ll finish class with techniques for topstitching, sewing on buttons by hand and perfectly pressing your garments.

• Class Preview
• Better Buttonholes
• Linings by Machine
• Linings by Hand
• Flawless Hems
• Lined Vent Construction
• Finishing Details