Fabric Know-How: Choosing & Using Your Favorite Fabrics

Description Select, prepare and sew fabrics like a fashion designer with guidance from industry expert Sandra Betzina. Start with tips for pairing your patterns with fabrics that will yield the most refined results. Then, learn to enhance the drape, structure and stability of your fabrics with smart interfacing choices. Build your expertise around the characteristics and ideal applications for a vast variety of fabric types. Along the way, discover the ideal needles, thread, presser feet, stitch length, seam finishes and hemming techniques for each type of fabric. Plus, pretreat and handle these different fabrics for superior results. Learn how to choose fabric with confidence and sew it with finesse.

• Class Preview
• Fabric & Pattern Basics
• Cottons & Linens
• Silks
• Knits
• Wools
• Rayons & Polyesters
• Seam Finishes
• Hem Finishes