The Essential Guide to Sewing With Sheers

Description Join Apparel Arts instructor Sara Alm to get comfortable stabilizing, marking, seaming and finishing sheer and lightweight fabrics. Learn how to manipulate patterns to add eye-catching design details and customize the opacity of your garment. Cut and stabilize these finicky fabrics successfully for confident construction. Learn how to sew sheer fabric details such as pintucks, pleats, gathers or ruching. Master a variety of seam finishes on sheers: French seams and enclosed seams as well as bias tape necklines and armholes. Plus, sew perfect clean-finished hems, picot hems, baby hems and wide-finished hems on sheers. Learn techniques that will unlock all the elegance of garments made with these exquisite fabrics.

• Class Preview
• Introduction to Sheer Fabrics
• Pattern Alterations for Sheers
• Pretreating, Cutting & Marking
• Stabilizing & Sewing Sheers
• Fabric Manipulation
• Seam Finishes
• Hems & Finishing