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BEGINNING SEWING LESSONS - Learn to Sew It - Pick Your Project Saturday February FULL



Learn to sew, pick your project, use our machines or yours.  This is 2 class sessions, the first for 2 hours and the second class for 4 hours.

These classes are perfect for complete beginners or those with some experience looking to brush up on their skills.  The classes are packed with sewing techniques and limit the class size to 5 to ensure you will the most one to one attention from an experienced sewing instructor.

WHAT WILL I LEARN? You will learn the basic uses of a sewing machine and up keep of the machine. Learn about using the correct needles and threads, how to thread the machine, wind the bobbin correctly and adjust the tension. You'll learn basic stitches, how make an open and closed seam and sew curves and corners and sew edge and top stitch. You will then learn how to choose a commercial pattern, lay a pattern on fabric and cut out and mark, read to sew.


1st class- You will sew on a machine and plan your project.  DON'T BUY ANYTHING BEFORE YOUR FIRST CLASS. Class supply list will be given at the first class, with examples and an opportunity to purchase in the bookstore or your local and online fabric and notion retailers. 
Skill Level:
beginner
Skill Details:
Beginner to advanced
Materials Included:
Class notes, Sewing machine, serger, cutting mats, rulers
Requirements:
Fabric and pattern, sewing tools after the first class
Instructor Name:
Ryliss Bod
Instructor Bio:
Ryliss Bod is the Founder and Director of the Sewing & Design School and has extensive experience teaching Fashion Construction and Design at a Washington State Technical College. She instructed courses for both continuing education and career training in all levels of sewing construction, home décor construction, fashion accessory construction, fashion design, fitting & pattern alterations, pattern-making, textiles, history of fashion and quilting.

She received her teaching degree in K-12 grades and studied art, clothing and textiles at Central Washington University, pattern-making and CAD at Gerber Technology, fashion design at the Paris Fashion Institute, pattern-making and construction techniques with Kenneth D. King and countless others.

Throughout her career she developed workshops and fashion shows, hired instructors and conducted fashion and fabric shopping field trips to Portland, San Francisco and New York. Ryliss has been a Contributing Editor at Sew News Magazine, Threads Magazine, judge for the 2014 RAGS Benefit, Make it With Wool and the Washington State 4-H Dress Revue and host of Instagram's Sew Photo Challenge #sewApril2017 and #sewapril2018.. She may be contacted at ryliss@comcast.net.

BEGINNING SEWING LESSONS - Learn to Sew It - Pick Your Project Saturday February FULL

Cost:
$ 130.00