$60

DESCRIPTION

How are your sewing skills? Fair? Good? OK? Are you ready for the next level or just need to sharpen up some rusty skills?

Participants will learn how to sew: an invisible zipper, a patch pocket, mitred corners, understitching, and more. Under the expert guidance of Patricia Campbell of Sydenham Sewing you will be led through a series of fun tips and exercises to practice these new skills and to apply them. You will leave a better seamstress/seamster than when you arrived and you will have the ability to tackle more advanced projects with confidence and ensure a more polished result after taking this class.

Prerequisite: Get to Know Your Sewing Machine or a good, basic knowledge of how to use a sewing machine.

DATES & TIMES

SAT NOV 23rd 1:00pm to 4:00pm

YOUR TUTOR

Patricia Campbell

In another life, Patricia was a full-time costumer for some of the big Canadian theatre companies, including the Canadian Stage Company, the Canadian Opera Company, Livent and Mirvish, where she made costumes for shows such as The Lion King, Phantom of the Opera, Ragtime and Mamma Mia. Since that time, she has been an instructor at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. She has kept up her professional-level sewing skills over the years and is now the owner and operator of Sydenham Sewing and Alterations based in Chatsworth.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING

You are encouraged to bring your own functioning, threaded sewing machine for this class, with a zipper foot and a buttonhole foot, but we do have machines here for you to borrow if you need one.

ACCESSIBILITY

Hand strength and coordination required

This class is held in the textile loft and is only accessible by stairs