Sewing
Step by step sewing craft projects
Felt Kitty Ball
A fun craft, not just for you, but for your pet cat too! Hours of fun for both of you as you play with this jingly felt ball!
Potholders
Make your own potholders in the colours of your choice following these simple sewing instructions.
Heart Gift Bag
These gift bags will surely melt your loved one's heart. Easy to make and perfect for Valentine's Day.
Plastic Bag Dispenser
Create an appealing fabric home for all your plastic packets, making recycling them so much easier!
Articles on Sewing
Introduction and Sewing
Sewing, stitching or tailoring is the fastening of cloth, leather, furs,bark, or other flexible materials, using needle and thread. Its use is nearly universal among human populations and dates back to Paleolithic times (30,000 BCE). Sewing predates the weaving of cloth.
Sewing is used primarily to produce clothing and household furnishings such as curtains, bedclothes,upholstery, and table linens. It is also used for sails, bellows, skin boats, banners, and other items shaped out of flexible materials such as canvas and leather.
Most sewing in the industrial world is done by machines. Pieces of a garment are often first tacked together. The machine has a complex set of gears and arms that pierces thread through the layers of the cloth and semi-securely interlocks the thread.
Some people sew clothes for themselves and their families. More often home sewers sew to repair clothes, such as mending a torn seam or replacing a loose button. A person who sews for a living is known as a seamstress (from seams-mistress) or seamster (from seams-master), dressmaker, tailor, garment worker, machinist or sweatshop worker.
"Plain" sewing is done for functional reasons: making or mending clothing or household linens. "Fancy" sewing is primarily decorative, including techniques such as shirring, smocking, embroidery or quilting.
Sewing is the foundation for many needle arts and crafts, such as applique, canvas work and patchwork.
While sewing is sometimes seen as a semi-skilled job, the task of designing good-looking three-dimensional shapes from non-stretching two-dimensional fabric generally requires extensive hands-on knowledge of the design and principles of mathematical manifolds. Flat sheets of fabric with holes and slits cut into the fabric can curve and fold in 3D space in extensively complex ways that require a high level of skill and experience to manipulate into a smooth, ripple-free design. Aligning and orienting patterns printed or woven into the fabric further complicates the design process. Once a clothing designer with these skills has created the initial product, the fabric can then be cut using templates and sewn by manual laborers or machines.
Sewing Classes
Time: 9am - 3pm, Saturdays, please read basic class infoCost: R480.00 a day
We start with a 6 hour session where you will learn all the sewing basics, but as there are a multitude of skills and techniques to learn, we can follow this up with more advanced lessons depending on your skill level and what you intend to make.
Classes are kept small, to a maximum of 6. We do require minimum booking before we commence with a class.
For further details on a specific class, feel free to contact us and we will send you a breakdown of the course.
We are based in Roosevelt Park, just off Beyers Naude Drive near West Park Cemetery.
011 782 0351
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