Join me, Susan from Measure Twice Cut Once, as I take you through how to create gathers. Gathers or gathering is a technique used on skirts, bodices, pockets, sleeves and more. It’s a great way to reduce the width of the fabric and add volume to a garment.
If you have any questions please add them down below.
Join me, Susan from Measure Twice Cut Once, as I take you through how to sew an open seam, often used when inserting zippers, pockets or to reduce bulk in a garment. With finished edges it also ensures that your sewing is more sustainable as it will last longer with less fraying.
More videos on a variety of seams will be coming soon. If you have any questions please add them down below.
2022 is my year of taking the Scary out of Sewing!
I want as many people as possible to take up sewing so they can create, make, mend and more.
To help take away the scary, every Friday there is going to be a new video on YouTube with accompanying pattern for a project entirely aimed at beginners. Each week there will be different techniques to learn or go over and it’s going to be a super fun way to grow your sewing skills.
As often as I can on Wednesdays there will be a hint or tip showing you how to do an aspect of sewing. These will go from absolute beginners to advanced so be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss out.
Then on Thursdays there will be the usual unboxing, sewalongs, livestreams and more. All of it aimed to make sewing as accessible as possible so you can start, continue or grow your sewing journey.
Today I’m trying something new and going with a YouTube livestream at 8pm tonight. I’ll be unboxing the August subscription sewing box from The Lingerie Society from Pitt Trading as well as answering questions about the box and sewing/lingerie sewing in general.
We have been in lockdown here in Sydney and I’ve been thinking of new ways to talk about sewing and teach without the benefit of inperson classes. I’ve also been really struggling to get eyes on any of my Instagram posts as I don’t do things such as Reels and IGTV. To me they feel transitory and content for contents sake but in no real benefit to either me or other sewers. It’s not like I can go “oh I saw this wonderful tutorial but I can’t remember who did it?” you can’t search it, it can’t be easily found and if it was in a story it disappears in 24 hours. It was making me feel all a bit useless.
So instead of learning silly dances (trust me no one needs to see that) or spend hours producing worthless transitory content I’ve decided to post tutorials and how to’s on YouTube so you have a visual, searchable, saveable way of learning and growing your sewing skills. I’m really hoping this works and it would be wonderful if it encourages more people to sew or even just regular sewers to sew more often.
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Hi, I'm Susan. A designer and sewing teacher living in Sydney, Australia.
Here I share tales of my sewing, my pattern collection and insights into what it's like to work in the fashion Industry.
Other recurring themes include cat photos, an ever changing hair style and knitting.
