10 Essential Sewing Skills for Absolute Beginners
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- If you’re a beginner, your sewing will be more successful and more enjoyable if you get comfortable with these 10 skills!
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0:00 Intro
0:29 Choosing Pattern & Fabric
1:19 Layout Instructions
2:17 Pin and Cut Accurately
2:55 Snip Small Notches
3:28 Pin Matching Points
3:55 Keep Edges Together
4:33 Sew at Correct Seam Allowance
5:11 Back Stitch
5:36 Make Fabric Stay Where Pinned
6:17 Fix Mistakes
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I would love to see a video on intermediate and advanced seamstresses sewing skills that are essential for success! Love your videos!
Thank you Catherine from this 60 year old grandma who is just learning how to sew. I rewatch your videos they are always so helpful!!!!
I am an intermediate sewer, and would love to have a video teaching tips for that level!
You are quite a gifted teacher! Love your content.
I would love more tips for beginning and intermediate sewers.
I love your channel! Invisible zips are my bugbear and put me off trying certain garments :)
This is helpful and I’m not a beginner. Intermediate tips would be awesome! Thank you.
Love your videos! I discovered your channel a few weeks ago & have learned so much already. I've become a "TH-cam taught" sewing machine these days thanks to you. My whole closet is in the process of being upcycled! LOL. Thanks for the tutorials. You are a true blessing.
I am by no means an advanced sewer (nor a beginner), but I really appreciate all these reminders. Love your videos :)
These are great basic skills. I know a woman who calls her seam ripper her best friend 😂 And you are correct, fixing issues can take such a small amount of time and the end result will be so much better. Keeping with genre, how about your tips for sewing with knits? Thank you for these videos and your up cycle ones. ♥️
Catherine...How lucky are your students to have yours their Teacher?! 🙌🥰👍💯🌟I loved my sewing teacher in the 70's, Mrs.Thomas. I love you sew, but am rusty. You inspire me.. Much love & many thanks.
Yourself and Ms. Wood both do the tack thing. I either forgot or was never taught it. The other stuff I have known for forever (Jr. high), but it's good for those of us who've sewn for years to watch these as we still learn something.
Yes please do a intermediates skill set to master and then the skill goals for someone to be considered advanced! Appreciated this video A lot especially pinning the match points first and not just pinning straight through from one end to the other!
Yes PLEASE, another video of essential skills for intermediate sexists would be so very welcome. I used to sew lots of garments back in the 60s and70s and recently began again. Any refresher info would be good, plus the machines and tools available today are so much fun!!
You are so good. Thank you.
I am not a complete beginner but still an amateur! I always learn something from your videos and they are lovely and relaxing to watch. I too would appreciate further skills videos but do also so enjoy seeing how you make, fit, and refashion.
I loved my high school sewing teacher! I remember many things she taught, because she too was so sweet and wanted us to succeed. And I'm 70 years old! Thanks for helping me get back into sewing after many decades away from it.
Love these tips! I would love more videos for intermediate and any other topics you think of! 😊❤️
Thank you for teaching sewing. So many basic skills aren't taught anymore.
Thank you for your time and information.
Omg i have cut along the fold line. But i never did it again! I noticed that you push the pins in perpendicular to the edge. I will start doing that. If i ever sew something again! (Maybe I’ll even get another sewing machine one day. 😅)
Excellent
Wow.. After my last concussion I've been struggling with my sewing. I'd go into my sewing room and feel overwhelmed look at my unfinished dress and not be able to sew it straight.. So i cut out dishcloths and once straight I'd do tea towels.. Now my lines are straighter and I've attempted clothes revamps. You inspire me to keep going cause there's "no mistakes" I'm getting more confident in fixing any I make.. My unfinished dress will fore sure get finished. I can do it. My memory is getting better and it's doing so with your help and confidence, chatting away in the background. ( :
Great tips Catherine! 😊
Yes, pls. Could you do one for intermediate sewers as well?
When I was just starting out (at around 6 years of age!), my Auntie taught me the same way she taught in her school with regard to notches: as a beginner, it it best to cut around the notches so there’s a triangle of fabric sticking out. This makes finding them easier for a beginner and also easier to locate them on fabric that frays a lot or has a very busy pattern. 50 years on and I still cut around notches, especially if I’m sewing French seams on delicate fabric, or when using fraying fabric. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the tip!
Yes, please do more of these essential skills videos!
Love your vlogs! An intermediate set of sewing skills would be very helpful .
Thank you for everything you teach us!!
Thank you! You’re such a good teacher and your voice and expression are delightful.
Thank you, I just retired and I am just now learning to sew. I stumbled across your videos and love them! Easy to watch, follow, and fun!
Excellent choice of beginner tips. I am ready for snips instead of cutting points, especially since I prefer a rotary cutter. Thanks. Intermediate and more advanced level tips would be terrific. Thanks for listening to your followers, Catherine.
Love this video. Asking all points are important on pattern not just notches.
Great advice; thanks for sharing!
Yes, please. Intermediate foundational sewing skills.
Thank you so much for this advice
That is so funny. I didn't know you taught sewing in high school and I always thought, you should be teaching these things you put on YT somewhere else. Glad to hear you do. I don't sew much anymore but really enjoy your vids.
I'm approaching intermediate but your videos help me to hone my skills. You explain everything patiently and clearly.
Thank you❤
Thanks to you Catherine, I've gained the confidence to experiment with charity shop (thrift store) finds. I'm drawn to pretty fabrics and have always dreamed of making outfits which are tailored to my curves. The compliments I received yesterday when I wore my creation to work for the first time yesterday made me feel amazing, in a dress that fitted and flattered. Please keep inspiring us to try new things Sarah xx
This is the best video ever! I need this so bad.
Thank you
Great video !! Yes a video for more advanced people like me. I struggled with sewing knit and fabric together 😱 it wouldn’t stay in place !!!!!! (Piece of fabric on jumper)
Maple is here, homie!
Thank you for such useful tips!!! Love your channel
Good information
I need this to sew in order, thanks
Very helpful tips! How about a video on the beginner hand stitches needed? And maybe how to do hand-stitched buttonholes for those too intimidated to use their machines yet (or those who have an older straight stitch only machine)?
Great Tips! When laying out pattern pieces onto fabric, why are some the right side up and some the wrong side up.
Is it because it is more economical or is there another? Love your videos :)
When I was at school in the 70s we had needlework lessons, and we were always taught to tack everything before sewing. However many years later and getting back into sewing I had forgotten about tacking and found things didn't quite go together so well.
So now I tack everything and everything is great again. Definitely worth the extra effort, especially when inserting sleeves.
Would love to see a tutorial on smocking
Thank you. Love your videos - and your voice!
About skill #9 - keeping the fabric where I pinned it: I know that's what I need to do, but I can't seem to figure out *how* when the two pieces are not exactly the same length. If you have any tips, I would appreciate them.
You can come stay ocean front in our guest room for as long as it takes to get me through a pattern guided garment. It was my goal this year to learn and do… and then renovations took longer than expected and no garment to be made. I just found my machines a week or so ago.
What a lovely offer! 😀 Best of luck finishing up your renovations!
@@CatherineSews hahaha 🤣
I love your videos. Do you have another pen to suggest. The ones mentioned are unavailable on Amazon now. Thank you.
Do you have a video on making a good v neck with facing (no scratchy finish inside)?
I had to laugh as I watched as I have tried to tell my hubby about these skills. He is learning but doesn't read the pattern, keeps picking patterns that look simply and is inconsistent w/ seam allowance!
You missed one.... Iron frequently..
I’m surprised she didn’t mention pressing. That’s an underrated, under-appreciated skill
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