Class Title: Claira
Area of Study: Embroidery (Hand)
Class Hours: 6
Class Type: Project
Skill Level: All skill levels are welcome. Basic embroidery skills are helpful. Dress construction (home) is intermediate to advanced.
This beautifully embellished little girl’s dress (size 2, 3 or 4) is designed to enrich your sewing knowledge with a few basic embroidery stitches as well as challenge your faggoting skills. You will take ready-made spaghetti tubing and use it to create scalloped shapes to enhance the yoke, collar and sleeve areas of this design. You will also learn how to handle the construction challenges shaping presents to you.
Class time will allow you plenty of time to practice the following embroidery stitches:
- Granitos
- Padded satin stitch
- Stem/Outline stitches
- Basic faggoting insertion stitch
You may choose to start stitching directly on your dress yoke or work with a piece of practice fabric. After all stitches have been mastered, “tube” shaping is your final class challenge.
This is a hand class only. Construction details will be reviewed before leaving class with time for questions and answers. All construction will be completed at home.
Complete Kit Contents: dress fabric; collar fabric; interfacing; spaghetti tubing; cording; practice template for faggoting; construction thread; thread for faggoting; stranded embroidery floss; hand needles; buttons; dress pattern (size 2, 3 & 4); class handout
Pre-requisite: None
Student Supplies: fabric shears and/or trimming scissors; embroidery scissors; glass head pins; 18″ ruler or tape measure; double stick tape; small padded board at least 18″ for tube shaping; VERY FINE LINE marking pen or mechanical pencil; colored basting thread; 4″ Bates embroidery hoop; light & extension cord (required); magnification (recommended)
Home Supplies (Item needed to complete dress at home): Sewing machine; #65 or #70 universal needle; ¼” foot (optional); lace joining foot (optional); 80 or 100 wt. sewing thread
