Sewing - Mastering Knit Sewing
Spend the day with Nita-Jane learning how to sew with knit and stretch fabric including fool proof neck bands, seaming and finishes.
Teacher: Nita-Jane McMahon
Workshop Duration: Full day
Description: This class will tackle stretch sewing methods from cutting to final finish with extra focus on getting neck bands fitted and finished. Choose from the two tee-shirt styles from Pattern Fantastique.
Materials to bring:
- a copy of your preferred t-shirt from Pattern - Fantastique: The aeolian tee or the glacial tee
- fabric: merino or cotton basic stretch in a flat knit. You can opt to bring a rib contrast neck band. No poly, nylon, silk, ponti or tricky to handle fabrics or high lycra fabrics. - sewing machine in good working order
- scissors and pins
- matching thread
- sewing needles ball point
- twin sewing needles (only for machines that have extra spool holders)
- vilene stay tape
- wooly nylon thread in similar colour (doesn't need to match perfectly)
- alternatively you can purchase a Tee Shirt Starter Kit here which includes vilene stay tape, stretch nylon thread, 5 ball point needles and 2 stretch twin needles for pick up at the retreat.
Takeaway: heaps and heaps of skills, tricks and knowledge and a completed knit tee.
Level: Advanced Beginner
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of how to use your sewing machine and some garment sewing experience.
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.