Garment Sewing - Knit Leggings
Does the thought of sewing knits on your sewing machine send you into a mild or severe panic? In this class you’ll overcome any of your knits fears while sewing a custom-fit pair of leggings for yourself.
Teacher: Anna Ng
Workshop Duration: Half Day
Description: We ran this class two years ago and were floored by how quickly it sold out!! Obviously leggings are a great wardrobe staple and this workshop is the perfect introduction to sewing knits on a domestic sewing machine.
Anna will be sharing all she knows about sewing with and finishing knits. She will also help you to create a pair of leggings that fit your body.
In this hands on class you will learn how to:
Locate the grain on knit fabric, how to cut out knit fabric, sew knits on a domestic sewing machine. You will also learn how to finish your knits - you will add elastic to the waist and top-stitch in place with a twin needle. Finally you will hem your leggings (two different methods will be demonstrated).
Materials:
There is a materials fee of $10 which is for a paper copy of Megan Nielsen's Virginnia leggings pattern. After extensive testing this pattern was the best Anna found and Megan is kindly offering it to us at a discounted price!
Please bring;
- 1.3m cotton/lycra. You can purchase the perfect black cotton Lycra that is not see-through from Anna for $22.
- A length of 1 inch (25mm) elastic that matches your waist measurement
- All purpose polyester thread to match your fabric
- Jersey (ball point) needle
- Stretch twin needle
- Sewing machine
- An empty bobbin (for woolly nylon thread)
- Sewing kit including fabric scissors, pins, tailors chalk, measuring tape and a quick unpick
Woolly nylon thread will be supplied by the teacher at no charge.
Takeaway: At the end of the class you will have a pair of custom-fit leggings.
Level: This class is aimed at beginners. Familiarity with a sewing machine - threading a machine, winding a bobbin, replacing a bobbin and changing a sewing needle.
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.