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Mastering Construction: Zippers & Waistbands

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Overview

Description Choose, shorten and insert the perfect zippers for your garments with Apparel Arts instructor Sara Alm as your guide. From how to sew a fly front zipper, a vintage slot zipper and an elegant invisible zipper, to simplifying lapped and exposed zippers, you’ll achieve sophisticated results every time – even on tricky fabrics! See how to modify commercial patterns that include a mock fly by adding a full zipper fly instead. And learn to draft and sew your own zipper shield. Move on to creating straight or contoured waistbands and enclose them without a single hand stitch. You’ll even see how to sew belt loops and button or hook-and-bar closures. Plus, learn to finish pants or skirts with a facing or yoke instead of a waistband. Master zippers and waistbands to take the next step toward sewing like a designer!

Syllabus

  • Class Preview
  • Introduction
  • Zipper Considerations
  • Slot & Invisible Zippers
  • Lapped, Exposed & Separating Zippers
  • Fly Front
  • Waistbands
  • Waistband Finishing
  • Facings

Taught by

Sara Alm

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