Know Your Overlocker
Overlockers are amazing machines. This Know Your Overlocker workshop run by Artisan Stitch will show you how versatile your overlocker can be.
About Know Your Overlocker
| 2nd May 2025 | |
| 10am - 4pm | |
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Artisan Stitch Studio 6.03A, Edinburgh Palette 151 London Road, Edinburgh East EH7 6AE |
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| £75 | |
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Learn how to thread your overlocker, and find out how to use it to its full potential. This class will transform your sewing.
Know Your Overlocker - Course description
Overlockers are amazing machines that can stitch, trim and neaten seams all in one operation as well as hem garments and add decorative finishes. Yet so few owners fully understand them or use them to their full potential. Most people who have overlockers only use them for neatening edges but they can do so much more.
Other functions include sewing in elastic and lace trims, creating decorative seams on sports and casualwear, rolled hems on evening wear, and making home furnishings. Not to mention being able to sew up jersey fabrics quicker and more neatly than your normal domestic sewing machine.
But overlockers are more complicated than normal sewing machines. They require a good understanding of how changing the tensions creates different stitch types. So I'll teach you to understand how the tension settings affect the stitch type and quality, how to recognise and obtain correct tension. We'll also look at different stitch functions and their applications. So you really do get to know your overlocker and discover just how versatile they are.
What will I learn?
-Know what all the parts do
-How to thread it and obtain the correct tension
-Sewing woven & knitted fabrics
-Basic edging and seaming operations using 2, 3 & 4 threads
-Flatlock and blind hemming
-rolled hems
-How to add decorative elements to your clothes
This course is for you if:
you own an overlocker but are scared to take it out the box
you struggle to thread your overlocker
you're not sure how to obtain the correct tension for a project
you would like to use your overlocker for more than just neatening edges
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