Beyond Basic Sewing: 2-day Workshop
This workshop will focus on learning finishing sewing techniques and practicing closures. Students will make samples of zippers, seam finishes, pockets, darts, and snaps. The samples will be made to use as a reference and not as part of a piece of clothing.
Deborah West
Deborah West is a trained Sewing Educator. Owner of Dwest Designs, she has been in the sewing and fashion business for over 30 years. She has sponsored and produced fashion shows in the corporate and private sectors. In the 1980s, she co-owned Collage, Ltd., an image consulting firm whose clients included Dover-Sherborn School, Carver High School and MCI Framingham. She is former Mass. State Director of the “Make it with Wool” contest and participated as a judge in the 4-H Middlesex County Fair sewing competition.
Deborah has taught sewing at Robert Gould Shaw House, YWCA Aswalos House, for Family Services of Greater Boston's Teen Living Program and elsewhere in addition to the Eliot School.
- Threads
- Bobbins
- Scissors
- Zippers
- Seam ripper
- Ruler