Sewing Skills
Subject Overview
Sewing Skills builds on Semester 1's basic sewing foundation with fabric manipulation and product development techniques — tucks, gathers, pleats, darts, hemming, and fasteners. You'll learn tucks and gathering techniques, hemming terminology and fastener application (zippers, buttons, velcro), edge finishes like piping and binding, and close with creative surface development combining the techniques learnt. This is a 2-credit core practical paper across 3 units.
Unit-wise Syllabus
3 units — click WhatsApp below to get the full notes for each
Unit 1: Fabric manipulation techniques
Tucks, gathers and shirring, pleats, darts
Unit 2: Hemming and fasteners
Hemming terminology and techniques, introduction to fasteners — zippers, buttons and buttonholes, rivets, velcro, edge finishes (piping, binding, band application, drawstrings, tape finish for curtains)
Unit 3: Creative surface development
Creative surface development combining the techniques learnt, sample development as the end product