This week in sewing club we finished turning our shirts into skirts. Some members of sewing club added buttons and a pocket to their skirts. Next week we will be starting a new project, can you guess what our project might be from these clues?
1. They are very colourful
2. You can put it on your keys
3. There are lots of these in the garden
We learnt how to sew on a sewing machine these are the steps on how to do it.
1. Find some thread to put on the sewing machine.
2. Then put the thread on the sewing machine and thread the thread through the needle
3. Next turn the sewing machine on and place the material that you want to thread on the sewing machine
4. Then pull the lever down which pulls the foot down to secure the material.
5. After turning the knob, press the red button, whilst putting your foot down on the foot press. This will help stop the stitches from coming undone.
6. Finally gently press your foot down whilst guiding the material under the needle.
In today's sewing club class we had to bring a large men's T-shirt to turn it into a skirt for the girls and a rucksack for the boys. First we had to draw and cut a straight line under the arms.Then we had to turn it inside out and gently finger press to flatten it ,then hold it in place using pins.
We then had to sew the bottom, making sure to take out the all the pins as we go. Fold the material over twice, once small then bigger leaving enough room for the elastic band to be threaded, then pined it. Afterwards we sewed the material and thread the elastic band through. Finally, it was time to decorate; we cut out different shapes out of material to make pockets and then sewed them on. We also used buttons to decorate our skirts. At the end they looked amazing, we’d manage to transform large men’s T-shirts into beautiful skirts.
Last term we made skirts out of men's shirts. To make this we used a sewing machine and our knowledge of different types of stitching. We had to prepare the shirts before we were able to sew them, which included pinning the waistband. We also made pockets using blanket stitch, this was using a different material, a material of our choice.