MasterClass Techniques: Plackets and Closures - Tessa - South 3

Add a touch of elegance to your blouses and shirts with a discreet hidden buttonstand or add a sporty half placket to a knit top - just two of the many options in this class.

Design or customize your blouse as we dip into easy drafting and adjust any pattern for your new front closure, placket or buttonstand. Learn the guidelines for the buttonstand width, button placement and spacing according to the selected button size.

Sleeve cuffs also get the placket treatment from the traditional tower placket to an elegant and discreet bound opening. Closures include button fastenings which use loops or buttonholes. We will make a variety including a corded and keyhole buttonhole and the easiest bound buttonhole. You will learn how to adapt any pattern to use these details.

With MasterClass Techniques you will build up a toolbox of sewing skills with your own reference binder of each technique. This is ideal for those who want to gain better understanding of a technique, go off script from a pattern, or just do their own thing on a garment.

This is a companion class to MasterClass Techniques:Collars and Cuffs

Supply List:

• Please note you can find most of these items available at Central Sewing Machines (minus fabrics)!
• Machine and Accessories:
  • Sewing machine with foot control, power cord, presser feet and manual. You must be familiar with your sewing machine and it should be in good working order.
  • Bobbins
  • Useful feet: Edge/Joining foot (stitch in the ditch) used for topstitching
  • Gutermann all-purpose polyester threads in contrasting colours to your fabrics. Pre-wind some bobbins too.
• Fabric and Trims:
  • Choose fabrics with a simple print (not busy) in a medium to light colour. This will allow you to see the right/wrong sides of fabric; see the stitching clearly; and write notes on the samples.
  • 0.6m Quilting cotton or similar. Quilting cotton is ideal for samples as it is crisp and stable and sews easily. Fabrics do not need to be prewashed.
  • 1m Sewer’s Dream iron-on interfacing (available at Central Sewing)
• Notions and Tools:
  • Universal Needles 80/12
  • Fabric scissors with sharp points for trimming narrow seams
  • Basic sewing notions: Thread snips; Glass head pins; Pin cushion; Measuring Tape;
  • Seam marking gauge; Seam ripper; Chaco Liner marking chalk or fabric marking pen; Press cloth for garment
  • Chaco Liner marking chalk or fabric marking pen.
  • Ballpoint or gel pen for writing notes on fabric samples. (test on a scrap)
  • Rotary cutter and mat
  • Seam marking gauge
• Pattern Drafting Notions:
  • Pattern tracing paper e.g. medical paper
  • Paper scissors
  • Ruler, Fashion/ French curve
  • Quilting ruler 6” or fashion gridded ruler (optional)
  • Pen, Mechanical pencil, coloured pencils, eraser
  • Scotch Tape
• Miscellaneous:
  • File binder for your notes (Can be done at home later)
  • Notebook or paper for additional notes
  • Tape or stapler to attach samples to notes