Women's Shirts
Make the shirt of your dreams, as you enjoy "everyday couture" sewing practices and innovative design options.
Throughout this online course you’ll be treated to the best of the best:
- Clearly demonstrated, precision sewing techniques for easy learning and consistent success;
- Design options that enhance your shirt’s comfort, ease of construction, and style;
- A complete online sewing tutorial, with insight, guidance, and detailed instructions at each step in your shirtmaking process.
Follow along as Cynthia constructs two different shirts in parallel: the standard woman’s shirt with a shirt-tail hem, breast pocket, collar on a stand and long, cuffed sleeves; and her own shirt design (pattern included with this course), which features a straight hem with length options, front pockets lowered to the hipline for ease of use and a more flattering look (with a banded button closure), sleeves cut with the back of the arm on the bias, adding to comfort and movement, slot buttonholes, created as part of the seamline, a hidden placket option, a perfectly curved, flattering collar on a band and much, much more. She’ll share options, too: three different sleeve plackets, a variety of pocket styles and applications. Plus every detail needed to complete both shirts to perfection in this comprehensive, online course. Pattern downloads are included with the course.
Approximate running time: 6 hours 45 mins.
Go-To Jacket
It feels like expensive couture, and looks like it too. With modern details and precision stitching, it’s the jacket you’ll reach for every time. Suitable for many fabrics, this design is a year-round option that completes any outfit, from casual to office to evening. It’s your Go-To Jacket—a little bit of everyday couture.
In this in-depth course, Cynthia shares the special features and construction techniques for two jackets (one shorter, with an open front, and a longer version with a zipper). They are fully lined, and designed to be comfortable and look good on a range of figure types. You can wear it open, partially closed, or fully zipped, and it will attractively accommodate any style of top beneath it.
This comprehensive tutorial leads you through every step of creating both jacket versions. Each chapter offers not only instructions for this jacket, but an unparalleled assortment of sewing techniques that will surely improve all your garment projects. With Cynthia’s detailed guidance these jackets are within reach of intermediate-level sewists and above. If you’re an ambitious beginner who has sewn a garment with a collar and sleeves, you can successfully tackle these patterns, too.
The course includes a nearly one-hour class as a bonus: Cynthia’s “Seven Core Sewing Skills.” From finding the fabric’s grain to seam accuracy, clipping and pressing, and perfectly matching seam intersections, Cynthia’s techniques give you the confidence to sew any garment and get professional results.
Approximate running time: 6 hours
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