Using an overlocker

Additional Information

Have fun and make friends while you learn to:

Banish the fear of the overlocker and stretch fabric

Familiarise yourself with the parts of an overlocker

Take the anxiety out of threading and re-threading an overlocker

Learn the basics of 3 and 4 thread overlocking

Learn about the tensions, differential feed and stitch length

Learn some troubleshooting

Learn some basic maintenance

Give it a go on different fabrics in different ways and see how it works

Learn seam making and finishing; edging and rolled hems

Use your newfound skills to make a stretch item of clothing

Take home your unique item to wear and enjoy and keep sewing!

Classes are starting the first week of June. For any queries or to book in please use the contact form or email karen.ricketts@sewingfrog.co.uk.

What you will learn

6 x 2hr sessions

Setting up and using an overlocker
Threading an overlocker
Basic overlocking – seams, finishing and rolled hems
Make a stretch item using the skills learnt

Experience level: For those who can already use a sewing machine

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About your instructor

Karen started sewing 40 years ago. After school lessons, she continued learning and developing skills at home with help from her mother on a variety of sewing machines. Dressmaking was her particular passion and she continued to make clothes while at university training to be a doctor.

She worked as a doctor for 20 years in the NHS, until she developed ill health due to stress. Having left medicine, she took time to recover. During the pandemic, she got out her old sewing machine and fired it up “for the love of scrubs”. This renewed her passion for sewing.

She has found sewing, particularly dressmaking, therapeutic mentally, psychologically and spiritually. It has given her confidence in her creative self. It is this element of sewing which she wishes to share with others.

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