• Mar 2, 2024 from 2:30am to 2:30pm
  • Location: Stitch Crafts and Classes! 2 Hazelwood Lane, Palmers Green, N13 5EX
  • Latest Activity: Feb 21, 2024

Join expert seamstress Pat Stevens at Stitch! Crafts & Classes and learn to make a pinafore dress.

Making an appearance on the fashion runways and magazine covers this season the Pinafore dress has been a staple in every 60s wardrobe and now has made a strong comeback. It is an effortless dress to wear and flatters all shapes, heights and sizes. It can be made in different lengths and styles using different fabrics and colours for the different seasons and events. Dress it up for a night out or keep it casual for the day. It's a super versatile item of clothing that you will want to keep in your wardrobe for years to come.

This is an intermediate sewing class on how to accurately cut out and adjust a pattern to make an A-line dress with a zip and bound neckline and arm holes.

SKILL LEVEL:

This is an advanced beginner to intermediate dressmaking workshop. You should already know your way around a sewing machine, and be able to thread the machine and load the bobbin and do forward and back straight stitching.

All equipment is provided:

We have sewing machines, needles , scissors, measuring tape and Pattern will be provided.

Please send us your measurement to us when you book in the customer comments box. This will allow us to prepare your individual pattern for class.

You can bring along some fabric of your choice or purchase fabric in advance from the selection in our shop. Please allow for extra time before the workshop if you plan on buying fabric from Stitch! We recommend a medium weight fabric. Depending on what length you would like your dress to be and your size, you might need between 1.5 and 2m of fabric.

Fabrics recommended:

Patterned cord

Needle cord

Wool mix

Cotton

Cotton Jersey

In this class you will be:

- Cutting out the Pattern

- how to use your measurements to adapt the dress to fit you

- cutting dress and binding pieces accurately

- how to sew darts to shape your garment

- how to insert a zip

- how to bind the neckline and armholes

- Patch pockets

- how to bind the neckline and armholes

- how to prepare and finish the hemline of a dress

Refreshments, biscuits and a warm creative environments will be provided.

DATE: Saturday 2nd March 10:30-2:30

COSTS: £80

LOCATION: 2 Hazelwood Lane, Palmers Green, London, N13 5EX

LINK: https://www.stitch.org.uk/shop/Learn-to-Sew-a-Pinafore-Dress-Saturday-2nd-March-10-30-2-30-p628807081

Hope to see you in Stitch! soon.

Please ensure you have read fully our terms and conditions.

 

The Stitch N13 Team xxx

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Events and Activities


It is July, so Haringey Arts Festival month.

What’s on this week and the next at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road N22.

Wednesday 16 July – Talk: Scam Alert – is being scammed avoidable? At Hornsey Parish Church Hall, 1.30-3pm.

Thursday 17 July - Akili Trust Garden Evening at 5 St. Regis Close (off Al. Pk. Rd N10), 6.30-8pm. Help raise funds for Akili's educational work in eastern Kenya.

Sunday 20 July – Music in the Gardens: Rock in the Gardens at Muswell Hill Methodist Church, N10 1PP, 2-5pm.

Wednesday 23 July to 1 August – Children’s Art Club at CUFOS (top of The Avenue, N10), see post for times.

Saturday 26 July - Haringey Welcome Makers Market at Blue House Yard (off Station Road), Wood Green, 12-4.30pm.

Saturday 26 July - Muswell Hill Repair Cafe at Muswell Hill Methodist Church, Pages Lane, 2-5pm.

Sunday 27 July – Music in the Gardens: London Metropolitan Brass at Muswell Hill Methodist Church, N10 1PP, 2-5pm.

Saturday 2 August to 4 September – Free Martial Arts for Teenagers, Alexandra Park School, 5-8pm.

Sunday 3 August – Famous Local Garden open for charity at 5 St. Regis Close, Alexandra Park Road N10 2DE (near St. Andrew’s Church), 2-6.30pm.


Ongoing courses and activities

5 and 6-a-side Football League on Wednesday evenings from 14 May to 17 December at Christ’s College, East End Road (where it meets the North Circular), East Finchley N2 0SE, 8-10pm. Leisure Leagues.

Museum of Homelessness will be open from 17 April to 1 November, at the Manor House Lodge, inside Finsbury Park, Seven Sisters Road N4 2DE 12.30-4.30pm.

Illustrating Children’s books, course for adults on Wednesday mornings at The Green Shed, 1 Tetherdown N10, 10-11.30am. April 30 – July 9.

Geekstraveganza – regular boardgame meetup on these dates at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, 1-6pm.

Em Power fitness classes – 9am on Mondays & Thursdays (term time only), focusing on strength. All abilities welcome!

Life drawing sessions – alternate Saturdays during term time at Rhodes Avenue Primary School, 1-3pm.

Painting for Pleasure – Thursdays at CUFOS Community Centre (the old railway station), Top of The Avenue N10, 10-12.30pm or 1.30-4pm. Jan 9th - March 27th.

Fortismere Community Symphony Orchestra rehearses Tuesday evenings during term-time at Fortismere School, 7-9pm. Get in touch for more info.

Fortismere Community Choir rehearses Wednesday evenings during term-time at Fortismere School, 7-9pm. Get in touch for more info.

After School Sewing Club on Fridays at Stitch crafts, 2 Hazelwood Lane Palmers Green, 4.30-6pm. Term time.

Bowes Park Community Choir - Thursday evenings during term time at Bounds Green School, 7.15-9.15pm.

Salsa Wednesdays – Wednesday evenings at Bounds Green School, Bounds Green Road N11 2QG, 7-8pm. 

V&J Ensemble: Vocal group for ALL Singers on Wednesdays at St. Andrew's Church, Alexandra Park Road N10 (corner of Windermere Road), 6.50-8.30pm.

  

All Good Bookshop has many regular events - book groups of course, also music, writing, yoga - and special events .... at 35 Turunpike Lane.

Many Music and Art events are held at Karamel, including Collage Kids performance events on Saturday mornings at 11.30am. At 4 Coburg Road,

 

Wood Green N22 6UJ.

 

 

 

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