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Sew Your Own: Cielo Top HYBRID

  • Freeman's Creative LLC 2020 Chapel Hill Road #25 Durham, NC, 27707 United States (map)

The Cielo Dress & Top is an easy, breezy take on a boxy tee and shift dress. We'll sew the Short Sleeve Top in three sessions. Loaded with interesting details and interchangeable features, it will fast become a wardrobe-building favorite. This class is suitable for a confident beginner who has made a garment before, and for intermediate sewists looking to build their construction skills.

Instructor: Shaerie Mead

Equipment Needed:

Sewing machine with straight stitch and zig-zag options, iron, ironing board, pressing ham, press cloth.

For lengthening/shortening pattern: extra paper and clear tape.

Supply List:

Closet Core ‘Cielo’ Top & Dress pattern

Highlighter 

Paper scissors 

Cotton, linen or linen blend fabric* in the yardage for your size and view

1/4 yard lightweight woven fusible interfacing (Shape Flex 101) 

Matching thread

*Please do not purchase your fabric before the first class, as we will be going over skills that might change your yardage and final fabric type!

Basic Sewing Kit: sharp fabric shears, 2 x 18” clear ruler, tape measure, glass head pins, tailor’s chalk or other fabric marking tool, seam ripper.

Earlier Event: September 17
Knit Skills: Elvan Shawl HYBRID
Later Event: September 18
Craft Club IN PERSON