Sewing Skills: Cielo Top

Instructor: Shaerie Mead

The Cielo Dress & Top is an easy, breezy take on a boxy tee and shift dress. We'll be making the cropped top with short sleeves and a faced neckline in three 3-hour 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. We’ll also review techniques for a bias finished neckline, the dress with pockets, and the gathered lantern sleeves.

Fabrics can be yarn dyed or printed cottons, linen or linen blends* - we’ll discuss each one and how it will affect the final garment. *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!

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 paper 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; washable chalk pencil or washable marking tool of your choice

Basic Sewing Kit: sharp fabric shears, 2 x 18” clear ruler, tape measure, glass head pins, seam gauge

Skills learned: lengthen/shorten pattern, cutting between sizes, sewing & finishing seams, marking & sewing darts, setting sleeves, topstitching, understitching.