3 Things To Practice Daily to Improve Your Sewing

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about when I was a beginner sewist. Perhaps it’s because I’m knee-deep in getting the launch for the Wear What You Make Master Course (for sewists). In this course I’m teaching all the basic skills you need to know to sew a garment. All the details are making me think about what I needed to know as a beginner and what I want YOU to know as well. Well, here are 3 things I want you to do every day (or at least 3 times a week) to improve your sewing skills.

1. Practice your stitches: Stitches are basically what hold your garment pieces together, which in turn hold your garment together. Now, there are different types of stitches for different purposes. If you don’t know what they are, that is okay. We go over that in the Master Course (see link above). But learning the different stitches and then practicing them daily (or at least a few times a week) is what’s going to help you become proficient in a very important part of garment construction.

2. Read your patterns: Yep! Read ’em! Most commercial patterns are full of diagrams, charts, illustrations, instructions and legends. The more you familiarize yourself with a pattern in general and different brands of patterns, the more confident you will become when it’s time to actually use the pattern to create your garments.

3. Work on projects you LOVE: One thing I’ve learned from experience is that I’m far more likely to complete a project when I’m sold on the outcome and I love the way I know it will look. I’m also far more likely to NOT cut corners. I’m not saying that you should finish a whole project within a week if that’s just not where your skill level is or if you don’t have the time to do so. But working on a project each week until you complete it will allow you to keep the skills you do have, sharp.

Until the Master Course is ready, you can join me inside the Wear What You Make Community. There, you can