Welcome to The Sewing Weekender 2022! Grab your favourite beverage, a snack or two, and let’s get going.
All the videos for Saturday are below as well as the virtual goodie bag links. We will be updating this page so please come back here on Sunday morning (22nd May). All the videos will be ready for you, so everything is in one place!
Watch the intro from Kate, Charlotte and Rachel before you get going!
Saturday Speakers:
- Jenny from Cashmerette shares her top 5 fitting tips. Everything from measuring yourself correctly to why bust cup options are a must.
- Statement pockets: Juliet Uzor is here to show you how to customise your next make with a statement pocket or two!
- DIY Skirt Tutorial: DIY Daisy is going to show you how to cut the incredible Sophie skirt from her new book ‘Sew it Yourself’. If you love a curved seam, then this is going to be right up your street.
- Zips 101: Lisa from the Avid Seamstress is sharing how to insert different zips into your garments.
- Geri from Geri in Stitches will show you how to get started with marble dying
- Behind the Scenes: Meg from fabric shop Pigeon Wishes is sharing how she’s pivoted her business to serve indie fashion brands.
- The Making of a Magazine: Have you ever wondered what goes into making a sewing pattern magazine? The lovely team at Fibre Mood are here to show us what’s involved. There are two videos and you can watch the first one here and the second one here.
- Sustainable Fabrics: Harriet from Sew Me Sunshine is talking about what to look for when shopping sustainably for fabric.
- Sandy & Judith from #sewover50 are talking about sewing for changing body shapes.
- Missing People Charity talk about the important work they do.
Chatty Videos:
- Tugba from @i.of.the.needle
- Riccardo from @rifallo
- Ele from @sewnbyele
- Emily from @emilynatsai
- Michelle from @michelle.a.sews
Sew Organised Style Podcast:
Maria has created three fantastic podcast episodes, especially for the weekender. Go check out the full rundown here.
- Episode 1 – Wis of @wis_g from Gent in Belgium talks about her experience attending The Sewing Weekender at Cambridge in 2019 and then the online Sewing Weekender in 2020.
- Episode 2 – Maria talks to Michelle aka @michelle.a.sews and Emily from @emilynatsai who have done chatty videos for the Weekender.
- Episode 3 – Finally Maria talks to three tutors from the Weekender – Lisa Falconer of The Avid Seamstress, Alison Smith MBE of School of Sewing UK and Harriet of Sew Me Sunshine.
Sunday Speakers:
- Make Trousers that Fit with Alison Smith. Alison will talk us through some of the most common pattern alterations so you can achieve the perfect fit for your next trouser project.
- Alice and Co are back this year! ‘Sew you think you can’t draw?’ They are showing you that putting your design ideas down on paper makes them easier to realise.
- Quilted Jacket Tutorial: Sam from Purple Sewing Cloud is here to show you how to add quilting techniques into your handmade wardrobe, by hacking a jacket pattern to add a quilted element. It will make you look at all your sewing patterns in a new way.
- Adding hand embroidery into your next make. Alexis from Fibr and Cloth Studio is demonstrating some classic embroidery stitches and how you can apply these to your clothing.
- Behind the Scenes: Grace who runs Beyond Measure gives us a sneak peak of her beautiful studio, how she works with artisans to create new products and gives us a tour of her new growing space where she is creating a garden for dying fabric.
- Bust Adjustments: Mandi from Make With Mandi is here to show you how to do small and full bust adjustments on patterns.
- Use your Sewing Wins to Plan your Future Makes with Jess from Muna and Broad.
- Styling your handmade Wardrobe: So you’ve made a load of stuff but how do you wear it together? Marie from Marie Stitched Up is here to talk about how she does it.
- Charlotte from Charlotte Emma Patterns will be teaching you how to cut and sew a baseball cap with a downloadable PDF pattern.
Chatty Videos:
Get social:
We have Zoom chat rooms open throughout the weekend. You can pop-in during the day to see who else is online and share your sewing plans, arrange a time to meet friends in one of the chat rooms, or set up a laptop/tablet next to your sewing machine and chat through the day as you sew.
The rooms are officially open between 6am – 10pm (UK) allowing attendees from other time zones to join too.
Three identical rooms are available each day (Saturday & Sunday)– if one is full just try the next room.
The Sewing Weekender Chat (Room 1 Sunday)
Meeting ID: 858 2139 3149
Passcode: 944590
The Sewing Weekender Chat (Room 2 Sunday)
Meeting ID: 857 4325 4859
Passcode: 874711
The Sewing Weekender Chat (Room 3 Sunday)
Meeting ID: 885 5029 0348
Passcode: 294818
Virtual Goodie Bags:
- The Fold Line are offering 10% off all sewing patterns until the 31st May with the code: SEWINGWEEKENDER
- Charlotte Emma Patterns is offering 20% off all patterns with the code: 20% off until the 31 May with code: SW2022
- Cashmerette is offering 15% off until the 31st May with the code: WEEKENDER
- Sew Me Sunshine is offering 15% off fabric for the 21st-22nd May with the code: SEWINGWEEKENDER22
- New Craft House are offering 10% off everything for the 21st-22nd May with the code: SEWINGWEEKENDER22
- Fabrics Galore are offering 15% off everything with the code: Weekender15%
- Sew Hayley Jane is offering 10% off your first box with code WEEKENDER valid until 25th June
- Village Haberdashery are offering 10% off everything until the 15th June with the code: WEEKENDER
- Sew Essential are offering a 15% discount on everything except dress forms on the 21st May until the 21st June 2022 with the code: Fold2022
- Core Fabrics is offering you 20% off everything with the code: WEEKENDERS until June 30th.
- Hey Sew Sister is offering 10% off which is valid from 21st May to 31st May with the code: TSW2210
- Beyond Measure is offering £3.50 off all orders with the code: weekender22 (so you get free 48 hour UK shipping and a discount on all other shipping options, including international)
- Cut one Pair are offering 20% off everything in the shop with code: WEEKENDERGANG until 4th June 2022.
- In a haystack are offering 25% off your first digital subscription pack full of sewing treats and inspiration with the code: IAHWEEKENDER. Valid until the end of June 2022 and open to sewists around the world.
- The Wee Fabric Shop is offering 15% off (except classes) for the weekend Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd May 2022 with code: WEEKENDER22.
- Good Fabric Store is offering 15% off everything until the 29th May with the code: SEWINGWEEKENDER15
- Alice and Co Patterns is offering 10% off everything on their website with the code: WEEKENDER22 – valid until 31st May
- Pigeon Wishes is offering 20% off everything on her website and Etsy shop with the code: Weekender20 and it will be valid until the 3rd June.
