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Leisure and General Interest » Dressmaking and Sewing

Know Your Sewing Machine

Course ID:
WL4260-8
Price:
$77.00 (GST included)
Status:
Places are available.
Location:
403 Hume Highway Liverpool
Tutor:
Jeanice Barnes
Sessions:
1 session of 4 hours
Time:
9:30am-1:30pm
Starts:
Saturday, 15 November 2025
Finishes:
Saturday, 15 November 2025

This workshop is for participants to learn and become familiar with using their sewing machine and its functions. Jeanice is an experienced sewing machine demonstrator and dressmaking tutor. Bring your sewing machine and requirements listed on Confirmation/website. No concession.

Agenda

Threading machine and bobbin winding
Various stitches and functions
Buttonholes
Machine accessories and functions

Materials

Do not purchase equipment until you confirm that the course is running.

Bring pen, paper, sewing kit, sewing machine and manual (please remember to bring foot control for machine), sewing thread, 1/2 metre calico, 1/2 metre elastic (approx 10mm wide), 20cm fleecy fabric (or similar fabric), 10cm ribbing, twin needle, 18cm dress zip.

Venue

403 HUME HIGHWAY LIVERPOOL
The College office (Suite 5) and Training Rooms (Suite 8) are located at 403 Hume Highway, above Aussie Home Loans between Brinlay Paints and Little Kingdom Child Care Centre. For disabled access and those with mobility issues there is a Platform Stairlift provided contact the College office on 8080 2121 for more information.
Parking underneath the building is limited to evening and weekends with a maximum of 12 non-stacker spaces accessed via an unnamed lane off Boundary Road (behind Brinlay Paints). Unrestricted parking is available in Reilly Street, Alderson Avenue, Gill Avenue and Boundary Road west of Gill Avenue on the College (western) side of the Hume Highway and in Congressional Drive and the Collingwood Museum (including 3 disabled parking spaces) on the eastern side of the highway.
Public Transport (Go to transportnsw.info for more details). Buses connect from railway stations - the closest being Liverpool station.
Bus Routes: 851, 852, 855, 856, 857, 870, 871, 872. Going North: Bus stop on Hume Hwy (outside College - after Boundary Road). Going South: 2 Bus stops on Hume Hwy: 1. near Monteclair Avenue and 2. opposite Boundary Road.

Comments from previous students of this class

Excellent and enjoyable short course


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