Sew Like A Pro
Sew Like a Pro ONLINE Course: The clearest path to sewing and alterations.
Grab your sewing machine, and follow my lead.
Stop running to the dressmaker when you can do it yourself!
Newbie sewists or sewing-for-years. Teens or grandmas. If you're ready to take your sewing up a few stitches, you're in the right place.
I'll show you all the sewing secrets so you can:
Take in the awkward fitting dress that you love
Mend ripped pants and save $$$ at the dressmaker
Sew clothes from scratch, for you and your family
Build up a nice little sewing business on the side
Get off on the right foot 😉. Spare yourself hours of trial and error, and fighting with the bobbin and tension – learn to operate and troubleshoot a sewing machine with ease. By the end of this module, you and your machine will be best friends. Even my experienced students, with years of sewing under their belt, thank me for all the tricks they learned and all the time they now save. They just wish they’d discovered them earlier!
You name it, we’ll hem it. In this section, we cover every hem out there: The straight hem, circle hem, blind hem (both machine and hand). You’ll be able to hem pants and even sew cuffs. And what about lengthening? You’ll learn to add fabric and ribbon to straight and curved garments.
Never again wear a skirt that doesn’t fit perfectly. With my step-by-step guidance, we’ll sew two professional A-line skirts (the kind you pay at least $70 for in the store!) It’ll have: An invisible zipper, a full lining, and a professional finishing at the waist. But it doesn’t stop there. You’ll also learn to sew elastic skirts, skirts with ruffles on top, skirts with pockets, and tiered skirts. Say goodbye to wiggly zippers that poke out, and unflattering elastic waistbands. Professional skirt-making, here you come.
Feel confident doing all those classic alterations. You’ll learn to take in skirts and pants at the waist or let them out if needs be. Taking in a flared dress or baggy hips on your favorite skirt will be easy peasy. And if the sleeves are hanging or the neckline is too wide, you’ll be able to do that, too. Learn to measure accurately, and transfer those measurements smoothly.
What if you could make adorable bows 🎀 and original pillows for the people you love!? Learn to sew secure seams, and perfect corners – so you can! Just pick the right fabric and surprise them with handmade gifts! Sew strong seams that don’t come apart, and learn to “seam rip” smoothly and quickly.
Pants can be a pain! Baggy legs, split crotch, tight waist, trip-me-up legs, get all the answers to all your pants problems. Learn to hem pants with and without cuffs, fix the crotch – so they don’t split again, take in the legs, and let out the waist. With the right techniques, they’ll be as good as new.
Aren’t sewing patterns meant to make sewing easier? In theory, yes, but all those marks, details, words and numbers make you give up before you’ve even begun. In this module you’ll crack the code, and learn to use all kinds of sewing patterns, so you can sew any garment from scratch.
The 60-Minute Knit Skirt! Learn to sew yourself a knit skirt in just 60 minutes. We’ll trace your favorite fitting knit skirt. Then we’ll cut, sew, finish - all in an hour!
Sew far, sew good!
Sewing pattern for the skirts you will create
Fabric, lining, zippers, and interfacing for TWO skirts
Quality fabric scissors • Seam ripper • Sewing gauge • Thread clipper
Extra long dressmaker’s pins • Magnetic pin holder - safest easiest pin holder • Safety pins
3 pc tailors chalk • Heat erasable pen • Tape measure • Point turner
Sewing machine needles • Hand needles • Magnetic seam guide • Extension piece for guide
Teflon Iron cover - protects your fabrics from iron scorch and shines
Black and white thread • Bobbin case with 25 bobbins
Wash away wonder tape • Invisible zipper foot
Click the arrows for the answers to your questions!
After teaching 2000 students I discovered that successful sewists are NOT perfectionists. Quite the opposite. Often perfectionism actually gets in the way of sewing. By the end of this course, I make sure that even the biggest perfectionists are OK with making mistakes! And one more thing. Store-bought clothing isn’t perfect anyway. Just turn clothes inside out, and discover how much money we’re spending on badly sewn clothes. 😲
I was also skeptical at the beginning. I’ve been teaching in-person for 10+ years. But after teaching many students online, I’ve seen that there are HUGE benefits to online learning. You can put the videos right in front of you as you’re sewing, and then you can PLAY, PAUSE and REWIND, again, and again, and again. (I can’t say I have THAT much time in-person 😋). You get to see the techniques as close-up and zoomed-in as possible. (It’s nearly like having your nose pressed against my sewing machine🤔). And remember, you have email access to me throughout the courses, so you can get my feedback and hand-held guidance along the way. (Even if we don’t get to hang out in real life 😌).
GREAT! There’s no better place to start than the beginning. All you need is access to a sewing machine, and I’ll show you exactly how to use it. You’ll be surprised how straightforward it is!
Some of my students had been sewing for over 40 years before taking this course, and were thrilled to discover time-saving techniques and tricks that they wish they’d known earlier. They thank me for making invisible zippers so straightforward. They understand why their machine “misbehaves,” and they can’t stop thanking me when it no longer suddenly produces three threads at once, or feels tight when trying to pull out the fabric, or sews loose stitches.
That’s where the course booklet comes in. With 28 pages of instruction, all the alterations and techniques are spelled out. And there’s a troubleshooting guide there, too.
The course material should only take 7 weeks if you watch 2 classes per week. But I give you 5 months of access to the course. One exceptionally fast student finish it in just 4 weeks! She was having so much she got carried away! And if you do need more time, it’s just $25/a month to extend your course access.
Stock and model numbers keep changing. Email me at contact@thesewpro.com before you buy, and I’ll send you the updated list.
Each project takes around double the watch time. So the 25-hour course takes approximately 50 hours to complete.
When you really understand the ins and outs of clothes, alterations become a breeze. We’ll eliminate all the guesswork, so you can take all those clothes in your wardrobe that aren't quite right, and turn them into clothes that fit you perfectly! If you’re only looking for the most basic alterations, like hemming and adding, then you can check out the Alterations 101 course, but between you and me, it’s really really basic. 😉 And often these students end up joining the Sew Like a Pro course anyway.
No! Sew like a pro includes all of the Alterations Basics lessons, and much much more. In Alterations Basics, you only learn to alter the edges of a garment. Whereas in Sew like A Pro, we learn to sew the inside of a garment and beyond. We cover advanced alterations and feel confident sewing garments from scratch. It’s deeper, it’s longer, it’s the full shebang.
Let's get sewing!