Alongside fashionista Linda Lee, you'll learn essential skills for making and sewing fine garment interiors: choose interfacings, underlinings, interlinings, facings and linings, and install them perfectly in your garments. Bring stunning structure and a lifetime of longevity to your fabric with interfacings. Underline entire garments to reduce wrinkles and give beautiful body to limp fabrics. Interline your outerwear to protect your fabric and add warmth and comfort to the garment. Flawlessly finish raw edges on exposed areas of your garments with facings. Plus, you'll learn how to sew linings for both pants and skirts, and Linda will even share how to draft and sew your own tailored jacket lining.
Underneath It All: Guide to Interfacings, Linings, and Facings
Learn to design and sew custom garment interiors for a truly fine finish with sewing expert Linda Lee.
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Claryce from
Very easy to follow and informative!
This is a wonderful class that taught me more in each segment than I learned in my last few decades of occasional sewing. Each section is very detailed, using examples and walking the viewer through each stage of the construction. I had always been confused about linings and facings but now feel a lot more confident. I fully expect that I will re-watch each of these until I am proficient at it. Thank you for a very good class!
Date published: 2023-04-26
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Barbie A from
Fabulous Presentation!
Just purchased and watched this course and so glad I did! I've been wanting to try garment sewing but didn't know where to begin. Linda Lee teaches you everything you need to know. Excellent presentation, well paced and chock full of good information and sewing techniques! I'm very excited to have found this course. Thank you!
Date published: 2022-08-02
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MarilynnO from
Got my attention.
This class is a must-have if you wish to expand your skills and take your garment making to the next level. Instruction is clear, concise, and there are many beautiful finished garments illustrating the techniques. This is a class I will return to many times as I approach different projects.
Date published: 2022-06-14
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Underneath It All:
I am enjoying using this tape. It is exactly what I needed to finish sewing my garments,
Date published: 2021-10-22
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Jovana from
A much-needed review!
I just returned to 'jacket sewing' during the Covid lockdowns (what an unnecessary waste of time!), after several years of making elaborate doll clothes. Going over the new products; showing step-by-step instructions for garment facings, interfacings, and linings; and offering new (to me) techniques: these are the things I appreciated most about this course. Thank you so much!
Date published: 2021-05-10
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Sherry R from
Underneath It All: Guide to Interfacings, Linings
Excellent course and Instructor. Instructor's onscreen presentation was precise and enjoyable, course coverage was thorough, visual examples of fabrics and applications was informative with appropriate detail. Camera angles were very good to show close ups of techniques and examples for optimum learning. Highly recommend
Date published: 2018-01-16
Overview
About
Linda Lee has loved fabric for as long as she can remember, so it's no surprise that she's spent her career working in fashion and interior design. She’s the owner of The Sewing Workshop Pattern Collection, where adventurous sewers can find patterns for distinctive garments created with innovative techniques. She has written several sewing books and contributed to magazines including Threads and Sew News. Linda has also appeared as the sewing expert for segments on HGTV's Today at Home and Our Home, as well as Sew It All, It's Sew Easy and Sewing With Nancy.
Trailer
01: Meet Linda & Get Started
Linda Lee introduces herself and explains the differences among interfacings, linings and facings as she shows a variety of garments in which you might use them.
7 min
02: Sew-In Interfacings
While largely replaced by fusible interfacings these days, sew-in interfacings still have an important role in garment construction. Linda will show you how to audition interfacings, preshrink them if necessary, cut them correctly and baste them to your pattern pieces.
16 min
03: Fusible Interfacings
Not all fusibles are built alike! Learn to distinguish among the different varieties and how to apply them. Linda has some great time-saving tips, too.
24 min
04: Underlinings
Review with Linda the different kinds of fabrics you can use for underlinings and how to apply them in your garment. Linda also shares how to create her favorite seam finish: the Hong Kong finish.
24 min
05: Interlinings
When you want extra loft and coziness for a garment such as a jacket, you have a variety of materials to choose from. Linda will teach you how to warm up your wardrobe.
16 min
06: The Function of Facings
Linda demonstrates four ways to finish the edge of your facings for a clean, smooth look, then how to attach and understitch.
33 min
07: Linings
Even if your jacket, skirt or pants pattern didn't come with a lining, there's no reason you can't draft one yourself! Linda will show you how.
36 min
08: Making Lined Garments
See how to turn a shirt pattern into a lined jacket. Linda shares her techniques for installing or "bagging" the lining and finishing the garment with professional tailoring touches. Gain the confidence and knowledge to try it yourself!
38 min
