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Textiles: waistcoats
Key skills:
- Designing a waistcoat in accordance with a specification and design criteria to fit a specific theme.
- Annotating designs.
- Using a template when pinning panels onto fabric.
- Marking and cutting fabric accurately, in accordance with a design.
- Sewing a strong running stitch, making small, neat stitches and following the edge.
- Tying strong knots.
- Decorating a waistcoat – attaching objects using thread and adding a secure fastening.
- Learning different decorative stitches.
- Sewing accurately with even regularity of stitches.
- Evaluating work continually as it is created.
Key knowledge:
- To understand that it is important to design clothing with the client/target customer in mind.
- To know that using a template (or clothing pattern) helps to accurately mark out a design on fabric.
- To understand the importance of consistently sized stitches.