What's Happening in Textiles

Year 8 students have been learning textiles skills as part of their Technology Mandatory course. Within the textiles unit, students are able to learn about a range of sewing techniques such as using sewing machines, fabric dyeing techniques, pattern construction and utilising diverse hand sewing stitches for both decorative and practical purposes. 

For this lesson, students were introduced to the sewing machine. Our Year 8 Technology classes have learnt the basic steps of using the sewing machine and practise their skills sewing on paper before we started to sew our sample open seam.