Introduction to Overlocking at Abakhan Mostyn

This is one of our most popular classes and needs to be booked early.

An overlocker can look a fearful machine with all the different threads. But this workshop with Molly will help you get to know how to thread, adjust and use your overlocker. You will also learn simple but essential tips such as how to finish a row of stitching. As well as sewing curves and making corners.

You will make a series of samples to take home, to remind you of the steps you have learnt. Molly will give you a comprehensive handout with instructions for all the samples you make.

At the end of the day you will make a tissue holder to take home.

Skill level: No sewing machine skills required

What to bring:

• 2 fat quarters
• 0.5 metres of calico. (please cut the calico into pieces 25x15cm. You will need quite a few of these, at least 10. Please bring the rest with you to cut squares and circles for other samples)

If you have some scraps of light weight patterned fabrics, also bring them.

Janome overlockers will be provided on the day along with a hot drink. You will also receive a 10% discount card to use in-store.

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Tutor : Molly Brown

I have delivered workshops with Abakhan since 2017, but experimented, played and worked with textiles since childhood. This interest has remained an important part of my life, from making Christmas presents on my Nana’s old treadle machine; to teaching multiple skills at the Knitting & Stitching Shows, as well as Festival of Quilts.

After a 35 year career as an Occupational Therapist in the NHS, I changed direction in 2016 and focused more on teaching skills to others and working on my own projects.

I have mastered a wide repertoire of skills in both Knitting and Sewing. I teach a wide range of knitting techniques, from Entrelac to Magic Loop. But sewing is where my strongest passion lies. The back bone of this is in making clothes. However, I have a keen interest in exploring the variety of ways to embellish fabrics, especially by Shisha, free motion embroidery and Quilting. It might look like these are all just different tangled threads, but my aim is to bring it all together into a beautiful fabric of coherent and unique wearable art.