4-H Sewing Skills Learning List
Bring this dated list to 4-H Clothing Show and keep in your permanent 4-H records to add to each year.
Place year (for example – 2009) before skills you learned during the year.
Please Note: This is a record of your sewing skills to be added to each year as you learn new skills.
Year Skill
Was Learned GENERAL TECHNIQUES
______1. Buying fabric – right type and amount
______2. Choosing thread
______3. Straightening the grain of a fabric
______4. Shrinking fabrics
______5. Using a tape measure
______6. Using a needle
______7. Using a thimble
______8. Using a pincushion
______9. Using shears
______10. Using a pressing ham
______11. Using a sleeve board
______12. Using the sewing machine
______13. Underpressing
______14. Top Pressing
______15. Making a casing
______16. Making an elastic waistband
______17. Making a faced waistband
______18. Making a waistband with non-roll stiffener
______19. Caring for a garment
______20. Selecting a commercial pattern
______21. Adjusting a commercial pattern
______22. Placing the pattern pieces on the fabric
______23. Laying the pattern on the grain line of the fabric
______24. Laying the pattern on a napped fabric
______25. Laying the pattern on a pile fabric
______26. Laying the pattern on a diagonal
______27. Laying the pattern on a plaid fabric
Year Skill
Was Learned GENERAL TECHNIQUES
______28. Marking the fabric
______29. Marking the fabric using pins
______30. Marking the fabric using tailor tacks
______31. Making darts
______32. Gathering by hand
______33. Gathering by sewing machine
______34. Making patch pockets
______35. Making lined patch pockets
______36. Making “set-in” pockets
______37. Making pleats – type you made ______
______38. Making tucks
______39. Shirring
______40. Applying trims
______41. Making bias tape
______42. Making scallops
______43. Appliquéing
FABRIC TYPES
______44. Sewing wovens – cottons, polyesters, etc.
______45. Sewing wovens – wools
______46. Sewing knits
______47. Sewing sheer fabrics
______48. Sewing leather and suede
______49. Sewing deep pile (fake fur)
______50. Sewing plaids
______51. Sewing stripes
______52. Sewing bias fabrics
______53. Sewing ______fabrics
STITCHING
______54. Staystitching – where and how
______55. Understitching – where and how
______56. Easestitching – where and how
Year Skill
Was Learned STITCHING
______57. Topstitching
______58. Machine Basting
______59. Decorative machine Stitching
______60. Machine Padstitching
______61. Pin Basting
______62. Hand Basting
______63. Slipbasting
______64. Hand Stitching – Running Stitch
______65. Hand Stitching – Back Stitch
______66. Hand Stitching – Overcast
______67. Hand Stitching – Pad
______68. Hand Stitching – Slipstitch
______69. Hand Stitching – Blind Hem
______70. Hand Stitching –Catch
______71. Hand Stitching – Whipstitch
______72. Hand Stitching – Halfback
SEAMS
______73. Sewing a straight seam
______74. Fastening threads at the ends of seams
______75. Finishing a seam – plain
______76. Finishing a seam – pinking
______77. Finishing a seam – stitch and pink
______78. Finishing a seam – zigzagging
______79. Finishing a seam – turning under and stitching (clean finish)
______80. Finishing a seam – overcast – hand
______81. Grading a seam
______82. Making a corded or piped seam
______83. Making a welt seam
______84. Making a slot seam
______85. Making a French seam
______86. Making a mock French seam
______87. Making a double or tripled stitched seam
Year Skill
Was Learned SEAMS
______88. Making a flat-felled seam
______89. Making a top-stitched seam
______90. Making a decorative lapped seam
______91. Using the sewing machine (turned & stitched or clean finished)
______92. Hemming by slip-stitching
______93. Hemming by blind-stitching
______94. Hemming by catch-stitching
______95. Hem by stitching and pinking
______96. Hem by zigzagging
______97. Making a Tailor’s hem
______98. Making a curved hem (extra fullness)
______99. Making a faced hem
______100. Making a stiffened hem
______101. Making a interfaced hem
______102. Making a narrow rolled hem
______103. Making a horsehair braid hem
______104. Making a wide triple-thick hem
______105. Making a bias rolled hem
______106. Making a double stitched hem
______107. Making a hem in a bulky fabric
______108. Making a tucked hem
______109. Making a hem in a garment with a pleat
______110. Making a hem in a lined garment
______111. Hemming using hem tape, lace, or seam binding
FACINGS
______112. Applying fitted or shaped facings such as armhole, neckline, or waistline
______113. Hand tacking
______114. Machine tacking
______115. Finishing edges
______116. Notching seam
______117. Clipping seam
Year Skill
Was Learned FACINGS
______118. Sewing on a shank button
______119. Sewing on a non-shank button
______120. Making fabric buttons
______121. Sewing on a snap
______122. Sewing on an extended snap
______123. Sewing on a hanging snap
______124. Putting on hammer-on snaps
______125. Sewing on a hook and eye or thread eye
______126. Making a machine buttonhole
______127. Making a hand-worked buttonhole
______128. Making a bound buttonhole
______129. Making a fabric button loop
______130. Making a thread loop
______131. Applying Velcro
______132. Other types of closures ______
COLLARS
______133. Making a flat collar
______134. Making a rolled collar
______135. Making a standing collar
______136. Making a shawl collar
______137. Making a turtleneck collar
______138. Making a tie collar
SLEEVES
______139. Setting in sleeves
______140. Putting in kimono sleeves
______141. Putting in raglan sleeves
______142. Making cuffs
______143. Making plackets
______144. Making gussets
Year Skill
Was Learned ZIPPERS
______145. Applying a centered zipper
______146. Applying a lapped zipper
______147. Applying a hidden zipper
______148. Applying a hand-stitched zipper
______149. Applying an exposed zipper
______150. Applying a fly-front zipper
______151. Applying a zipper in a flat fell seam
______152. Shortening zippers
______153. Applying a zipper in a garment with a lining
SUPPORTING FABRICS
______154. Applying interfacings – how and where – lapels, collars, cuffs, hems, waistbands, or belts
______155. Selecting proper interfacings, underlinings, or linings
______156. Using underlinings – how and where
______157. Using linings – how and where
BELTS
______158. Making a tie belt
______159. Making a buckled belt
______160. Making a cord belt
______161. Making a contour belt