1. Textiles Technologies – Skills Development
Fashion & Textile technology
Textiles Technologies – Skills Development

2. Success Criteria? To be successful in Today’s lesson you must:
Evaluate your own sewing machine skills.
Demonstrate to your assessor the ability to use a sewing machine independently.
Develop your knowledge of how to produce and finish seams.

3. Using the sewing machine
You must be able to:
Set up the sewing machine
Thread the sewing machine
Fill the bobbin with thread
Names the parts of the sewing machine.

4. Seams – how? A seam joins 2 pieces of fabric together.
There are 2 types of seam that we will complete;
An open seam
A closed seam
An open seam takes longer to do and is therefore more expensive to produce. It is therefore less common.
A Closed seam is quicker and easier to do and is found on most clothing

5. Seams – how? Take your two pieces of fabric
Match the two ends together
Using a tape measure and pin together 1.5cm in from the edge.
Next tack along the pinned line (removing the pins as you go).
Sew along tacking stitches with sewing machine.
1.5cm
Tacking
Machining

6. Producing Seams
You will be expected to produce fashion/textiles items to a high standard this includes how you finish of the seams. Your teacher will demonstrate each of the below seam finishing and you will have a turn at completing them.
1.5cm Seam
Topstitch
Edgestitch
Overlocked seam
Binding seam
Ribbon seam
Curved seam
Curved topstitch
Curved edgestitch

7. Closed Seam
With the 2 edges together zigzag the fabrics together.
Trim the edges down to the zigzag line.
Open Seam
Press open and flatten the seam.
Next zigzag along each of the seam parts separately.
Trim both sides down to the zigzag line.

8. Outcome 1: National 5
 Prepare to make detailed fashion/textile items using a pattern by: 
1.1 Identifying an appropriate pattern for a detailed fashion/textile item
1.2 Explaining choice of textile(s) for the chosen item, taking into account properties and characteristics.
1.3 Identifying a detailed range of appropriate textile construction techniques for the chosen item

9. Outcome 2: National 5
Make detailed fashion/textile items using a pattern by:
2.1 Selecting appropriate equipment and tools to make the chosen item
2.2 Setting up and adjusting equipment correctly and according to safety guidelines
2.3 Using equipment and tools correctly and according to safety guidelines
2.4 Making a detailed fashion/textile item using the pattern and appropriate textile construction techniques, to an appropriate standard of quality

10. Outcome 1: Higher
Analyse the properties and characteristics of a range of textiles and construction techniques and their uses by: 
1.1 - Describing the properties or characteristics of a range of textiles
1.2 - Describing a range of textile construction techniques and explaining when they would be used
1.3 - Analysing how these properties or characteristics of textiles and construction techniques are applied to produce fashion/textile items for specified purposes

11. Outcome 2: Higher
Make a complex fashion/textile item which is fit for a specified purpose by:
2.1 - Justifying the choice of appropriate textile(s) for a fashion/textile item with a specified purpose
2.2 - Selecting appropriate textile construction techniques to make the fashion/textile item
2.3 - Making the complex fashion/textile item, to an appropriate degree of accuracy, which is fit for a specified purpose