Get To Know Your Overlocker - Sunday 6th July 2025

Sunday 6th July 2025 at Just Sew, Penrith

Get To Know Your Overlocker

This one day workshop, which is ran from Just Sew Penrith, is designed for those that are wanting to learn and build up confidence with your overlocker. To do this course, you will need to bring your own overlocker. 

Over the course of the workshop, we will cover the following topics: 

• Overlocker Anatomoy
• Overlocker Care
• Threading an Overlocker
• Getting the Perfect Overlocker Stitch (covering settings of the tension, differential feed and stitch length and width)
• Unpicking Overlocking Stitches
• Securing Overlocking Stitches
• Overlocking Curves and Corners
• How To Change Overlocker Needles
• How to set up your overlocker for different overlocking stitches (rolled hems, lettuce hems, picot edge, narrow hem, blind hem and flat lock stitch)

You will also be provided with a printed worksheet, covering the key details of the above, as well as a troubleshooting cheat sheet.

Course Start: 10.00am

Course Finish 4.00pm

Workshop Location: 

Just Sew, Poets Walk, Penrith,  Cumbria, CA11 7HJ

What's provided

• Sewing Craft Room environment at Just Sew, Penrith, CA11 7HJ
• Tea, coffee and refreshments throughout the day. 
• Fabrics that are required to create samples and practice the above topics on

What you will need to bring with you

• Your Overlocker
• 4 different colour overlocker thread reels. 
• Accessory Kit that came with your overlocker (needles, tweezers, screwdrivers)
• Overlocker Manual 

Booking and Cancellation Policy

Please make sure to read our workshop booking terms and conditions. If you have any questions, please contact us first before booking. 

Please note that we require a minimum of 4 participants for this workshop to go ahead.