Youth Projects

Clothing Construction Contest Level 4

Level 4 Sew, Let’s Show Off!

Things to Learn

• Tailoring skills.
• Bound buttonholes.
• Welt pockets.
• Underlining.
• Linings.
• Uneven plaids.
• Thread eyes and belt loops.
• Cording.
• Appliqué.
• Machine embroidery.
• Continuous bound placket.
• Hand-picked zipper.
• Thread the serger and identify parts.
• Add to your construction skills notebook.
• Add to your fabric collection notebook.
• Parts of the serger.

Projects to Sew

• Lined suit or coat or dress
• Party or evening wear
• Use specialty fabrics, sequins, satins, brocades, tapestry
• Special embellishments

Construct a "Garment" for the Contest

This level will include any of the construction skills listed in Level 3, plus any other skills the contestant selects for the garment.

• Lined dress, lined suit, lined coat
• Garment made from a specialty fabric (sequins, satins, brocades, tapestry, velvet, etc.)

Learn these Skills for the Contest

1. Skills from levels 1, 2, and 3.
2. Judge a class of four samples (zipper, sleeve, collar, cuff, button and buttonhole, hook and eye) and give oral reasons.
3. Select a pattern for a given figure type and choose fabric, interfacing, notions.