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SEWING COURSE 

Learn to sew professionally—from handling the fabric and controlling the machine to assembling and finishing complete garments in 12 weeks. Ekanem Orok Sewing Course is a comprehensive, practical training program designed to teach the complete process of garment sewing and construction—from understanding sewing fundamentals to producing professionally finished garments. Developed from 15+ years of teaching experience and 25+ years in the fashion industry, the course combines structured instruction with practical techniques used in real-world garment production in turning patterns and designs into finished clothing. The online sewing course includes a Certificate of Completion upon successful project submission with 14days Money Back Guarantee.

COURSE OUTCOME

 

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​Upon the Completion of this SEWING COURSE PROJECTS, you will be able to:

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  • Operate and control a sewing machine using professional techniques.

  • Select and use the correct sewing tools, equipment, needles, and threads for different projects.

  • Understand fabric properties, grainlines, cutting techniques, and fabric preparation.

  • Apply essential hand sewing and machine sewing techniques.

  • Construct garments using the correct assembly sequence and industry-standard methods.

  • Sew professional seams, hems, curves, corners, zippers, buttonholes, pockets, plackets, and garment closures.

  • Apply clean finishing techniques that improve garment quality, durability, and appearance.

  • Complete over 200 practical sewing exercises that build speed, accuracy, and confidence.

  • Produce garments with professional workmanship suitable for custom dressmaking or ready-to-wear production.

  • Prepare for advanced studies in tailoring, pattern making, or fashion design while earning a Certificate of Completion.

CORE COURSE TRANSFORMATION

​This SEWING COURSE is design to help you assemble and construct garments using professional sewing techniques employed in the fashion industry.

You will master fabric preparation, machine control, garment assembly, seams, hems, closures, pockets, zippers, and finishing methods that produce clean, durable, high-quality garments.
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COURSE PROJECT

For the SEWING COURSE PROJECT, you will be provide with downloadable Patterns to ASSEMBLE and CONSTRUCT the following garments:

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  • Jacket and Pants

  • Drape Dress

  • Wedding Gown

  • Couture Dress

  • Jeans, Shirt and Waist Coat

  • Jumpsuit

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This will enable you practically apply the sewing techniques to the following garments projects: These PROJECTS are selected to give you a wide range of practical learning experience.

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KINDLY NOTE:

If you prefer to learn how to both (a.) Create the garment patterns and (b.) Sew the garments, then choose the TAILORING COURSE.

FASHION COURSE IN BOOKS

Ekanem Orok Fashion Course in Books are practical fashion education resources designed to take learners from creative idea to technical execution.

 

Covering fashion design, illustration, body measurement, pattern making, sewing and garment construction, the books provide simple, structured techniques and professional references that help learners develop the confidence and technical ability to create garments independently.

COURSE INFORMATION

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​This SEWING COURSE includes 23 modules with approximately 280 step-by-step instructional video lessons, over 200 practical projects, and a Certificate of Completion upon successful project submission.

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  • COURSE DURATION: 12 weeks

  • ​TEACHING METHOD: Online Video Lessons.

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  • INSTRUCTOR: Ekanem Orok. LEARN MORE

  • CERTIFICATION: Certificate of Completion after PROJECT Submission.

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  • COURSE FEES: $250 

  • REFUND POLICY: 14 days money back guarantee. VIEW POLICY

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COURSE CURRICULUM - BREAKDOWN

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The SewingCourse Curriculum is structured comprehensive training on sewing machine setups, understanding fabric properties, grainline alignment (straight, cross, bias), directional laying, and exact cutting methods using shears and rotary cutters, professional techniques for seams that elevate garments from homemade quality to luxury retail standards.

 

The projects includes hands-on assembly across complex silhouettes—including tailored jackets, pants, waistcoats, denim jeans, draped gowns and bridal couture using downloadable patterns.

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Ekanem Orok trains students to own and run fashion business with her Fashion Design and Fashion Business Courses through structured professional simple steps educational system, showing students how to bridge creative design, technical execution, and collection planning, that enable designers to operate, manage, and scale their own fashion labels autonomously.

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BREAKDOWN OF THE SEWING COURSE MODULES

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​1. Introduction to Sewing.
2. Tools and Materials for Sewing.
3. Introduction to Sewing .
4. Fabric Cutting and Grain Lines.
5. The Basics of Hand Stitches.
6. Types of Hand stitches.
7. Basics of Sewing Machine.
8. Fabric Cutting Techniques.
9. Basic of Ironing. 
10 Machine Sewing Techniques
11. Seams.
12. Sewing Curves and Corners
13. Working with Bias Cut Fabric.
14. Basic fabric Decoration Techniques.
15. Fabric Edge Finishing.
16. Fabric Manipulation.
17. Hems.
18. Buttons and Closures.
19. Zips.
20. Pockets.
21. Garment Structures.
22. Sewing Projects​.

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MODULE 1 - INTRODUCTION TO SEWING

 

  • What Is Sewing?

  • What is Tailoring?

  • The Difference Between Sewing and Tailoring? 

  • Sewing Techniques

  • Tailoring Techniques

 

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MODULE 2 - TOOLS AND EQUIPMENTS FOR SEWING

 

  • Hand Sewing Needles

  • Machine Sewing Needles

  • Basic Stitching Equipment

  • Cutting Tools

  • Drafting Tools

  • Fitting Tools

  • Hand Stitching Tools

  • Marking Tools

  • Measuring tools

  • Fastening and Pinning Tools

  • Pressing and Ironing Tools

  • Pressing Equipment

  • Sewing Accessories

  • Types of Sewing machine Needles

  • Types of Hand Sewing Needles

  • Types of Pins

  • Types of Needles Points

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MODULE 3 - INTRODUCTION TO FABRICS

 

  • Textile, Fibers and Yarns

  • Types of Fibers

  • Types of Fabrics

  • Textile Properties

  • Fabric Construction

  • Fabric Surface Finishes

  • Fabric Sewing Techniques

  • Qualities of a Good Thread

 

 

MODULE 4 - UNDERSTANDING FABRIC CUTTING AND GRAIN LINES 

 

  • Fabric Roll Guide

  • Fabric Structures

  • Types of Fabric Weaves

  • Fabric Grain lines

  • Knitted Fabric Grain Lines

  • Finding Grain Lines on Fabrics

  • Laying Patterns on Different Fabric Grain Lines

  • Laying Patterns on Different Fabric Designs

  • How to Determine the right and the Wrong Side of the Fabric

  • How to Lay Patterns on the Fabric

  • Laying Multiple Patterns on the Fabric

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MODULE 5 - BASICS OF HAND STITCHES

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  • What is Hand Stitching

  • Types of Hand Stitches

  • How to Wax a Thread

  • How to tie a thread knot

  • How to Thread a Hand Sewing Needle

  • How to use a needle Threader

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MODULE 6 - TYPES OF HAND STITCHES

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  • Tacking or Basting Stitch

  • Running Stitch

  • Tailor’s tack Stitch

  • Pick Stitch

  • Whip Stitch

  • Lock Stitch

  • Gathering Stitch

  • Blanket Stitch

  • Hem Stitch

  • Blind Hem Stitch

  • Invisible Stitch

  • Herringbone Stitch

  • Overcast Stitch

  • Chain Stitch

  • Chain Bar tack Stitch

  • Diagonal Stitch

  • Catch Stitch

  • Buttonhole Stitch

  • Cross Stitch

  • Flat Bar tack Stitch

  • Pad Stitch

  • Baseball Stitch

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MODULE 7 - THE BASICS OF MACHINE SEWING

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  • How to Insert the Machine Needle

  • How to Thread a Sewing Machine with a Horizontal Spool Holder

  • How to Use the Machine Needle Threader

  • How to Wind Thread On to the Bobbin

  • How to Wind Thread Using the Bobbin Hole

  • How to Insert the Bobbin into the Machine

  • How to Insert the Bobbin into the Bobbin Case (Shuttle)

  • How to Bring Out the Bobbin Thread

  • How to change machine Stitches

  • How to adjust machine Stitch Tension

  • How to Reverse the Machine Stitch

  • How to insert Machine Foot

  • How to remove a machine foot

  • How to convert a Machine to Free Arm

  • How to Clean the Machine Feed Dogs

  • How to Sew Your First Stitch

  • How to care for the Sewing Machine

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MODULE 8 - THE BASICS OF IRONING

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  • How to Steam Fabrics

  • How to Iron Fabrics

  • How to press Fabrics

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MODULE 9 - FABRIC CUTTING TECHNIQUES

 

  • Instructions on a Bodice Pattern

  • How to Place Patterns on a Fabric

  • How to Pin Patterns on a Fabric

  • How to Cut Patterns on a Fabric

  • How to Cut Fabrics with Rotary Cutter

  • How to Cut Fabrics with Scissors

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MODULE 10 - THE MECHANISM OF A SEWING MACHINE

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  • Types of Sewing Machines

  • Sewing Machine Parts​

  • The Mechanism of a Sewing machine

  • The Mechanism of Lock Stitch

  • Sewing Techniques - Stitches and Seams

  • Types of Sewing Machine Foots

  • Anatomy of Sewing Machine Foots

  • Types of Sewing Machine Stitches

  • The Stitch Tension of a Sewing Machine

  • How to Adjust Stitch Tension On the Fabric

  • Preparation For a perfect Machine Stitch

  • Tips for Sewing A Successful Stitch

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MODULE 11 - MACHINE SEWING TECHNIQUES

 

  • Clipping Curves

  • Ditch Stitch

  • Insert Corner

  • Intersecting Seam

  • Sewing and Clipping Curves

  • Sewing and Clipping Inward Curves

  • Sewing and Clipping Outward Curves

  • Sewing Outward Square Corner

  • Sewing a Reverse Stitch

  • Sewing a Round Curve Edge

  • Sewing a Square Corner Edge

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MODULE 12 - WORKING WITH BIAS FABRICS

 

  • Creating Bias Strips

  • Marking Bias Strips

  • Joining Bias Strips

  • How to Fold Bias Strips

  • Folded Bias Strip

  • Bias Binding Edge

  • Bias Binding on a Straight Edge

  • Bias Binding on a Curved Edge

  • Bias Binding on a Square Edge

  • Flat Piping

  • Corded Piping

 

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MODULE 13 - SEAMS

 

  • Bone Seam 

  • Exposed Seam

  • Flat Felt Seam

  • French Seam

  • Intersecting Seam

  • Plain Seam

  • Tape Seam

  • Welt Seam

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MODULE 14 - BASIC FABRIC DECORATION TECHNIQUES

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  • Sequining

  • Continuous Beading

  • Single Line Beading

  • Single Sequin

  • Single Sequin with Beads

 

 

MODULE 15 - FABRIC EDGE FINISHING

 

  • Bias Binding Edge 

  • Exposed Edge

  • Hong Kong Edge

  • Overcast Edge

  • Overlock Edge

  • Pinking Edge

  • Straight Stitch Edge 

  • Top Stitch Edge

  • Zig Zag Edge

 

 

MODULE 16 - FABRIC MANIPULATION

 

  • Gathering

  • Shirring

  • Tucks

  • Box Pleat

  • Knife Pleat 

  • Inverted Pleat

 

 

MODULE 17 - HEMS

 

  • Bound Hem

  • Double Hem

  • Faced Hem

  • Ditch Stich Hem

  • Fused Hem

  • Herringbone Hem

  • Slip Stitch Hem

  • Mitered Corner Hem

  • Rolled Hem

  • Single Hem

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MODULE 18 - BUTTONS AND CLOSURE

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  • Automatic Machine Buttonhole

  • Creating Buttonhole with shank

  • Hand Sewn Button

  • Hook and Eye

  • Machine Sewn Buttonhole

  • Popper and Shank

  • Sewing Button with Machine

 

 

MODULE 19 - ZIPS

 

  • How to Shorten Zips

  • Center Zip

  • Exposed Zip

  • Fly Front Zip

  • Lapped Zip

  • Insert Zip

  • Invisible Zip

 

 

MODULE 20 - POCKETS

 

  • Patch Pocket (Round Corner and Square Corner) 

  • Flap Pocket 

  • Inseam Pocket

  • Side Pocket

  • Welt Pocket

 

 

MODULE 21 - PLACKETS

 

  • Single Piece Placket

  • Mitered Placket

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SEWING PROJECT

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Submission of all the Sewing Projects to receive the CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION

  • Drape Dress

  • Couture Dress

  • Wedding Gown

  • Jacket and Pants

  • Jeans Shirt and Waist Coat

  • Jumpsuit

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THE SEWING COURSE OVERVIEW 

 

The Sewing Course by Ekanem Orok is a practical, hands-on program designed to teach students how to construct garments professionally from start to finish.

 

The course focuses on building strong sewing fundamentals while developing the confidence needed to handle fabrics, machines, and garment assembly correctly.

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This course is ideal for beginners, aspiring fashion designers, tailors, and fashion entrepreneurs who want to understand sewing as a core fashion skill. Lessons are structured step by step, making the learning process simple, practical, and easy to follow.

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Available online and on-location, the Sewing Course emphasizes correct techniques, clean finishing, and industry-appropriate methods used in ready-to-wear and custom garment production.

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By the end of the course, students are able to sew garments neatly, understand construction order, and apply proper finishing techniques.

 

WHAT IS THE COURSE COVERS

  • Introduction to sewing tools and equipment

  • Understanding and operating the sewing machine

  • Fabric handling and preparation

  • Basic and essential sewing techniques

  • Garment assembly and construction order

  • Finishing techniques (hems, seams, closures)

  • Sewing quality control and neat finishing

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WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?

  • Absolute beginners with no sewing experience

  • Fashion design students

  • Tailors and dressmakers

  • Fashion entrepreneurs and brand owners

  • Anyone looking to learn sewing professionally

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COURSE FORMAT

  • Learning Mode: Online or On-Location

  • Teaching Style: Practical, step-by-step training

  • Certificate: Awarded upon successful completion

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS - FAQ​

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1. Do I need prior sewing experience?

No. The course is designed for complete beginners and starts from the basics.

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2. Is this course focused on tailoring?

No. This course focuses on sewing fundamentals and garment construction. Tailoring is a more specialized skill taught separately.

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3. Will I learn how to use a sewing machine?

Yes. The course covers sewing machine operation, control, and proper usage.

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4. Is the Sewing Course available online?

Yes. Students can choose between online learning and on-location classes.

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5. How long does the Sewing Course take?

The course runs for a short, structured duration, depending on the learning format.

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6. Will I receive a certificate?

Yes. A Certificate of Completion is awarded after meeting all course requirements.

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7. What can I do after completing this course?

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After completing the course, you will be able to:

  • Sew garments confidently

  • Use a sewing machine correctly

  • Apply clean finishing techniques

  • Prepare for advanced courses in tailoring, pattern making, or fashion design

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