Hi Ruth,

Repetition is the key to mastery.

I believe that achieving a certain level of skill in anything takes practice. This is especially true for more complicated and multi-step techniques. The more often you repeat the steps, the faster you'll complete them with better results.

A great example of this is the welt pocket.

While considered an advanced technique in the sewing community, you can achieve excellent results by following short manageable steps, learning a few industry secrets and taking the time to practice the process.

I've got it all laid out for you in this week's highlighted post.

In order for you to follow along and practice this method of constructing the single welt pocket, I have prepared the patterns for you.  They are in full scale so you can adapt them to any project you might be working on.  The patterns I've developed will create a single welt pocket with a 1/2" welt and a 5" pocket opening.

Once you've practiced a few times, try adding this pocket to one of your sewing projects. It would be a great addition to the Ellen pant or the Claire shorts as a back pocket and perfect on a boiled wool cardigan, an outerwear coat or even a bag. Once you've mastered this technique, you'll want to put welt pockets everywhere!

Enjoy!

All My Best,
Alexandra

PS
If you missed any of my tutorials on pants, you can see them HERE.