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Learn to Sew a Cardigan

Advance your knit sewing skills with this comprehensive online sewing class. Using the Milo cardigan pattern, you'll create a modern, versatile layering piece without needing a serger. Learn professional techniques for working with various knit fabrics, creating beautiful v-necklines, installing buttons, and constructing patch pockets. This class teaches you how to achieve professional results using a regular sewing machine, making it perfect for sewists ready to expand their knit garment skills.

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Knits Without a Serger

You can totally sew knit fabrics on a regular sewing machine! Don’t let not owning a serger hold you back from sewing up comfy knit garments.

In this lesson you’ll learn:


  • How to set up your machine to sew knits (00:20)

  • Three options for seaming knit garments (01:26)

  • Three options for hemming knit garments (02:50)

  • Plus some quick tips (04:00)

Learn to Sew a Cardigan

Here’s what you’ll need for this project:


  • The Milo pattern

  • Medium to heavyweight knit fabric

  • All-purpose polyester sewing thread

  • Ballpoint sewing machine needle

  • Ballpoint twin needle

  • 1 yard of knit interfacing

  • Six 1” buttons for version 1, five 1” buttons for version 2

  • Optionally: 1/4 yard knit stay tape for reinforcing your shoulder seams

Work alongside other sewists by participating in the Seamwork community. Ask and answer questions, share your progress, get inspired by real-life sewists, and post your finished projects.

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