What is Just Fabrics The Academy?
Learning new skills can not only be a fun hobby but it can also help boost your overall mood and well-being, creating a sense of accomplishment and pride. We are passionate about giving you the confidence to sew and learn new professional techniques to advance your knowledge.
The Academy is designed to give everyone the opportunity to learn new skills but also to uncover and develop skills which might not have been used for some time. Led by industry experts, our accredited-led courses are full of useful tips and tricks to teach you the skills to sew to a professional standard.
Each course comes with hundreds of hours of lessons, a detailed downloadable workbook and a creative community to be a part of.
Find out more about our courses here.
Learn skills in the comfort of your own home
From making a pelmet, adding elegant pleats to curtains and recovering a footstool, there is more to discover with The Academy. We will continue to share ticks and tricks from our experts in our Inspiration Hub.
Discover your next sewing project below and sign up here to be the first to know about new courses, exclusive content and more.
Learn How to Make a Single Pleat
Bespoke soft furnishing maker, Louise from the Cotswold Sewing School, takes us through a simple 4-step guide on how to make a single pleat curtain heading. This technique can serve as a base to producing double and triple-pinch pleat curtains. This heading is simple yet so effective and is perfect for a range of fabrics and interior styles.
Learn How to Make a Double Pleat
Louise is here to show you step by step how to make a double pinch pleat curtain heading. In this tutorial, Louise takes us through just how easy it can be to create this style for your own home soft furnishings. A double pinch pleat curtain heading is a lovely way to add a sophisticated and detailed touch to your curtains and can be made using a variety of fabrics.
Learn How to Make a Triple Pleat
Louise from the Cotswold Sewing School is here to show you step by step how to make a triple pinch pleat curtain heading. This simple 7 step guide, shows how easy it can be to create this style in your own home. This technique begins as a single pleat which acts as the base for the triple pinch pleat style.
Learn Professional Piping Tips
In this step-by-step tutorial, Louise takes us through expert tips on making and then adding piping to a footstool. Piping is a great way to add a beautiful finishing touch to furniture and these versatile skills can be used across many upholstery projects.
Learn How To Recover A Footstool
Join experienced upholsterer Toby from Cheltenham Upholstery as he shows how to reupholster a footstool in the comfort of your own home. This in-depth 25 step guide shows how to recover a footstool as he explores many useful techniques that can be adopted by all skill levels.
Learn How To Make A Cushion Cover With A Pom Pom Trim & Invisible Zip
In this step-by-step tutorial, Louise guides us through how to make a beautiful cushion cover. This includes how to measure the fabric to ensure your cushion is plump, how to sew an invisible zip and how to add a pom pom trim to give your cushion a nice finish.
Learn How To Make A Christmas Stocking with Pom Pom Trim
Add that extra special handmade touch into the festive period with your very own Christmas stocking with pom pom trim. Louise takes us through this 9 step tutorial as she guides you through all the techniques necessary for this make whilst using our free Christmas stocking template.
How to Create a Dopamine Interior Style with Sarah from Floella Interiors
Sarah takes us through the meaning behind dopamine interiors, and shares tips from Floella Interiors on how you can use this trend around your home.
Let your creativity run wild with Dopamine interiors, create rooms in your home which you really do love and explore colours, patterns and textures that reflect your personality.
Learn How to Mitre Corners on a Curtain
This simple 8-step guide shows how to mitre corners on your next home curtain project. Louise from The Cotswold School takes us through this process which can be used across a variety of sewing projects.
Learn How To Make a Headboard
Toby takes us through a step-by-step guide on how to make your very own single headboard. This tutorial is perfect for those wanting to learn new upholstery skills whilst giving their bedrooms a new lease of life with an eye-catching headboard that is completely suited to individual interior styles.
Learn How to Make a Pelmet
Louise takes us through a step by step guide on how to make a pelmet. DIY pelmets are an excellent way to shape your windows, discreetly hide your curtain pole or track, and can also act as an extra layer of insulation, reducing heat loss in your home.
