Learn to Sew an Easy Top

My first ever sewing workshop and first ever project. Great pace, easy to follow videos and loads of helpful tips and tricks. Can’t wait to choose another workshop!

I am a beginner at sewing and found Tilly and the Buttons. I didn’t want to pay the high prices for sewing classes and Tilly and the Buttons is very reasonable. I found the classes easy to follow and very useful as i could pause and rewind if i needed to. I managed to make my first piece of clothing - the Samara top! Its not perfect but i will keep practicing. I cant wait to try more classes with Tilly and the Buttons :)

This was my first ever project and I loved it from start to finish. I'm hooked thanks to the quality of video and instructions! Thoroughly recommend.

Easy to follow workshop with great hints and tips along the way. Love that you can pause and rewatch as needed at your own pace. One of my first proper projects for myself and had a good outcome, will definitely make more Samara tops tweaking what I have done already. Thank you for a great pattern and workshop.

I'm very much a beginner sewer with aspirations to improve. I've half sewn a few things but find they often don't fit me properly and even more often, I just don't understand the pattern instructions. I'd heard TATB patterns were great for beginners because they are so clearly written but as a 'visual' learner, I was pleased to see there was an option to actually follow an online workshop to make an easy top. I loved the online lesson format with the various steps broken down into bite size pieces, the ability to watch over and over again and at times that suited me. I watched each lesson a couple of times before I actually made a start on my samara top and then tried not to watch the tutorials but to follow the written pattern instructions, only referring back to the online lesson when I wanted a bit more clarity. Unlike some online tutorials that aren't well photographed, or have presenters that mumble and block what you need/want to see with their hands or the camera angles, everything about this workshop is just so well put together, clear and really well paced. I also liked the little bits of humour like the comment about stitching the facing at the shoulder seams! I'm intending to make a second top very soon and will be trying out the alternative hemming method and perhaps even go for an elastic cuff on the sleeve! I'm also going to incorporate a pattern alteration to change the depth of the V neck and width of the neck - should be straightforward as details such as these are also included in the workshop. I might even try making the top into a tunic dress as again instructions on how to do this are included in the workshop.