Your First Sewing Machine & Practice Shirt
Learn the machine, then stitch a complete shirt before you touch your real cloth
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About this course
Nobody's first shirt should be made from their good fabric.
This course does what every tailor's apprentice does first — makes a sample. You'll set up and thread your machine from scratch, cut a practice shirt from cheap cloth, and stitch it start to finish: neckline, shoulders, side seams, both sleeves, and the hem. By the end you'll have a real, complete shirt you made yourself, and the muscle memory to do it again on fabric that matters.
Gaani films without cuts or edits. When something goes slightly wrong she shows you how she fixes it, right there — which is the part most sewing videos leave out.
It's taught in Punjabi, the way a real tailor speaks, with English captions throughout.
What's inside:
• 11 lessons — 1 hour 58 minutes of video
• Machine setup and threading, step by step
• A full shirt stitched from first seam to finished hem
• A Punjabi stitching glossary in plain English
You'll need a paper pattern to cut your sample from. If you don't have one, take "Draft & Cut Your Punjabi Suit" first — or start with "Measure Like a Tailor."
What you'll master
Start as an absolute beginner and finish able to make a complete Punjabi suit, on your own.
- Take accurate body measurements — on others, on yourself, or from a shirt that fits
- Draft your own paper pattern from those measurements
- Choose the right fabric and cut both the kameez and the salwar
- Stitch the whole suit — necklines, pleats, shoulders, sleeves, belt and cuffs
- Hem, press and finish it for a clean, professional look
Syllabus
Ten chapters, 61 short video lessons — taught in Punjabi with clear English captions and on-screen animations for every step.
The tools, the inch tape, and how to read a measurement.
Measure a body, yourself, or an existing shirt — accurately, every time.
Turn those numbers into a paper pattern for the kameez and sleeves.
Choose cloth, cut a practice shirt, and learn from it before the real suit.
Set up and sew confidently on a home or industrial machine.
Cut a full-fitted kameez with pleats and a Patiala-style salwar.
Necklines, pleats, shoulders, fitting seam and sleeves — step by step.
Belt, godde, kunde, pleats and the mohri cuffs, assembled and sewn.
Snap buttons, hemming (tarpai) and the small touches that read professional.
Press it properly, fold it, and wear the suit you made.
This course includes
- 61 video lessons · 9h 1m
- 10 chapters, first steps to finished suit
- Taught in Punjabi with English captions
- Printable tools, glossary, measurement & fabric guides
- Lifetime access — learn at your own pace
Your instructor
Gaani
Taught in Punjabi · at her own table
I film every lesson at my own table, in Punjabi, the way I'd teach my own daughter — slowly, with my hands, until you can do it without me. You won't leave with notes. You'll leave with a suit you made.
Questions
None at all. The course begins with the very basics — the tools and how to read a measuring tape — and builds one step at a time to a finished suit.
Yes — Gaani teaches in Punjabi, with clear English captions and on-screen animations for every step, so it's easy to follow along.
A complete Punjabi suit — a full-fitted kameez with pleats and sleeves, and a Patiala-style salwar — measured, drafted, cut and stitched entirely by you.
Enrolment includes lifetime access. Learn at your own pace and rewatch any lesson whenever you like.
A sewing machine, fabric, an inch tape, scissors and a few basics — the first chapter gives you a full printable tools checklist so you know exactly what to get.