Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish work requirements and prepare for work
- Work order requirements are checked and confirmed
- Tools, equipment and materials are selected and checked prior to use to ensure that they are appropriate for the work, serviceable and in a safe condition
- Correct side of fabric, naps, direction of pattern and pattern matches are identified
- Fabric is checked for flaws
- Appropriate needle types for the fabric are selected and threaded
- Lay out work to be sewn
- Work health and safety (WHS) requirements, including ergonomic criteria and personal protection needs, are observed throughout the work
- Linings and any interlining materials are laid out and folded ready for sewing
- Lining materials are matched and secured
- Face fabric is folded, bringing edges to be seamed together to match any pattern and to maintain an appropriate finished length
- Pattern matches are kept uniform within drops and across matching sets of blinds
- Fabric is held together and, where required, supported with pins or other workplace approved methods
- Stitch seams and form corners
- Curtain fabrics are held to allow for the personal right-hand or left-hand preference of the sewer, and manipulation requirements for the bulk and slipperiness of the materials
- Machine sewing operations are completed correctly
- Finished length and width of each panel are measured and checked against work order and adjusted, where required
- Linings and interlinings are attached to back of blind
- Corners are folded and formed to match work order or workplace requirements
- Hems are completed using the appropriate stitch type and sewing method
- Corners are stitched and finished and threads trimmed
- Ring placement positions are measured and marked
- Sew gathering materials
- Finish work
- Finished blinds are checked ensuring stitch length, end finishing and size blinds match work requirements
- Work is pressed
- Parts of the work which do not comply with work order are repaired
- Rings are attached
- Gather tapes and gathering lines are pulled up maintaining even fullness in gather and even tension in gathering lines
- Headboard is painted, stained or covered with fabric fixed along the board length, corners are mitred and fixed, reducing bulk and ensuring a neat finish
- Blinds are fitted to headboard or track and threading completed
- Complete work for next process