ONLINE LICENSING

Beginning Sewing: A Teacher's Course Licensing Event

Join us for tons of sewing fun! Licensing is a unique experience, blending the love of sewing with skill-building and business opportunity. Whether or not you share what you’ve learned in a sewing classroom, you’ll enjoy the robust collection of techniques and projects curated especially for this licensing. As you hone your own sewing skills with videos to support more than 30 different projects, you’ll pick up tips for teaching the projects to others: children, teens and adults. And, you can do it all in the comfort of your own home, on your own schedule, using your own machine. What could be more perfect?
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Projects in this licensing curriculum focus on basic and intermediate techniques used in making quilts, home décor items, clothing, bags, accessories and more. If you’re an accomplished sewist yourself, you will find these projects are ideal for quick, easy gifts, as well as a perfect pallet for adding more advanced techniques and creative embellishments. There are even projects designed specifically for teaching children and teens!

The Beginning Sewing: A Teacher’s Course Licensing Event course will prepare you to teach all the essential sewing skills with confidence, sharing the best methods and techniques with your students as you use a tried-and-true curriculum. You will hear from the Martha Pullen faculty, too, about building a fulfilling and profitable sewing education business. All project patterns and directions are included, and you will have licensing privileges from the day you receive your license. This means you will share copyright privileges with the Martha Pullen Company, allowing you to make any of the projects for sale without limit or, if you are teaching, make as many copies of the project patterns and instructions as you need for your students.

Projects in each licensing collection are unique to that particular licensing, so no one else will have your projects other than the students who are licensed in the same curriculum. If you choose to teach, holding a Martha Pullen License will open teaching doors that might not otherwise be available to you.

During this six-month course, you will correspond with the Martha Pullen Licensing faculty, who will be available to answer any question you might have about projects, patterns, techniques and teaching methods. Even though you will receive more than 30 projects, you will need to complete just seven to receive your certificate. Once the course opens, a supply list will be available for the required projects.

Do you have to teach if you become a Martha Pullen Licensed Teacher? No! We have many licensed teachers who never plan on teaching or do not plan on teaching at this time. Everyone is welcome!

Who Should Take This Course:
Anyone who wants to improve her own sewing skills – going back to the basics never hurts!
Everyone who wants to teach beginning sewing to kids, teens and adults using projects designed to introduce or reinforce one’s sewing skills;
Sewing teachers who are looking for a prepared, ready-to-teach curriculum, with many projects from which to choose;
All those who have wanted to become a licensed teacher but could not afford the time or money to attend the face-to-face licensing retreats.

*Please note: Beginning Sewing: A Teacher’s Course Licensing Event was originally offered as Teaching Beginning Sewing II, both online and as a popular in-person licensing retreat. Only the title has been changed; the full curriculum and all video lessons are included in this newly titled licensing course.

Frequently Asked Questions

 What will I get?

Great how-to videos on techniques and projects
Round table discussion – class and kit pricing suggestions
Business ideas from Martha Pullen – where to teach, advertising yourself and promoting your classes;
Methods you can use to teach all types of students;
Tips about how to improve your teaching skills;
More than 30 project handouts for you to download and use in your classroom;
A comprehensive look at sewing machines;
Martha’s Beginning Sewing Notebook – which contains almost every beginning sewing technique imaginable!
Tutorials about using special notions to make even the most difficult sewing techniques much, much easier;
Information about using a variety of sewing machine feet and accessories;
How-to for installing zippers in a variety of ways;
Methods for creating and attaching piping;
Quilting basics;
Plus much more!
Upon completion, you’ll receive a personalized Teaching Sewing: A Beginner’s Course Licensing Event graduation certificate, signed by Martha Pullen. Plus receive the Martha Pullen teacher licensing logo for your website or business card as well as a digitized version of the teacher licensing logo.

What will I learn how to make?

Required Projects:
Change It Up Placemat or Table Runner
Fold Away Jewelry Keeper
Grommet Purse
Single Button Swing Jacket
Stars Over Alabama Pillow
Traveler’s Jewelry Roll
Pick One Bonus Project (from the list below)
Bonus Projects:
Beach Towel Hideaway Bag
Beribboned Carry All
Child’s Capri Set
Creativity Portfolio
Decorative Journal Cover
Drawstring Backpack
Everything In Its Place Organizer
Fold Away Needle Keeper
Gift Bags
Hot Dog Pillowcases
Knot an Ordinary Purse
Magic Corner Napkins
Patches and Fringe Scarf
Photo Hang-Up
Ribbon Rollup Accessory Bag
Ride the Waves Tee Shirt
Scrap Catchers
Screened Carry All Bags
Stars Over Alabama Quilt
The Road to Huntsville Quilt and Pillow
Triple Tiered Skirt
Vest of Many Options
Zip It Bag

Our students love us. 

I love Martha Pullen licensing courses! I am making this a lifetime endeavor, as a way to keep growing in sewing techniques. The teachers all have such gentle, warm, kind and steady voices which makes learning a real comfortable and relaxing experience. As much as I love these courses, I have only one thing to suggest to improve the videos. There is always a sewing machine in the teaching lessons, but in one lesson a sewing machine is not used at all, as it just sits on the table next to the instructor. How I wish I could see the machine used as an critical component to all the projects. After all, it is a sewing course. THANK YOU for offering these terrific courses! You are a blessing in my life!
MARTHA S.
Once again a lovely course and I enjoyed it so much. The teachers were superb! Although I've been sewing for 39 years, I still learned a few tricks of the trade with this course. Looking forward for the next online course! Be blessed!! :)
Rosanna (Zanna) V.
The projects have been as much fun as ever I can remember any sewing project being. I had to smile each time I completed a step moving on to the next at how each part simply fell together. The instruction videos iced the cake as far as technique and ease. I was grateful to be able to pick my own colors, fabrics and embellishments instead of being mandated to cookie cutter designs. In this way, I felt technique was paramount not adhering to something everyone else did. As a teacher in other areas of fine craft, I like for my students to express themselves artistically, while learning correct form. These projects gave me that same grace. I simply cannot wait for the online heirloom instructions which will be my next choice. My special thanks o Martha Pullen and the ladies who gave so liberally of their knowledge.
ROSALIE N.

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