Sewing Expert Profiles

There are many sewing experts in the UK who willingly share their knowledge and skills through magazines, workshops and classes. This time, we reveal details of Lorna Knight - take a look at her top ten tips on lingerie making on our Sewing technique pages. We'll continue to add details of other experts in the coming months.

Name: Lorna Knight

Brief background: Lorna set up The Lorna Knight Sewing Academy in 1999 to deliver sewing workshops in a full range of sewing topics in the Midlands and Edinburgh. These included lingerie and bra making courses and furnishing topics too. She also enjoyed making one-off designs for people, lingerie, wedding dresses and formal wear as well as more unusual requests like a gent’s punk rocker suit! Now with a young family, Lorna continues to teach at venues in Staffordshire and Derbyshire. She also offers one-to-one tuition tailored to suit the student, which can be short sessions, longer full days or regular tutorials. Lorna also contributes to Sewing World magazine, predominantly projects that are sewn on overlockers and that are often lingerie based.

Back to the beginning:

In 1987, with a degree in garment technology, Lorna started her career working for an Edinburgh designer Caroline Scott where she learnt what making clothes was really all about. By 1988 she was also teaching in schools as well as making clothes for herself and friends.

1996 – She became particularly interested in sewing lingerie and developed this with training and practise, she set up a mail-order business ‘Moonlight’ selling lingerie.

1997 – Lorna started running workshops for Terry Fox , teaching in particular, the skills used in the couture trade.

Subjects taught: Lorna runs a number of workshops in each of the following categories: Overlocking, Lingerie, Couture, Dressmaking, Pattern Drafting and Furnishings.

Contact details:
Lorna Knight
The Lorna Knight Sewing Academy
Colstone Rock Cottage
Clerks Bank
Ipstones
Stoke-on-Trent
ST10 2LQ
Tel: 01538 266002
Email: sewknight@btinternet.com