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Programme:
- Flexible one-off sessions, short or longer courses available to meet your needs in all aspects of dressmaking, pattern cutting, sewing machine and overlocker skills at dates and times to suit you. Please contact me directly to discuss your requirements.
- Overlocking for new owners, beginners and the terrified!
- York Saturday group - dressmaking and pattern cutting skills
- Skidby Group (weekday) - dressmaking and pattern cutting skills
- The Ropewalk Group (2nd Thursday of the month) - dressmaking and pattern cutting skills
- Dressmaking skills
- Pattern cutting skills
- Textile teacher staff development on the overlocker, pattern cutting and sewing skills
- Post graduate sewing skills
- City & Guilds Fashion
- Dressmaking, tailoring and pattern cutting
Gift Vouchers now available!
Struggling for gift ideas for family, friends or yourself? A tuition gift voucher is the answer!
Cost: £40 for half a day + materials
£75 for a full day + materials
Gift Vouchers in an amount of your choice for bespoke garments and alterations.
Dressmaking Skills
Dates and venue by arrangement
One-to-one or small group sessions tailored to your requirements. It could be basic dressmaking skills, getting the most from your sewing machine or overlocker, a specific technique or fitting problem or a project you're stuck on.
Cost: £40 for half a day + materials
£75 for a full day + materials
Overlocking for new owners, beginners and the terrified!
No skills required
Various dates and venues by arrangement
The session will cover all those important basics that will help you tame and control your overlocker:
- Changing the needles
- Easy threading
- Identifying and adjusting the tension dials to achieve perfect stitching
- Starting and finishing methods
- Narrow overlocking
- Rolled hemming
- Overlocker make to taken home
Cost: £40.00 including materials.
Equipment required: Overlocker, instruction manual, accessories & basic sewing kit.
Pattern Cutting - Skirt, Trouser or Bodice Block
Basic dressmaking skills required
Dates and venue by arrangements
Learn how to take your body measurements and use these to draft either a skirt, trouser block or bodice block. Trace a pattern and make a toile (fitting shell) to give a fantastic fit. Explore simple adaptation ideas to give style to your garments.
Cost: £40 for half a day + materials
£75 for a full day + materials
York Saturday Group
No previous skills required - for beginners and anyone who wants to improve their skills.
St Clements Church Hall
Scarcroft Road
York
Next session 27 March 2010 - 1 place available!
10.00 am - 4.00 pm
Limited to 6 students the morning is a structured session getting back to basics and exploring all those crucial techniques necessary to produce a well fitted, professional garment. The afternoon session gives you the chance to work on a project of your choice with tutor support
£35.00 per session (payable in advance) + materials
Skidby Weekday Group -
No previous skills required - for beginners and anyone who wants to improve their skills.
Skidby Village Hall
Main Street
Skidby
East Yorkshire
Next session Monday 22 March 2010 - 1 place available!
10.00 am - 4.00 pm
Limited to 6 students the morning is a structured session getting back to basics and exploring all those crucial techniques necessary to produce a well fitted, professional garment. The afternoon session gives you the chance to work on a project of your choice with tutor support.
£40 per session (payable in advance) + materials
The Ropewalk Group - 2 PLACES AVAILABLE
No previous skills required - for beginners and anyone who wants to improve their skills.
The Ropewalk
Barton-upon-Humber
NE Lincs
10.00 am - 4.00 pm
2nd Thursday of the month - next session 11 March 2010
Limited to 6 students the morning is a structured session getting back to basics and exploring all those crucial techniques necessary to produce a well fitted, professional garment. The afternoon session gives you the chance to work on a project of your choice with tutor support
£35 per session or £90 for 3 sessions (payable in advance) + materials
Workshop terms and conditions:
- To secure a workshop place fees are payable in advance.
- Fees paid are non-refundable unless the place is reallocated.
- Sewing machines, overlockers and any other electrical equipment brought to the venue must be in good working order and are for the owner's use only.
(Some venues require electrical equipment to be PAT tested prior to use -this is the responsiblity of the owner.)
Post Graduate and Newly Qualified teacher training in garment construction and Pattern Cutting
In reaction to a number of requests from NQT's and fashion graduates one-to-one or small group sessions tailored to your needs. Create a portfolio of garment construction techniques to use in teaching or as designer maker.
As far as I am aware there is no one offering this service - give me a call to discuss your requirements.
Textile Teacher Overlocker, Pattern Cutting, Sewing Skills Staff Development Days
No previous skills required
Dates and venue by arrangement
Make the most of your school's overlockers in this 4 hour session. Starting with the basics discover easy threading, needle changing and how to balance the tension dials for a perfect stitch. Use the differential feed for stretch fabrics. Explore rolled hemming, rolled hemming with fishing line, using decorative threads, mock blanket stitch and wrapped stitch to produce a range of simple items.
From £100.00 for up to 4 members of staff