Fashion design courses

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Learn how to develop, sketch and make your fashion ideas, gather inspiration, explore line, shape, colour and texture and cut, fold, pin and sew your own items!

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Millinery workshop: make a Cloche Hat day workshop

Millinery workshop: make a Cloche Hat day workshop

Worcestershire - Next course on 17th January 2020

Come and use the selection of hat blocks available at Kerry Kernan Millinery on this one day millinery workshop to create your own beautiful vintage style cloche hat. This millinery course will enable you to create your own hat with some fabulous personal touches. You can decorate your new hat with a variety of trimmings after the workshop or why not book onto one of my other hat making courses to create your own special embellishment? This workshop will teach you how to block the fabric, how to wire the...

Introduction to pattern cutting at the Mary Ward Centre (concessions available)

Introduction to pattern cutting at the Mary Ward Centre (concessions available)

London - Next course on 15th January 2020

This course will teach you the essentials of flat pattern cutting such as how to lay a block on paper and to make pattern adaptions to realise your own designs. This course has different elements in each term: Term 1 - skirt block. Term 2 - trouser block. Term 3 - bodice block. Who is this course for This course is for anyone who has an interest in fashion who wants to learn to make their own blocks and patterns for dressmaking. It is beneficial to have some sewing machine...

Corset making: Victorian / Beginners

Corset making: Victorian / Beginners

North Somerset - Next course on 21st March 2020

Come along to make a fully fitted, boned, lined, and back-laced corset in a material of your choice, in my informative weekend workshops. The corset provides excellent support and bodyshaping. These corsets are created to be worn as outer or under garments and can reduce your waistline by up to 5 inches. I encourage all sizes from XXS to XXXL plus. Nobody is too large or too small. Over the two day workshop you can opt to create an overbust corset or underbust style ‘waspie’ corset sometimes used as a...

Percher hat making - blocking for beginners millinery workshop

Percher hat making - blocking for beginners millinery workshop

West Midlands - Next course on 11th March 2020

These percher hats - favoured by people such as Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle - are my favourite styles of hats to both make and wear! They are so versatile, and once you master this technique, you will have endless possibilities for your millinery creations! We use a wooden shape to create the base of your hat, shaping the material around it - a process called blocking. There are my own blocks for you to use while you are in the studio, or you have the choice of buying your...

Valentine's millinery workshop

Valentine's millinery workshop

Gloucestershire - Next course on 10th February 2020

Come and create the perfect headpiece for your Valentine's Day this year. This one day workshop will show you how to create the perfect button with a 'love heart' theme. Incorporating traditional millinery techniques alongside additional textiles skills such as needle felting, this design will allow you to select your own Valentine's message for you to wear with pride. Forget wearing your heart on your sleeve, this year is all about wearing it on your head! We will host you at the Lygon Arms in Chipping Campden where you will...

1 Day Leather Tote or Hobo Bag Making Course

1 Day Leather Tote or Hobo Bag Making Course

A great opportunity to learn how to sew a high end fully lined chrome dyed leather tote or hobo bag from scratch using one of our RJ Leather Studio patterns. We’ll walk you through all the steps needed to create a professional handbag, teaching you how to use a pattern, sew on industrial sewing machines and all the tips and tricks to sewing leather. With over 10 years of working in the accessories industry, having worked in Paris and London for numerous fashion houses and sucessfully run her own handbag...

Millinery workshop: silk flower headpiece

Millinery workshop: silk flower headpiece

Worcestershire - Next course on 19th January 2020

Workshop details: Create your own silk flower headpiece with Kerry Kernan Millinery on this one day millinery workshop. Come and learn how to create your own beautiful headpiece with a completely individual silk flower designed by you! This workshop will teach you how to design your flower, make your template, cut and shape your petals, assemble the 3D flower (along with leaves and bud) and then attach securely to a headband. If you are interested in this workshop but cannot make these dates, please get in touch and I will...

3.5 hour Leather Clutch Bag taster course

3.5 hour Leather Clutch Bag taster course

Our short courses are a lovely way to try your hand at bag making using a machine. When you arrive, there’ll be a paper bag full of goodies waiting for you with all the components for your clutch bag, all cut and ready to be assembled. No need to bring anything but your lovely selves and a camera for pics. This course runs from 10.30am-2:30pm (including ½ hour lunch) or 1.30pm-5pm. You have the choice of either black or tan brown leather for your clutch bag and you can choose...

2-Day Leather Bag Making Course

2-Day Leather Bag Making Course

This is one of our most popular high end chrome dyed leather handbag making courses; a great introduction to making a professional leather bag from scratch. On this two-day course we will walk you through all the steps needed to create a professional handbag, teaching you how to use a pattern, sew on industrial sewing machines and all the tips and tricks to sewing leather. With over 10 years of working in the accessories industry, having worked in Paris and London for numerous fashion houses and sucessfully run her own...

Millinery workshop: make a trilby/fedora millinery weekend

Millinery workshop: make a trilby/fedora millinery weekend

Worcestershire - Next course on 25th January 2020

Workshop details: Create your own felt trilby or fedora style hat on this two day millinery course with Kerry Kernan Millinery. You could decorate your new hat with a variety of trimmings after the workshop or why not book onto one of my other millinery workshops to create your own special embellishment? This hat making workshop will show you how to block the hat, stiffen the fabric, how to wire the edge and how to trim the edge with Petersham ribbon. This weekend is perfect for those hats that take...

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