Dressmaking and tailoring: clothes making courses, craft kits and handcrafted gifts

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Capsule wardrobe: sewing & fashion design course for beginners

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Capsule wardrobe: sewing & fashion design course for beginners

Online on-demand course

£150

What is a capsule wardrobe? In this online sewing course, you will learn how to design and sew your own t-shirts, dresses, jumpers, hoodies, and relaxed trousers (anything you see in the pictures here). This bundle course is a perfect introduction to fashion design. You will learn how to make simple patterns based on your own personal measurements, which means that EVERYBODY will make garments for their size! Once purchased, the course is available for life - we don't put any time restrictions, as we understand that everyone is learning...

What is a capsule wardrobe? In this online sewing course, you will learn how to design and sew your own t-shirts, dresses, jumpers, hoodies, and relaxed trousers (anything you see...

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Sewing & Fashion Design for Kids (~8-12yrs)

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Sewing & Fashion Design for Kids (~8-12yrs)

Online on-demand course

£80

Have your kids ever wanted to learn sewing? How about fashion design? This groundbreaking course will demystify the art of dressmaking. Simple techniques. Fantastic structure. The knowledge that will stay for life. The course is 100% online, with no expiration date: take it at your own time & speed. Our age range is only a recommendation: younger kids may also take the course but will need assistance from parents, older kids can be learning on their own.

Have your kids ever wanted to learn sewing? How about fashion design? This groundbreaking course will demystify the art of dressmaking. Simple techniques. Fantastic structure. The knowledge that will stay...

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Beginners 6 week dressmaking course (evenings)

In-person course

Worcestershire - Next course on 1st March 2022

£185

Overview: Beginners 6 Week Learn Dressmaking Course – covers all the basic skills required to start making your own clothes at home. Designed for complete beginners, from learning to use your sewing machine from scratch to making your own skirt and blouse by the end of the 6 weeks. Attendees have fun, enjoy the learning as well as the social aspect of meeting each week and are amazed at what they can achieve in just 6 short weeks. Course Content By Week: All the basics you will need to know...

Overview: Beginners 6 Week Learn Dressmaking Course – covers all the basic skills required to start making your own clothes at home. Designed for complete beginners, from learning to use...

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Skirts. Pattern design & tailoring

Online on-demand course

£175

Dreaming about making the perfect skirt but don’t know where to start? Want the freedom to choose your own skirt design? Welcome to the Arkdefo skirts pattern design & tailoring online course. Our course is user friendly, with easy to follow pre-recorded video lessons. Explore your creative side. Grow your design skills as you learn the building blocks of skirt design. Skirts designed by you and to fit you.

Dreaming about making the perfect skirt but don’t know where to start? Want the freedom to choose your own skirt design? Welcome to the Arkdefo skirts pattern design & tailoring...

Flower crown workshop & bubbly in Brighton

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Flower crown workshop & bubbly in Brighton

In-person course

East Sussex - Next course on 29th January 2022

£40

What we’ll do: On arrival, you will be greeted with a glass of bubbly and a tropical apron. Adorn your heads with beautiful flowers, create something delicate & demure or bright & colourful to wear at a hen do, baby shower, music festival, just for fun, or the love of Frida Kahlo. This creative workshop is perfect for hen parties and is suitable for beginners as I will be guiding you through the hands-on process of making your own beautiful crown, one step at a time. A fun and friendly...

What we’ll do: On arrival, you will be greeted with a glass of bubbly and a tropical apron. Adorn your heads with beautiful flowers, create something delicate & demure or...

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Denim jeans - be the designer!

In-person course

Bedfordshire - Next course on 27th January 2022

£110

Learn how to make yourself a pair of jeans! Even if you can't sew, just be the designer for the day. Angela used to work in the denim industry as a sample machinist (since the 1970s) for Lee Cooper and is willing to show you and help you make a pair of designer jeans from start to finish. The workshops are run from Angela's own design studio and sewing roo Shop.which is full of materials, books, and unusual objects. All set on at a Watermill in the Bedfordshire countryside. First...

Learn how to make yourself a pair of jeans! Even if you can't sew, just be the designer for the day. Angela used to work in the denim industry as...

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Dungaree Making with Twin Made

In-person course

Cardiff - Next course on 27th January 2022

£85

Join us to make a pair of dungarees with lots of pockets. You will need to bring 2.5/3 metres of a prewashed medium weight fabric, cord or twill work great. You will take home your dungarees, pattern and instructions so you can make more in all the colours. After the class you will also receive a dungaree hack, so when making again you could add: tie straps, inseam pockets and even dungaree shorts! A week before the class we will ask for your hip and inside leg measurement so we...

Join us to make a pair of dungarees with lots of pockets. You will need to bring 2.5/3 metres of a prewashed medium weight fabric, cord or twill work great....

Monthly beginners sewing class - Weds evening

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Monthly beginners sewing class - Weds evening

In-person course

West Yorkshire - Next course on 2nd February 2022

£60

Our monthly Beginners Sewing class, running on a Wednesday evening over 4 weeks. Please contact us for dates not listed. this course also runs on a Saturday daytime during the summer holidays. Our 4 week Beginners Sewing course is ideal to get you started. We can teach you all the basics including an understanding of your sewing machine, accurate stitching and basic problem solving (or avoiding!) . The course runs on a Wednesday evening most months, running from 6.30-8.30pm and lasts for 4 weeks. We will cover: Week 1: Learn...

Our monthly Beginners Sewing class, running on a Wednesday evening over 4 weeks. Please contact us for dates not listed. this course also runs on a Saturday daytime during the...

Spring series Dressmaking with Jane Makes 5 weeks (Mondays): a 'Quirky Workshop' at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns near Penrith and Ullswater

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Spring series Dressmaking with Jane Makes 5 weeks (Mondays): a 'Quirky Workshop' at Greystoke Craft Garden & Barns near Penrith and Ullswater

In-person course

Cumbria - Next course on 21st February 2022

£75

Covid19 update: offering over 100+ courses in Cumbria & the Lakes, we hope to resume all 'in person' courses in late July 2020. During lock down, we upgraded a listed barn into a beautiful spacious workshop studio, enabling courses to take place with 2m distancing, hand washing and two staircases. It's possible usual catered lunches may not be included for summer courses, depending on circumstances at the time. ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: There is nothing quite like the pride and joy that comes from making your own clothes! This course with...

Covid19 update: offering over 100+ courses in Cumbria & the Lakes, we hope to resume all 'in person' courses in late July 2020. During lock down, we upgraded a listed...

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You Choose Sewing days: One to One

In-person course

Berkshire - Next course on 7th March 2022

£100

You have no idea what you can do until you try! Can you sew in a straight(ish) line with your sewing machine? - or would you like to learn? Time to get brave, and these one to one sewing days are for you to learn at your own pace. There's no right or wrong with what you want to learn - just get in touch with me before you book, and we can chat through what you'd like to do. Where possible, we'll use fabric that has been washed and...

You have no idea what you can do until you try! Can you sew in a straight(ish) line with your sewing machine? - or would you like to learn? Time...