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Skills for tops and dresses

  • Crafty Birds Flitwick Road Bedford, England, MK45 2NU United Kingdom (map)

MAIN DETAILS

  • For adults (age 18+) who….

    • are ready to learn how to make clothes for the first time

    • want to continue developing their existing dressmaking skills

    • are confident operating a machine independently, and know how to sew accurate seams and hems

  • 9 weeks

  • 2 hour sessions = 18 hours of learning time

  • Monday 22nd, 29th September, 6th, 13th, 20th October, 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th November. We will be skipping the 27th October,

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE PRICE?

£220

The price you pay reserves you a place at each weekly session, gives you full use of all machines and equipment, and includes your kit to make your toile of practise skills in the first 3 sessions.

DISCOUNTS

When you book and pay for 2 or more people onto the same course in one transaction, you will receive a 5% discount. When you book and pay for 3 or more (any) courses in one transaction, you will receive a 10% discount.

YOUR TOILE IN SESSIONS 1 TO 3

AIMS & OUTCOMES

At the end of the first 3 sessions, you will have made a toile of a top with darts, neckline facing, bias bound arm hole, and a sleeve.

During the next 6 sessions, you will make your very own, completely unique, beautiful “me-made” garment. Crafty Birds advises that you make something that resembles the products shown in the images above, which feature the skills you have practised. If there are any other features and skills on your chosen product which you’ve not learned, providing they’re not too complex, your tutor can help with them as you go.

You will bring your own pattern and fabric to sessions 4 to 9, and can get advice about this from your tutor in sessions 1 to 3.

During the 9 week course, you will learn:

  • How to use a dressmaking pattern, and understand the different symbols

  • What a lay plan is and how to use one

  • How to mark and cut fabric accurately

  • How to follow commercial pattern instructions

  • How to construct the bodice

  • How to sew in darts to shape a garment

  • How to construct and attach facing to finish the edge of fabric, such as a neckline or armhole

  • How to sew in a sleeve

  • How to finish the edge of fabric, such as a neckline or armhole, with bias binding, using the “stitch in the ditch” technique

READY TO BOOK?

Please complete the form to book your place. This will request a place. Your place will be confirmed following payment. Please look out for an email from Anneka at Crafty Birds with payment details, after submitting the form.