Fashion - Professional Sewing Techniques

Learner hours: 25

These courses consist of two 12 week complementary courses, running one after the other (you can start the courses in any order). If you take both of them you will learn all the sewing skills needed to design, create and make your own clothes.

With each course focusing on either lower or upper body sewing techniques, you can choose whichever best fits your aspirations for creating new garments and styles.

Fashion - Professional Sewing Techniques: Lower Body

Week by week, our professional tutor will take you through topics such as:

• Induction to using industrial machines
• Seam types
• Hem and Edge finishing
• Zips
• Fly fastenings
• Pockets
• Waistband and waist facings
• Sewing darts

Toward the end of the course you will make a skirt which will demonstrate the new skills you have learned.

Fashion - Professional Sewing Techniques: Upper Body

This course will build on the basic machine sewing skills learnt in part one. Each week, you will add to a file of samples to create a portfolio of visual work which will showcase your skills.

Week by week, our professional tutor will take you through topics such as:

• Introduction to using industrial machines.
• Collar and facing applications.
• Various cuff finishes.
• Various placket finishes.
• Set-in sleeve insertion.
• Trimming works and pressing.
• Top stitching.

Both parts of this course are suitable for those who aspire to make clothes and want to gain a complete understanding of sewing techniques. We recommended attending both courses. However, you can attend the courses in either order.

If you combine this two-part course with the two 12 week pattern cutting courses, you will have all the skills you need to design, cut and make your own original clothing.

This course runs on a Wednesday evening from 19.00 to 21.30 on the following months:

• Professional Sewing Techniques (Lower body): 26 September - 12 December 2023
• Professional Sewing Techniques (Upper body): 23 January - 23 April 2024, exc 02 & 09 April, Easter break

Mode of delivery: Face to face

Our address is The School of Creative Arts, College Lane Campus, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB.

For Maps and Directions please visit our helpful  ‘Where to Find Us’  page. Further details are sent by email when you have booked.

Key Staff

Course Tutor

Bunmi Okon

Booking deadlines

Bookings for all Creative Arts Short Courses will be reviewed two weeks before the start date of each course. This will allow the Short Course team to determine whether a course has met the minimum number of students needed for the class to run. If a class has failed to recruit, the class will be re-scheduled and you will be informed. Where relevant you will be offered an alternative class. If the course has met minimum numbers, bookings will stay open to the course start date or until it has met maximum numbers.

We encourage you to book early before the deadline to avoid disappointment.

Bookings for all short courses need to be made online through our online booking system, before a course commences. You cannot enroll or attend a class on the day the course starts, without prior arrangement.

Cancellations

If for any reason you change your mind about joining us after you have accepted the offer, you have a legal right to cancel your contract to study with us within 14 days. This cancellation period therefore ends at the end of 14 days after the day on which you accepted our offer. Find further details of our cancellation terms here.