Beginner Plus Dressmaking Course - Button front dress
Develop your skills with our button front dress course.
Cost: £190 - 6 x 2 hour classes, suitable for those who have made a garment before, or been on our beginner course.
Learn how to work with bust darts, master buttonholes, working with an a-line or a fitted skirt, facings and optional pockets. Extending the length of the full skirt is also an option for those who are confident sewers.
If this sounds like too much, or you have never made a garment before, try our beginner dressmaking course - click here - which we make a basic skirt or palazzo trouser.
Please scroll down for more information and class content.
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EXTRA INFO...
Location:
This term classes are held in South Nutfield, Surrey (full address given once booked) . There is some free parking at the location, as well as free on road parking.
Each class is 2 hours long.
Please arrive no earlier than 5 minutes beforehand to set up your equipment and get settled in. We start promptly at the times stated - we have lots to fit in!!
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If you would like to book the full course but cannot make one of the dates, you can book the lesson you will miss as private tuition. This would be £40 extra per 2 hour lesson*, discounted from the usual £35 per hour private tuition which would be £75.
*this discounted private tuition price only applies when booking/booked on to the full course.
Level:
As this course is not a complete beginner or basic garment, you may be required to do some of the easier sewing, cutting or preparing as homework, dependant on your speed/level. This is to make sure we have time for tuition on all the more involved steps of the garment in the lessons.
You won’t be asked to do anything hard, new, or something you haven’t already done during the lesson at some point. But you may need to finish things that will have been started during the lesson, so we can start the next steps in the next lesson together. As everyone works at different speeds.
Fabrics:
You will need to purchase fabric, along with matching thread, buttons and interfacing, for your garment in advance of lesson 2. We will let you know yardages and suitable fabric choices once you have booked. Please be aware if you lengthen the dress then you will need more fabric and more buttons, this can be discussed at lesson 1.
Sewing machines and equipment:
Please bring your own machine with you. If you do not have a machine, you must let us know in the form below before booking.
You are also welcome to bring your overlocker, if you have one, for finishing the edges of your fabric. If you don’t have one we will be zigzagging the edges to stop them from fraying.
Unfortunately if you don’t know how to use your overlocker/are not confident, we don’t have time to talk you through this during the course as the time is reserved for dress construction.
If possible - you can arrange a private lesson on your overlocker to cover the basics, so you are then able to use your overlocker during the course.
Please - click here - for overlocker lesson zero
schedule of class content:
Beginner Plus Dressmaking Lesson 1:
Measurements, sizing and preparing your pattern
Cutting out calico for mock up
Beginner Plus Dressmaking Lesson 2:
Sewing mock up
Fitting and changes to pattern
Start pinning your final fabric
Beginner Plus Dressmaking Lesson 3:
Finish cutting, pattern markings
Initial overlocking/zigzagging
Start main seams/pockets
Beginner Plus Dressmaking Lesson 4:
Finish seams and pockets
Start facings
Beginner Plus Dressmaking Lesson 5:
Attach facings
Hem
Beginner Plus Dressmaking Lesson 6:
Button and buttonholes
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