Improver Dressmaking Course - Lined coat
Develop your skills by tackling a more challenging garment with our lined coat course.
Cost: £210 - 7 x 2 hour classes, suitable for those who have made a few garments before or have been on a previous beginner/plus course.
Learn how to insert sleeves and use facings, add pockets, and draft and insert a lining.
Please scroll down for more information and class content.
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To attend this course you must have made multiple garments before, or attended one or more of our beginner dressmaking courses and feel confident with the jump in skill. We now offer a stepping stone course - beginner plus - which is best to attend before joining us for improver classes.
You will also need your own machine.
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 up to 5 minutes beforehand to set up your equipment and get settled in, as we start promptly at the times stated - we have lots to fit in!!
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If you want 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 £70.
*this discounted private tuition price only applies when booking/booked on to the full course.
As this course is a step up from the beginner garment, you will be required to do some of the easier sewing as homework, to make sure we have time for tuition on all the more involved steps of the garment.
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 step in the next lesson together. As everyone works at different speeds.
Fabrics:
You will need to purchase fabric, along with button/s, matching thread and interfacing, for your garment in advance of lesson 2. We will let you know yardages and suitable fabric choices once you have booked.
Sewing machines and equipment:
Please bring your own machine with you. If you do not have a machine, please let us know in the form below before booking.
Those that have overlockers (that they can already use) are welcome to bring and use these for edging during the course. If not we will be zig zagging edges.
schedule of class content:
Improver Dressmaking Lesson 1:
Measurements, sizing and preparing your pattern
Cutting out calico for mock up
Begin sewing mock up
Improver Dressmaking Lesson 2:
Finish sewing mock up
Fitting and changes to pattern
Cutting out final fabric
Improver Dressmaking Lesson 3:
Begin sewing final garment
Improver Dressmaking Lesson 4:
Attaching interfacing, side seams and start pockets
Improver Dressmaking Lesson 5:
Attaching sleeves and draft lining pattern
Improver Dressmaking Lesson 6:
Make and attach lining
Improver Dressmaking Lesson 7:
Completing your garment with hem, buttons and buttonholes
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