10 Week Course // Wednesdays, 11am - 2:15pm // Level: Beyond Basics // Cost: £395 //Instructor: Cassandra Belanger Founder of The Stitchery, Co-Founder of Zero Waste Design Online and Founding Member of Sustainable Fashion Scotland// Pattern Selection Guide
Up your sewing game, broaden your options, and make something new and unique for your wardrobe!
The ideal next step on from Making Clothes for Beginners, this 10-week, in-depth course is designed to reinforce your basic skill set, whilst allowing you to flourish in new areas. Topics include pattern alterations, pattern hacking, set-in sleeves, inserting collars, bust adjustments, linings, using an overlocker, sewing with knit fabric and specialty seam finishes. As you learn these techniques, you'll be applying them to your own sample and final garment, chosen from our selection of patterns.
This is a Beyond Basics course, which means that you must have a basic understanding of garment construction and how to use a sewing machine, having made at least one garment before.
Booking Your Place
To book your place on this course, please use our online booking system below. Please pay an initial deposit of £30. Once you’ve booked a place on the course we will get in touch to arrange the balance payment of £365. This is due no later than two weeks before the start of the course. Please familiarise yourself with our Terms & Conditions before making your booking.
You can pay by PayPal or any major debit/credit card. NOTE: You do not need a PayPal account to make a booking. Simply click on the link which says "pay with a debit or credit card". It looks like this. Please note that deposits are non-refundable. The deposit amount will be taken off the final payment of £365 for the course.
Choosing a Pattern
Before the class starts we will get in touch to offer you our sewing Pattern Selection. We will then order the pattern in advance of the course so it’s ready for our fist lesson.
All body shapes and sizes welcome. We are a LGBTQI+ friendly and safe space. People of all genders, sizes, and backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to attend this course.
The Stitchery operates under a business model of full transparency. If you have any questions about how we cost our courses and what the breakdown of costs is, please feel free to get in touch for more information.
Instructor Cassandra Belanger is the Founder of The Stitchery and Co-Founder of Zero Waste Design Online. She is also a founding member of Sustainable Fashion Scotland. She graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2019 with a Masters in Fashion + Textiles with a focus on zero waste design. She is passionate about education around zero waste to both fashion and textiles design students and educators, as well as the home sewing community.
Due to COVID-19, You will now be required to bring your own sewing kit to class - scissors, pins, tape measure, seam ripper etc. If you don't have yet have a sewing kit you can purchase supplies at Bawn Textiles or we have a limited number of supplies we can lend you for the duration of the course.
Any Questions?
If you have any questions please have a look at our FAQs page. We also recommend reading the relevant page on our Student Resource Page, where you can find useful insights on the course structure and what supplies you'll need to bring to class (Note: If you don't see your course info up yet, don't panic, we'll have it up with enough time to get your supplies together before the course starts).
If you don't find your answer in either of these places, then please feel free to contact us.