Thursday Evening Courses

General Sewing
This course is for those who are beginners, or who feel a need to brush up old skills and want to learn how to sew with a professional finish. Using an industrial machine and an overlocker you will learn about various seams, fastenings and bindings and the use of different fabrics. By the end of the course you will have made items for your home, yourself and your family.

Garment Construction
Skills to enable you to take your sewing that one step further to achieve a professional finish to your garments. You will be able to make clothes to fit yourself, and learn how to make a skirt, trousers, top and how to set sleeves, pockets and much more.

Pattern Cutting
For those who would like to learn the skills to make a pattern that can be used time and time again to make clothes for yourself that fit as they should. A good pattern is the basis of all good garment construction. You will learn how to make your own block patterns and how to adapt them for a skirt, trousers and tops for yourself. Further study will involve creating more detailed designs, for example shirts and jackets.

Soft Furnishings
Smart and contemporary or frilled and pretty bedlinen; formal white or modern bright prints for co-ordinated table linen; traditionally piped or softly frilled covers for cushions; simple loose covers to revitalise an old chair. If you would like to design a room setting around your personality, then this course is for you. You will be given information and advice to help you choose the right designs to create your desired effect.

Textile Art Craft & Design
We aim to bring out the artist in you with this creative and experimental course. Explore a number of textile processes such as paper and felt making, printing and dyeing, embroidery, knit, weave and ragrug to produce exciting textiles. Design work will be developed through simple drawing and ideas will be developed into final outcomes for clothing and accessories appropriate to different cultures or interiors and pieces of textile art. This course will provide a basis for further study in art and design.

Asian/Ethnic Garment Construction
This special course is for anyone who wants to learn about ethnic garment construction.The course covers the making of traditional Asian or African garments. It will allow you to make an ethnic style wardrobe to suit yourself. You will learn both traditional and modern ways of cutting and making garments that fit.

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