Description
Mon 7 – Thurs 10 August (4 days)
10am – 4pm
We’re all different shapes and sizes. Thankfully. But when it comes to making clothes from a commercial pattern, this can sometimes make things tricky. Learn a unique, tried and tested method for getting a great fit every time. Create a fitting pattern, based on your body shape, and use it for your future sewing projects.
This is Cassandra’s most in-depth Fitting Masterclass to date: she’s going to take four days to equip you with a tried and tested method for getting great fit every time. You’ll come away with a paper pattern, adjusted to your body, that you can use time and time again on your own projects. As always, the workshop is hands-on and student focused. People of all genders, sizes, and backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to attend this course.
Method
You will learn a unique fitting method, utilising horizontal and vertical balance lines to visually draw the eye to recognised fitting issues. The method is iterative, starting with adjustments to the paper pattern and the construction of a toile (a fitting sample). The toile is then used to determine further adjustments, which are transferred back to the paper pattern. This process, and the pattern created, can then be used as a template for tackling future fitting issues, modifying commercial patterns, or designing your own garments. During the workshop you’ll also be using scaled pattern samples to practice techniques. At the end of the course you’ll take away a completed comprehensive sample book on paper pattern adjustments, which can be used for future reference.
You’ll be using our in-house Fitting Pattern to create their toiles, learning additional techniques at each stage:
- Cup size and bust adjustments.
- Fitting the shoulders, including forward rotating shoulders.
- Shortening or lengthening the bodice.
- Determining the correct armhole size.
- Rounded back and sway back adjustments.
- Fitting the sleeve
- Fitting the skirt
- Pattern drafting techniques for designing a top, based on the adjusted bodice.
Course cost includes:
- Cost of pattern
- 14 x 5-hour lessons (plus one hour lunch break)
- Use of 230DC Janome computerized sewing machine each
- Use of 6234XL overlocker (shared between students)
- Handouts for resource book
Course cost excludes:
- Cost of fabric and haberdashery
Skill level: Beyond Beginner. If you’ve taken one of our Sewing Clothes for Beginners classes you’re good to go! Must have made at least one garment.
About Your Tutor
Cassandra’s work is an invitation to a more sustainable future. It challenges home sewists, designers and educators to think through the social and environmental impacts of their practice, exploring issues such as zero waste, transparency, embedded storytelling, feminism, sizism, and body image.
Originally from Western Canada, Cassandra currently runs The Stitchery Studio in Glasgow, Scotland, which offers private tuition and pop-up workshops, educating both home sewers and designers on the topics of making a zero waste wardrobe, garment construction, machining skills, sustainable design processes, garment fitting and patchwork quilting, all with an approach to encouraging sustainable thinking and zero waste sewing. She is also the co-founder of the Zero Waste Design Online Collective that develops online education resources in the field of zero waste design and systems thinking in fashion.
- Tea and coffee are provided but participants should bring their own lunch and utensils.
- All of our classes are suitable for over 16s, younger crafters may be accommodated if accompanied by a participating adult but please contact us before booking
- If the workshop you were looking at is fully booked drop us an email and we’ll add you to the waiting list. We will add extra dates to our most popular workshops too, join the mailing list to be the first to know
