This 10-week course starts with gaining more advanced sewing skills including a fly zip, facings, pockets and linings. We will cover couture techniques to take your skills to a higher level of finishing. You will be introduced to stretch fabrics and confidently using an overlock machine before completing a half scale jersey t-shirt. You will gain an understanding of choosing commercial patterns along with fabrics and haberdashery. You will complete a professionally finished lined dress.

If you are considering a career as a tailor or you wish to gain invaluable technical insights into the world of tailoring, this course is for you. You will learn how to pattern draft, cloth cutting and re-marking for traditional items such as suits and dinner suits, while mastering hand stitching and hand finishing. Each term will focus on a specific garment: jacket, waistcoat and trousers. On completion of three terms you will receive a WMC Bespoke-tailoring Certificate.

Develop your garment construction and pattern alteration skills on this sewing course aimed at beginners and Intermediate students. For Beginners this is a project-based course, each term we will be sewing a different garment, using a purchased pattern. For intermediate students, having attended three terms, you can work on your own project, altering design features on your patterns and learning new techniques to create garments that fit and have a personal touch.

This 2-day course will cover the principles of garment construction with the use of 3D Pattern Cutting methods. You will learn how to create clothing patterns by sculpting fabric directly on the mannequin (ie: ‘Draping’). This will equip you with the skills and knowledge required to start making your very own clothes with a unique design.

This 5-week course is a foundation for learning how to make a dress from personal measurements. Initially everyone will make a fitted dress block. Each term will then focus on a different silhouette. You will learn how to take measurements to create a dress block for woven fabrics, how to make a pattern, cut out and sew a toile and how to do fittings. This will then become a master pattern unique to you. Prior knowledge of sewing would be beneficial although not absolutely necessary.

This 5-week course is a foundation for learning how to make a dress from personal measurements. Initially everyone will make a fitted dress block. Each term will then focus on a different silhouette. You will learn how to take measurements to create a dress block for woven fabrics, how to make a pattern, cut out and sew a toile and how to do fittings. This will then become a master pattern unique to you. Prior knowledge of sewing would be beneficial although not absolutely necessary.

This 5-week course is a foundation for learning how to make a dress from personal measurements. Initially everyone will make a fitted dress block. Each term will then focus on a different silhouette. You will learn how to take measurements to create a dress block for woven fabrics, how to make a pattern, cut out and sew a toile and how to do fittings. This will then become a master pattern unique to you. Prior knowledge of sewing would be beneficial although not absolutely necessary.