Course: Intro to Altering Clothes
Duration: 1 day 10am – 5pm Saturday or Sunday
Cost: £135 (includes VAT)
Next start date: See table below for next start dates.
Suitable for: Suitable for beginners.
About: Learn to refashion your fashion and save it from landfill. A one-day weekend workshop learning to re-love your wardrobe. Spend the day learning to give your clothing a new lease of life and personalising them with your individual style.
Frustrated by all those simple alterations you have to take to the dry cleaner to fix? Taking up hems? Repairing a jacket lining? Do you have a favourite shirt with a rip in it? Do you have a skirt that doesn’t quite fit anymore?
In an age that encourages us to buy less clutter, learning how to keep clothes going for longer can mean more than just a tiny spot of darning. Spend the day learning to give your clothing a new lease of life and personalising them with your individual style – even if you have never used a sewing machine.
Bring your outgrown but loved clothes to this beginner friendly day workshop and re create them into something special again. Maybe things look a bit dated and could be converted to a new style or you just want to know how to turn charity shop finds into well fitting couture.
As everyone will undoubtedly bring something different to work on, you will learn and be inspired from each other’s projects too and therefore be able to go home and refashion even more items to give them a new lease of life.
Our expert clothes maker will guide this small class through the day working on your individual projects.
Bring the items you would like to alter and upgrade.
We have easy to use sewing machines for everyone as well as a small selection of scrap fabrics you can use as embellishments or patches. Bring any old or new materials you want to use too.
Deborah Andrews
Deborah graduated from Camberwell College of Arts with a BA Hons in Illustration. Over the years she has developed her own practice of drawing and illustration to combine machine embroidery with digital imagery and a bit of old school pen and paper for good measure. Her clients include The Guardian Newspapers, The Barbican, Latitude Festival, Danny Boyle’s Shuffle Festival, Vital Arts and The Big Draw.
She has been teaching drawing, fashion & clothes making, and creative textiles for over 20 years. www.deborahandrews.co.uk
General Information
You will receive a courtesy reminder by email 1-2 days before the workshop/course begins.
Refreshments
Coffee, tea and biscuits are included in the course fee, but you will need to bring lunch with you or visit a nearby venue to purchase food.
Access
If you have any specific access or special needs, please contact us confidentially in advance by email info@thegoodlifecentre.co.uk. There is a small step to the entrance, and the toilet is on the ground floor.
All sewing workshops and occasionally lampshade making, tassel making and bookbinding workshops are located on the second floor. There is no lift access.
Refunds and cancellations
Please refer to our terms & conditions below.
Disclaimer
The information given is accurate at the time of publication. However, The Goodlife Centre reserves the right to cancel or amend courses if circumstances require.
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