45: Independent Study Classes

Thinking of starting a business?
Or maybe you need some nice new clothes.
Maybe you are tired of trying to make due with whatever you can find in the stores. 
Janet, while she was finishing this certificate program, models her blouse in progress.

Now is the time to learn the skills you need to make clothing that fits and that you will really enjoy wearing.

All procedures are hands-on. Each student drafts and sews to her personal fit. All procedures are as done in high-end designing departments. Classroom testing over the past 30 years ensures that the formulas work for everyone, including those with asymmetrical figures.

Rose, owner of  Victorian Vanities models a mourning dress she made to present information about Victorian mourning customs.
You need only a basic sewing machine. The sewing in the program is demonstrated on this Feather-weight made in 1941,shown above,  a machine that only sews forward and back.

 

Learn the skills you need to make exquisite clothing like that sold on Madison Avenue and/or to start your very own fashion business. Learning these skills will give you a wardrobe everyone will admire.

Do you know that the sewing methods used in industry are different than the sewing methods used by home sewers?

You do NOT need expensive equipment. Whatever sewing machine you already have will be more than adequate. In fact, the higher-end the garment, the less complicated the machinery needed to make it. You will need some simple drafting tools, the same drafting tools used in the industry to draft patterns.

The professional skills taught in this program will help you start that fashion business you have always dreamed of.
You do NOT need sewing experience. When you begin this program you need only to be able to sew two plies of fabric together on your machine at home.

If needed, private lessons are available. Laurel explains a drafting procedure to Kathy.
Custom fitting a correctly drafted pant pattern produces a muslin that fits.
Preventing pulls under the crotch requires expert drafting, presented in Drafting & Fitting Pants and Skirts.

 

Eight book covers
These books took 30 years to write. Without modern technology, it would not have been possible.
Laurel checks Cheryl’s sloper for fit.

           

You will draft and sew to your personal fit, learning in the process how garments need to be drafted and sewn to fit real human people. All procedures are hands-on. All procedures are as done in high-end designing departments.       

Laurel 

 

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