Video series: Creating Fashion with Laurel
Televised every Wednesday at 9 am on PhillyCAM.org, the local Philly TV station.
Learn how professionals sew high-end garments
Laurel and her son Andrew are producing videos that present the high-end design room procedures, not generally on the market, that are used in industry to produce clothing for preferred customers. Try them! High-end design room procedures REALLY work! And they are easy! You will be amazed at your success! With this new information you will now be able to make clothing that in the past you could only dream of owning.
Creating Fashion with Laurel so far:
2020
- Fabric Masks
- Scarves and Hand-sewn Masks
- The Invisible Zipper
- Right-lapped Fly Zipper
- Correcting Home Sewing Patterns
- Correcting Sleeve Cap Notches
- Correcting Collar Patterns
- Sewing a Convertible Collar
- Inserting Bust Darting
- PhillyCAM Anniversary Block Party
- Preparing to Fabric Shop
- Shopping for Fabric in Philadelphia
- Sewing Machine Tips
(AKA: Laurel discusses sewing machines with a specialist) - More Sewing Machine Tips (Part 1 and Part 2)
- Sewing Darts and Edging with Bias Binding
- Seven Lessons and a Story: Sewing on Guage, Fabric Jams in the Race, Sewing Machine Manuals, Why Knots & Sewing Hooks, Sewing on Men’s Buttons, Sewing on Women’s Buttons, For the Quilters, and Aunt Hetty’s Golden Thimble
- Tight Cutting
[Missing links: We’ve removed the videos with mask-making in them from YouTube. They were looking a little dated. But you can still find them on our PhillyCAM page.]
Laurel’s young student shows how to draft a skirt pattern
These methods, shown in this new video series, Creating Fashion with Laurel, are not generally available because in the industry production is line assembly. Often two people sitting next to each other do not know each other’s job. That is why very few in the industry, with the exception of the pattern makers, understand the entire process. Laurel worked as a production pattern maker/ technical designer and grader in the industry before the advent of the computer. She learned sample making (sewing an entire garment together using industrial methods) from her sample makers. Laurel’s experience includes high-end industrial couture for preferred (NYC) customers. She was trained here in the USA industry by European master tailors. She has written and tested her material for over 30 years in her continuing professional college classes, attended by design room personnel, entrepreneurs, and other professional women.
Utube
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https://www.facebook.com/CFashionEdu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurelhoffmann/
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https://www.ravelry.com/projects/LaurelHoffmann
https://www.thumbtack.com/pa/philadelphia/drawing-lessons/fashion-drafting-sewing-books-classes
