Shirtmaking Course with Lynne Johnson, 6 week course

Dates: Wednesdays TBA

Times for each day: 10am to 12.30 pm (9.30am setup)

Focus: Shirt fitting and construction

Level of Skill required for this workshop: This course is designed for the confident beginner right up to the advanced sewer. You should understand basic garment construction and be able to use a pattern to undertake this course.

Do you want to learn to make your own blouses or shirts including all those “tricky” construction details such as plackets, collars, cuffs, buttonholes and pockets? Have you struggled to get a professional looking finish on shirts before or struggled to get them to fit your body?

This is a 6 week course and it will teach you industry techniques to get a perfect “ready to wear” finish that fits!

The course will cover the following techniques and along with constructing a button up shirt and will develop skills in the following:

1. Advice on fabric selection and style for each student
2. Collars and stands
3. Cuffs and continuous placket construction
4. Pockets
5. Buttonholes
6. Interfacings and notions
7. Yokes
8. Darts
9. Industry construction techniques in shirt construction
10. And fitting

Materials List will be sent in a registration acknowledgement email.