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Learn about fashion industry techniques used in garment sewing. This course is perfect for those wanting to elevate their sewing skills or looking to apply to a full time fashion program
Course Length: 6 weeks, 24 hours
Materials Needed: Dressmaker’s Pins, Pin-cushion, Thread- Gutermann: (4) polyester, Fabric and Paper Scissors, Tailor’s Chalk, Seam Ripper, Thread Snips, Muslin: light-medium weight – 4 m, HB Pencil, Three Ring Binder, Plastic Page Protectors
Course Hours: 6-8 pm, Tuesdays & Thursdays
In this series of lecture and lab sessions students will learn about the fashion industry techniques used in garment sewing.
Participants will be introduced to the industrial sewing machine and serger and build a reference book of samples using industry standard construction techniques. The characteristics of a production pattern will be introduced and students will learn about the industry seam allowances and pattern markings that make sewing faster, easier and more economical. This course is perfect for those wanting to elevate their sewing skills or those looking to apply to a full time fashion program in the future.
Objectives:
Students will practice sewing and constructing a variety of seams, darts, collars, pockets, waistbands, zippers, and facing samples using industrial sewing equipment and techniques. Students will complete a sample book of garment construction techniques demonstrating their acquired sewing skills.
Class 1:
Intro to Industrial Sewing Machines
Sewing Practice: Getting Comfortable with the Industrial Machine
Sewing, Sample Cutting, and Prep
Fabric Terminology: Grainlines and Muslin Prep
Class 2:
Hand Sewing: Buttons, Thread Loops, Hems.
Seam Allowances and Pattern Markings-lecture
Industry Lay-Up and Cutting Techniques-lecture
Stitching Samples
Seams and Seam Finishes – Start
Class 3:
Seams and Seam Finishes – Continue
Sewing Project – Bring own Pattern
Class 4:
Corners and Curves, Darts
Class 5:
Pockets: Patch, Slash, Inseam
Class 6:
Zippers: Centered, Lapped, Invisible, Fly Front
Class 7:
The Skirt & The Waistband
Class 8:
The Bodice
Facings/interfacing
Class 9:
Collars & Continue Sewing Project
Class 10:
Plackets: Sleeve & Continue Sewing Project
Class 11:
Work on sewing project
Class 12:
Complete sewing project.
This program has been approved by the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills of the Government of British Columbia.
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