Lesson 1, 2 and 3 – Make a Shirt. Learn about collars, cuffs and the sleeve placket as well as how to to hide your seams in the back yoke, practice buttonholes and sewing neatly.

At the beginning of the course we you need to buy a pattern of your choice for the next project. We will look at the different ways to buy patterns.

Lesson 4 – Garment of your choice. Working from a bought pattern. How to take your measurements, plot them onto the bought patterns size chart and then trace your correct size onto a separate piece of paper. What to measure before cutting the pattern out. Cut the pattern out and check that all pieces fit together.

Lesson 5 –  Cutting and sewing up a mock garment.

Lesson 6 – Fitting the mock garment and making necessary pattern adjustments. Cutting the final garment in chosen fabric.

Lesson 7 and 8 – Sewing up the final garment.

Lesson 9, 10, 11 and 12 – Pants. Making a pair of pants from a bought pattern using the techniques learnt in the previous project.

Patterns for the Shirt will be provided along with a full colour tutorial for their construction.

You will need to buy the patterns for the garment of your choice and pants projects. These can be bought from a fabric shop or online. We will discuss this all in class on the first day of the course.

Fees for the course

The course has 12 lessons with the total of the course being R3960.

Schedule for 2022

January -April 2022
No Moving Onto Intermediate Courses available in this slot.

May – August 2022
No Moving Onto Intermediate Courses available in this slot.

August – December 2022
Tuesday morning 30th August till 29th November 9am-12pm
Saturday morning 3rd September till 3rd December 9:30am-12pm 

Please send me an email for bookings at mascha@isewsewingstudio.com or simply fill out your details below and click the ENQUIRE TODAY button!