Tailoring – Pockets and Buttonholes Pockets and buttonholes are the focal point of a garment. Designers use them lavishly to create unique garments, but badly made or applied they can ruin a garment. Do you avoid adding pockets on your garments? Have you ever thought of using buttonholes creatively? Come along and learn how to make [...]
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Tailoring Workshops and Courses
March 18th, 2012
Sheila Speed Tailoring When making a tailored jacket extensive use of interfacings is necessary as interfacings form the skeletal framework of the jacket. Several types of interfacing are used in a single jacket to control and maintain the shape. Speed tailoring does not use the time consuming hand stitched methods of applying interfacing. During this workshop [...]
The Chanel Jacket (Dressmaking and Tailoring Courses)
March 18th, 2012
Sheila Chanel Jacket Since Chanel first designed the beautiful tweed jacket in the 1920’s it has remained a classic investment piece costing thousands of pounds. The Chanel jacket is as light comfortable and easy to wear as a cardigan. It looks stunning teamed with jeans or a couture skirts and will almost indefinitely remain a fashion [...]


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