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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]