Course Title: Altering & Upcycling your Wardrobe
Award: N/A
Course Duration: 10 weeks
Course Dates: 23rd September to 2nd December 2020
Weekly Schedule: Wednesdays 18.00 – 21.00hrs
Places Available: 9
Fee: €240
*From Jan. 2020 hobby courses may incur VAT charged at standard rate of 23%
Purpose of the Course:
We all have things in our wardrobe that do not fit or just do not suit anymore. This course shows you how to give your
pre-loved garments a new lease of life and teaches you the essential skills to enable you to carry out simple
alterations so that you can turn them into modern wearable pieces.
As you grow in confidence, you will learn how to tackle more experimental tasks and try completely changing and
upcycling a garment to create something more suitable for your wardrobe. In the process, you will acquire the skills
to repair, upcycle, reshape your clothes, transforming your wardrobe, and make one of a kind (OOAK) fashion.
Course Content:
Students will acquire the skills to alter and repair as follows;
- Hem a garment
- Learn to refit a garment
- Thread a machine and wind a bobbin
- Sew on a button
- Mark, unpick and pin alterations into place
- Sew straight seams and finish them
- Replace a zip
- Cut and pin fabric using a simple pattern
- Finish a waistline with bias/binding
Features of the Course:
- Tuition provided by experienced dressmaker/ garment engineer
- Practical demonstrations in stitching, sewing, pinning, cutting, measuring and pattern making
- Small class size to facilitate one to one tuition
What to bring
Please bring a selection of clothes you would like to alter, especially items needing taking up or letting down, taking
in or letting out, jeans etc… A recommended list of materials for altering your garments are set out here:
Materials/Equipment List:
- Garments for fitting & alterations
- Fabric recycled form pre-loved clothes
- Box of pins (dressmaking)
- Needles (hand and machine, assorted)
- Material scissors
- Variety of threads
- Measuring tape
- Tailors chalk
- Sewing machine
Entry Requirements:
This course is suitable for those with no previous experience or those wishing to refresh their dressmaking skills.
Application and Enrolment
Application is by enrolment. Enrolment will take place on the Wed 2nd September and Wed. 9th September 2020 from 6pm to 8pm in Liberties College.
Payment is by cash or cheque made out to the City of Dublin ETB. Applicants will be required to enrol and pay the full fee, prior to commencement of the course.