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Sewing Saturday at The Sewing Cafe
A wonderful sewing Saturday at The Sewing Cafe teaching a custom pattern drafting class accompanied by Eco Pattern Bodice Tote Bag.
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Introduction to Pattern Cutting at MAC Birmingham
It was a great day at MAC Birmingham teaching my Introduction to Pattern Cutting class.
The one day workshop focusses on drafting a custom skirt block from precise measurements and conducting a toile fitting to ensure good fit.
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The toiles did need some changes in the fit sessions but this is easy to do in calico by cutting additional sections of fabric to build out and areas that need extra.
If you're testing a shape for the first time, a toile is always a good thing to try first to make any mistakes before moving to the final fabric. Measure twice, cut once and all that! 😊
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Throwback: 1st year Denim Shacket Submission
As my current first years get ready to submit their very first undergraduate project today, i wanted to throwback to this time last year where the now second years handed in their own denim 'shacket' projects.
The first project for a university degree is probably one of the scariest (i still remember mine vividly!), but it teaches you a lot about your own skills, capabilities, knowledge and sometimes, even your own bravery!
Some of last year's shackets were featured in a Fashioning Futures exhibition discussing 'Sustainable Practices: Embedding sustainability into the curriculum across the school of Fashion and Textiles'.
My colleague Karen selected 6 of the shirts from our module to feature that looked at sustainable processes and asked each student to highlight areas of their own conscious practice.
See the brilliant pieces and read their own sustainable thoughts in the pictures below, and take a tour of the exhibition in the short video :)
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Take a tour of the full exhibition in the video below:
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