Design (and MAKE!) Your Own Wardrobe
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Design (and MAKE!) Your Own Wardrobe
with Cal Patch
If you have always wanted to make the clothes YOU envision in your head, here is your chance! Using the techniques from her book, Design-It-Yourself Clothes, Cal will teach you how to draft your own basic patterns for a boxy top/drapy tunic, lounge pant and button-front shirt/jacket, based on the measurements of your unique body. Then you will learn how to take those patterns and stylize them into endless variations.
For each of the three styles, you will draft a pattern, make a muslin, fit and correct your pattern, and finally sew one finished garment. Designing your own clothes is a wonderful way to create garments that are primes to be embellished to your heart's content. Before you know it, you'll have a whole new handmade wardrobe!
Students must be at least competent beginner-level sewers, and comfortable using a sewing machine. Intermediate and advanced sewers are also welcome and can take on more challenging projects. No previous pattern making experience is necessary.
Note: this class will be focused on the drafting, fitting and sewing of the 3 garments.
Any embellishment (if desired) will happen after, or outside of the class.
Meet the instructor!
Cal Patch is a designer, maker, and lifelong craft enthusiast. After years in NYC running her own shop and co-founding the MAKE workshop, she now teaches sewing, crochet, embroidery, and more across the U.S. and online. Cal creates one-of-a-kind clothing under her label hodge podge, contributes patterns and designs to books and magazines, and shares her love of handmade creativity with students of all levels.
Please bring the following supplies to class:
- Sewing machine + extension cord
- Fabric scissors
- Notebook
- A pad of 18 x 24" paper, or a roll at least 14" wide (newsprint or drawing paper)
- Pencil, sharpener, eraser
- See-through 18" ruler (and curve tool if you have one)
- Tape measure
- Scissors (for cutting paper)
- Clear tape
- 2 + yards medium-weight cotton, linen or other woven fabric (for boxy top/tunic) *
- 2.5 + yards medium-weight cotton, linen or other woven fabric (for pant) *
- 2.5 + yards medium-weight cotton, linen or other woven fabric (for shirt/jacket) *
- 7 + yards muslin (or inexpensive cotton woven fabric which could become a "wearable muslin")
- Thread (all-purpose) to match all fabrics
- 1 package single-fold bias tape (1/2" wide) to match boxy top/tunic
- 3 yards elastic (3/4" to 1" wide) for pant
- Buttons for shirt/jacket
- Basic sewing kit: scissors, pins & cushion, tape measure, seam ripper, tailor's chalk, etc.
* Fabric should ideally be pre-washed and dried (as you will want to wash your handmade garment) to reduce or eliminate shrinkage. Muslin and knits are optional to wash.
Class is held in our Ohio Studio located at 3792 Boettler Oaks Dr, Suite B, Uniontown, OH 44685.
Lunches will be provided each day, as well as morning and afternoon refreshments, coffee, tea, and use of our fridge and kitchen. Please let us know if you have any food allergies or dietary restrictions!
Supplies are available for purchase in-store during class if not purchased ahead of time.
For suggestions on hotel accommodations or any other questions/concerns, contact Abby at shop@suespargo.com or call 330-899-9454 ext. 114.
Cancellation fees reflect the cost of registration, staff, instructor contracts, material acquisitions, and other services. This policy applies to all registrants, regardless of the reason for canceling. We encourage you to take our cancellation policies into consideration before registering for classes.
If you need to cancel your registration, you have the following options:
Transfer:
Registrants who cancel their enrollment in a workshop held in our Ohio studio may make a one-time transfer to any other workshop held in our studio.
- Transfers may be made either in the current workshop season, or any workshop in the following year. Transfers must be made more than 30 days prior to the workshop, and is subject to a 5% cancellation fee.
Refund:
If you prefer not to transfer your workshop registration, the following fees apply:
- More than 60 days prior to the workshop, refund of your deposit minus a 20% cancellation fee.
- Less than 60 days prior to the workshop, no refunds will be issued.
Redirect:
Registrants are able to send someone in their place into the workshop for no additional fee. In this case, no refunds will be issued, payment arrangements are the responsibility of the original registrant if needed.