Take your designs to the next step!

This 4-day course will provide a practical guide to constructing a fitted skirt with a sewing machine, the most simple garment in fashion. Students will begin with the basics and learn about major styles plus materials to measurements. Practice making different darts and finally construct your final skirt using calico fabric.

Students must take Fashion Design: Level 1 before booking this course.

What you will learn:

• Skirt prototypes
  
  • Major styles with skirts
  • Activity: research skirts- download styles
  • Skirt technical drawings
  • Typical materials used for skirt design
• Standard body measurements
  
  • Activity: mannequin measurement activity
  • Sewing machine refresher
  • Ease and darts on skirts
  • Dart manipulation
  • Dart activity with card and sewing machine
• Create a working design visual for a skirt
  
  • Estimate the cost and time required to make a skirt.
  • Fabric preparation for pattern cutting
  • Calico fabric for sample pieces
  • Develop a statement of intent
  • Produce a range of samples specific to a chosen design
  • Introduction to pattern making: scale size ¼
• Measurements and pattern cutting
  
  • Creating a pattern block from cardboard 1:1
  • Construct the skirt using machine stitching to a selected design
  • Finish and final fitting for the skirt
  • Pressing techniques
• Present the skirt following a design specification
  
  • Produce a cost sheet
  • Produce production timescales
  • Evaluate completed skirt