Brief Description:
Learn how to make simple alterations to your existing clothes to get a better fit and feel better in your clothes.
Previous Experience and Knowledge Needed?
Knowing how to use a sewing machine and having basic dressmaking skills are required. It is not suitable for complete beginners.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the course, you will have the opportunity to:
Learn how to correctly do a fitting, add in darts, taper seams, raise a hem, and lift a shoulder seam. Alter one or more items of your own clothing.
Extra costs on the course, for example text textbook, materials or equipment:
No extra costs
For the session, you will need to bring:
The college has machines available to use, or you may bring your own sewing machine, cable, and all your usual sewing equipment, including a seam ripper.
Bring three or four garments that you would like to make alterations to. Depending on what alterations are needed, you may only get the chance to work on one or two items. Please note that it is not usually possible to make an item bigger, so please don’t bring clothing that is too small, hoping to make it fit.
Do bring along matching colour thread for the garments you’d like to work on. If you are hoping to replace a zip on a garment, please bring the zip along for this.
On completion of this course, what might your next steps be?
Enrol in a dressmaking course or a pattern drafting course.
The Adult Learn and Train office is also able to give course information or search for alternative courses for you.
Adult Learn and Train offers courses throughout the year.
Try similar courses or maybe look at learning something completely new.
You will find provision on some Saturdays and Sundays, you will also find courses available during the day and evening at different venues in Cambridge. Courses vary in length from one-off sessions to 10 weeks or more.