How To Make Clothes
Sewing Workshops
How to make clothes offers workshops and courses for beginners and experienced makers. Learn how to make your own wardrobe of clothes!
Learn how to sew from the beginning, think like a designer, make fitting adjustments and finish your garment beautifully.
Workshops and courses throughout the year.
All workshops are run by Jane Norris, an experienced designer and educator.
Come join us, a friendly social place to learn, improve your skills create beautiful clothes and enjoy making.
START SEWING YOUR OWN WARDROBE OF CLOTHES IN 2025
There are a range of workshops and courses to facilitate different projects or levels of experience, different ways of learning. Saturday courses and evening classes for those who are working and daytime workshops and courses for those with flexible time.
INDIVIDUAL PROJECT MAKING WORKSHOPS
TWO DAY SEWING PROJECT COURSES
WEDNESDAY EVENING CLASS COURSES
ALL AT: THE PRINT STUDIO, ART HOUSE, SOUTH BRENT
Individual Project Making Sewing Days
10am - 3pm £55 per day
Individual project making sewing days These workshops are designed for students with some garment making experience. If you’ve already learnt sewing machine basics and have made one or two garments. It’s a day for you to work on your own individual making projects - receiving professional tuition in fitting, construction and finishing. All levels of experience welcome. Equipment and sewing machines are provided, or if you prefer – bring your own machine.
These workshop sewing days are usually held on Wednesdays and or Thursdays, sometimes in a run of consecutive weeks, sometimes just a few workshops per month. The Wednesday workshops have been running at Art House since November 2022. Thursday Sewing Days began in September 2023. . .
Coming Dates – Individual Project Making Sewing Days:
MAY – 1st, 7th, 8th, 14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd
JUNE – 3rd, 6th
July – 17th, 24th, 31st
August – 7th, 14th
If you are interested in booking onto one or more of the above dates please email and ask whatever you need to know – how to find a good pattern, where to buy cloth and what to choose?
New!
A Course of Wednesday Evening
Sewing Classes
Begin at the Beginning – Sewing Basics for Clothes Making
Making Project – All Purpose Rib-Neck Top / Dress
6.30pm-8.30pm Course of 5 weeks £125
April 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th
email if you are interested in booking onto this evening class course Learn clothes making from the very beginning.
The next Wednesday evening class course dates are: July 16th - August 13th 2025
Two Day Sewing Project Masterclasses
New for 2025 is an exciting ‘Design & Make’ teaching innovation in beginner level courses. These are usually on Saturdays. Designed for students wanting to learn garment construction and be part of a group learning the same making project all together. These courses are designed for beginners who have some experience of sewing machine basics – even if it was from school, many years ago, and who would like to refresh their skills and become confident at making, learning more about garment design, fitting, choosing the right cloth for a project and ending up with a beautifully made garment.
Although these are beginner workshops you will also learn (beginner basics level) how ‘Design & Make’ work together and how you can alter basic preferences for length of garment / sleeves and width at hems using basic pattern adjustment techniques.
LEARN HOW TO MAKE CLOTHES FROM BASIC PRINCIPLES.
THERE ARE 4 DIFFERENT WARDROBE BASIC PROJECTS TO MAKE AT BEGINNER LEVEL.
Saturday 10th & 17th May – Easy-fit Palazzo Pants £130
Wednesday 14th & 21st May – Everyday Full Skirt £130
Saturday 14th & 21st June – Rib-neck Top/Dress £125
Saturday 28th June & 5th July – Denim Pinafore Dress £125
If you are interested in booking onto one or more of the above dates please email
