12/24/2020
Give personality to your wardrobe by learning to create your own dress shirts from scratch.
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The need to resort to designer stores to find a customized dress shirt with a perfect fit has come to an end. Now, you can make it yourself! Fashion designer Mina Minelee, founder of Minelee Fashion and sewing school, is expert when it comes to combining style, quality, comfort, and practicality.
Learn all the steps and dressmaking techniques to make your own dress shirt, starting from printing the pattern, choosing and cutting fabric correctly, to sewing, and adding the finishing touches. Discover all the secrets behind this art form and give personality to your wardrobe with a garment created by your able hands, from start to finish.
About this course:
1. Introduction
2. Drawing and preparing the patterns
3. Fabric cut
4. Start sewing
5. Fit sleeves
6. Neck and finishes
7. Final project
Start the course by getting to know Mina’s career so far, and the story behind the creation of he brand Minelee. See what her main aesthetic references are in fashion, as well as other areas like hand made and design.
In the second unit, take the first steps to create your dress, looking at the materials and tools needed. Start by defining the size of the dress and prepare pattern that will be provided by the teacher, then learn how to make some changes to customize your dress, adjusting the sleeves, collar, and pockets.
Once your pattern is ready, learn how to choose the right fabric, assess how much you’ll need and how to cut it accurately, transferring all the shapes of your pattern to the fabric.
Next, you’ll start to sew. Mina teaches how to prepare the front and back of your dress, and how to sew it.
In the fifth unit, your dress will have taken shape, and you’ll proceed by sewing the sleeves with openings, folds, and cuffs. You’ll work on each section separately, eventually adding each section to your dress. You’ll see that creating the sleeves is a crucial step in how well your shirt looks once you are done.
Lastly, you’ll sew on your collar, another key feature of your dress that will need special attention. Then you’ll sew on the buttons, the pockets, and conclude the course with some finishing touches.
What is this course's project?
Make your own long-sleeved dress, with collar and cuffs.
Who is it for?
For artists, designers, or anyone interested in dressmaking, and wants to learn how to make their own clothes.
What you need
You will need a sewing machine and lots of enthusiasm for learning how to sew.
As for materials, you will need a measuring tape, paper to make your patterns, a printer, a pencil, an eraser, a ruler, pins, a sewing machine, an ironing board, fabric, buttons, and thread.