LLADYBIRD: Alter + Repair Your Garments Workshop
We are so excited to welcome Lauren back to our studio for two sessions of her amazing workshop: Alter + Repair Your Garments!
One day workshop, 10a - 5p; two date options for 2025
Garment alterations are a fun and empowering way to level up your sewing skills and expand your wardrobe options. Professional tailor Lauren Taylor is here to guide you through the entire process of this essential skill set! Whether you are working with handmade, ready-to-wear, vintage or thrifted clothing - this class will teach you how to see flaws in garments as exciting opportunities for improvement.
Students are encouraged to bring a variety of garments, both handmade and ready to wear. Although we may not get through every single piece by the end of class, students can expect to leave with the knowledge and confidence to be able to continue their practice at home.
What students can expect to learn in class:
- Effective seam ripping techniques for a variety of stitches, including straight stitches, serged finishes, and chainstitches
- How to assess a garment’s fit and style, and how to determine what changes need to be made
- How to pin fit a garment and transfer the adjustments in preparation for sewing
- How to take apart a garment, look inside, and determine the best method for executing whatever adjustment needs to be made based on the construction of the original garment
- Basic garment repair
- How to determine whether a garment can successfully be altered or repaired, best practices for using trial-and-error to approach for alterations on existing garments, and how to troubleshoot any problems that may arise
- Altering a garment for a better fit
- Making design changes to a garment - shortening or removing sleeves, changing necklines, or collars, adding or removing style ease/volume, adding or removing pockets
- Changing hemlines - topstitched, blind, rolled, using the original hem on jeans
- Garment repairs - holes, split seams, tears, replacing elastic, replacing buttons, replacing broken zippers, adding patches and repairing worn fabric
- Making a garment smaller or bigger
- Repairing or replacing garment lining
- Garments for friends, family members, loved ones, etc
| Materials Included: | Workshop fee cost includes lunch provided. |
| Requirements: | Please bring 6 garments (or more!) to reapir or alter. Acceptable garments include both handmade and ready to wear. Students may bring garments for themselves or anyone in their family/friends (men or women, adults or children). The best garments to bring are the pieces that you (or your loved ones) want to wear but do not. It is recommended that you bring a variety of pieces that require alterations ranging from advanced to very easy (including those pants that you’ve been meaning to hem but haven’t gotten around to yet). No formalwear, no leather. Please do not bring work-in-progress garments or muslins - completed garments only. If you are unsure whether a garment is suitable, bring it anyway! Bring all the garments! |
| Instructor: | Lauren Taylor |
| Instructor Bio: | Lauren Taylor is a sewing enthusiast and rad sewing instructor based in Nashville, TN. 100% self-taught, Lauren has been sewing for most of her life and makes anything and everything! In addition to teaching fun sewing workshops, Lauren also works professionally as a tailor for a local fine suiting store, as well as on set wardrobe + alterations for commercials, music videos, tour and performance wardrobes, and red carpet events. Lauren can be found at LLADYBIRD.com and at @LLADYBIRD on Instagram. |
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