Learn to be a fashion designer in our fashion design classes! 🤩 Create your own designs and make them fit. Fashion design classes meet weekly for 6 weeks on Thursday nights. Students sew up their pieces, so you need to to have Sewing 101 or equivalent skills before starting fashion design classes.
From there, you have a bunch of choices to continue with more Thursday night design fun:
This is amazing! I've never had clothes that fit me so well.Everyone starts with Flat Pattern Clothing Design where you make a "sloper" that fits your shape and size perfectly 🤗. Those slopers serve as the basic building blocks for garments. Students learn to manipulate those sloper patterns to create different styles while retaining fit.
From there, you have a bunch of choices to continue with more Thursday night design fun:
- Dressmaking students use the skills 💃 and slopers they made in Flat Pattern Clothing design to make a dress of their own design!
- Pattern Drafting students learn to draw ("draft" 📐✏️) a pattern for pants from scratch based on body measurements. Then they sew them up and adjust them to fit just right.
- Draping students learn to create patterns by pinning fabric in the exact shape they want right on a dress form. They can create unusual shapes much more directly and see what they'll actually look like. The shapes are then traced and cleaned up into pattern pieces.
- Stretchy Design students learn the techniques to create the blocks for stretchy garments.. which covers most clothes we see people in nowadays! (t-shirts, leggings, bralettes, swim suits, slinky skirts...)
- Open Studio students work on their projects along with others in the big studio with the excellent machines, big cutting tables, and occasional expert guidance.
Fashion Design classes at Sew Anastasia
Flat Pattern Clothing Design
In this class you will learn the basics of pattern design and manipulation. We will start with the basic sloper blocks and grade them - bodice, skirt and sleeve. From there we will address fit issues and create a perfect...
$ 355.00
Pattern Drafting Jackets
In pattern drafting jackets, you create a torso pattern block and a jacket pattern block. We will also design a lapel, lining and two piece sleeve. You will be able to add your own design flair to the style that...
$ 355.00
Pattern Drafting Pants
In pattern drafting pants, you create a pant pattern block. You can choose from a slack, trouser or jean block to create. We will also be creating the pockets, waistband and additional details for the complete pant. You will be...
$ 355.00
Pattern Drafting Shirts
In pattern drafting shirts, you create a series of shirts and sew them up out of muslin to perfect the fit. You can choose from a large variety of styles. You can also bring in pictures of shirts you...
$ 355.00
Pattern Drafting Dresses
Have you been searching for the perfect dress pattern but cant find it? In this class we design a dress, make a sample, fit it then sew it out of final fabrics. This is a follow-up class to Flat Pattern Clothing...
$ 355.00
Pattern Drafting Skirts
Think of all the fabulous skirts you could learn to design. Pleated skirts, skirts with flounces, skirts with cutouts, skirts with draping, skirts for work, party skirts, formal skirts. There are soooo many skirts that you could design. This class...
$ 355.00
Pattern Drafting Directed Study
In pattern drafting directed study, you create anything you want. You can bring in your sketches or pictures of designs and Anastasia will guide you through the process of creating them. If you can dream it then we can...
$ 355.00
Pattern Drafting Stretchy Knits
Think of all of the clothes you wear that are stretchy: T-Shirts, Leggings, Bathing Suits, Bralettes, Stretchy Slinky Dresses, Skirts, and Tops. Designing stretchy clothing requires special sloper blocks with no darts that will work with stretch fabric. Learn the...
$ 355.00
Draping 101 Mastering The Basics
Learn how to drape with Anastasia Chatzka in her fashion design studio. This is a fast paced class that takes you through all of the basics of draping in 6 weeks. We meet once a week for 3 hours. Starts:...
$ 355.00
Sewing Class Gift Cards
Sewing class gift certificates are great for any occasion. Choose from the following options for your sewing friends. Be sure to select the correct gift certificate for them. Sewing 101 $355.00 Pattern Drafting, Draping $355.00 Open Studio 3 hour $355.00...
from $ 25.00
Holiday Sewing Party
Dec 13th 6-9pmJoin us for a fun night of sewing themed games, prizes, and activities. Sign up here, bring a gift wrapped bundle of 3 yards of fabric, and come ready to have fun with your sewing friends. There'll be...
$ 10.00
