Workshops
Creative Alterations
Give your well-loved or vintage garments a bit of TLC and create something new to you! In this 3.5 hour clothing surgery and skills workshop, you’ll learn useful alteration techniques to take away at least one finished garment, plus the skills to alter many more at home or in our sewing cafe.
*Skills learned include taking up hems, inserting darts, shortening straps, repairing zips, and more.
*Great for vintage purchases!
*Learn hand and machine sewing techniques
*Work individually and as a group
*Take away instructions to use at home
PLEASE NOTE: This is not an absolute beginner’s sewing workshop. You should know how sew unaided before coming to class, plus have a few projects under your belt. (If you haven’t sewn recently, please sign up for one of our Learn to Sew workshops to get started: Cafe Apron, Cushion Cover or Tote Bags)
- Level: All levels
- Course length: One 3.5-hour session
Materials needed
Please bring the following supplies to class in order to complete your project:
*Three garments to fix or adjust; we’ll work through the possibilities of each. You’ll leave with at least one completed garment and learn the skills to work on more at home or in our sewing cafe.
- Session 1: Saturday 31 March, 10:30am—2:00pm
- Teacher: Nanna Sandom
- Fee: £45.00
- Location: Venue 1
- Availability: 4 places left
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- Session 1: Saturday 28 April, 10:30am—2:00pm
- Teacher: Nanna Sandom
- Fee: £45.00
- Location: Venue 1
- Availability: 8 places left
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Additional information
Nanna Sandom has made, altered, and mended her own clothes for nearly 20 years, taught by her home sewing mother and guided by a life-long interest in clothes design, pattern cutting and clothing construction. Hailing from Denmark, her approach to alterations is that ‘sewing is better learnt by doing than by studying’, and she attempts to remove the mystique by urging people to make friends with the scissors and the unpicker.
Nanna also runs the vintage clothes specialist alteration and repair company Splendid Stitches, which works with a number of vintage clothes retailers and runs stands for on-the-spot alterations at several of London’s vintage fairs.
