Learn to Sew in London 2012

London is going to be a hive of talent this summer: with the best in sport, the arts and entertainment during endless festivals and events to mark the Olympics.

East London is going to be bursting at the seams with goings on, and at Fashion Antidote we’re on the edge of our seat to see how this will affect us! Like all small businesses we cant even begin to gauge how we’ll be affected, but were looking forward to it all the same, and treating it as an opportunity not to be missed!

So if your in town during the summer, make the most of your time here and pop over to our studio to learn some fun new fashion skills. We’ve got lots going on such as:

LEARN TO SEW CLASSES
FASHION DESIGN CLASSES

GARMENT MAKING CLASSES

& OUR SUMMER SCHOOL

If you’re visiting the UK for a bit why not join us for our Learn To Sew courses or a longer course as a part of our summer school?

See our site here for all information on all courses, or give us a call on 02073753235, or even grab a brolly and brave the rain to visit us at the studio!

Daytime courses for busy mums and dads

Daytime learn to sew courses

Beginners sewing courses running in the daytime, designed to fit around the school run. Industry experienced teachers, small, informal and friendly classes and an excellent level of tuition, all you need to get sewing either for yourself, your family or for business.

Learn To Sew

Our daytime learn to sew courses teach you all you need to know to get sewing and understand your sewing machine. We over all the basics and essential sewing skills, including basic stitches, how make a variety of seams and sew curves and corners. Learn about the machine parts and the up keep of the machine, about using the correct needles and threads, and how to thread the machine correctly and adjust the tension.

You will sew darts, insert zips, attach waistbands and facings, make gathers and frills and learn how to hem and finish a garment and how to make a button hole. You will also learn how to choose a commercial pattern, lay a pattern on fabric and cut out and mark, ready to sew.

DAY TIME

10.30am - 1pm   4 weeks 10 hours 

Friday 18^th May – Friday 8^th June

Friday June 1^st – 22nd

Price £175 inclusive of materials

The course also runs as a one-day intensive course. This course includes all the same essential sewing skills, in one 6 hour session. We recommend the 4 week course if you would like time to practice inbetween and pace yourself, and the intensive course if you would rather get all the skills in one go. Perfect for packed schedules, it runs in daytime and weekend options.

1 day intensive DAY TIME

10.30am – 4.30pm. 1 day 6 hours including break

Wedesday 23rd May

Friday 1^st June

Wednesday 20^th June

Saturday 23^rd June

Price £95 includes materials

1 day intensive WEEKEND

10.30am – 4.30pm. 1 day 6 hours including break

Sunday 13^th May

Sunday 10^th June

Sunday 24^th June

Saturday 14^th July

Price £95 includes materials

New Dates at Fashion Antidote - Business and Sewing

A few new dates for our Fashion Business and Weekend Learn to Sew courses...

First Steps To Setting Up A Fashion Business - 9th May

This course will show you to the first steps you need to take to setting up a fashion business. You will examine your business idea, product or service and consider the viability of it. You will then make a plan of action you need to undertake to research the market, your target customer and the completion. Lots of insider information supplied.

£45.00

Availability: 6 places left

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Time: 18:30 - 21:00

Duration Details: 1 evening, 2.5 hours 

Sewing Classes in London - Weekend

5th & 6th May

Sewing classes for absolute beginners to learn the basic uses of a sewing machine.

Learn about the sewing machine parts and the up keep of the sewing machine. Learn about using the correct needles and threads and to thread the sewing machine correctly and adjust the tension.
You will practice basic stitches, make a variety of seams, sew curves and corners, pivot and sew different types of darts and how to make gathers.
On the second day you will learn how to insert different types of zips, attach waistbands and facings, and how to hem and finish a garment and how to mark and make button holes.
You will also learn how to choose a commercial pattern, lay a pattern on fabric and cut out and mark, ready to sew.

£195.00

Availability: 6 places left

Saturday, May 5th & 6th

Time: 10:30 - 16:30

Duration Details: 2 days, 12 hours 

NEW DATES FOR LEARN TO SEW COURSES

Do you want to learn to make your own clothes?

Want to alter or customise clothes to get the perfect fit?

Want to start on the path to be a fashion designer?

 

 Learn to Sew   

A class for absolute beginners to learn the basic uses of a sewing machine. Learn about the machine parts and the up keep of the machine. Learn about using the correct needles and threads and to thread the machine correctly and adjust the tension. Learn basic stitches, how make a variety of seams and sew curves and corners. You will sew darts, insert zips, attach waistbands and facings, make gathers and frills and learn how to hem and finish a garment and how to make a button hole. You will also learn how to choose a commercial pattern, lay a pattern on fabric and cut out and mark, ready to sew.

 

Learn to Sew - Daytime

DAY TIME

10.30am - 1pm   4 weeks 10 hours 

Friday 20^th April – Friday 11^th May

Price £175 inclusive of materials

Learn to Sew - EVENING

6.30- 8.30pm 6 weeks 12 hours

Tuesday 17^th April to Tuesday 22^nd May

Monday 14^th May to 25^th June  [closed Bank Holiday]

Tuesday 12^th June to 17^th July

Monday 24^th July to 28^th August

Price £195 Inclusive of materials

 Learn to Sew – Saturday  Afternoon 

1 30pm. – 4  30 3 weeks  9 hours

Saturday 12^th May – Sat 26^th May

Saturday 2^nd June  - Sat 16^th June

Price £145

Learn to Sew - Weekends  

10.30 to 4,30pm.  2 days 12 hours including break

Saturday 28^th April and Sunday 29^th April

Saturday 26^th May and Sunday 27^th May

Saturday 16^th  June  and Sunday 17^th June

Price £195 including materials

Learn to Sew 1 Day Intensive 

A class for absolute beginners to learn the basic uses of a sewing machine. Learn about the machine parts and the up keep of the machine. Learn about using the correct needles and threads and to thread the machine correctly and adjust the tension. Learn basic stitches, how make an open and closed seam and sew curves and corners. You will sew darts, insert a zip, attach a facings, make a hem and a button hole. You will also learn how to choose a commercial pattern, lay a pattern on fabric and cut out and mark, ready to sew   

DAY TIME

10.30am – 4.30pm. 1 day 6 hours including break

Thursday 5^th April

Thursday 10^th May

Friday 1^st June

Price £95 includes materials

WEEKEND

10.30am – 4.30pm. 1 day 6 hours including break

Saturday 31^st March

Saturday 21^st April

Sunday 13^th May

Sunday 17^th June

Price £95 includes materials

For more information and to book your place see our website www.fashionantidote.com, or call on 02073753235 

Fashion Design for the Catwalk - with Alternative Fashion Week

January & February courses

JANUARY COURSES

FEBRUARY COURSES

SEWING SKILLS

PATTERN CUTTING

GARMENT CONSTRUCTION

FASHION DRAWING

FASHION DESIGN

FASHION STYLING

FASHION BUSINESS

Want a resolution you can stick to? Come and learn with Fashion Antidote.

NEW SKILLS FOR THE NEW YEAR

We know how it is. With Christmas fast on the approach, everything else gets left on the backburner. Yoga classes can wait, scrap the pricey no-carb-only-green-and-eco eating regime and don’t even think about that recycling pledge. The pressures of Christmas can be a bit daunting, and tend to take over our lives at this time of year. The result of which is a rather jolly, indulgent few days, but inevitably a rather slimmer bank balance, slightly tighter belt and that vague air of guilt over what we’ve forgotten or neglected.

And the appropriate solution to this post-Christmas slump is full set of sturdy New Years Resolutions, thought up with the best intentions, but all too soon forgotten as life gets in the way. 

So how about a resolution that you can stick to. Something that will not only take the sting out of the after Christmas guilt but also provide you with lifelong skills and a new talent, maybe to help further your career, to get ahead at uni, to start your own business, or even save you a few pennies.

 

Come to Fashion Antidote and learn to sew. Save money by learning to make alterations, or make your ownclothes, and unleash your creativity on your wardrobe. If you’re after a career in fashion we have professional level technical courses in Pattern Cutting, Garment Construction, Styling, Design and Business. Add these skills to your CV and get that job, or progress from an amateur dressmaker to having your own small fashion business.

 Want a resolution you can stick to? Come and learn with Fashion Antidote.

BE TOP OF THE CLASS with Fashion Antidote

We all know the fashion industry is a tricky one, and incredibly competitive. Having a stand out CV, full of extra experience and skills makes all the difference when starting that job search, and an excellent portfolio will take you far. 

 Start 2012 off on a good foot and take a short course at Fashion Antidote; learn to sew ahead of your course, join a short course in Pattern Cutting or Garment Construction to add to your skill repertoire, or take a fashion business or portfolio consultancy class to get you ready for the next step.

Give us a call to find out more about what we can offer you, or send us an email and we’ll work out what’s best for you. Have a look at our January Calendar of events for whats coming up in the New Year.

All the skills you'd ever need for professional fashion... Fashion Antidote Summer School

 

Places are filling up fast for our Summer School - a condensed program of professional fashion skills, spread over 7 weeks spent in our studio just off Brick Lane. 

 Go the whole hog and spend the whole 7 weeks with us, gaining priceless knowledge and skills in all areas of fashion design and garment construction, or pick and choose what area suits your needs, with packages spanning Pattern Cutting, Garment Construction, Fashion Design, Fashion Drawing and Fashion Business.

See the website for more details.

Fashion Skills Training Programme

We're now in full swing with our new fashion skills training programme here at Fashion Antidote.

We’re really excited about this new edition to our courses; a comprehensive full programme of skills for the fashion industry, covering garment construction, pattern cutting, drawing and design and marketing aspects. Students on this course will learn all the skills they need to design, cut and make a commercially viable collection and to analyse their place within the market. This is the first time we have run such a full comprehensive course, and our current students are flying through, finishing next week

Want to become a fashion expert?

The course will be expanding in September, but we are currently running the course as both a full programme covering all aspects of design for industry, and as individual sections, for those who want high quality tuition of industry level skills on a specific aspect.
By doing so, students can either gain a broad but detailed understanding of the fashion design industry as a whole on the full programme, or gain expertise in a specific skill through the smaller sections.
The sections are: Pattern Cutting, Garment Construction, and Design for a Fashion Collections, check out the website for more details. 

Looking for something less extensive? 
Simply want to learn to sew? Have a peek at our popular Learn To Sew classes. Running throughout the week including evenings and weekends they are flexible, affordable and fun.

Make the most of the sunny weather

Its another beautiful day on Brick Lane, why not get ready for summer with our Make a Dress workshop?

Spend the day in our Brick Lane Studio, learning all the skills you need to create a simple dress, and leave with your finished garment. Perfect for those just looking to gain a few more sewing skills, if you're interested in creating simple dresses, or even as a stepping stone if you're looking to embark on a career in fashion.

All equipment and patterns are provided, as well as expert one to one tuition, just bring your own fabric. For more info see here. We look forward to seeing you!

The new programme gets under way

This sunny weekend saw the long awaited start of our new programme, with the first of the Garment Construction tuition.

We’re really excited about this new edition to our courses; a comprehensive full programme of skills for the fashion industry, covering garment construction, pattern cutting, drawing and design and marketing aspects. Students on this course will learn all the skills they need to design, cut and make a commercially viable collection and to analyse their place within the market. This is the first time we have run such a full comprehensive course, and the first weekend saw a great turn out of eager students getting their teeth into some essential sewing skills.

Want to become a fashion expert?

The course will be expanding in September, but we are currently running the course as both a full programme covering all aspects of design for industry, and as individual sections, for those who want high quality tuition of industry level skills on a specific aspect.

 By doing so, students can either gain a broad but detailed understanding of the fashion design industry as a whole on the full programme, or gain expertise in a specific skill through the smaller sections.

 The sections are: Pattern Cutting, Garment Construction, and Design for a Fashion Collections, check out the website for more details.

A few places still remain on the individual segments, for more information please contact us on 0207 375 3235, or email to info@fashionantidote.com.

 

Do you dream of being a designer?

The Fashion Design - Design a Fashion Collection for a Target Customer segment will be running from Friday, June 3 to Friday, July 29. Focussing on the design process and analysing target customers and the commercial market, this block of classes will provide all the skills and knowledge a student needs to design a viable collection. 

Taught by a team of experienced industry practitioners and tutors, the course covers a whole range of necessary skills and knowledge over 36 hours, perfect for to learn all the ins and outs of the fashion design world. Learn to create moodboards, analyse trends, and identify your target market; draw on inspirations and research to create a unique collection, and study the branding, costing and pricing and the technical drawings to realise it.

 For a full break down of the extensive skills covered in the course, see the website here.

Looking for something less extensive? Simply want to learn to sew? Have a peek at our popular Learn To Sew classes.

Make do & mend with Fashion Antidote and Cloth

It’s no secret we’re all facing hard times, but that doesn’t mean we can’t all still look good, with a make do and mend attitude, and a little help along the way. 

Classes in alteration from Fashion Antidote and online tips and projects from Cloth magazine are the perfect helping hand to restyling your own wardrobe. Our alteration and customising class is a great way to save money and prolong the life of your clothing, giving you all the basic skills to alter or repair your own clothes. Learn how to take up or let down hems, to lengthen or shorten a garment, how let out or take in seams to fit, and how to replace broken zips in skirts, trousers or jeans.  You could also use this class to remake and restyle a favourite garment or vintage piece, and take away the skills to revamp your whole wardrobe.

Cloth is a smart and shiny magazine and website, offering inspiring, practical and easy-to-follow advice on dress making and sewing for any aspiring do-it-yourself-er. With online projects and sewing tips, and a dedicated magazine with events, products and things to do and make, there’s everything you need to get better at altering or reinventing your own clothes. 

And don’t forget you’ll be helping the environment to, as what’s greener that saying no to fast fashion and hand embellishing or changing a garment? As Cloth magazine say, “We want to go back to the resourcefulness of our mothers’ and grandmothers’ generation where people would sew a button back on rather than throw something away.” Check out our alterations classes here, and cloth magazine online here.

Ethical Fashion in the age of austerity

Fashion Antidote at the Ethical Fashion in the age of austerity event!

At the V&A museum of Childhood, 3rd March 6-9pm.

Todays Sunny Learn To Sew Class

Another full Learn To Sew class today; sunshine, calico, zipper foots and the whirr of many sewing machines.

If you would like to book your place on our next learn to sew course, click here and pick the best day for you. Already know the basics? Then why not try garment making, a skirt, pyjamas, jeans, there's plenty to choose from.

Brush up on your sewing skills - last minute places

There are only 3 places left on our one day intensive learn to sew course for tomorrow, click here to get in quick and book your place!

Learn to sew is a great introduction to sewing skills, giving you a great basis to start your own sewing projects, to alter your own clothes or to progress onto any of our other courses. Feel free to call the studio on 0207 375 3235 if you have any questions.

Drop in sewing sessions!

 Our drop in sewing sessions start tomorrow, and every Wednesday evening for 4 weeks. Pop along to the Brick Lane studio with any patterns or alterations you want to do, for a bit of guidance and one to one support. This is the perfect step after completing the Learn To Sew course, for those who want to develop their own sewing projects with help on hand.

New Course Dates 2011

What better time to take up a new hobby than the new year? 

Our first classes of 2011 start this week, with a few spaces left on the Thursday evening Learn to Sew session. Click here to find out more and secure your place. Though this saturday session is fully booked, there are more to follow, so keep your eyes on the blog, twitter or facebook to keep upto date.

Welcome to the Fashion Antidote Blog

Fashion Antidote is a small independent fashion school and studio, with an emphasis on fashion based, technique and skill building short courses.  Placed in East London just off Brick Lane, Fashion Antidotes’ courses are affordable, professional and fun. Whether you are furthering existing fashion and textile skills, learning to alter and adjust clothes, or want to start sewing from scratch, come and get a real taste of the fashion industry, and find the course for you. 

What we do...

For the beginners out there, our Learn to Sew courses offer tuition on all the basics of a sewing machine. With all the materials and facilities provided, you'll have everything you need to get to grips with basic sewing skills. Courses run in evenings, daytime and at weekends, so always working around your schedule. 

For more the experienced of you, courses such as Garment making, Introduction to corsetry and Making jeans will further those existing skills, and for those who want to take their skills further into building a business, Fashion Antidote also offers business consultancy, to help get you started.