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

Autumn/Winter Program Dates

The dates for our Autumn/Winter program are now up, starting from the first week in September. 

Our last Programme was a complete success, with some very talented and bright students graduating with a whole new set of skills.

Our Fashion Skills Programme is a complete schedule of Garment Construction, Pattern Cutting, Fashion illustration, Design and Business; everything you need to get skilled and get ahead in the fashion industry.

We run the Programme in options of daytime or evening, to suit your needs and fit around your schedule, and all classes are taught by experienced, professional tutors. 

We run each topic separately, to make it easier for you to gain the skills you want. For more information on the programme and for dates, see our website, and check out our previous students, and what they have said about us.

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.

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.

Garment making workshops - New Dates

Perfect for a follow on to our Learn To Sew course, or for anybody with a basic sewing knowledge. In our Garment Making courses you will learn how to use a commercial pattern, lay, mark and pin pattern to fabric and cut out. You will sew seams and darts, insert a concealed zip, attach a facing, make and set in sleeves, hem, press and finish your garment ready to wear.

Upcoming courses include:

Make a Dress, on March 20th
Make a Shirt, on March 27th
Make a Skirt, on April 7th. Check out the calendar on the website for more dates, or the garment construction section for all our current courses.

 For something a little different, our Introduction to Corsetry course has a new dates, 12th-13th of March.Throughout the two day course you will learn to cut, construct and fit the corset to your own body, enabling you to gain some experience of bespoke garment construction, and leave with a made corset and your own pattern.

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.

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.