The Ultimate Shirt-Making Sewing Course ✄✄✄
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Ready to level up your sewing and create a garment you’ll wear on repeat? In this comprehensive shirt-making course, you’ll learn the skills to sew a beautifully finished, custom-fit shirt from start to finish, using a versatile uni-sex pattern that suits all styles and wardrobes.
Whether you’re dreaming of a crisp classic button-up, a relaxed linen staple, or a bold statement piece, this course will guide you through every step with friendly expert support.
Over the duration of the course, you’ll gain confidence working with more advanced techniques while creating a shirt that looks and feels professionally made.
The pattern design features a collar with collar stand, double yoke, full button-up front and scooped narrow hem. Your choice of casual short sleeves, or long sleeves with cuffs (grab both pattern variations for future shirts!).
Trying a detailed pattern like this for the first time with a teacher will bring you confidence, help you overcome challenges and create a wonderful shirt.
COURSE PLAN
Workshop 1:
- Measurements & size selection
- Pattern lay up, cut out & transfer markings
- Apply interfacing
- Create back pleat
Workshop 2:
- Assemble collar and collar stand (with understitching and topstitching)
- Construct shirt shell and topstitch double yoke (your yoke has a clean finish)
Workshop 3:
- Narrow hem the scooped hemline
- Attach front bands
- Attach collar
Workshop 4:
- Assemble and set-in sleeves with ease (long sleeve is two-piece with cuff, or choose a short sleeve with hem)
- Buttonholes and buttons (how to mark, how to use a one-step-buttonhole foot, how to sew on a button correctly and on which side!)
Check out this Shirting Fabric Guide from Tissura.
Workshop skill levels explained – click here.
Details
You will learn
- Extensive techniques; collar with stand, plackets, cuffs...
- Interfacing, pleats and easing in sleeves
- Enclosed seams, one step buttonholes and narrow hemming
You will get
- A classic button up shirt made by you
- Instructions and a copy of the pattern to make more shirts
Appropriate for
✄✄✄ Sewciopath!: You have been using sewing patterns you pick up at Spotty, buy online from indie designers or download and print. The garments you have been making are from a wide variety of woven and knit fabrics, including challenging materials like silk blends. You are keen to gain knowledge that will allow you to alter patterns, improve the fit of garments, achieve impressive results and learn couture sewing techniques.
Preparation
What to bring
- 9 (or 15) x 1-2.5cm buttons
- .5 metre iron/fusible lightweight interfacing
- 1.8-2.3 metres of light weight to medium weight woven frantic
- Matching sewing machine thread
- .5 metres of light-mid weight fusible interfacing
What to wear
Casual
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Your Teacher
Thread Den
2417 reviewsLearn to sew, craft and create with Thread Den, located on Melbourne's vibrant Brunswick Street in Fitzroy. Since 2007, we've spent almost 20 years helping students start from the very beginning, level up their skills, and find their own unique style.
Coming to Thread Den feels like learning from a friend, a super nice, clever one, alongside a small group of fellow sewists. Everything you need is right there waiting for you: lovely big cutting tables, smooth-running Janomes with plenty of feet and accessories, inspiring resources, and friendly people to chat to along the way.
Your teachers bring years of experience, their own labels and businesses, and a genuine love of sharing their skills and craftsmanship with you.
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Cancellations & Refunds
If the organiser cancels the class:
You are entitled to a full refund.
If you can't attend the class:
You’re welcome to send someone in your place.
OR
- A refund can be requested 1 day before class starts. An admin fee of AU$35.00 applies.
- A transfer can be requested 4 days before the class starts. An admin fee of AU$10.00 applies.
- A credit note can be requested 4 days before the class starts. An admin fee of AU$10.00 applies.
No changes will be allowed after these times.
Terms & Conditions
Attendance & Preparation
Taking part in a workshop at Thread Den is fun, and we love teaching people our craft, but it''s your responsibility to clear your diary for the session(s) you''ve booked, especially if your course runs across multiple weeks. To finish your project, you''ll need to attend every session and arrive on time. Unfortunately, we can''t go back over material already covered, as it wouldn''t be fair to your fellow participants.
Please bear with us on this next point: our workshops and courses are usually booked out weeks in advance, so it isn''t always possible to simply move you into another session. If a suitable class is running and has space, we''ll try to offer you a discounted spot to help you catch up. If that''s not an option, you may need to book a private lesson to stay on track.
We also won''t chase you up to confirm you''re coming to class or that you have the right supplies. Most workshops require you to bring your own materials; we only offer a supplies kit at an additional cost for the Sewing Basics 3 Week Course. If you''re ever unsure what to bring, just email us at info@threadden.com and we''ll point you in the right direction.
We want you to love what you make just as much as we do, so please take our fabric recommendations seriously. Choosing a fabric suited to a more advanced skill level can make the experience frustrating rather than fun.
We do our best to answer common questions in each workshop description, but please don''t hesitate to email us with anything else. And we''d genuinely love to see the fabric you''re considering, we''re always happy to point you toward our favourite fabric and haberdashery suppliers.
Thanks for reading through the finer details, we appreciate it.
Our cancellation and refund policy is presented during the booking process.
Medical Events
Your safety and wellbeing are important to us. We reserve the right to make decisions necessary to protect the safety of all participants, this may include calling an ambulance on your behalf and at your expense.
Course Cancellations
- Classes are subject to sufficient enrolment (usually a minimum of 2 participants).
- We reserve the right to cancel any scheduled course.
This policy is also available on our website: threadden.com/about/bookings-and-cancellations-policy
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