You’re invited to a Pyjama Party! 🎉✨

BYO pyjama set pattern, and let’s make it happen together.

Over 10 hours, we’ll guide you through creating your very own set of woven pyjamas, in whatever style you choose. We’ll be right there to help you through the tricky parts, so your PJs make it from “work in progress” to “wear it with pride.”

This course is set over 4 x fortnightly sessions, allowing you to undertake homework between sessions.

Some of the cosy, stylish, or quirky pyjamas you might choose to make include:

• Carolyn Pyajamas by Closet Core Patterns. Button-up top features collar, curved hem, plus three sleeve options. Choose between straight-leg pants or shorts. Both feature elastic waist, pockets and a faux fly. Step up your skills and personalise by adding contrasting piping.
• McCall's M8263 Men's Pyjamas. Set includes button-up shirt with short or long-sleeves, choose from trousers or shorts. Top features collar, various patch pockets, and short and long sleeves with binding. Bottoms with drawstring casing and side pockets. Step up your skills and personalise by adding contrasting piping.
• Leif Gender Neutral Pyjama Pattern by Seamwork. Classic woven set with relaxed, ✨gender-neutral✨ fit. Button-up top with straight silhouette and collar, long sleeves with cuffs, plus pockets. Bottoms are mid-rise, straight fit, finished with hem cuffs. In-seam pockets and a faux fly with button detail.
• Agnes Pyjama Set by Paper Theory. A beginner-friendly option. Shorts or long trousers that sit high on the waist with elastic waistband and feature no side seam (less sewing!). Shirt is very oversized with batwing sleeves, a collar, button-up front and patch pockets. 
• Pipit Loungewear from Common Stitch. Simple, modern, different to the other options suggested. A boxy top, cropped style with drop shoulders and optional patch pockets. Elastic waist shorts or pants with an easy pull-on fit.

This course is designed to make woven pyjama sets - unfortunately, that means knits, t-shirts, track-suits, and lingerie styles are not suitable.

Have you seen another pyjama pattern you want to make? Email us and we can have a look. info @ threadden.com

Course Content

Once you start sewing, we can unpick and fix almost anything. But, if you cut out incorrectly, or choose the wrong size we can't fix that, so in the first workshop we focus on: 

• Taking your measurements, selecting your size for the top and bottoms 
• Identifying pattern pieces for your selected view
• Laying up the pattern and pinning it correctly 
• Cutting technique, transferring pattern markings
• Discussing other notions and your plan of attack

^{Working on your pjs between workshops will allow you to make the most of this course.}

In following workshops you will be learning:

• Tricky techniques! Facings, understitching, stay stitching, clipping corners.
• Setting in sleeves, creating collars, button plackets or your pattern's special details - maybe piping?
• Seam options; Using overlockers to finish raw edges, or fancy seams like French?
• Creating elastic waist casings and inserting elastic or drawstrings.
• Creating buttonholes and sewing on buttons on the correct sides.

Participants in this course must purchase and print (and assemble if you are printing the A4 size) their own copy of their selected pattern. 

We have all the tools you'll need. Each participant is set up with fabric shears, pinking shears, thread snips, unpicker, hand needles, tape measures, pins, tailor's chalks, hem guides, ironing/pressing tools, rulers, stationery... there is no need to lug around your whole sewing kit. We've taken care of it all.  

Workshop skill levels explained – click here.