Make a gorgeous “Drop Sleeve Top” in this dressmaking workshop. This class will introduce beginners on how to sew a garment together using a sewing machine.

Start by learning how to find your size, cut out a sewing pattern, place the pattern onto fabric correctly, transfer pattern notations and cut. You will learn how to sew the garment accurately and have lots of fun creating your own Drop Sleeve Top plus you get to keep the sewing pattern & instruction booklet.

The Drop Sleeve Top is a gorgeous top with easy to set in sleeves, a round neckline and loose boxy shape, designed to be easy to put together and fit most shapes. Sizes UK 6- 22.

For more info and to book:

Village Haberdashery – 29 June – link here

Forty Hall – 21 September (kit included) – link here

Village Haberdashery – 26 October – link here

Skills needed: 
This workshop is aimed at those have basic sewing skills and have used a sewing machine. This is not a class for absolute beginners. You should be able to thread the sewing machine, wind a bobbin with thread, as well as use the machine to make basic stitches such as a straight stitch. We will help you with more complicated issues such as machine tension. This workshop is perfect for those that haven’t created their own garments or would like to create a super, wearable top, picking up great tips along the way.

Sewing machines provided or bring your own

For more info and to book head to Fortyhallestate.co.uk  or Villagehaberdashery.co.uk