2nd level Pattern Making
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- Length: 2 Weeks / Monday – Thursday
- Instructor: Melissa McSorley
- Capacity: 8 students only
- Hour Options: 4pm - 8pm
Price: $995
Learn Technical Pattern Making in Two Weeks
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Ready to Wear and Technical
Learn how to design and manufacture the technical apparel used for sports, recreation, survival and protection wear, with a focus on the performance properties of various fabrics. Perfect advanced pattern making techniques and skills used in the construction of activewear.
Overview
Looking to learn the basics of the captivating world of fashion? The Cut offers you a variety of two-week intensive workshops designed to maximize your industry knowledge within a minimum time frame. In these hands-on workshops, students will be immersed in all facets of the fashion business. In readings, lectures and class discussions, students are taught by industry professionals in small group settings, receiving first-class learning in a real-life business environment, using state of the art digital platforms as well as hands-on hard skill applications. Each class comprises of two levels at 16 hours per week, for a total of 32 hours. Pre-requisites for each class are outlined in each specific course. Acquire the skills you need to reach your academic and professional goals or complement your current full-time diploma or degree program, or simply build a competitive portfolio for graduate program applications to prepare for advanced study.
Pattern Making Technical Apparel
Learn the art of technical apparel design and manufacturing with an emphasis on pattern making that enhances the properties of the fabrics best suited to sports, recreation, survival and protection. You’ll master advanced pattern making techniques, encounter new fibres, fabrics and trims, and discover how to use specific construction techniques to build high performance garments.
Required: Basic Pattern Making (Two Week Intensive) or equivalent. Intermediate knowledge of sewing and an understanding of how to convert patterns from paper to garments.
You Will Learn:
Housekeeping
- Please arrive to class on time
- If you’re going to miss class for any reason, please email in advance to let us know. If you fail to report your absence within 24 hours, your class will be considered a missed session and no make up class will be provided
- Classes with 3 or less students will run for 3 hours each day
Meet your professors
Melissa McSorley
Following in her mother and grandmother’s footsteps, Melissa chose a career in the fashion industry and has been teaching for the last three years. She is a graduate from the Art Institute of Vancouver’s Fashion Design and Merchandising program. After a successful pattern making internship while in her second-to-last quarter, Melissa started working in the industry three months before graduation. Since graduation, Melissa has been building her skill set in contract pre-production manufacturing, wearing many hats. She also works with her own clients as a seamstress, doing alterations and one-of-a-kind projects.
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This program has been approved by the registrar of the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills.
The Cut Design Academy is designated with PTIB