Basic Pattern Making
- Dates: October, Jan, 2023; July 2024
- Length: 2 Weeks / Monday – Thursday
- Instructor: Melissa McSorley
- Hours: 10am - 2pm or 4pm - 8pm
- Capacity: 8 students only
Price: $995
★★★★★
Get specific knowledge without an entire degree. This is huge for self taught creatives. Took the 2 week pattern making intensive and loved it! Small intimate class size. Teacher was patient, easy going and relaxed. I already had taught myself basic pattern making but was still intimidated and found pattern making a chore. This class was exactly what I needed to fill out my knowledge gaps and get comfortable with pattern making. We completed so many drafts within the 2 weeks and now when I make patterns at home, I am confident and actually enjoy it. Travelled from Texas to take the class and had so much fun exploring Vancouver and Canada for the first time. Definitely would take another course in the future.
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Basic Pattern Making 2 Weeks Program
Grow your knowledge of the fundamental principles of pattern making in this small hands-on class where you’ll enjoy one-on-one attention from professors with top level industry experience.
Overview
Looking to learn the basics to captivate the world of fashion design? 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. With lectures, class discussions, and hands on instruction students are taught by industry professionals in small group settings, receiving first-class learning in a real-life business environment. Each class is 2 weeks long at 16 hours per week, for a total of 32 hours. There are no prerequesites for our 2 week intensives. 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, or just simply become better at your craft.
You’ll graduate our intensive basic pattern making course with a deep understanding of the principles of this design discipline backed with hands-on training in an industry-level environment.
Required: Ruler set and pattern block books, which are available from The Cut Fashion Design Academy
You Will Learn:
Housekeeping
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