Pattern Drafting with Zoey Barnes - Weekender [July 2025]

Tired of standardised sizing? Always wanted to design your own wardrobe?

Join Zoey for a jam packed workshop stepping up your sewing journey and learning to make basic pattern blocks from your own measurements!

Zoey is a designer and seamstress from Manchester. She works from her home studio creating made-to-measure garments and costumes for theatre. She has two years’ plus experience in pattern making and loves the freedom it gives her to make her own designs for any body type.

Over the weekend you will develop your own bodice block into a functioning pattern and put those skills to the test by making a toile.

*REMEMBER a Toile is a mock up of your design and not the final outcome so resist the urge to select your favourite fabric.*

Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Instructions
Skill: Basic pattern making. Flat patterning from your measurements to create a basic bodice and a basic sleeve, and supervision whilst you create your own designs using your blocks as a guideline.

Level: Ages 17+ To join this course you need to be familiar with a sewing machine and have completed one or two garment making projects. Not there yet? Complete our three-week Learn to Sew Course for absolute beginners or our Garment Making Workshops to experience putting a garment together (view upcoming dates).

Bring: All equipment and some materials provided. Plain cotton for the toile will be available to buy from us on the day or prior to the workshops but you are welcome to bring your own. How much fabric you need will depend on the pattern you design.

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• This Saturday, 14th June, 02:00 pm, SCDG MASTERCLASS: Anthotype Photography in Sale
• Next month, 15th July, 06:30 pm, SCDG MASTERCLASS: Intro to Bundle Dyeing with Natural Dyes in Sale

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