Fashion Upcycling & Clothes Mending Course - Workshops 7 & 8

With the work beginning in earnest, course participants were able to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in. With assistance from the course tutor and volunteers the attendees were helped to change garment proportions and discover how to fit the upcycled designs around their body shapes and proportions. Consideration was given to how to work towards the desired end results, allowing for changes to be made according to design-led whim!

This is where a bit of staying power pays for itself. Laborious tasks such as unpicking seams and carefully pinning together fabrics around new design lines provided the basis for breathing new life into old garments! 

All of this was interspliced with careful measurements, calculations and some paper pattern work, with technical help of course :)