Garment Upcycling and Alterations

led by Stitchery founder Cassandra Belanger. Breathe new life into forgotten items and create your own sustainable style by altering and combining old garments to create new ones! Join the up-cycling movement and recycle all those forgotten pieces in your wardrobe. Learn how to customise and personalise any garment in your own style – all you need is some creativity and basic sewing skills. 

At the end of the course you’ll leave with at least one new garment made from up-cycled textiles, and with the skills and confidence to tackle more sustainable sewing projects at home or in class.

With sustainability in mind as always we’ll also cover a variety of common alterations. Learn how you can adjust the clothes in your existing wardrobe for a perfect fit, or how to hack your vintage and charity shop finds to suit your figure.

Techniques will include strategies for resizing, shortening sleeves, adjusting hemlines on skirts, trousers and dresses, and more! To make sure we’re using up every last scrap we’ll introduce innovative zero waste techniques to combine even the tiniest remnants in to new fabrics, using free motion embroidery and dissolving membranes.