Sewing and Textile Upcycling Course

Looking to learn fundamental skills to repair and upcycle textiles at home? Join this course at Into Carry in Melbourne! For this course, no prior sewing skills are required, all you need is a hate for landfill and a thirst to bring materials back to life.Over five weeks, we cover a handful of practical textile repair and customisation skills so you can fix and style existing garments. These techniques are great for repairs but also lend themselves to styling and embellishing a wide variety of waste materials.Once we've got these techniques on the tool belt, we guide you through the sizing, utility and order of assembly for your perfect tote bag or market bag. Following our pattern guidelines, you have full control over the specifications of the design and process, so you can learn the decisions and troubleshooting required when working with various waste materials (including but not limited to textiles, tarps, banners, plastics). Yum!By the end of the course, you can take home your badass custom-designed tote, as well as some new repair skills to upcycle your textiles at home!Course overview:Fundamental sewing and repair skills:

• How to operate, thread, and troubleshoot a domestic sewing machine
• Sewing and joining seams on various (trash) materials
• Straps from scraps. How to sew straps from various materials
• Hemming (pant legs etc)
• Domestic Machine Repair Techniques (mending splits or reinforcing worn textiles)
• Applique & Reverse Applique (patching and styling holes)

Fundamental textile upcycling techniques:

• Decorative Stitches and Embellishment (add pattern, style, and texture to repairs)
• Creating sewable patches from waste materials
• Pattern guidelines for customisable tote bag/market bag

Who this course is for: This class is for beginner to intermediate sewers. Maybe you remember sewing years ago but want to brush up on your skills, maybe you've never sewn before but you want to bring some of your wardrobe back to life. Either way, we cover the fundamentals of sewing while ensuring there's ample time for creativity and refining skills so you can repair garments and create them at home.All of our courses are designed to meet you at your current skill level. If you're new to sewing, we will guide you through fundamental processes. If you're more experienced, we can push you for a more complex design and manufacturing process.Cancellations: We offer a refund policy up until 7 days prior to the semester starting. If the cancellation is within this 7-day window, we will release the ticket and refund your amount pending its resale. No refunds will be processed once the semester has started. To see if the classes are right for you, try our one-off 2-hour Intro Class! :)

This class is for beginner to intermediate sewers. No prior sewing skills required.
 

• Included in the $370 ticket are five weeks of classes, valued at $100 per class and carry wear, valued at $100 (total value of $600).
• Each student will have their sewing machine. Everyone is welcome to BYO machine if that's preferred.
• Snacks provided to get the creative juices flowing

We have an abundance of waste textiles here, but feel free to bring your own garment/textiles/random waste materials.
 

This class series runs over 5 consecutive sessions, at the same time every week.