Soft Furnishings – Recreation Course

COURSE OVERVIEW

Are you looking to kick start a business, remodel a home, or simply want all the skills to make your own stunning soft furnishings. This is the perfect way to gain all the skills required to begin a career in soft furnishings.

There are no formal qualifications at the end of the leisure course and all abilities are welcome.

The aim of the course is to develop students’; creative skills and to discover the basic and further principles of hand and machine sewing, designing, and creating exciting soft furnishings for the home.

Term 1 – Cushions

· Scatter cushions, bolster cushions & boxed cushions including creating templates, concealed zips, flapped zips, buttonholes, ties, rouleau loop, piped edges, frilled edges, pleated edges.

Term 2- Curtains

· Lined curtain tape heading sample and an interlined hand finished heading sample including French pleat & goblets. Learn how to create hems and headings, join fabrics, create mitred corners, add weights, add heading tape, discuss fullness guides, create hand finished headings (French pleat & goblets), calculate pleat placement, create a neat cord tidy.

Term 3 -; Roman Blinds & hard padded Pelmet

· Learn how to measure a window correctly, join fabrics, hand sew to create perfect invisible stitching, interline, create lining with integrated rod pockets, cover compliance regulations to ensure safe installations.

Wednesday 9.15am -; 4.15pm (dates to be confirmed)