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Creative Pattern & Garment Making (Online On-Demand Course)
Creative Pattern & Garment Making (Online On-Demand Course)
Creative Pattern & Garment Making (Online On-Demand Course)
Creative Pattern & Garment Making (Online On-Demand Course)
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Creative Pattern & Garment Making (Online On-Demand Course)

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£115 - £150

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Highlights

  • On-Demand course

  • 48 hours

  • All levels

Description

COST: £150 (includes Pattern Pack)

£115 (Without Pattern Pack)

(12 months Access)


CREATIVE PATTERN & GARMENT MAKING + ILLUSTRATION 

This course includes 7 ‘student friendly’ patterns that can adapt to make up to 18 different garments! The Pattern Pack will be sent on booking completion.

This exciting course developed by Nicky Simpson, is aimed at Textile Teachers of GCSE Art & Design and Art, who are either new to teaching GCSE or those who want to add fashion blocks and toiles to their resources, including step-by-step guides and tutorials.

The course includes fashion illustration; fashion designers for inspiration; how to adapt the patterns; textile techniques and how they can be utilised in these fashion outcomes, and the sustained focus/supervised time. These fashion outcomes will be related to themes, artists and refined techniques, with lots of exemplar outcomes.

Aims of Course:

  • Understand AO4 Present, so that students can create a ‘personal and meaningful response that realises intentions’.

  • Produce student friendly patterns and toiles for 7 different garments (Patterns can make up to 18 different garments!).

  • Fashion illustration for GCSE outcomes, templates and fashion designers for inspiration & annotation guide.

  • How to adapt the patterns, to enable students to draft their own patterns and create exciting garments that link to their theme.

  • Looking at the sustained focus/supervised time, to enable students to work independently,

  • Creating independent, confident and enthusiastic learners.


What you will gain by joining the Creative Pattern & Garment Making Training Room:

Making student friendly patterns and toiles for: 

  • Basic skirt

  • Kimono style top (adapt for jacket & coat)

  • Sleeveless top (adapt to make sleeveless shift dress & waistcoat)

  • Corset (adapt for panelled dress)

  • Shorts: (can be extended to trousers)

  • T-shirt (adapt to make a dress, jacket or coat)

  • Raglan sleeve jacket (adapt to make a top or coat)

  • How students can illustrate their final design and transfer and connect their theme, primary, artists and refined techniques to the final outcome.

  • How to adapt the fashion patterns, linking to themes and developed work. 

  • Working 3 dimensionally on a mannequin.

  • How surface & constructed techniques can be used in a fashion outcome.

  • How to create confident students who can work independently and unaided for the 10-hour sustained focus/supervised time.


Exemplar outcomes will include the following areas of study: 

  • Constructed textiles,

  • Digital textiles,

  • Dyed fabrics,

  • Printed fabrics,

  • Fashion design,

  • Stitched and/or embellished textiles

  • Lesson plans for GCSE students


What you take back into school:

  • 7 Garment patterns to use in class. (up to 18 different adaptations)

  • 7 Toiles to use in class. (up to 18 different adaptations)

  • Great, achievable ideas to enhance your teaching.

  • Develop best practices in teaching and learning and be able to use these to create a dynamic course that is fast paced and engaging.

  • An awareness of available resources to support/expand your existing practice.

  • Make secure decisions and save time with gained knowledge and experience.

  • Plan the future with confidence.

  • Continued professional development.


What is special about the Textiles Skills Centre Training Rooms?

The Textiles Skills Centre Training room is an experience that delivers textiles skills, knowledge and understanding in bite sized units. It is a unique learning concept which allows you to learn at your own pace and still contribute, ask questions and network with other teachers through the training room discussion page.

Your trainer is NICKY SIMPSON, a contemporary textiles artist, who has 12 years teaching experience, heading up Fashion & Textiles at Hillview School in Kent and a previous 22 year career as a print designer in the heart of London. She has also mentored many graduate trainees, taken workshops at the Knitting & Stitching show, volunteers as an art therapist and since 2016, has been a workshop developer and leader for Textile and Art teachers on behalf of the Textile Skills Centre.


Advantages of joining the Textiles Skills Centre Training Room?
  • Work/study can be done at home as well as school

  • No need to be away from your lessons

  • 6-10 hours of training in a one stop shop

  • No cover needed for your classes

  • No travel arrangements or costs

  • Best use of time: flexible access, revisit when needed, ready-to-use resources

  • Unlimited access to the training room for 12 months from date of booking, with handouts to download and links to other useful resources.

  • Nicky is always at hand to ask those nagging questions. Time and dates will be announced with the facebook course group and sent to you y email, with a request to join the session.


What Teachers are saying about the TSC Training Rooms?
  • "I have completed this course this weekend and really enjoyed myself. I brushed up on some techniques I already knew, and can now see some new ideas for them. I really enjoyed the new techniques that I had shied away from before, as I thought they would be too tricky! The tutorial videos are very clear with great demos. Can't wait to experiment more."

  • "Wow, what a real treat your course is. AMAZING work.Would be super for any teacher, experienced or NQT. And a great place to share ideas and create a bank of ideas. You are offering so many resources for the money people will be paying. An absolute bargain at that price. I have thoroughly enjoyed working through the course."

  • "I've just completed an online Constructed Textiles course with the Textiles Skills Academy and I'd like to recommend it to anyone that teaches Art Textiles. I've wanted to attend one of their courses for a while now and with lock down I have managed to succeed. Its a great course! Full of help sheets, video tutorials and samples to make BUT best of all is that as its taught by teachers so it links perfectly to GCSE and A level AOs. I can't wait to get back into the classroom to share my new skills."


Terms & Conditions

Your booking is not refundable or exchangeable once you have enrolled on the course. You can register and join at any time. 

Once registered, teachers will be given UNLIMITED access to an on-line training room and all the resources for 12 months. Training provides videos of each presentation and handouts to download, demonstration videos for each technique, templates and images that you can use within school, links to further information and useful resources.

It is your ONE STOP SHOP!


What do you need to gain access to the training room?

To access the training room you will need a Facebook account and access to the internet. The training can be accessed on a mobile device, tablet or computer.

To gain access to the Training Room after booking, you will be sent an order confrmation email which will have your link to the Training Room. 
Click on the link and once in the Training Room you need to request to join. You will be asked 2 questions before being given access: 
  1. Your Full Name.

  1. Agree to TSC rules, Terms & Conditions
    Link to T&Cs:
     https://www.textilesskillscentre.com/online-course-tandc/


The Textiles Skills Training Rooms are developed by Textiles Skills Centre

Visit our website for more online courses and other events: https://www.textileskillscentre.com/online-events/

The Textiles Skills Centre also manages the Facebook Closed Group for teachers. To join the closed group go to: TEXTILE TEACHERS CENTRE

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