Use a pattern to make a simple top

- Starts on 14/06/2025 (exact date TBC)

Additional Information

Learn the pleasure of dressmaking with others

Learn about how to choose a pattern
Learn about the details on the front and back of a pattern
Learn how to choose the pattern size
Learn about pattern contents
Learn about which pattern pieces to use
Learn how to layout pattern pieces and be brave enough to pin and cut the fabric
Understand the markings on the pattern pieces and how to transfer them to the fabric
Learn how to follow the pattern steps to make your top
Learn how to troubleshoot/problem solve as you go

Take home your handmade top to wear with pride – you did it – keep sewing!

Classes are starting the first week of June. For any queries or to book in please use the contact form or email karen.ricketts@sewingfrog.co.uk.

What you will learn

6 x 2hr sessions

Understanding the outside of patterns
How to select the correct size
Selecting appropriate pieces and layout on fabric
Marking pieces
Cutting out
Make your top

Experience level: Suitable for those who know how to use a sewing machine

How to find us

Space 8, Bastion Mews, Union Street, Hereford, HR1 2BT

Learn to sew in a fun & friendly atmosphere

About your instructor

Karen started sewing 40 years ago. After school lessons, she continued learning and developing skills at home with help from her mother on a variety of sewing machines. Dressmaking was her particular passion and she continued to make clothes while at university training to be a doctor.

She worked as a doctor for 20 years in the NHS, until she developed ill health due to stress. Having left medicine, she took time to recover. During the pandemic, she got out her old sewing machine and fired it up “for the love of scrubs”. This renewed her passion for sewing.

She has found sewing, particularly dressmaking, therapeutic mentally, psychologically and spiritually. It has given her confidence in her creative self. It is this element of sewing which she wishes to share with others.