COURSES OFFERED BY PFI

Learn to adjust patterns to fit. Then learn techniques from the garment industry for perfect cuffs, collars, collar bands and pockets. Women: Choose from one of three styles: #4510-Man’s Classic dress shirt, #4520-Perfect Shirt, #4521-Sophie Shirt (left to right).

Learn the tricks of using powerful fast machines.

You will have patterns that fit and you’ll be able to turn it into innumerable designs for skirts, shirts and blouses, dresses and pants. You will learn how to make patterns, fit them, manipulate them, design them then make them for knits. Sign up for the classes one at a time or sign up for the ...

Portland Fashion Institute’s fashion illustration series is the most comprehensive series in Portland. With these classes, you will be ready to design and share your ideas.

If you’ve taken our Knits & Activewear sewing classes, you’ll find yourself making the pattern, cutting and sewing then wearing that garment to class the next week!  Prereq: Patternmaking 1, 2

Want to be a fashion designer?  Here’s where it happens.  See how to manipulate your woven fabric slopers into various styles for bodices, sleeves, skirts and pants.  Learn how to manipulate darts to make more creative designs.  Here are the rules for making perfect necklines and collars. 

Learn how to work with fabric on a dress form to turn your fashion ideas into real garments.

Portland Fashion Institute’s Apparel Construction sewing series is the most comprehensive series of beginning sewing classes to make clothes in Portland. We chose these garment sewing projects to give you the sewing skills needed to sew any clothing project. Learn to sew in a fun and relaxed envi...

Learn the fast, professional way to make apparel. Sew at up to 6500 stitches per minute instead of the 250 per minute on the typical home sewing machines. You’ll learn on the latest, most competent machines: Juki lockstitch, Pfaff overlock, Juki double-needle walking foot, Kansai coverstitch and ...

Take control when sewing your clothes! For anyone wanting to make or fix zippers. You’ll sew samples of five kinds –centered, lapped, invisible, mock fly and faced fly – and learn which to use where. includes all fabrics, zippers and handouts.