TOP 10 FASHION DESIGNING COURSES IN PORTLAND, OR, USA - PAGE 2

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.

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. 

Find out how to use a sewing machine. Start your adventure here. Portland Fashion Institute’s Beginning Sewing series is the most comprehensive beginner sewing class in Portland. We chose these beginner sewing projects to give you the sewing skills needed for any sewing project.

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.

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

Explore Strip Quilting, Half Square Triangles and Mitered Borders. Jayne will provide fabric on day one for you to practice these skills and review basic skills from Beginning Quilting 1. Come with whatever quilt project you would like to work on. Come ready to cut or pre-cut and ready to start sew...

This 4-session course of 3 hours each class is taught by Certified Palmer & Pletsch Sewing Instructor, Jayne Vetter. Jayne is a licensed Family & Consumer Science/Career & Technical Educator and has taught High School Textile & Design classes for over 30 years in the Portland area.

This class will help you master fitting and sewing any pattern in any knit. Sewing with knit fabrics today is quick, easy, and very fashionable! From casual to formal wear, knit fabrics rule, but all the old “rules” don’t.

If you're drawn to working ?wi?th fabrics, experimenting with designs, playing with colors, and if you enjoy freedom in your process and learning in your unique way,  seams Good Studio can offer a fun, open-minded and supportive space for success. 

You’ll learn to identify all of the knobs, levers, and buttons on your machine and then move on to some basic sewing techniques, such as winding a bobbin and threading your machine. You’ll also get an in-depth overview of machine tension and timeline and learn how to troubleshoot all of the mos...