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Any Designers here?

  • 04-12-2007 3:38pm
    #1
    Filan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 703 ✭✭✭


    Considering returning to Fashion Design by evenings in January.......didn't complete my course a few years ago because I didn't have a home sowing machine. Has anyone here attempted to design and if so is it a skill that an interested mind of average ability could learn?. How difficult is it to learn to use a sowing machine?. Hope all are well and thanks

    Alan


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  • #2
    Electric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭Electric


    Sewing machines aren't hard to use. Definitely read the manual a couple of times to familiarise yourself with it. Then after that it's just practice, practice, practice. Get some scraps of material and play around with it get used to the feel of the pedal and the types of stitches.

    You'll be flying in no time!


  • #3
    ultra noir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭ultra noir


    im in my 3rd year of fashion design. im at the stage where i hate it now. not the craft but the bloody course its self. Using a sewing machine is easy, if u go on a course they will run you threw it. its is easy to pick up tho, but its perfecting good clean sewing lines & curves. Its a very technical subject & very interesting but its all fiddely and you couldnt sell anything unless the quality is good which comes with practise.

    I tryed making jackets & things to sell on ebay but after 3 items i gave up. its very time consuming and unless you have the passion it will be a huge struggle. but you must try to discover if it is for you! Good luck wih it, i see you are based in Limerick & i believe Limerick has one of the best fashion courses in the country!


  • #4
    Filan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 703 ✭✭✭Filan


    Thanks to you both...I wasn't really intending it to be a career....but I do dye my own clothes and well I'd really like it if I could make them!....that is my primary goal. I am considering the Limerick Senior College evening course...Fashion Design or Fashion Wear...really quite basic.....so just wondering about the viability this goal?. As I said did actually start fashion design 3 or 4 years ago....but I then didn't have my own machine and couldn't keep up!

    Advice appreciated
    Alan

    ** also considering a hobby course in Nail Art/Extensions


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