Fashion Specialization: Upcycling, Printing and Personalization

Course summary

• M1: Introduction and Influences

  • Introduction

  • Inspiration / Caitlin Trantham

  • Inspiration / Julia Pelletier

  • Inspiration / Amy Isles Freeman

  • Inspiration / Christin Morgan

  • Inspiration / Emma Friedlander-Collins

  • Inspiration / Luisa Hurtado

• M2: Upcycling and Transforming Old Garments

  • Tools and Materials

  • Selecting Your Project Piece

  • Basic Sewing Skills

  • Measuring Yourself

  • Planning Your Project

  • Deconstruction Techniques

  • Adjusting Fits and Shapes

  • Reconstructing the Garment

  • Adding and Removing Elements

  • Embellishing and Personalizing

  • Combining Garments

  • Styling Your Dress

  • Care and Maintenance

• M3: Textile Printing Techniques for Beginners

  • What Will We Do in This Module?

  • Materials Needed for Each Technique

  • An Inspirational Notebook

  • Getting Ready Patterns, Drawings and Textures to Work with

  • Selection of Color Palette & Fabrics

  • Sublimation 1

  • Sublimation 2

  • Textile Sprays

  • Textile Manipulation with Felting Needle and Spray

  • Collage

  • How to Fix Textile Ink for a Print to Last Longer

  • How to Wash and Dry Our Printed Garments

• M4: Introduction to Hand Painting on Clothing

  • Materials

  • Mood Board and Garment

  • Drawing

  • Colour Mixing

  • Mark Making

  • Planning Out and Stenciling

  • Painting Free Hand

  • Painting with Stencils

  • Photographing for Social Media

  • Other Garments

• M5: Lettering for Embroidered Patches: Make a Wearable Statement

  • Tools and Materials

  • Basic Embroidery Stitches 1

  • Basic Embroidery Stitches 2

  • References

  • My Mood Board

  • Designing Your Patch

  • Transferring Your Design to Fabric

  • Embroidering the Patch: Cursive Letters

  • Embroidering the Patch: Block Letters

  • Add Dimension and Details

  • Finishing Your Patch

  • How to Attach and Care for Your Patch

  • Alternate Applications

• M6: Upcycling with Crochet for Beginners

  • What We Will Learn

  • Choosing Yarn

  • Choosing the Hooks and Other Tools

  • Chain and Slip Stitch

  • Double Crochet

  • Treble Crochet

  • Increasing and Decreasing

  • How Crochet Can Be Used for Upcycling

  • Choosing Colours

  • How to Read a Pattern

  • Making a Square 1

  • Making a Square 2

  • Making a Half Square

  • How to Prepare the Flip-Flop

  • Crochet into Flip-Flop

  • Stitching Everything Together!

  • Customise Your Flip-Flops

  • How to Care for Your Slippers

• M7: Fashion Upcycling: Create a Backpack with Second-Hand Clothes

  • Materials

  • Selecting and Understanding Your Materials

  • How to Conceptualize a Design from Existing Clothes

  • Sketching and Planning

  • Preparing and Deconstructing Your Garment

  • Cutting Our Sewing Pattern & Preparing the Pieces 1

  • Cutting Our Sewing Pattern & Preparing the Pieces 2

  • Designing the Front and Sewing the Zipper

  • Sewing the Straps and Building the Backpack 1

  • Sewing the Straps and Building the Backpack 2

  • Lining and Finishing the Backpack

  • Finishing Touches

  • Creative Extensions and Upcycling Common Challenges

  • Designing your Makeup Bag with Scraps, Cutting and Assembling

  • Sewing and Adding Features

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