Take your sewing to the next level and learn to draft and alter patterns for a perfect personal fit!

Tailor Made will enable you to make your own pattern blocks from your body measurements, or adapt existing patterns (e.g. size grading), to create your own custom designs.

This course is best suited to for Intermediate sewists with some previous sewing experience. Please get in touch with any questions about whether this course is suited to you.

10 week course: Friday mornings, 10am-12pm from 29th January - 9th April 2021 (no class Easter Friday, 2nd April).

What’s included:

Small class size ensures excellent one-on-one time as well as opportunities to learn from each others' projects.
20 hours professional tuition from an experienced tutor.
Advice on suitable fabrics, designs and details to suit you.
Access to any fabrics, notions and patterns in our extensive haberdashery collection
Full use of sewing machines and tools.
Tools for pattern making including professional tissue paper.
Great company in a small group of like-minded people.
Re-purposing of any fabric off-cuts and scraps to reduce landfill.
Tea and coffee.

What you’ll need:

An idea for a garment you want to make.
Some prior sewing experience using patterns and making fitted garments is an advantage - see our Sewing For Beginners and Freestyle Sewing courses if you'd like to build up to this.
Optional: A pattern you want to adjust the size of design, fabric etc (You are welcome to explore our haberdashery swap shop before or during the first class to see what we have available.)

Places are strictly limited, so book early!

Stitch Kitchen Workshop Terms and Conditions

The following terms and conditions apply to all individuals and organisations (“you”) that are attending any workshop (“Workshop”) organised by Stitch Kitchen (“we” or “us”). Please ensure you have read and understand the following:

1. Acceptance of terms and conditions

By completing the registration form for a particular workshop, you are agreeing to the terms and conditions set out below (“Terms”) and they will be incorporated into the contract between us (“Contract”). You will ensure that any other person attending the Workshop with you shall comply with these Terms. The Contract is formed when we send you a booking confirmation

2. Payment

The fee for attending the Workshop (“Registration Fee”) will be as stated on the registration form for the relevant Workshop from time to time. Prices are GST inclusive. All payments for the Registration Fee must be made in full at the time of completing the registration form and in any event prior to the date of the Workshop. We reserve the right to run price promotions as we think fit.

3. Refunds

If you cancel your booking a minimum of 7 days before the start of the workshop, then a refund of the workshop cost, minus a 20% fee to cover booking fees and administration costs, is available.

Cancelations less than 7 days, my apply for credit towards transferring to another equivalent or lesser value workshop within 4 months. This will be at the discretion of Stitch Kitchen. No refund shall be given.

4. Exchanges and Transfers

Up to the start of a workshop, subject to availability, you may apply to transfer your registration, including fee paid, between workshop times (e.g. transferring from an evening to a morning stream of a workshop), or transfer to an alternative workshop of the same or lesser value. An additional booking fee and administration fee will be needed (up to 10% of the registration fee).

If this is not available due to workshops being fully booked, your workshop fee can also be exchanged for credit towards haberdashery items from our Makers Pantry.

Transfers and exchanges after the start of a workshop are at our discretion.

5. Cancellation

There may be circumstances in which we need to cancel the Workshop. In such circumstances, we will provide you with a full refund of the amount of the Registration Fee, including booking fees, that you have paid to us and we will make very effort to provide you with such refund within 10 days of the date of cancellation.

If workshops are canceled after the start of the course, the refund will be to the value of uncompleted workshop time. (e.g. if 50% of the course is cancelled, the refund will be for 50% of the fee paid).

6. Your obligations

If you act in any way which in our opinion is likely to cause any harm or nuisance to any person at the Workshop, you will be required to leave the Workshop and we shall not be liable to refund your Registration Fee or any other payment.

You must comply at all times with our health and safety policy. You must comply with all requests from us or the venue with regard to health and safety and failure to do so will result in you being asked to leave the workshop (in which case no refund will be provided). You may not bring any equipment or items of a hazardous or dangerous nature to the Workshop.

You shall not cause any damage to any part of the studio (including outside areas, and all inside walls, flooring, fixtures and fittings). You are solely liable for any damage caused by you, and shall fully reimburse us in relation to any damage so caused.

You must keep your personal belongings stowed in the designated area or on you at all times and we accept no liability for any damage to, loss of or theft of any of your belongings or other items brought to the Workshop by you.

7. Promotional materials and materials at the Workshop

Unless otherwise stated, the copyright for any such promotional materials and any materials used at the Workshop (including course notes, slides, brochures, articles and case studies) belongs to us and may not be reproduced in any medium without our prior written consent.

You may use such materials for your own personal purposes only and may not reproduce, publish or deal with such materials in any way for any commercial use without specific written consent.

We reserve the right to change the published programme or materials as we think fit.

8. Photography and filming

We may wish to photograph or film the Workshop and reserve the right to do so for the purposes of promoting future workshops or otherwise.

You consent to us (or any other person attending the Workshop) photographing or filming you and any persons attending the Workshop with you. If you are uncomfortable with this, please advise us before the start of the workshop via emailing info@stitchkitchen.nz.

9. Data protection

We will communicate with you using the contact details provided on the Registration Form for the purposes of the Workshop. We shall be entitled to pass on all of your contact details to the workshop tutors. Your details will not be used or sold in any other way. We hold this information confidentially between ourselves and the tutors.

10. Tickets

We shall not send you tickets for the workshop. We will have your name on the attendee list and if you have paid the Registration Fee you shall be provided with access to the Workshop.

11. Disability, medical conditions and dietary requirements

If you have any disability or medical condition that requires us to make special arrangements for you or any special dietary requirements, please email us at info@stitchkitchen.nz as soon as possible, prior to the date of the Workshop.

12. Limitations of Liability

Whilst every reasonable precaution is taken by us to ensure security and safety at the workshop, we shall not in any way be liable for any loss or damage suffered by you whatsoever in relation to the Workshop, save that nothing in these Terms shall be deemed to limit the liability of any person for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

Nothing in these Terms shall limit or exclude our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, any fraudulent misrepresentation or any other liability for which it is unlawful to exclude or limit liability.

Our total liability for any matter arising out of the Contract shall in all circumstances be limited to the price paid by you for the Workshop and we shall not in any circumstances be liable to you for any consequential loss whatsoever.

13. Governing law

These Terms shall be governed by New Zealand Law.