Slow Fashion Sewing Series PART 2 : ADULT Beginners

Ready to take the next step in your sewing journey?

At The ReDress Hub, we’re passionate about helping people embrace circular fashion—keeping clothes in use for longer, reducing reliance on fast fashion, and cutting down on textile waste.

Following the success of our beginner series, we’re excited to offer Slow Fashion Sewing Series – PART 2, designed for adults who already have some basic sewing skills and want to build their confidence further.

Guided by passionate maker Kirsty Máté, you’ll expand your sewing skills while making a classic shirt—choosing either a women’s or men’s pattern. Along the way you’ll learn techniques including collars, sleeves, optional patch pockets, and buttonholes.

By the end of the course, you’ll have a shirt you (or someone you love!) will be proud to wear.

Week 1 – Garment Overview & Construction
We’ll begin sewing straight away, so your fabric pattern pieces will need to be cut out before class. In this session we’ll cover the pattern overview, seams, optional patch pockets, and collar construction.

Week 2 – Garment Construction
Learn how to insert facings and sleeves as your shirt starts to take shape.

Week 3 – Finishing Touches
Add the final details with buttonholes, buttons, and hemming.

Bring your curiosity, creativity, and enthusiasm!

This workshop is designed for slightly advanced beginners (18+) who have either:

• Completed our Slow Fashion Sewing Series for Adult Beginners, or
• Have the following skills:

• Able to use a sewing machine independently
• Understand how to read, place, and cut out a sewing pattern with some confidence
• Comfortable sewing seams and hems
• Able to follow sewing pattern instructions with some confidence

"With some confidence" means you can get started independently, even if you still have questions along the way.

Participants can also access The ReDress Hub space before Week 1 for help with pattern layout or cutting out fabric if needed.

You’ll create a shirt using one of two advanced beginner-friendly patterns:

• A Style Arc women’s shirt, or
• A Simplicity men’s shirt

(Scroll down to see example images of both patterns.)

We’ll supply all materials, patterns, and equipment (including sewing machines)—you just need to bring:

• Fabric (we’ll email details once we have your measurements)
• Matching thread – choose good quality (e.g. Guttermann)

Optional but helpful:

• Dressmaker’s scissors (to finish cutting at home after Week 1)
• Dressmaking pins

An upcycled notebook will be provided for note-taking.

• We recommend starting with inexpensive, upcycled, or remnant fabric (doona covers work brilliantly for woven fabrics!).
• The ReDress Hub has a wide range of affordable remnant fabrics ($3.50–$8/m), with an extra 50% discount for participants.

You’ll need to be able to use a sewing machine confidently.

We provide machines, but you’re welcome to bring your own—just let us know in advance.

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Choose the first date of the Series and book selecting the Series Workshop ticket.

Please note: We will also be asking you for the pattern you wish to make and your body measurements when booking so we can let you know how much fabric to purchase.

Installment payments

We also offer you the flexibility of a payment instalment package so you don't have to pay the full amount up front. If this suits you, please reserve your place by selecting the Instalment Plan Reserve Ticket and to make future instalment payments, select the appropriate payments in the Add-ons section.

Full payment must be made before the start of the series.

Companion ticket

If you require a carer or support while attending your workshop, we have a special Companion Ticket for those with a Companion card. Please enter the code ReDressCompanion (all one word) to reveal this special ticket when booking your tickets.

ReGift Program

Through a Community Grant with the City of Launceston, we are pleased to be able to offer subsidised spaces to this workshop series for people on full-time pensions, unemployment benefits, hold a health care card or similar.

Interested? Please contact us directly (see below) and we'll explain how you can also be a part of this program.

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We're excited to be able to run our workshops face-to-face in our NEW beautifully designed space, especially for holding our workshops.

The ReDress Hub is located at:

Shop 6 & 7, Quadrant Plaza, 94 York St, Launceston, Tasmania.

You can find us just behind Toyworld :)

Super handy access to parking in the Care CarPark next door, as well as disabled parking directly across from us, with great cafes close by to fuel you up for all your workshop needs.

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If you have been or could have been exposed to COVID19 through travel or a close contact, please consider your attendance and or wearing a mask at the event.

If you have any symptoms and don't feel well please don't attend your workshop and get in touch with us for more details.

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For further information about The ReDress Hub please check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/ReDressHub

Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions, our best contact is [email protected] or reach out via our social media.

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We hope to see you at The ReDress Hub soon!

Style Arc pattern - Lennie overshirt

This pattern is available in sizes 4-30

https://www.stylearc.com/shop/pdf-sewing-patterns/lennie-over-shirt-pdf/

Simplicity pattern - S9157

This pattern is available in European sizes 44-62

https://simplicity.com/simplicity/s9157

Kirsty Máté is a professional designer, educator and artist with a passion for sustainability and design as well as for clothing.

With over 30 years of experience in sustainable design, you could say she is a pioneer. Her career in design has crossed many disciplines including architecture, interior design, textiles design, exhibition design, and performance art; has taken her around the world and into a successful career in academia as well as industry. She is widely published and has exhibited her work in both design and art.

As the founder and business owner of The ReDress Hub, Kirsty is also passionate about creating more sustainable forms of clothing and fashion.

She is excited to be able to teach this beginner workshop on how to create new clothes and how these skills can advance us towards a slow and circular approach to clothing.

Info: This first week will introduce you to a standard dressmaking pattern, how to read a dressmaking pattern and choose fabrics, laying out a pattern on fabric, pinning, marking and cutting out. Please note: We will not be using sewing machines in this first week.

Info: This week with your garment now cut out we will start to construct it. You'll learn about the fundamentals of garment construction such as seams, stay stitching, facing and under-stitching

Info: Continuing on with the construction of your garment we'll be looking at the construction an insertion of things like sleeves and pockets.

Info: In our last week we'll be addressing the finishing touches of your garment such as hemming and/or casing.

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