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Pattern Making and Sewing: From Skill to Your Own Brand

This course is for those who want to grow — professionally and financially.
To move beyond the “I just sew” mindset and gain a clear understanding of what to sew, how to sew, and how to earn from it, while maintaining quality, style, and your own creative vision.
The course is designed for those who already have basic sewing skills but feel that their knowledge and structure are not enough to fully realize their ideas and ambitions in the fashion field. When you have ideas but lack confidence. When you want to sew more complex garments, act more professionally, and understand how to turn sewing into real opportunities — instead of relying only on intuition.
The training is structured from theory to practice, and from practice to conscious understanding. Importantly, this course is not only about knowledge or professional growth. During the program, participants gain tangible, practical benefits: they sew real garments for their own wardrobe, tailored to their body shape, fit, lifestyle, and personal style.
Through sewing a skirt, structured garments, a blazer, and trousers, participants gradually explore modeling, construction, garment technology, and the logic of form. As a result, they create a personalized business capsule wardrobe — pieces that are truly wearable, functional, and expressive of individual style.
At the same time, we analyze how this skill works in real life and in business:
  • the difference between custom tailoring, a small brand, and production;
  • what equipment is truly necessary to start;
  • how to calculate costs and pricing;
  • where you can earn — and where it’s easy to lose money.
This course shapes not only your hands, but your mindset.
You begin to see a garment as a product — and yourself as both a craftsperson and an entrepreneur.
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Block 1

Fundamentals of Pattern Making and Skirt Construction

Format: 5 sessions × 90 minutes

Theory: Textile fundamentals, professional terminology, body analysis, model characteristics, taking measurements.

Practice: Sewing a skirt of your choice
(pencil skirt / straight skirt / A-line skirt).

LESSON 1. Professional Start: Fabric, Body, and Measurements
Objective: To build a professional foundation — understanding body types, materials, and workflow logic, without which accurate modeling and proper fit are impossible.

LESSON 2. Professional Language and Garment Modeling
Objective: To teach participants to speak and think in the language of professional sewing, consciously choose a skirt model according to body type and purpose, and prepare an individual pattern.

LESSON 3. Equipment for Starting Out, Production Logic, and Cutting
Objective: To demonstrate how to professionally prepare a garment for sewing and how this stage differs across working formats. Skirt cutting.

LESSON 4. Assembly, Sewing, and Fitting
To master the sewing sequence and learn how to adjust the fit according to the body.

LESSON 5. Finishing and Product Analysis, Cost Calculation
To show that a garment is not only the result of sewing, but also a product with value.

About the Instructor
Fashion designer and outerwear pattern maker, highly qualified tailor with over 30 years of experience in garment production and entrepreneurship.
She completed a one-year program in color analysis and color theory at Artist of Color Academy, as well as a one-year styling program. She participated in projects for Polish television networks TVP1 and TVN, contributing to costume production for the screen adaptation of the novel “The Doll” (Lalka).
Currently, she collaborates with two luxury menswear companies. She has practical experience in both bespoke tailoring and premium-level mass production, with a strong understanding of production systems, workflow organization, and the specific dynamics of the fashion industry.
Important to Know Before Starting the Course

The program is designed for participants who already have basic sewing skills:

  • know how to use a sewing machine;

  • understand basic terminology;

  • have experience sewing simple garments;

  • have a sewing machine at home.

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Note: If a participant does not have a sewing machine at home, she can rent equipment at the studio.
Rental cost: 40 PLN/hour (by prior booking).

This allows you to complete your garments calmly without falling behind the group’s rhythm.

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This is not a beginner course, but a growth-oriented program focused on systematizing knowledge and transitioning toward professional and entrepreneurial thinking.

 

Pricing and Payment Format

The course is divided into 4 independent blocks.
Each block is a logically completed stage that gradually builds professional and entrepreneurial thinking in sewing and the fashion industry.

Block Pricing

(Payment is made per block)

Block 1. Fundamentals of Pattern Making & Skirt Construction
5 lessons × 80 PLN
Block price: 400 PLN

Block 2. Fashion Entrepreneur Mindset & Structured Garment
5 lessons × 85 PLN
Block price: 425 PLN

Block 3. Economics & Business Thinking. Blazer
7 lessons × 95 PLN
Block price: 665 PLN

Block 4. Versatility in Sewing & Business. Trousers as a Core Product
5 lessons × 85 PLN
Block price: 425 PLN

 

Full Course Price (22 lessons)

When completing all blocks: 1,915 PLN

 

Additional Studio Opportunities

As part of the course, participants may also use additional studio services, including:

  • Personalized machine embroidery

  • DTF printing (textile printing)

  • Laser cutting and preparation of decorative elements

Course participants receive a special discount on all personalization and technical finishing services.

 

Why This Matters

This gives you the opportunity to:

  • test ideas for a future brand without major investment;

  • increase product value through personalization;

  • learn to calculate cost price including additional services;

  • understand the difference between a “handmade item” and a product enhanced with technology.

The course is structured so that participants understand not only sewing technology, but also how to scale a product using modern equipment.

Our Contacts

Contact us in a way convenient for you:

ARTel Foundation (Fundacja ARTel)

+48 539 651 356

+48 730 861 325

Postal address: ul. Ostrzycka 2/4, 04-035, Warszawa

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Help us grow and support us:

ARTel Foundation (Fundacja ARTel) current account 

Bank PKO:

61 1020 1127 0000 1802 0409 1526

(indicate in the name of the payment “darowiznana cele statutowe”)


NIP: 1133108719
REGON: 526382721

KRS: 0001057938

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