The Art of Shirt Making
For All Sewing Levels
Online at Your Own Pace
Sew 3 Exceptional Shirts
12 Sewing Skills & 2 Hours of Videos
All PDF Patterns Included
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Master the Art of Shirt Making
The Art of Shirt Making is a self-paced workshop designed to elevate your sewing skills and build your confidence. You'll learn how to make all 3 of our shirt patterns: the Over Shirt, Classic Shirt and Unisex Shirt.
Shirt making is a wonderful craft and offers endless opportunities for creative flair. You’ll master the fundamental techniques like run & fell seams & french seams, intricate plackets, inserting sleeves and classic collar construction.
With built-in chapters that break the project into bite-sized stages, you can learn at your own rhythm at home.
Highlights:
Make 3 Exceptional Garments
Sew an Over Shirt, a Unisex Shirt and a Classic Shirt with endless creative possibilities.
Master Your Skills
Learn industry standard techniques from a professional pattern cutter and designer.
Get Inspired
Get your creative juices flowing with our inspiration section sharing our favourite shirt blogs & hack ideas.
Step by Step Tutorial
Learn and elevate your skills without guesswork.
What's Included:
12 Skills to Master Shirt Making
Our comprehensive 2 hour video tutorial will teach you over 12 sewing skills and help you to build professional sewing habits.
Step-by-step Guides
You'll receive additional step-by-step photo guides to help you sew the different finishing techniques across all 3 patterns.
3 x Professional PDF Patterns
You’ll receive 3 professionally drafted PDF patterns: Over Shirt, Unisex Shirt & Classic Shirt.
What You'll Make:
Course structure
Project 1
Over Shirt
To begin your shirt making journey we recommend starting with the Over Shirt. This project includes the 2 hour video tutorial which will give you a groundwork of knowledge in shirt making.
Skills:
- Run & fell seams
- Patch pockets
- Grown on Button Stand
- Double yoke with back loop
- Classic collar and collar stand
- Square topped placket and cuff
- Sleeve (no pleats) with insertion & no shoulder ease
- Hemming & buttons
Project 2
Unisex Shirt
Moving on to the Unisex Shirt, you’ll be following an almost identical making process to the Over Shirt. We recommend referring to the video tutorial and following the PDF instructions for the parts that are different.
Skills:
- Run & fell seams
- Patch pockets
- Grown on Button Stand
- Double yoke with back loop & inverted pleat
- Classic collar and collar stand
- Triangle topped placket and cuff
- Sleeve (with pleats) with insertion & 1cm ease
- Hemming & buttons
Project 3
Classic Shirt
Lastly, in the Classic Shirt project you’ll use the skills you’ve already learnt along with some additional finishing techniques shown in the step-by-step guides on this page. We recommend following the PDF instructions as well as referring to the photo guides and Over Shirt tutorial.
Skills:
- French seams
- Grown on Button Stand
- Double yoke with pleat
- Classic collar and collar stand
- Square topped placket and cuff
- Sleeve (with pleats) with insertion & 1cm ease
- Flat binding on curved hem
- Buttons
You’ll finish with:
At the end of the workshop you’ll finish with 3 beautifully made shirts complete with industry standard finishing techniques. You’ll have learned professional sewing habits along with many transferable skills to take forward with your sewing.
Wonderful makes from our community:
@handverkshverdag
Classic Shirt
@flomaa
Unisex Shirt
@penny_mac
Classic Shirt
@thread.ringer
Classic Shirt
@gabby_sews
Classic Shirt
@suzie_barrett
Unisex Shirt
@rachelsalenius
Classic Shirt
@knitxxor
Classic Shirt
@laura.wolfgang
Classic Shirt
@lindagosew_
Classic Shirt
@morningsewist
Over Shirt
Customer Reviews
This workshop was everything I needed as an "unconfident intermediate" sewist. The tips are so helpful for creating a piece of clothing that I genuinely love to wear. I love the focus on small details, like the seams, that elevate each of these pieces, and the deliberately slow and methodical process to creating long-lasting and beautiful items.
The Art of Shirt Making workshop has made me a better more confident sewist. I've been sewing for about four years but generally stayed with easy beginner patterns but this workshop finally got me to expand my skillset. Hetty demystified a lot of construction techniques like yokes, plackets and collars... also patch pockets... first time I made them so neatly. The unhurried pacing of the lessons was also perfect.
I wasn't sure about purchasing this workshop because it was a lot of money for me on my budget, but I am so glad I did! I have been sewing for quite a number of years now and am more or less self taught, but I felt like now was the time for me to really focus and hone my sewing skills to produce garments that I was super proud of, and that would be as good, or more likely better, than shop made. I can imagine that I would have been really quite stressed and frustrated trying to sew this shirt pattern without watching this workshop! However, I watched it once through before sewing, and then had it going as I followed it step by step, and on my first go I got a beautifully finished garment. I worked very carefully as I went to make sure I did everything as well as I could. I feel that I learnt a lot from the process, not just in making one shirt, but it transferrable skills that I can use for other projects as well. All in all, it was a very worthwhile investment and I am very pleased with the results. It was very pleasant and enjoyable to sew along to Hetty's instructions, and of course, every pattern is impeccably drafted.
Meet Your Teacher
Hetty is the founder of the Modern Sewing Co., a professional designer and pattern cutter with 15 years experience in garment making. Having trained at London College of Fashion and the Tailoring Academy she is passionate about great design, detailed construction techniques and helping people make beautiful clothes.