Frills & Pleats – Lampshade & Cushion Making Course – Soft Furnishings

COURSE OVERVIEW

Bring high-end, handcrafted style to your home with this fashionable and on-trend course focused on creating bespoke lampshades and cushions using frills and pleats.

Whether you are new to sewing or looking to elevate your skills, this workshop offers a perfect blend of creativity and craftmanship.

You will walk away with a set of custom-made home accessories and the confidence to keep creating.

Students will learn how to make:

• A hand gathered/pleated lampshade

• Sew a matching cushion with stylish frilled or pleated details.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Gather your fabric and use pins to position your pleats with precision

• Measure, cut and mark fabric correctly.

• Hand-sew your pleated fabric to a lampshade frame

• Create a clean, professional-looking lining

• Add stylish trims for a polished finish

• Create and sew a coordinating cushion featuring frills or pleats

• Use different methods for creating frills and pleats

• Create a lapped zip.

You will need a sewing kit including -; dress making scissors, tape measure, pins, selection of hand sewing needles, fabric marking pen or tailor’;s chalk.

For your first session please bring 1 meter of top fabric (fabrics such as cotton lawn, silks, and fine linen tend to gather better than thicker fabrics) a spool of matching thread.

This course runs on a Monday daytime 09:30-16:30.

Tutor Cherie Newnham originally studied fashion at the University of Westminster, gaining a BA (HONS) degree. Her love of interiors started when she worked at Liberty’;s in London. She went on to gain her qualification in both modern and traditional upholstery and was awarded the ‘Medal for Excellence’; for her work by City & Guilds.