Contact:

Aja Blumanhourst

ablumanhourst@gmail.com

Course Time:

This course is offered on Tuesdays.

Intro to Fashion and Sewing A & B are identical courses offered in two different periods.

Course Pre-Requisites:

• This course is open to 8th - 12th grade students.

Course Description:

Introduction to Fashion & Sewing will cover the basics of sewing and an introduction to

fashion and its history.  We will learn and practice the different sewing techniques, textile
basics, reading commercial patterns, and minor alterations.

By the end of the course students will have created a textile swatch book,

sewing examples book, a hand-stitch sampler, a small bag, and two clothing

pieces made from commercial patterns.

Tentative Syllabus: (subject to change)

• Quarter 1
   1. Introduction to the Fashion Industry
   2. History of Fashion
   3. Presentations
   4. Textiles
   5. Textile Swatch Book Activity
   6. Fabric Dye Experiments
   7. Understanding your machine
   8. Stitches Project
   

• Quarter 2
   9.  Seams Project
  10. Collars
  11. Zippers
  12. Zippers
  13. Buttons / Buttonholes
  14. Embroidery Heart Sampler Project
  15. Hand stitching
  16. Hand stitching
   

• Quarter 3
  17. Pockets
  18. Decorative Techniques (ruffles, etc.)
  19. Decorative Techniques
  20. Bag Project - Sewing Day
  21. Bag Project - Sewing Day
  22. Understanding Patterns
  23. Pants Project - Preparing to Sew
  24. Pants Project - Sewing Day
   

• Quarter 4
  25. Pants Project - Sewing Day
  26. Pants Project - Sewing Day
  27. Shirt Project - Preparing to Sew
  28. Shirt Project - Sewing Day
  29. Shirt Project - Sewing Day
  30. Alterations
  31. Alterations
  32. Alterations

    *Days you will need your sewing machine
 

Grading:

• 80%  class projects

• 10%  quizzes / presentations

• 10%  portfolio
   

• Students will receive a detailed rubric explaining the grading criteria for each project
  before the course begins, and will receive a grade and written online comments for 
  ​each completed project via Schoology.

• Grading will be based on finished class projects, portfolio (finished class projects into
  a binder), and presentations/quizzes.

• Students can revise and resubmit a graded project for a higher grade with no penalty.
  This must be done by the next week of class.

• Projects will be accepted late, however, students cannot receive full credit for a late
  project.  Late projects must be handed in by the end of that quarter.

Specific Requirements:

• Internet access is required for this course.

Course Supplies:

• portable sewing machine (sewing machine buying guide)
  feel free to contact the tutor for assistance in choosing a machine

• carrying case or carrying tote for sewing machine (optional, but helpful)

• sewing kit (provided via lab fee)

• 7 different colors of embroidery floss that coordinate (student's choice)

• extra sewing machine needles (size 12)

• two commercial patterns (TBD)

• materials to make project