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Turn your dream wardrobe into reality with Sarah's online courses and classes

Style, comfort, and creative freedom, made possible with online courses that teach you how to design, draft, sew, and fit your dream wardrobe

What You'll Find Below to Bring Your Dream Wardrobe to life

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✂️  Pattern Cutting Courses 

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🏖️ Swimwear Courses

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📏 Fitting Courses 

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✨ Courses to Add More Personality to Your Wardrobe

✂️ Pattern Cutting Courses

Learn how to design and draft your own sewing patterns from scratch.

Design Confidence – 10-Week In-Depth Pattern Drafting Course

Draft your dream wardrobe: turn design ideas into sewing patterns with total confidence

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Design Confidence is my signature 10-week course that teaches you how to draft your own sewing patterns from scratch—so you can finally create the clothes you actually want to wear, exactly how you imagine them.

 

From everyday staples to bold statement pieces, this course walks you through how to design and draft:

 

✨ Tops, shirts, dresses, skirts, trousers, playsuits, shorts, and more—if you can dream it, you can draft it.

 

No more searching for the ‘perfect’ pattern—learn the skills to create it yourself.

£777 or 6 monthly payments of £133

Design Confidence - Next round starts February 2026

The Fundamentals of Pattern Cutting - Mini-Course

Gain the skills to start drafting your own patterns from scratch - today

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If you’re ready to move beyond shop-bought patterns and finally draft your own designs, this is your starting point!

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

✂️ Use the right tools (and use them properly!) to create patterns that actually work

✂️ Speed up your drafting 10x by working with pattern blocks

✂️ Apply essential drafting techniques—and adapt them to match your ideas

✂️ Turn garment images and inspiration into real sewing patterns ready to bring to life

In just a few hours, you’ll go from curious to actually creating patterns that feel 100% YOU!

£137 -  Start today

📏 Fitting Courses

Discover how to adjust your clothes, patterns and blocks to create the perfect fit

Fitting Confidence – 8-Week Online Course to Master Fit

Create clothes that fit beautifully—without endless alterations

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Fitting Confidence is your go-to course to finally understand how to get your sewing patterns, blocks, and garments to actually fit your shape.

 

In just 8 weeks, you’ll learn how to:

📏 spot fit issues,

📏 adjust your patterns confidently, and

📏 check + tweak for that perfect fit - quickly and easily

And... you’ll even come away with a set of blocks perfected to your size and shape that you can use to draft your own patterns and skip 95% of the fitting process.

 

💡 No more squished busts, awkward wedgies, or digging waistbands. Just clothes that feel like they were made for you (because they were).

£447 or 6 monthly payments of £83

Online Swimwear Courses

Confidently create swimsuits and bikinis that make you feel confident poolside and beyond

Take The Plunge - 4 week complete swimswear course

Create swimsuits and bikinis that suit your style, lifestyle and body

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This is the full swimwear creation experience, so you can confidently design, draft, fit and sew swimsuits and bikinis that evolve with your style, body, and lifestyle.

 

Inside you'll discover how to:

✔️ Design swimwear that actually suits your vibe and body

✔️ Draft custom-fit swimsuit blocks from scratch - so we can 10x the drafting process

✔️ Sew with swimwear fabrics (overlocker/serger or not, you've got options)

✔️ Draft swimsuit and bikini patterns for the styles you love- strapy, cutouts, coverage, asymetric, classic, high wasted - whatever you fancy

✔️ Add those luxe finishing touches and details pieces look designer

£288 or 2 monthly payments of £155

The Swimsuit Starter Mini-Series

From body measurements to finished custom swimsuit

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Think of this as your launchpad into swimwear making.

 

It’s a self-paced mini-series that walks you through:

 

✅ Taking your own measurements

✅ Drafting your custom-fit swimsuit blocks

✅ Turning them into a working pattern

✅ Sewing up your very first swimsuit (with or without an overlocker)

 

Perfect if you want to dip your toe in and see just how simple, quick and easy making your own swimwear can be!

£44

Discover your style and add more personality with these design, sewing and drafting courses

Pieces with Personality - 12 week in-depth course

Design, draft and sew, personality-infused clothes that speak your style

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Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced sewer, this creative course will elevate your wardrobe will build your skills and confidence to create one-of-a-kind pieces that add warmth, personality, and unique style to every outfit.

Inside, you’ll learn how to:

 

✂️ Learn how to infuse quilting, appliqué, embroidery and patchwork techniques into one-of-a-kind garments with meaning and soul (by hand and machine)

✂️ Design garments that balance structure, personality, and practicality

✂️ Draft sewing patterns with clean silhouettes that let the texture and detail shine

✂️ Elevate your designs with thoughtful colour, print, and silhouette choices

From jackets to waistcoats, shorts to skirts, walk away with a piece infused with your personality and the confidence to keep designing one-of-a-kind pieces, forevermore!

Pieces With Personality is currently closed.

The next live round begins September 2026.

See what past students have to say about the courses

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