We meet Rosie from Ready Steady Sew, who teaches dress making.

Near Whitchurch you can find Dressmaking classes run by Rosie Jones. We catch up wit her to find out more.

Transcript

00:00We're here at Ready Steady Sew, just on the outskirts of Whitchurch, and Rosie this is your place!

00:05That's right!

00:06So what happens here then? What magic happens under this roof Rosie?

00:10So here at Ready Steady Sew we teach dressmaking classes, so I teach people from the complete

00:16beginners to those who are a bit more intermediate and advanced how to make their own clothes.

00:21So you do kind of like five, six week courses, different levels,

00:24and then there's even little one-off sessions for specific little...

00:28That's right, yeah, so we have a number of courses on offer here at Ready Steady Sew.

00:33So our very popular beginner dressmaking course has three levels, each level six weeks,

00:39and you can come and learn all the basics of dressmaking so you can start to make your own

00:42clothes. We have a make your own clothes class where if you're a bit further along in your

00:47dressmaking journey you can bring your own projects and have my expert guided help to

00:51create those. We've got pattern cutting classes if you want to learn to design and draft your

00:56clothes, one-off workshops on things like how to use your overlocker and sewing in zips,

01:00and the possibilities are endless.

01:03Do you find that people, when they bring their own projects, are they kind of making an act for

01:07it for a special occasion or is it just that generally they want to up their skills?

01:11Yeah, so most people just want to learn how to make their own clothes that they can wear,

01:15so a lot of women find that clothes that they buy on the high street just don't fit them properly,

01:20or they don't like the style of them, and they enjoy sewing as a hobby,

01:23so they want to come and learn to create their own clothes. So in the make your own

01:27clothes class that we have, we have a theme every term, so this time's theme is hoodies,

01:31so the ladies are working on creating their own hoodies for their wardrobe.

01:37And I should imagine with the the rise of the the second-hand sales marketplaces like Vinted

01:42and Facebook marketplace, is there a lot of kind of buying clothes and adapting them and

01:47customising them and that kind of stuff going on?

01:49Some people do do that as well, but I would say the majority of my students like to make something

01:54from start to finish, I think that gives them a sense of achievement as well when they've been

01:58able to do that. Yeah, well this jacket that's next to you, it was your partner's blazer jacket

02:05wasn't it? It was, yes. He didn't go shopping at Tesco with it looking like that though did he?

02:09No he didn't, I customised this jacket for when I went to go and see Taylor Swift at the

02:14Eros tour in the summer. Yeah. So this is a very similar jacket to a jacket that she wears

02:20on the tour. Fantastic, I mean if you just hold that sleeve out it kind of dangles down just

02:24lovely doesn't it? I can imagine if you're dancing around in that, it's yeah. It looks amazing, so

02:29cool. And the little, what do we call it? A jacket? A jumper? I'm not sure what we call it.

02:37Vest, yeah. I crocheted this, I've just learned myself to crochet, so this was my first project

02:43that I've crocheted. Fantastic, so your route into this world, you studied at Shrewsbury College

02:48initially is that right? That's right yeah, back in, I think we're talking 2006. Yeah. I studied

02:54fashion design technology at Shrewsbury College at parts.