Portland Fashion Institute | Portland Sewing – Sewing classes for the beginner to the advanced stitcher!

START WITH THE BASICS

learn tricks to make great clothes

SEWING CLASSES

LAUNCH YOUR CAREER

start your own line or land a job

Earn your certificate

LEARN THE INDUSTRY

from those that live it every day

BUSINESS CLASSES

GET THE SECRETS

to making patterns that fit

PATTERNMAKING

MAKE DREAMS COME TRUE

learn to draw by hand & computer

DESIGN CLASSES

SPECIAL EVENTS

Dress in a Day

Fresh off the runway and zero waste

Couture Jacket

Make a couture jacket from rag wool using all those secret techniques from Paris

Eco-Couture

Create organic garments with the stitching & style of Alabama Chanin

Fit & Fix It

The most sustainable thing to do -- wear your existing wardrobe.

Innovative Design

Push the boundaries of creativity and create one of a kind garments.

Knock it Off

Make a pattern copy of your favorite garment

EARN A CERTIFICATE. HERE'S HOW.

Apparel Designer

Follow your dreams and become an apparel designer. Gain the right skills to enter the apparel business and opens the door to jobs at apparel companies.

Focusing on computer skills and patternmaking become an apparel developer or work as a technical designer, product developer, patternmaker or fit engineer.

Here are the classes you need to start and stay with your own apparel business. You will complete a business plan and be ready to get financing upon completion of this certificate.