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

Fashion Forecasting

Spot trends before they hit the runways and store shelves w/ Project Runway's Michelle Lesniak

Splendid Mending

Discover ways to repair your favorites in a beautifully visible way

Weaving

Create your own fabric and textiles at PFI.

Sustainability Tech

Stay current with apparel industry trends: circular design, fibers, sourcing and production

Textile Design w/ Trish Langman

Collaborate with one of the nation’s rising textile designers

Jumpsuits & Overalls

It's comfortable, stylish and streetwise on trend. Make the jumpsuit that's right for you.

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.