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

Textiles: Secret Life of Fabrics

Learn what's in your fabric, how it's made and where to use it.

History of Fashion

Where do designers get their ideas? How do they make these ideas a reality?

Pants & Jeans

Create your own well-fitting jeans or make a pair of flared, stovepipe or high-waisted pants.

Patternmaking Intro

Learn the professional way to make patterns to start your life as a fashion designer or for personal use.

Fashion Forecasting

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

Fall Open House & Student Orientation

Food. Fun. Fashion. Your future! Come explore and express yourself.

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.