Make your winter mini skirt in Valencia · Saturday 14 November

Before we switch the machines on you will see how it is built: its pieces, how we get its shape and the role of the darts, which are what make a flat piece of fabric fit the body and give that fitted silhouette. When you understand how a garment is made, sewing it makes far more sense.

We work with the pattern from the very beginning: reading it, identifying its pieces and understanding its markings before cutting. Then we lay it on the fabric and cut your skirt together, so that next time you open a pattern at home you are not left thinking “and now where do I start?”.

Here is one of our favourite parts: you will learn to sew the darts, to insert an invisible zip at the side and to assemble a lined skirt, three techniques that are useful for many other projects. We will do them together, asking questions and repeating as much as needed, because the point is not to finish the skirt but to understand how each one is done.

You bring the fabric, so the skirt will match your style completely. In “What to bring” you will find our fabric recommendations and the amount you need. Even though we all work from the same pattern, every skirt ends up being different.

We have from 10 am to 5 pm to go through the whole process together, with coffee and drinks during the day and a midday break to share a picnic, which is included. Afterwards, back to our skirts.

When you arrive your machine and all the working materials will be ready, as well as the coffee, the drinks and the picnic. The only things you bring are the fabrics for your skirt (outer fabric and lining), the thread, the interfacing and the zip; in “What to bring” you will find the guidance on exactly what to buy and how much. And the finished mini skirt goes home with you.

You bring the fabric, the lining, the thread, the interfacing and the zip; we provide the needles. You choose the fabric, and here are our recommendations and the amounts you need.

After the workshop you will receive the digital pattern for the mini skirt with its instructions: sizes 34–46, seam allowance and files in A4, A0 and US Letter. So when you want to make it again — another fabric, another colour — you will know exactly how it is built and how to do it on your own.

By the end you will not only be able to say “I sewed my own skirt”: you will have learnt to read its pattern, cut the fabric, work the darts, insert an invisible zip and assemble the lining. And to do it again by yourself.