ALUM INFO &
UPCOMING COURSES!
Welcome to the Alum Bulletin Board!
Find the most current information (and exclusive bonuses!) for you as an official Skirt Skills alum.
Notes on Email
I send special alum emails via a special alum mailing list which you have automatically been added to.
Do not Unsubscribe unless you would no longer like to receive any emails from me about future courses and/or alum bonuses.
If you have not been receiving any alum emails from me, let me know!
You might also enjoy My Custom Sewing Love Letters – which is a separate mailing list. Feel free to Unsubscribe to those any time.
What's New?
NEW(ish) STUFF
I published an eBook!
My eBook all about padding a custom dress form as your body double expands upon this condensed guide and features 50+ pages and 150+ photos for only $15!
Click this link or the photo to learn more
and/or order yours today!
Until I can offer more...
FREE STUFF
A free gusset sleeve template!
For many reasons, TOP CLASS TOO (on collars and sleeves) has not yet made it into production. In the meantime, I’m offering my gusset sleeve template!
Download the image below and scale it up.
Dots are 1″ square.
Though I plan to develop a completely custom sleeve drafting system for all of you, every set-in sleeve I’ve made since grad school was created by “making it work” with this starting point. Though I can’t offer custom advice at this time, I hope anyone ready for sleeves can make this work for you until I can make a course for you!
NEW STUFF & FREE STUFF
My New and Improved!
Skirt Skills: As of October 2021, the fully updated 2nd Edition of Skirt Skills is now on your Dashboard! In August 2023, Guides & Checkpoints were added as bonus documents.
Top Class: As of May 2022, the new and improved 2nd Edition of Top Class is now on the Dashboards of all Top Class alums!
Smarty Pants: As of November 2022, the new and improved 2nd Edition of Smarty Pants is now on the Dashboards of all Smarty Pants alums!
UPCOMING COURSES
SKIRT SKILLS
Want to join Skirt Skills again for only $50?
While you still have ongoing access to your original course (nothing has expired!), every new session comes with an offer to rejoin with your alum discount.
By joining the upcoming Skirt Skills session, you’ll get the motivation of daily emails again, you’ll get to join and learn from a new Group (now on Mighty Networks instead of Facebook!), and you’ll get priority for feedback from me.
Take this opportunity as motivation to finish your lessons from the first time around or to start a new skirt or two! Or maybe you’d like to get your skirt block ready and brush up on the lessons before joining my follow-up courses: Smarty Pants and/or Top Class. Many rejoin for many reasons: Take it, or leave it!
Alum registration will remain open, even if the course sells out to new students. You have a guaranteed $50 spot, if you join anytime before lessons begin.
ENROLL
for the next session
of Skirt Skills 2nd Edition
as an Alum for $50
Please spread the word about the upcoming session to new students! I appreciate your support.
Enrollment Opens: June 8, 2024
Orientation Starts: June 19, 2024
Work with the optional 6 week schedule OR anytime at your own pace with forever access
ENROLL
for the next session
of Skirt Skills 2nd Edition
as an Alum for $50
SMARTY PANTS
Ready to advance your skills beyond skirts?
Smarty Pants is a new custom sewing eCourse exclusively for Skirt Skills alums.
You’ll get the same ongoing access to the high quality content and support as I offer in Skirt Skills, only this time…
We’ll make three pants blocks while learning to create custom-fit styles from loungewear to jeans.
Follow along as I design and handcraft three new pair of pants for myself from start to finish- sharing new mix-and-match construction techniques. Choose your favorite block, design features, and construction methods to start and complete your own custom pants!
Also- Our interactive Group is our own private Mighty Network called “The Collaboratory” (not on Facebook). I think you’ll really dig it…
Smarty Pants builds upon everything learned in Skirt Skills. To begin taking your measurements and drafting your blocks, you’ll need your completed custom-fit skirt block and skirt block mockup.
Even if you haven’t yet completed Skirt Skills, you are already eligible and encouraged to enroll. All enrollees should feel free to follow along at your own pace and get started whenever you are ready.
Click the link above to watch the two Smarty Pants Intro videos, review the Tools & Supplies list, and more!
2024 Enrollment opens Oct 11 and closes Oct 27.
Follow-up Course!
SMARTY PANTS
Upcoming Session Info:
2024 ENROLLMENT opens:
Friday October 11, 2024
at ~10amET
Course Dates:
Orientation starts Thursday October 24, 2024.
Work with the optional 8 week schedule OR anytime at your own pace with forever access.
(There will be a week break in the middle for US Thanksgiving).
NOTE! Skirt Skills is the prerequisite for Smarty Pants. (Top Class is not required.)
TOP CLASS
Ready to take your skills toward the top?
Top Class is a custom sewing eCourse exclusively for Skirt Skills Alums.
Top Class is all about creating your own Size-You custom tops. It shares a new drafting system I’ve developed without using any standard measurements, only info from your body, which I’d love for you to give a try.
We’ll make three sleeveless top blocks: Relaxed, Semi-fit, and Fitted! Follow along as I design and handcraft tops for myself from start to finish- sharing new mix-and-match construction techniques. Choose your favorite block, design features, and construction methods to start and complete your own custom tops (and/or dresses)!
Also- Our interactive Group is our own private Mighty Network called “The Collaboratory” (not on Facebook). I think you’ll really dig it…
Top Class builds upon everything learned in Skirt Skills. To begin taking your measurements and drafting your blocks, you’ll need your completed custom-fit skirt block and skirt block mockup.
Even if you haven’t yet completed Skirt Skills, you are already eligible and encouraged to enroll. All enrollees should feel free to follow along at your own pace and get started whenever you are ready.
Click the link above to watch the Top Class Intro video, review the Tools & Supplies list, and more!
NOTE! Skirt Skills is a prerequisite for Top Class. (Smarty Pants is not required.)
Follow-up Course!
TOP CLASS
Upcoming Session Info:
2024 ENROLLMENT:
is closed.
Class is currently in-session.
Course Dates
Orientation opens: March 22
Lessons begin: March 25
The next session will likely begin in early 2025.
Work with the optional 5 week schedule OR anytime at your own slower pace with forever access.
Something Missing or Working Wonkily?
I am a one-woman business! To get everyone settled and sorted on my new site, I often have to personally check and manually connect each individual student to the appropriate courses on their Dashboards. I have definitely made some mistakes.
If you’ve previously purchased a course from me, but you do not see it on your Dashboard, let me know. If you’ve taken a follow-up course and try to register as an alum, but the system won’t allow it, let me know, etc… I simply made a mistake which can easily be corrected.
If anything else seems wonky, that was probably my error too. Just let me know and I’ll be happy to sort it out!
Let's keep in touch!
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