Soft Furnishings Beginners

Soft Furnishings - Beginners

Course Option

Start Date 18 January 2010
Centre Brixton
Length of Course 10 weeks
Course Mode Monday 13.00 - 15.00
Costs On benefit £30
Fee payers £65
International £260
Status Full

About the course
This level is for students with no or very little previous experience of Soft Furnishings. This course will include a variety of Techniques e.g.: basic sewing machine use, hand sewing, piping, seams, different types of fastenings, gathers, box pleats, mitres, measuring, calculating and cutting fabrics. In addition students will use a selection of techniques learned to produce a cushion cover and a sample curtain.

You will need to provide all your own fabrics, and will need a basic sewing kit of tape measure, scissors, thread, pins, needles.

After this course
Soft Furnishing Improvers or Intermediate course.

Entry requirements
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How to enrol

Enrolment in Person only:

Brixton Centre
56 Brixton Hill
London
SW2 1QS

Open evening and Enrolment: Thursday 26th November: 4.00pm - 7.00pm
Open evening and Enrolment: Tuesday 1st December: 4.00pm - 7.00pm

Open Enrolment: Wednesday 6th - Friday 8th January: 10.00am - 3.00pm
Evening: Thursday 7th January: 5.00pm - 7.00pm

Open Enrolment: Monday 11th - Thursday 14th January: 10.00am - 3.00pm
Evening: Tuesday 12th and Thursday 14th January: 5.00pm - 7.00pm

When you come to enrol, please remember to bring:

On benefit - £30 and current evidence that you receive, or are the unwaged spouse or partner of someone who receives, one of the following benefits:
Council Tax Benefit
Housing Benefit
Income Support
Job Seeker's Allowance
Pension Guarantee Credit
Working Tax Credit (the Award Notice must state that you have a household income of less than £15,050)

Fee payers - cash, cheque (where the fees do not exceed the limit of your cheque guarantee card) or credit/debit card (except American Express). If your fees are being paid by your employer, local education authority or other organisation, please bring a letter from them confirming that they intend to pay. They will then be invoiced.