Ready to Design Beyond Patterns and Create Stunning, Sustainable Fashion?

Are you a passionate sewist dreaming of crafting high-fashion garments, but find yourself hitting a wall with traditional methods?

• Tired of the fabric waste that piles up with commercial patterns?
• Frustrated by the time consumed by complex drafting?
• Feeling your unique creative vision gets lost relying on pre-made patterns?
• Longing for a more intuitive, sustainable, and creatively liberating approach?

If you’ve felt constrained by conventional dressmaking and yearned to design truly original, sculptural pieces with confidence, you’re in the right place.

Introducing DDM: The Zero Waste Design Workshop

In this workshop, I’m thrilled to introduce you to a counterintuitive yet powerfully effective pathway: Zero Waste Design, a core component of my Direct Design Method (DDM). This technique challenges conventional garment making, teaching you how to create beautifully structured, wearable art using intentional layouts that utilize all, or nearly all, of your fabric.

Unlock Your Creative Potential & Transform Your Process

Zero Waste Design puts you in direct conversation with your material, empowering you to sculpt elegant, high-fashion garments. Forget the endless search for the “right” pattern or tedious drafting. With this method, you will:

• Bypass restrictive patterns: Design directly with fabric, letting form and silhouette emerge.
• Embrace sustainable creation: Drastically reduce or eliminate fabric waste.
• Achieve high-fashion results: Create sculptural, flattering garments with surprising ease.
• Save valuable time: Shift your focus from deciphering instructions to bringing ideas to life.
• Boost your design confidence: Learn to trust your instincts and develop a unique stylistic voice.

It’s a direct route to unlocking your design potential, turning your focus to bringing your unique stylistic ideas to life with minimal waste and maximum artistry.

Your Project: Master the Method with the Sculptural Nicole Dress

Throughout these sessions, you’ll witness the magic of Zero Waste Design firsthand as we construct the Nicole Dress from start to finish. This project serves as a perfect illustration of the method, showcasing how a sculptural, flattering, and surprisingly simple-to-sew garment can emerge from a single piece of fabric with virtually no scraps.

More than just creating one dress, you’ll:

• Learn a versatile “master recipe” – a powerful technique adaptable for countless original pieces (tops, skirts, jackets, and more).
• Understand the logic behind the layout and draping, empowering you to innovate.
• Develop your designer’s eye for proportion, balance, and how fabric behaves.

Step Into a New Reality of Dressmaking

This workshop is your invitation to revolutionize your dressmaking journey. It’s about more than just reducing waste; it’s about:

• Removing creative limitations.
• Experiencing the profound joy of sculpting fashion directly from fabric.
• Building skills for sustainable, artistic, and deeply fulfilling creation.

Join us and discover how this one project can lead to a completely different relationship with fabric, design, and your own creative power. Design with confidence and style.