Thread Buttonhole:

Learn how to mark your garment for the accurate sizing and placement of buttonholes. This class helps you master the handsewn buttonhole stitch to ensure a beautiful finish on a blazer, tailored jacket, or other couture garment.

Bound Buttonhole:

Add more creativity to garments by incorporating the design-versatile bound buttonhole. In this class, you can learn an easy-to-master, two-step method often used by Balenciaga.

Converting Darts to Ease, Interfaced Hem, and One-Piece Sleeve: 

Learn how ease gracefully shapes garments to better fit the body and to offer more flexibility of design. This frequently used couture technique can be employed as a fitting tool to remove gaps or to replace darts anywhere in a garment.

An interfaced hem on a couture garment can be as much as 12 inches above the hemline and can be incorporated to offer a pleasing and slightly rounded edge to the hem or to add support to a garment’s silhouette. Claire shows how to interface a garment hem while considering fabric weight, garment length, and design silhouette, for the most desired finished look.

In this class, learn to create a couture-quality sleeve, with a smooth sleeve cap that conforms to the shoulder's shape and falls to a perfect cylindrical column without diagonal wrinkles.

Patch Pocket, Fly Zipper and Measuring for a Trouser Hem: 

Learn the couture method for applying a patch pocket. This way of attaching the pocket by hand allows for easier pocket access and softens the garment's shape.

Claire teaches a method of installing a fly zipper used by Yves Saint Laurent. The method's easy-to-follow steps allow for greater control, which will ensure a professional finish.

Learn this commonly used technique to create trouser hems that are balanced and at an equal distance from the floor.