Alter and Repair Your Garments with Lauren Taylor | Dec 4, 2025

December 4, 2025 | 10am - 5pm

Garment alterations are a great way to level up your sewing skills and expand your wardrobe options, and professional tailor Lauren Taylor is here to guide you through the process! Whether you're working with handmade, ready-to-wear, vintage, or thrifted clothing, this class will teach you how to view garment flaws as opportunities for improvement.

What you’ll learn

• Effective seam ripping techniques for a variety of stitches, including straight stitches, serged finishes, and chainstitches.
• How to assess a garment’s fit and style, and how to determine what changes need to be made.
• How to pin fit a garment and transfer the adjustments in preparation for sewing.
• How to take apart a garment, look inside, and determine the best method for executing whatever adjustment needs to be made based on the construction of the original garment.
• Basic garment repair.
• How to determine whether a garment can successfully be altered or repaired, best practices for using trial-and-error to approach for alterations on existing garments, and how to troubleshoot any problems that may arise.

The exact techniques covered in class will depend on the garments you bring in!

What to bring

• We encourage you to bring a variety of garments, both handmade and ready to
  wear. Although we may not get through every single piece by the end of class, you can expect to leave with the knowledge and confidence to continue your practice at home.
• Please bring a minimum of 6 garments. You may bring garments for yourself or family/ friends (men or women, adults or children). The best garments to bring are the pieces that you (or your loved ones) want to wear but don't.

Class details

• Prerequisites: This class can accommodate most skill levels, from beginner to professional. For beginner students, it is important that you have a general understanding of clothing construction and the process of assembling a garment (including pressing, maintaining accurate seam allowances, sewing curved and straight seams, finishing seams, etc). You should be comfortable threading and operating a sewing machine, and be able to work independently with minimal instruction.
• This is a non-refundable class. If you can’t make it, we’re happy to help you transfer your spot to someone else.
• Space is limited to 8 students.

About Lauren

Lauren Taylor is a sewing enthusiast and rad sewing instructor based in Nashville, TN. 100% self-taught, Lauren has been sewing for most of her life and makes anything and everything! In addition to teaching fun sewing workshops, Lauren also works professionally as a tailor for a local fine suiting store, as well as on set wardrobe + alterations for commercials, tour wardrobes, and red carpet events in the country music industry. Lauren can be found at LLADYBIRD.com and at @LLADYBIRD on Instagram.