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SATURDAY ENRICHMENT - Lee Andersen

MDfin partners with Howard Community College to deliver 6-week (2 hours per week) enrichment courses offered on Saturday mornings and afternoons.

Please book these Enrichment classes through HCC.

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Sat 10 pm to 12 noon: Textile Identification and Manipulation  (March 7th to April 11th) - $169

Touch , unravel and burn hundred of different fabrics to learn their fiber, construction method and name. Identify the best fabrics for your purpose.

Create your own photo transfer, hand painted and dyed fabrics. 

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Sat 1 pm to 3 pm: Advanced Patternmaking (March 7th to April 11th) - $169

(Pre-requisite Beginning Patternmaking -Measure yourself and make a tunic with sleeves). Create a basic pant pattern that fits you. Make your body mold with duct tape, stuff it. Drape fabric and go from 3D shapes to 2D flat pattern. 

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Sat 10 am to 12 noon: Decorating Jeans (April 25th to June 6th) - $169

Use folk art decorative stitches, yarns and metallic threads, appliques, laces and beads on your jeans

or jean jacket to create a legacy artwork. 

EVENING CRAFT CLASSES - June Piper-Brandon and Lee Andersen

Thursday 6 pm to 8 pm: Art Quilted Jacket (May 7th to June 11th) - $199 (Bring Your Own Buttons)

Make a free form landscape or abstract artwork out of hundreds of fabrics provided or some of your

own stash. Measure yourself or child and make a jacket from your quilting. Add funky buttons, loops

and pockets. Specialty Art Buttons are available for purchase. The final class includes a photoshoot

for those who want it. 

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Friday 6 pm to 8 pm: Painted Linoleum Floor Mat (May 8th to June 12th) - $169

Select your mat size and prepare the surface.  Create a repeating pattern border through stenciling

and paint an artistic inside image.

Finish the surface to make it strong enough to walk on.

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SUNDAY CURIOSITY CLASSES

Sunday  10am - 4 pm: ONE DAY to RUNWAY - $199 (includes $40 in materials) Limit 6 students per class for this intensive workshop. Suitable for 8-18 year olds.

Attendees have the opportunity to create a mood board and draw their own ideas. They select from our 3000 rolls of fabric, 1000 trims and 1000 buttons.

Our staff, (at a ratio of one staff per two students) helps with measuring, patternmaking, cutting and sewing. Students get basic modeling training and finish with a photoshoot, all in one day. Students must have a parent or chaperone attend with them (FREE)
Dates Offered: 

Ages 8 to 18: Every Sunday starting May 10th 

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MAKERSPACE

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 6pm to 8pm ($40), or from 6pm to 10pm ($80). 

MDfin provides a staff member to provide training on the industrial straight sew machines and industrial overlock or sergers. 

Makers have the immediate use of the huge cutting tables suitable for spreading out large projects.

Limit of 8 Makers per evening. Priority is given to Makers who prepay for consistent days and times. 

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RUNWAY TO BUSINESS

9 to 5 pm Monday through Friday are dedicated to INTENSIVE work time for our RUNWAY TO BUSINESS students to launch their brands. 

These students have the opportunity to learn 200 skills related to fashion and business.

Ideally they show at NEW YORK FASHION WEEK and go on to run their own business even if it isn't in the Fashion Industry.

They cover the entire cycle of the design to production, sales to finances. This intensive program is ideal for a student who has graduated high school

but does not want to take a traditional college path. It suits a person who learns best by DOING, with no externally imposed homework or exams.

No courses on English, Science or Math requirements other than those that apply practically to Fashion design, production and business.

These practical skills usually come more easily to the student as they are in control of the pace and timing of the learning.

It is also ideal for a retired person who has a lifelong dream to explore Fashion Design.

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