Osas Olumese Training Institute

  Learn to sew and draft pattern with us at OOTI Registration is ON for our Foundation Course in Sewing and Pattern Drafting .  This course consist of three of our former courses, packaged together; which are, Foundation Course in sewing and pattern drafting, Skirt Variation Course and Bodice Course.  This course is designed for the fashion enthusiast, and those who may or may not have prior sewing knowledge, who is new to pattern making methods. The course covers a wide range of skirts; with the skirt block manipulated, alongside the student’s measurement, to come up with new and complex styles of skirts. Styles such as bias cut skirt, six-pieces, tulip, gathered, pleated skirts, would be analyzed and brought to life. The close-fit bodice block is also manipulated in this course, resulting in more complex bodice styles- such as cowl neck, raglan, illusion neck off shoulder, etc. The emphasis of this course is a fitted bodice. A novice, through this course, would gai...

I remember when I was a lot younger… I think I was in secondary school, my mother took me to a tailor to get measured for a garment. According to my mother, this tailor was on-point (you know what I mean) as in his work was beautiful. Learn how to sew at OOTIKano I cannot remember being so excited about it, but who would not love to have more clothe as a child. Fast forward to the day when I received the clothe…. My response was…Is this it? The finishing was poor, the fit was not it. We took it for a number of amendment, and at a point, I just stopped, thinking I would grow to meet the cloth over time LOL. This memory is what caused me to keep asking myself “there must be something more”, as I learnt how to make clothing using the free hand method of doing things. This questions led me to the answer - pattern making. I wanted the focus of my garment to have a lot of emphasis on its Fit and Finish . I would not say I have arrived, but I constantly want to out-do my last job...