Yesterday, we did a training on shade marking, marking and bundling for our Spring Boot Camp training event (we still have a few openings) so this is a perfect time to discuss shade marking in more depth. I’d initially broached the subject 11 years ago in a post referring to bundling and bagging so this is a perfect follow up.…
Tag: Production
Spring 2016 Manufacturing Boot Camp
I know the project choice of this event isn’t going excite many but the targeted population and production goals should.
After interviewing social service agencies and workers, we decided to manufacture house dresses for elderly women. Reason being, once society feeds, houses and medicates the elderly, they are largely forgotten.…
Apparel Manufacturing Boot Camp -photos
I’ll write a post about the progress of the event we hosted last weekend very soon, maybe even tomorrow but for now, you can see photos of the event on the Albuquerque Fashion Incubator website.…
Manufacturing Boot Camp Progress Report #1
Late in coming but here is a tl;dr bullet point list of what we have accomplished so far with explanations to follow :
- Found “customers” for the donated coats.
- Nailed down the design -at least four times.
- Determined the size range (6-12).
The Sewing Factory School & Apparel Manufacturing Boot Camp
Okay! So by now you should have read the So I bought a sewing factory post and we can jump into what is going on next and that would be, a manufacturing boot camp session in this place that I’ve envisioned as a prototypically perfect sewing factory for people to visit in the event they want to learn how to set up their own factory, aka, The Sewing Factory School.…