Our first class meeting will be Monday, June 24th in R416 from 9:45am until 3:50 pm. 

• Students must attend the entire class session. 

• Due to federal financial aid fraud guidelines, PCC policy is to drop students who miss the first or the second class session.

• After the first class meeting, PCC policy is to drop students who miss the equivalent of two class sessions.

WHAT DO YOU NEED FOR THE REST OF THE TERM?

Set up your notifications and profile picture in Canvas

More free stuff;

Patterns

I know the burden of the costs of materials for students is heavy.  Therefore, I digitized the patterns from Sewing for the Apparel Industry, 2nd Edition for those students who either rent, get a used copy or use the ebook that does not include the patterns. I will include the digitized patterns for free in Canvas. You re not required to print the digital copies from Canvas, I also made hardcopies of most of the patterns for students to trace off in class.

 Here are the links to other FREE sewing BOOKS!

You will need to log in to the PCC Shatford Library in order to access these books:

Sewing for Fashion Designers by Anette Fischer

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pasadena/detail.action?docID=2048462

Singer New Sewing Essentials : Updated and Revised Edition by Editors of Editors of Creative Publishing international

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pasadena/detail.action?docID=6200008

Here is another sewing book that I found for free:

The Sewing Book An Encyclopedic Resource of Step by Step Techniques

https://www.academia.edu/31105548/The_Sewing_Book_An_Encyclopedic_Resource_of_Step_by_Step_Techniques_DK_Publishing_2009_

Using  free sewing books will take more of your time to reconcile the content. I will do my best to help you with the process.

1. Free books are older

2. the information in the free book have different frames of reference that Sewing For The Apparel Industry; Two if the free books are geared toward home sewing, and not industrial, one of the free books is for the fashion industry, but for the UK, rather than the US fashion industry.

3. None of the free books have all the information that Sewing for the apparel Industry does, and all the page numbers and information in the free books are different from what is in the instructional videos and in Canvas.

So, students using the free books will have to use more than one of the books in order to ind all the information, use the indexed in each of the books to find the information, which will be slightly different (home sew instead of industrial, UK in stead of US), and will have to reconcile what is in the free books with what the teacher demonstrates in the videos.

4. Students using a book different from Sewing for the Apparel Industry 2nd Ed by Claire Shaeffer will need to be patient, as they will need to wait for teachers to correct grades on quizzes for questions where the answer requires the page number from Sewing for the Apparel Industry 2nd Ed by Claire Shaeffer

ATTENDANCE FOR THE ENTIRE 1ST CLASS MEETING IS REQUIRED 

NON ATTENDANCE OF THE ENTIRE 2ND CLASS MEETING MAY ALSO RESULT IN BEING DROPPED FROM THE COURSE.

 In addition to federal financial aid guidelines and PCC Policy, the on-campus, in-person section of Fash001A that meets in the PCC Fashion Design Studio is in high demand. The class is full, the waitlist is full and there is a real, physical, limit on space in the course.  It is better if for you to be informed, in case you need to make decisions. Therefore,  information is being provided out of due diligence, just so that you are all clear on the policy. Those who are physically in attendance the first week will have priority over those who are not in attendance. 

• The class is closed, the wait list is FULL, and additional students have requested to add the course, beyond those on the waitlist. 

• Seats in the class are limited to physical space and the number of functioning industrial lockstitch machines in the PCC Fashion Design Studio, as well as limitations due to safety concerns.

BE ON TIME, STAY UNTIL THE END

https://pasadena.edu/admissions-and-aid/admissions-and-records/attendance.php 

• PCC policy is to drop registered students who are late to the first class meeting, leave the first class meeting early, or who are not in attendance for the entire first class session.

•  PCC policy also stipulates that those who are not in attendance for the entire the second class session may be dropped from the course to make space to allow waitlisted students (who are in attendance for the entire first and second meetings) to add the course.

• More importantly, students are active for all 6 hours and 10 minutes of class (10:30am-5:30pm, minus breaks) learning and demonstrating equipment and lab safety procedures on the first class meeting.  On the second class meeting, we hit the ground running, and start our first project. You can't do the work the 2nd week, if you haven't done the preparation on the 1st week.  

• There is no make up availability for Fash001A  (no available lab hours and  qualified staff to administer the required number of hours of supervised safety instruction). Later in the term, there will be lab time for students to work outside of class, by appointment, only for registered students who have demonstrated proficiency in safe operation of industrial equipment during the first two weeks of Fash001A, who are comfortable using the equipment independently, and do not require assistance. 

• Registered students who wish to remain in the course must participate in the full 6 hours and 10 minutes of the first class meeting (minus breaks), and submit all work demonstrating safe machine operation, as well as the entire second class meeting, or they may be dropped so that a waitlisted student who has been in attendance and doing all the work for the first two weeks can add.

WAITLISTED? 

ATTEND THE ENTIRE 1ST CLASS MEETING

BE ON TIME, STAY UNTIL THE END

• Registered students who don't show to the first class meeting will be dropped to make room for waitlisted students who  participate in full class meetings (more details below)

• Participation in the full 6 hours and 10 minutes of the first TWO class meetings, and submitting all work demonstrating safe machine operation does NOT guarantee an add code or a spot in the class.

• Waitlisted students who wish to add the course must participate in the full 6 hours and 10 minutes of the first TWO class meetings, and submit all work demonstrating safe machine operation in order to be eligible to add the class if space becomes available. 

• If there is space, waitlisted students who have been in attendance for the entire first two class meetings, and submitted all work demonstrating safe machine operation may have an opportunity to add the course.  

• If space becomes available, eligible waitlisted students who have fully participated in entire class meetings may have an opportunity to add according to the priority assigned by the PCC waitlist. 

• Receipt of an add code does NOT guarantee an add code or a spot in the class. 

  • Add codes that are not used in a timely manner will be revoked and offered to another eligible student. 

  • Conversely, the add code you receive may have been previously assigned to another student who did not use the code in a timely manner, but if that code is not valid by the time you go to use it (ie. the instructor thought another student changed their mind and wasn't going to use the code, so she gave it to you, but the other student ended up using the code before you had the chance to type it in), it may not be possible to give another add code because the room is limited to 24 students, less if any of the machines are not in working order.  

• If you do not get into the class, options include trying to add a different section of this class and/or other classes this semester, trying to this class next semester (it is offered every term), go to the dean to make a formal request for another section of the class to be opened this term. If there are other students who also want to add, go together as a group. If you are not able to see the dean right away, wait in the division office, if possible, and whether you can wait in the office or not, send the request via email while you are waiting to speak to the dean.

NOT REGISTERED, NOT WAITLISTED, BUT STILL WANT TO ADD?

BEFORE THE START OF THE TERM, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE What To Do If a Class is Closed?  PAGE OF THIS SITE

• Participation in the full 6 hours and 10 minutes of the first TWO class meetings from 10:30am-5:30pm (minus breaks), and submitting all work demonstrating safe machine operation does NOT guarantee an add code or a spot in the class.

• Students who wish to add the course must participate in the full 6 hours and 10 minutes of the first TWO class meeting from 10:30am-5:30pm (minus breaks), and submit all work demonstrating safe machine operation in order to be eligible to add the class if space becomes available after all eligible waitlisted students who have fully participated in entire class meetings have been given the opportunity to be added. 

• If there is space, students who have been in attendance for the entire first two class meetings from 10:30am-5:30pm (minus breaks), and submitted all work demonstrating safe machine operation may have an opportunity to add the course.  

• If space becomes available, eligible students who have fully participated in entire class meetings may have the opportunity to add in the order assigned by the instructor (according to the date/order in which students contacted the instructor, based on the instructor's records).

Receipt of an add code does NOT guarantee an add code or a spot in the class. 

• Add codes that are not used in a timely manner will be revoked and offered to another eligible student. 

• Conversely, the add code you receive may have been previously assigned to another student who did not use the code in a timely manner, but if that code is not valid by the time you go to use it (ie. the instructor thought another student changed their mind and wasn't going to use the code, so she gave it to you, but the other student ended up using the code before you had the chance to type it in), it may not be possible to give another add code because the room is limited to 24 students, less if any of the machines are not in working order.  

Options in the event you do not get into the class

1. Reach out to other teachers about adding a different section of this class and/or other classes this semester, 

2. Go to the dean to make a formal request for another section of the class to be opened this term. 

   • If there are other students who also want to add, go together as a group. 

   • If you are not able to see the dean right away, wait in the division office to speak to someone today, if possible 

   • whether you can wait in the office or not, send the request via email while you are waiting to speak to the dean.

3. Reach out to your counselor in person and in writing about adding another section of the class to the schedule this semester

4. Register for the class next semester (it is offered every term),