Sew Your Own Wide-Leg Trousers or Shorts
About this workshop
Walk in with zero sewing experience, walk out wearing trousers you actually made yourself. This beginner sewing class in Amsterdam is exactly as satisfying as it sounds.
Over three hours at the Naaicafé sewing studio, you'll learn how to work a sewing machine while constructing a real pair of wide-leg trousers or shorts from start to finish. You'll follow the full process: cutting fabric, reading a pattern, sewing seams, and finishing edges so everything holds together properly. The focus is on practical technique, not theory, so you spend most of the time actually making.
You leave with a finished, wearable pair of wide-leg trousers or shorts, plus the sewing skills to make another one on your own.
Small group, good machines, no experience needed.
About the host
DE STEEK is Amsterdam's go-to spot for anyone who wants to learn to sew, stitch, or fix what they already own. Part sewing café, part fabric shop, part workshop studio. It's a proper creative space where making things with your hands is just what people do on a Tuesday afternoon. Founded in 2019 by fashion designer Natalie de Koning, DE STEEK grew out of eight years of teaching sewing across Amsterdam. The idea was simple: bring it all under one roof, make it accessible to everyone, and ditch the intimidation factor completely. It worked. At the studio, a rotating team of fashion designers and textile artists run workshops on everything from pattern cutting to natural dyeing to visible mending.
DE STEEK's workshops attract total beginners and experienced makers alike. No judgement, no pressure, just good instruction, the right tools, and a room full of people figuring it out together.
Available Sessions
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