Brittany Honrade
Seamstress/ Hat Maker/ Longarm Quilter
Anaheim,CA
Summary
Hardworking and passionate seamstress with accustomed to working in a fast paced and deadline driven environment. In search of creative opportunity to increase responsibilities, contribute skills, and expand knowledge. Ready to help team achieve company goals.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Pastry Baker
Disneyland Resort
Anaheim, CA
05.2019 - Current
- Determined quantity of product to prepare for next day operation by maintaining detailed production schedule.
- Maintained well-organized mise en place to keep work consistent.
- Prepared all pastry items in accordance with standards of quality, quantity control, taste and presentation.
- Check the quality of raw materials to ensure that standards and specifications are met.
- Measure or weigh flour or other ingredients to prepare batters, doughs, fillings, or icings, using scales or graduated containers.
- Portioned dough or batter in pans, molds, or on sheets and bake in production ovens.
- Apply glazes, icings, or other toppings to baked goods, using spatulas or piping bags and tips.
- Decorate baked goods, such as cakes or pastries according to job aid.
- Ensure quality checks of items before being packaged and sent to venues.
Seamstress/ Production Assistant
Misallati Hat Club
Garden Grove, CA
02.2016 - Current
- Meet with head designer, review work order notes and measurements.
- Follow patterns to cut small batch and custom order hats and other items (i.e. button up shirts, hip bags, and face masks)
- Use wide variety of textiles and techniques.
- Textiles are often stabilized using various heat and bond methods. Other textile effects may be applied, distressed effects, custom quilting, layered collage, fussy cutting, secret pockets and custom embroidery.
- Guide parts under machine needle to form crown, sides, brim, sweatband, or to join parts together to fabricate article.
- Hat crowns are steam blocked on professional hat forms for a smooth fit.
- Other sewing duties include making custom shirts, jackets, fanny packs, and face masks.
- Altering or repairing customers' garments and other articles, which includes hemming, mending, lengthening, as well as taking in and letting out seams.
- Constructing garments and other articles according to customers’ specifications and preferences
- Using irons and pressing machines to erase creases on garments and other articles
- Other sewing skills to make these items include sewing on buttons, making button holes, installing zippers, snaps, and buckles.
- Ensuring that sewing machines and other equipment are in good working order.
Cosmic Quilting
Assistant Quilter
Lake Forest, CA
02.2016 - Current
- Meet with shop owner and review work order and notes.
- Sort and count shirts, choose quilt size and style.
- Use shears to rough cut shirts.
- Stabilize fabric with fusible heat and bond product and industrial heat press.
- Cut stabilized shirts into perfect "blocks" using rotary cutter, self healing cutting mat, and various size plastic templates.
- Arrange blocks in columns and rows to create patchwork quilt "top". Sew blocks together according to arrangement.
- Load quilt top with backing fabric and batting onto long arm machine.
- Utilize computer connected to long arm quilting machine to choose design that will be quilted on patchwork quilt top. Let machine know to begin process of quilting.
- After quilting process is complete, quilt is trimmed and double fold binding is sewn to edge for finishing.
Education
Associate of Science - Baking And Pastry
The Art Institute of California- San Diego
San Diego 02.2009 - 06.2011
Skills
Adaptive
undefinedTimeline
Pastry Baker
Disneyland Resort
05.2019 - Current
Seamstress/ Production Assistant
Misallati Hat Club
02.2016 - Current
Cosmic Quilting
Assistant Quilter
02.2016 - Current
Associate of Science - Baking And Pastry
The Art Institute of California- San Diego
02.2009 - 06.2011
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