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Is your wardrobe stuffed with me-mades? Whatever role garment sewing plays in your life, after a while, the clothes can really start to pile up. So how can we continue to take pleasure in sewing, without adding to your problem of too many clothes?
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Idea No. 1: Challenging ourselves.
Hear more about hand stitching clothing:
Ep. #15: Hand Stitching Clothes with Louisa Owen-Sonstroem
Ep. #73: The Seeds of Slow Sewing with Alexis Bailey
Learn more about improving fit:
Ep. #95: Refining Fit with Kate Roberts
Options for online courses to learn and develop new skills:
Project Patterns
Domestika
Craftsy
Idea No. 2: Sewing things that aren’t clothes.
My favourite bag pattern designers:
Noodlehead
Tytka Studio
Motif Studio Patterns
Merchant & Mills
Start your sew making journey at I Can Make Shoes.
Get inspired to make a quilt more sustainably by listening to the following previous episodes:
Ep. #19: Quilting and Considered Consuming with Shelly Sommer
Ep. #26: Harvesting Materials with Eliu Hernandez
Ep. #89: Threads of Sustainability with Bridget O’Flaherty
Ep. #105: A Habit of Curiosity with Heidi Parkes
Ep. #106: Reframing a Relationship with Clothes with Heidi Parkes
Ep. #116: Improv Scrap Play with Sherri Lynn Wood
Idea No. 3: Sewing clothes for other people
Idea No. 4: Sewing for charity
Make washable menstrual pads for:
Pachamama Project
Days for Girls
Make reusable tote bags for Boomerang Bags.
Make dress and other children’s garments from pillowcases for Little Dresses for Africa.
Idea No. 5: Mending!
Hear from super creative mending expert, Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald:
Ep. #39: Modern Mending with Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald
Ep. #40: Experimend with Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald
Get her book Modern Mending:
Consider the spectrum of mending possibility:
Ep. #68: Visible Vs Invisible Mending
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Published 04/29/24
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Published 04/22/24