The Handsewn Wardrobe
Hardback
A Complete Guide to Making Your Own Clothes from Patternmaking to the Finishing Stitches
Discover the slow, quiet joy of sewing clothes by hand in this one-of-kind guide.
Featuring step-by-step, illustrated instructions, this hand-sewing course-in-a-book shows you how to create nine wardrobe staples, including a t-shirt, button-up, and jeans, using simple hand-sewing and hand-stitching techniques. Author Louisa Owen Sonstroem shares her sustainable, empowering, and portable craft with gentle encouragement and guidance. Sewists of all experience levels will learn how to: - Draft a pattern to fit custom measurements. - Select and cut fabric.- Make nine pieces of clothing with simple hand-sewing techniques.- Construct each garment without using a sewing machine.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781635866261
- Author: Louisa Owen Sonstroem
- Pub date: 14.10.25
- RRP: $70.00
- Format: Hardback
Author
Louisa Owen Sonstroem
Louisa Owen Sonstroem is a maker, illustrator, educator, and technical designer. She studied design and patternmaking at Fashion Institute of Technology and pattern drafting at RISD and MassArt. She has worked in the garment industry as a technical designer at Macy's and Eileen Fisher. She teaches hand sewing and patternmaking classes and is the founder of Patternmaking in Public Places (PIPP), a project seeking to democratize access to patternmaking skills. She is the author of the self-published book, Hand Sewing Clothing: A Guide.