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Product details
- ISBN 9781635866261
- Weight: 1120g
- Dimensions: 208 x 256mm
- Publication Date: 07 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Workman Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
