Would you like to have new types of creative fun whilst saving money AND reducing your environmental impact? Sewing clothes from fabric scraps gives you all these things, AND the results are always completely unique. Today I’m sharing everything I’ve learnt over the years about sewing clothes from scraps. And although there’s never a right way or wrong way to approach sewing with scraps, these pointers will help you get started quickly if it’s something you’d like to try.
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**Download the guide that accompanies this episode ‘How to Sew Clothes From Fabric Scraps’**
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Fast track your fabric knowledge with the downloadable ‘Introduction to Garment Fabrics’ guide.
Pattern suggestions for self-piecing:
Brindille & Twig (all children’s)
Grainline Studios
Helen’s Closet
Named Clothing
Tessuti Patterns
True Bias
Waves and Wild
Pattern suggestions for pattern-led piecing:
Bel’Etoile
Blueprints for Sewing
Elizabeth Sweetwater
Jennifer Lauren Handmade
Matchy Matchy Sewing Club (most of them)
Megan Nielsen
Misusu Patterns (most of them) which include childrens as well as adult designs.
Sew Liberated:
Tessuti Patterns
Tilly and the Buttons:
Here are some wonderful, creative businesses and individuals who are creating awesome garments with piecing fabrics:
Improv quilters, modern quilters and boro practitioners are also a fantastic source of piecing inspiration. Take a look at the following:
Two more resources that might be useful:
#145: 5 Simple Tactics to Save on Sewing
#144: London Destash Fabric Swap 2024
#143: No Small Business on a Dead Planet
#142: Values Based Spending and Making with Shams el-Din Rogers
#141: Resourcefulness, Resilience and Wealth with Laura Oldanie
#140: Sew Organised Style Podcast – The Nest Community
#139: Behind the Scenes of Podcast Making with Maria Theoharous
#138: Making Sewing Podcasts with Maria Theoharous
#137: 5 Ways to Update Unworn Me-Mades
#136: Activism in Real Life with Beedy Parker
#135: How to Triage your Mends with Jeanna Wigger
#134: You Can Mend Clothes
#133: Mending in Public
#132: A season of mending with Jeanna Wigger
#131: Self-Drafting for Fitting Success with Elisalex Jewell
#130: Zoe & Kim go to The Stitch Festival
#128: Scrap Strategies, Part 2
#127: Scrap Strategies, Part 1
#126: Sew the Precious with Stephanie Canada
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