The Handsewn Wardrobe: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own Clothes from Patternmaking to the Finishing Stitches

A comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to creating a custom capsule wardrobe, featuring in-depth, step-by-step instructions for hand-sewing nine pieces of clothing (no sewing machine required).

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.

• | Author: Louisa Owen Sonstroem
• | Publisher: Workman Publishing
• | Publication Date: Aug 07, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781635866261
• | ISBN-10: 163586626X