The Handsewn Wardrobe

Name: The Handsewn Wardrobe
Brand: Gardners Books Ltd
SKU: 9781635866261
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A Complete Guide to Making Your Own Clothes from Patternmaking to the Finishing Stitches

By Louisa Owen Sonstroem

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Discover the slow, quiet joy of sewing clothes by hand in this one-of-a-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... Read More

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The Handsewn Wardrobe

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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).

Description

Discover the slow, quiet joy of sewing clothes by hand in this one-of-a-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.

The Handsewn Wardrobe is a rich resource for anyone looking to embrace the art of hand-sewing and create a sustainable, thoughtfully curated wardrobe.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781635866261

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 August 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Illustration: Full-colour; photographs and illustrations throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 208.0mm

Height: 256.0mm

Weight: 1120g

Pages: 344

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Arts & Culture Arts and Crafts Louisa Owen Sonstroem Non-Fiction

About the Author

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.