Follow this easy-peasy method to create a set of Christmas napkins with mitred corners – a lovely little gift that can be reused and reloved year after year…
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Tag: Sustainable sewing
Sewing cosy clothing for winter
From underwear to outerwear, keeping warm in winter is something of a fine art. What better way to layer-up than with your own home-sewn creations? Read on for a guide to sewing for the cold snap…
New adventures in embroidery: a guide for the restless dressmaker
Looking for something to occupy those fidgety digits of an evening? If you’re slowing your garment sewing, look no further than embroidery – it’s an easy leap with a number of surprising and unexpected satisfactions…
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Can you send homemade clothing to the charity shop?
Making clothes is a lot of fun, but what should we do with our makes when they don’t work out? Will your local charity shop or thrift store sell them on or send them off to be scrapped? Grinlow Studio busts a few sewing urban myths and delivers the lowdown on how to donate your unwanted creations…
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Sustainable sewing, part three: ways forward
Can we resolve the conflict between our creative passion and the waste it produces? The final instalment in this series on sustainable sewing explores some of the ways we can promote greater sustainability in our sewing practice…
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Sustainable sewing, part two: accountability
In part two in this short series, we move beyond the confessional and into the murky world of eco mud slinging. Should we be penalising individuals for what they sew, or is it time to look at the bigger picture?
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Sustainable sewing, part one: magic or myth?
Sewing can feel like magic – paying creative dividends in wellbeing and self-sufficiency – but is it really sustainable? Kicking off with a confessional, this short series explores our sewing habits and how the drive towards sustainability can sometimes turn out to be anything but…
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Refashion: turning a Lady McElroy dress into a boxy top and shirt
Refashioning is one of my favourite sewing pastimes, so when I fell out of love with a Simple Sew pattern hack I’d created for Love Sewing magazine, I knew it was time to transport this green spotty Lady McElroy viscose from dreamy summer maxi to something I would wear day in and day out…
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