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Makers for Fashion Revolution 2019
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New pattern in collaboration with Peppermint Magazine : Wrap skirt

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The Darlow pants pattern is finally here!
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Saying goodbye to 2018
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New pattern in collaboration with Peppermint Magazine : The Playsuit

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In the Folds just turned three!
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Would you like to pattern test for In the Folds?
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It's pattern testing time again!
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New pattern in collaboration with Peppermint Magazine : The Ruffle Sleeve Top

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Printed sewing patterns are almost here!

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New pattern in collaboration with Peppermint Magazine : The Pleated Summer dress

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New Pattern in collaboration with Peppermint Magazine : The Jumpsuit

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The Collins Top Sew-along : Finishing up (sewing button and tacking the facing)
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The Collins Top Sew-along : Finishing the hem with bias binding
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The Collins Top Sew-along : Sewing an all-in-one facing
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How to sew a hand-stitched button loop
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The Collins Top Sew-along : Attaching the shoulder panels (View B)
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The Collins Top Sew-along : Hemming + sewing button in place
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The Collins Top Sew-along : Binding the neckline
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The Collins Top Sew-along : How to make a button loop closure
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The Collins Top Sew-Along : Sewing the sleeves
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How to sew a bias bound seam
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The Collins Top Sew-Along : Assembling the body of the top (both views)
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Introducing Saki - Sew-along photographer and all-round awesome maker!
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The Collins Top Sew-along : Planning your top (free downloadable template)
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The Collins Top Sew-Along : Lengthening the pattern
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The Collins Top Sew-along : Re-drafting the facing (required after full bust adjustment)
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The Collins Top Sew-along : Full bust adjustment - removing the bust dart
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The Collins Top Sew-along : Full bust adjustment (FBA for a dartless bodice)
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The Collins Top Sew-along : Tester Round-up
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I’m Emily and welcome to my little corner of the internet, where I share my passion for the art of pattern making and sewing through the design of beautiful patterns and the development of thorough and thought-provoking tutorials.
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Taylor of @blueprintsforsewing is writing some great posts this week for #fashionrevolution Head over to have a read. Thought this one fit well with the ‘Well worn’ prompt for #makersforfashrev . . . . #Repost @blueprintsforsewing ・・・ USE WHAT YOU HAVE .:. As a fashion history teacher, I spend a lot of time thinking about the development of consumer culture and how mercantilism, trade routes, colonialism, technology, politics, and more have shaped our present day fashion industry. Over time, we’ve been trained to desire more / new things and also that we must throw away the old (while the location of ‘away’ is conveniently obscured). Planned obsolesce prematurely ends our relationship to our possessions. Definitions of personal success, expressions of love, and measures of value are entangled in the system of capitalism. .:. Can we imagine a fashion industry that places the same amount of value on maintenance and care and recycling of clothing as it does the production and consumption of clothing? An industry that values the intimate stories behind clothing as much as the brand names and status? What would that look like? .:. Let’s buy less clothing and love what we have more. Let’s trade or share with each other. What if we came up with endless creative ways to repair and maintain our clothes? To reinvent them and turn them into something new? Let’s reimagine how to wear garments we’ve owned forever. We can fall back in love again. What if we never threw anything away but kept repurposing things until they were used up? Can we make that fashion? To me, the fundamentals of fashion should not be profit or prestige, but rather creativity, expression, and empowerment. .:. I have a little fashion utopia in my mind and I’ll continue to talk about ways we can work to bring this little dream to life during the rest of fashion revolution week (size convos, gender, cultural appropriation, diversity, and more to come!) .:. Pictured above is one of my favorite old sweaters, darned with contrasting yarn to turn a repair into a design detail. What is your favorite reuse or mending or recycling project you’ve done recently?
Day 4 of #makersforfashrev is 'Well worn.' I love the signs fabrics and clothing show of being worn, loved and cherished. Today I would love to see photos of your most worn garments - the ones you wear over and over. They may show signs of wear, parts you have mended, or ways they have changed over time.⁣⠀ .⁣⠀ .⁣⠀ .⁣⠀ Repost @fash_rev⁣⠀ “The simplest step we can take is to wear our clothes for longer. Look after them, repair them, restyle and re-invent them, swap them with friends and pass them on. Just increasing the lifespan of our clothes reduces all of their environmental impacts; for greenhouse gases “doubling the useful life of clothing from one year to two years reduces emissions over the year by 24%”, as does buying second hand clothes” – ‘Timeout for Fast Fashion’ @Greenpeace ⁣⠀ Let’s keep our clothing for longer, and reduce our carbon footprint in the process, because #LovedClothesLast 💪💪💪 #FashionRevolution⁣⠀
Day 3 round-up for #makersforfashrev ‘All in the details.’ Some important dialogue starting and hopefully encouraging all of us (including me) to think about the best way to create lasting change. Clockwise from top left: 1. #Repost @sam_sunsetred . With each garment I become more careful and more detail-loving. Not only because it makes my clothes unique, but also because it makes the pieces more durable. Careful processing, for example with French seams, slanted tape or cross-cut seams, resists later stresses and washes much longer. . 2. #Repost @ninaninawhy ・・・ Well, I guess Day 3 of #MakersForFashRev is the day I finally lose whatever sewing community and ‘ethical fashion’ friends I have left 😂, because the prompt is #AllInTheDetails and all I can think of is the ways in which that misses the point of #FashionRevolutionWeek, and then all the ways in which #FashRev itself might be a very well-meant exercise in point-missing… BUT before I get going, if you only have time for one long IG caption today, go and read @aboubakarfofana’s instead, because it’s miles better.⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣I do agree with @inthefolds that, for those of us with the freedom to choose to consume beyond our basic needs, our relationship with our clothes (and other ‘stuff’) has sustainability implications - of course; this is the essence of @fash_rev’s #LovedClothesLast slogan. You’ll find plenty of close-up sewing photos in my grid, too.⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣But the invitation to celebrate our own sewn details doesn’t sit well for me in a week that came out of the fourth largest industrial disaster in history. If 1,138 horrifying, preventable deaths (not to mention #ClimateEmergency) don’t ask us to get our heads out of our own buttonholes, I don’t know what does.⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣Sometimes the details matter. Microplastics might be called a detail. Or the small print under the greenwash. The details (and independent verification) that just aren’t there behind claims about “nice factories”.⁣ ⁣⁣Caption continues in comments...
For me, as a designer, ‘All in the details’ refers to a number of things. The first is the way wearers feel in the clothing I design. I like to think of how they will be worn, where they will be worn and add details that I know will make wearers feel comfortable and at ease. I also like to think long and hard about the details on the inside of the garment, the things that make wearers fall in love with a handmade garment - the seam finishes, pockets, waistbands.... I also think about the details of the construction - what will make the experience more enjoyable? Will an extra notch there help and encourage makers to know they’re on the right track? What finish will be the most satisfying and what is the best way to do it. Lastly I like to focus on the details of the pattern itself, ensuring it becomes a learning tool that is thorough and lovingly put together. For me, all of these things are what encourages a stronger bond between wearer and garment, and I believe this to be a big step in the direction of a more sustainable future for fashion. #makersforfashrev #darlowpants

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