Sewing Love: Handmade Clothes for Any Body

Sanae Ishida's Sewing Happiness teaches you to sew clothes that fit your unique body, empowering you to solve fit issues and create a capsule wardrobe of fashionable, timeless pieces. With self-drafted patterns and illustrated instructions, it makes pattern-making and garment sewing easy and enjoyable.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 23 August 2022
Publisher: Sasquatch Books

Sewing is an act of radical kindness and self-care that enables you to make exactly the kinds of clothes you want and solve the fit issues that come with buying commercial clothing designed to fit one ideal body type. Sanae Ishida, author of the award-winning Sewing Happiness, guides you through the process with her inspiring personal story and gentle instruction in the simple art of pattern-making and garment sewing. Create a complete capsule wardrobe of tops, bottoms, dresses, tunics, and outerwear that is fashionable yet timeless and lets you move with ease. Each of the 15 projects (including variations) is designed to look good on a wide variety of body types. Patternmaking has never been easier than in this intuitive, fully illustrated book. Includes a lookbook with photographs of the projects on diverse models, a primer on basic sewing, pattern drafting (slopers and muslins), and fitting, step-by-step illustrated instructions for all 15 projects and variations, and a heartwarming personal essay on the author's journey to body positivity.

Weight: 716g
Dimension: 186 x 216 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781632172815