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Making Clothes

Category: <span>Making Clothes</span>

Express your style by sewing clothes that fit the body and voice your spirit! From simple dresses and beginner clothing patterns to styling your dog in a DIY coat, find projects and how-to tips to make the best use of your fabric when you start stitching.

Browse through all of our clothing project ideas and inspiration, from the basics to wearable art.

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Wearable Art

Once in a Blue Moon coat

Spotlight: Marijke van Welzen, Wearable Artist

Marijke van Welzen creates wearable art using techniques she developed over the years. Not afraid of experimentation or a challenge, Marijke produces unique art garments that explore a theme or...

Fashion photo of shirt made from old embroidery pieces

Spotlight: Christine Mayer, Fashion Designer

Fashion upcycling pioneer Christine Mayer takes garments and textiles that have a history of use and transforms them into sought-after clothing designs. The new life she gives these textiles comes...

Fashion shot of some of Jenny's designs

Spotlight: Jenny Hill, Hand Felted Wearable Artist

After a southern California life in PR, Jenny Hill wanted to feed her creative side. She discovered felting and never looked back. Jenny immersed herself in organic farming and learned...

Inspiration for Making Your Own Clothes

Showing the finishing of a neckline

Spotlight: Sonya Philip, Garment Designer

Born in the Philippines to creative parents, Sonya Philip has explored the world of art with a multicultural perspective. In addition to the Philippines, her family has lived in San...

Sarah & Julie with their wardrobes

Spotlight: Sarah Gunn and Julie Starr, Sewists

Online sewing friends Sarah Gunn and Julie Starr met one day for lunch and the creative sparks flew! The result was their first successful book proposal, and they have collaborated,...

Fitting garments on mannequins

Spotlight: Steffani Lincecum, Sewing Pattern Maker

From playing with scraps from a sewing factory as a child to pattern making and an MFA in Costume Design, Steffani Lincecum found her calling. She is all about the...

More Making Clothes

French seam finished inside in blue and yellow

How to Sew a French Seam

A French seam is an option for finishing seams, generally used when sewing garments. It is a good choice when sewing light weight, sheer or translucent fabrics, such as chiffons,…
Green waistcoat in progress

Maggie Hofmann, Cosplayer and Costume Maker

Cosplayer and costume maker Maggie Hofmann makes it work. When the pandemic shut down the entertainment industry and the need for theatrical costumes, Maggie branched out as a freelancer, building…
Gown collage of gowns made by Joi

Spotlight: Joi Mahon, Fashion Sewing Entrepreneur

Fashion sewing entrepreneur Joi Mahon enjoys custom sewing and tailoring for clients, but she also has a passion for sharing her expertise with beginning and advancing sewists. With classes in…
Sachin sashiko jacket front

Spotlight: Sophie Cagniart, Fashion Designer

Fashion designer and textile artist Sophie Cagniart always knew she would do something creative with clothing but did not imagine elevating waste denim to an art form. By combining the…
Ice cream social dress

Spotlight: Erin Hentzel, Indie Pattern Designer

As many sewists do, indie pattern designer, author and teacher Erin Hentzel sewed for her children and their dolls. Sometimes the outfits matched, and other times the designs advanced hours,…
Jenny Rushmore Upton Dress 4 cropped

Spotlight: Jenny Rushmore, Pattern Designer

Challenged to find stylish clothes that fit and flattered her shape, body positive activist and pattern designer Jenny Rushmore decided to take back the power of fashion and develop a…
Quilt coat by Karoline

Spotlight: Karoline Dahrling Hughes, Sustainable Sewist

Rules? What rules? For sustainable sewist and crafter Karoline Dahrling Hughes, the joy is in the making. Creating is above all a happy pursuit filled with embraceable imperfections that we…
Shape of You

Spotlight: Dong Kyu Kim, Fiber Artist

While still a preschooler, Dong Kyu Kim would draw on anything he could get his hands on, improvising art supplies from pens, pencils and the margins of books. When he…
Showing the finishing of a neckline

Spotlight: Sonya Philip, Garment Designer

Born in the Philippines to creative parents, Sonya Philip has explored the world of art with a multicultural perspective. In addition to the Philippines, her family has lived in San…

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