Is your wardrobe stuffed with me-mades? Whatever role garment sewing plays in your life, after a while, the clothes can really start to pile up. So how can we continue to take pleasure in sewing, without adding to your problem of too many clothes?

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Idea No. 1: Challenging ourselves.

Hear more about hand stitching clothing:

• Ep. #15: Hand Stitching Clothes with Louisa Owen-Sonstroem 





• Ep. #73: The Seeds of Slow Sewing with Alexis Bailey 

Learn more about improving fit:

• Ep. #95: Refining Fit with Kate Roberts

Options for online courses to learn and develop new skills:

• Project Patterns





• Domestika





• Craftsy

Idea No. 2: Sewing things that aren’t clothes.

My favourite bag pattern designers:

• Noodlehead





• Tytka Studio





• Motif Studio Patterns





• Merchant & Mills

Start your sew making journey at I Can Make Shoes.

Get inspired to make a quilt more sustainably by listening to the following previous episodes:

• Ep. #19: Quilting and Considered Consuming with Shelly Sommer





• Ep. #26: Harvesting Materials with Eliu Hernandez





• Ep. #89: Threads of Sustainability with Bridget O’Flaherty





• Ep. #105: A Habit of Curiosity with Heidi Parkes





• Ep. #106: Reframing a Relationship with Clothes with Heidi Parkes





• Ep. #116: Improv Scrap Play with Sherri Lynn Wood

Idea No. 3: Sewing clothes for other people

Idea No. 4: Sewing for charity 

Make washable menstrual pads for:

• Pachamama Project





• Days for Girls

Make reusable tote bags for Boomerang Bags.

Make dress and other children’s garments from pillowcases for Little Dresses for Africa.

Idea No. 5: Mending!

Hear from super creative mending expert, Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald:

• Ep. #39: Modern Mending with Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald





• Ep. #40: Experimend with Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald

Get her book Modern Mending:

Consider the spectrum of mending possibility:

• Ep. #68: Visible Vs Invisible Mending