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