SEWING & MAKING

Making clothes changes how you understand them.
This journal explores sewing as a craft learning through education, repetition, and experience. It reflects on fit, construction, the quiet knowledge that comes from working with garments by hand rather than simply wearing them.

  • Muslin garment in progress on a dress form, showing fitting adjustments and fabric shaping during the sewing process

    What Sewing Teaches You About Fit

    Fit is one of those things most of us don’t question—until something feels off. A dress that pulls in the shoulders. Trousers that fit at the waist but nowhere else.A garment...

    What Sewing Teaches You About Fit

    Fit is one of those things most of us don’t question—until something feels off. A dress that pulls in the shoulders. Trousers that fit at the waist but nowhere else.A garment...

  • What Learning Proper Construction Changed About...

    Learning to sew didn’t just teach me how to make clothes—it changed how I see them. Like many people during Covid, I found myself spending more time online. Gradually, my...

    What Learning Proper Construction Changed About...

    Learning to sew didn’t just teach me how to make clothes—it changed how I see them. Like many people during Covid, I found myself spending more time online. Gradually, my...

1 3