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The Handsewn Wardrobe

A Complete Guide to Making Your Own Clothes from Patternmaking to the Finishing Stitches

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By Louisa Owen Sonstroem

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On Sale
Aug 5, 2025
Page Count
344 pages
Publisher
Storey
ISBN-13
9781635866261

Price

$35.00

Price

$45.00 CAD

Format

  1. ebook

Format:

  1. Hardcover $35.00 $45.00 CAD
  2. ebook $25.00 $32.99 CAD

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Discover the slow, quiet joy of sewing clothes by hand in this one-of-kind guide. 

Featuring step-by-step, illustrated instructions, this hand-sewing course-in-a-book shows you how to create nine wardrobe staples, including a t-shirt, button-up, and jeans, using simple hand-sewing and hand-stitching techniques. Author Louisa Owen Sonstroem shares her sustainable, empowering, and portable craft with gentle encouragement and guidance. Sewists of all experience levels will learn how to: 

   ·Draft a pattern to fit custom measurements. 
   ·Select and cut fabric.
   ·Construct each garment without using a sewing machine. 

Genre:

  • Nonfiction
  • Crafts & Hobbies
  • Sewing

Louisa Owen Sonstroem studied design and patternmaking at Fashion Institute of Technology. She works in technical design and patternmaking, most recently for Eileen Fisher and Macy's. Louisa teaches hand sewing and patternmaking classes. She also started Patternmaking in Public Places (PIPP), an outreach project to democratize access to patternmaking skills. Louisa lives in Connecticut with her family, in a house filled with board books, dog beds, and lots of fabric.

  • The absolute best thing about making something yourself is the feeling of power and accomplishment you get, knowing this beautiful, useful thing you’ve made came from your own two hands. With The Handsewn Wardrobe you’ll develop the skills and the confidence to make one of our most basic essentials, clothing, from scratch. Celebrate the artistry and satisfaction of making clothing that’s not just wearable, but meaningful and enduring.

    Abby Glassenberg, Co-founder and President, Craft Industry Alliance
  • Louisa’s gentle encouragement and easy-to-follow, thorough instructions will empower sewists of all levels to slow down and experience the satisfaction of creating a handmade garment.

    Nina and Sonya Montenegro, author-illustrators of Mending Life and founders of The Far Woods
  • As someone who is already aboard the hand-sewing train, I am thrilled that The Handsewn Wardrobe now exists to inform those who seek the skills to sew clothes any time and place! Let us not be tethered to our sewing machines!

    Cal Patch, author of Design-It-Yourself Clothes

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Louisa Owen Sonstroem

About the Author

Louisa Owen Sonstroem studied design and patternmaking at Fashion Institute of Technology. She works in technical design and patternmaking, most recently for Eileen Fisher and Macy’s. Louisa teaches hand sewing and patternmaking classes. She also started Patternmaking in Public Places (PIPP), an outreach project to democratize access to patternmaking skills. Louisa lives in Connecticut with her family, in a house filled with board books, dog beds, and lots of fabric.

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