clothing alterations and repairs

By learning to repair your garments, you can significantly lessen your carbon footprint and breathe new life into your wardrobe. Also read how to care for your clothes, naturally.

Clothing Alterations & Repairs is the ultimate guide to learn how to alter and repair clothes you already own, whether to extend their life or to achieve the perfect. Whether you’ve always wanted to know how to darn a sock, mend a hole or take up a hem, this book can show you how.

Ideal for anyone interested in mending their own clothes, this is also a good manual for anyone considering a home business in sewing. The book features illustrated projects. You’ll learn how to:

  • Hem clothes
  • Take in or let out seams
  • Repair broken zippers
  • Fix tears & holes

There is also a detailed section on more complex techniques like:

  • Adjusting suit jacket sleeves
  • Reshaping necklines
  • Fixing backpacks, tents & bags

Chesley Byrd Lewallen is a lecturer in apparel, textile and design in Idaho, USA. She is also a sewist, artist and teacher who loves making clothes fit beautifully, while keeping textiles out of landfills.

Repair What You Wear has free online guides to help mend tears, replace zippers, darn holes in socks, patch elbows on jumpers and sew on missing buttons. Steamery Sewing Kit is sold in a roll case and contains scissors, a seam ripper, fabric pen and threads, sewing pins and needles, safety pins, a metal thimble, measuring tape, quick patches, buttons and a needle threader.

Use organic cotton sewing thread and organic cotton fabric. If sewing with upcycled synthetic fibres (like polyester) launder in a microfiber filter. Keep sewing materials away from children and pets.

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