Patchwork: A Sewist's Diary

Lyrical, probing, soothing, and wise, Patchwork is a strikingly original debut and a celebration of the remarkable, everyday process of making and remaking: of story, of clothing, and of ourselves.

“A gorgeous and tender exploration.”―Nina Mingya Powles

In Patchwork, a charming and evocative sewist's diary, Maddie Ballard explores the making (and sometimes remaking) of seventeen specific garments over a period of great change in her life―from a jacket lined with the embroidered Cantonese name...