Zero Waste Sewing: 16 projects to make, wear and enjoy

by Elizabeth M Haywood

Overview

Are you looking for a new sewing adventure?
Patternmaker and sewing teacher Elizabeth Haywood offers 16 wearable projects, cleverly designed to use 100% of the fabric, with no scraps or waste.
Zero waste patternmaking is one strategy for making fashion more sustainable and can also result in innovative garment shapes.
This book presents a variety of zero waste cutting themes, some new, some historical, but all influenced by the cloth itself.
Follow the clear step-by-step instructions to maximise your fabric usage, grow in confidence and create versatile garments you'll enjoy wearing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780646808024
Publisher:	Cooatalaa Press
Publication date:	03/14/2020
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	1,138,454
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Haywood trained as a patternmaker, combining her love of maths, drawing, fabric and stationery. She was fortunate to find something she loved doing early on in adult life and remained passionate about patternmaking over a twenty year career in clothing manufacture. She now writes and teaches sewing, and is the author of the award-winning The Dressmaker's Companion-A practical guide to sewing clothes. Read her sewing and fashion blog at www.lizhaywood.com.au

Table of Contents

6 All projects at a glance

8 Introduction

10 Making the projects in this book

A top from a square

14 tie front top

22 hooded blouson

30 yo-yo top

34 side drape top

38 geometric top

One seam

44 introduction to one seam

48 simple dress

54 extra: jacket

56 coat dress

64 cardigan jacket

69 moebius scarf

70 hooded robe

76 hooded coat variation

Tessellated

78 introduction to tessellated

80 boho dress

87 boho caftan variation

88 wrap skirt

94 wrap trousers

102 dress + coat

114 playsuit

127 Sewing techniques

135 Making zero waste patterns

138 Further reading

140 Index

141 Acknowledgements

142 About the author