#17: What are zero waste sewing patterns?

Welcome to Episode 17! So whilst clothing made using zero and low waste practices is as old as clothing itself, zero waste patterns available for home sewing is a relatively new phenomena. This episode is an introduction to the topic, and I plan to build on it in the future with conversations with zero waste designers and practitioners.  The Zero Waste Fashion Design book by Holly McQuillan and Timo Rissanen via Bookshop.org HERE. Liz Haywood’s Zero Waste Legacy Sewing ondemand class available HERE.  Check out the Zero-Waste Pattern Database for a pretty comprehensive list of all ZW sewing patterns currently available HERE. Birgitta Helmersson HERE. Liz Haywood’s website, The Craft of Clothes, HERE. Milan AV-JC HERE.  Elbe Textile’s ZW Maynard dress pattern HERE, plus a free robe tutorial HERE.  Make/Use HERE.  CrisWood Sews HERE.  Thread Faction Studio, ZW patterns for children’s wear, HERE.  ZeroWasteDesignOnline HERE, plus on Instagram @zwdo_collective. The amazing resource that is the Sewcialists blog has a whole series of posts as part of a Zero-Waste theme month they hosted in February HERE.  Love to Sew podcast devoted an episode to discussing various aspects of zero-waste sewing, Episode 180: Zero Waste Sewing HERE.  Previous CYT guest, Wendy Ward, has a great blog post called Zero Waste Sewing HERE.  Seamwork has a fantastic blog post called ‘Zero-Waste Design: the creation of wastefree garments’, written by Jessica Yen HERE.