Transform your wardrobe and reduce fashion waste with creative, mindful sewing projects!
Discover a stylish and sustainable way to refresh your clothes with Mend Your Way to Sustainable Style. Featuring 26 modern upcycling ideas, this inspiring guide invites you to embrace slow stitching. Explore creativity, sustainability, and personal expression through hands-on sewing that makes the most of what you already own.
Whether you're interested in boro stitching, appliqué, patchwork, or hand embroidery, each project helps you turn old garments into unique, wearable art. These techniques are approachable and focus on creativity over perfection, making the process rewarding for both beginners and experienced makers.
Inside you will find:
- 26 beginner-friendly projects that teach simple ways to repair, restyle, and reinvent your wardrobe using visible mending and upcycling techniques
- No special equipment needed, just a needle, thread, fabric scraps, and your imagination
- Beautifully photographed examples show creative uses of color, texture, and fabric layering for both men's and women's clothing
- Sustainable sewing inspiration offers a creative and empowering alternative to fast fashion and helps you save money while reducing textile waste
- Therapeutic and relaxing, these hand-sewing projects promote mindfulness, creativity, and self-expression
Written by French patchwork expert Cosabeth Parriaud, a leading voice in contemporary patchwork, this instructional sewing book reflects her celebrated approach to transparency, color, and upcycled materials. Her international teaching and exhibition experience brings clarity and confidence to every project, making it ideal for both new and experienced makers.
With only a basic sewing kit, a few scraps of fabric, and this sustainable sewing guide, you'll learn how to hide stains with embroidery, patch holes with artistic flair, or give a faded shirt new life through sashiko-inspired boro stitching. Each design focuses on creativity, encouraging you to enjoy the process and rediscover the clothes you love. The calm, focused nature of hand sewing supports mindfulness as you work, making the process as rewarding as the finished garment.
This sewing book is designed for creative adults who want to learn sustainable fashion and clothing repair at home. Ideal for sewing enthusiasts, quilters, crafters, and anyone interested in sustainable living or DIY clothing repair, it makes a thoughtful gift for creative friends, sewists, embroiderers, fashion students, and eco-conscious makers who appreciate hand-stitched detail and slow fashion values.
Bring new life to your old clothes, express your style, and join the growing movement of mindful makers creating beauty through sustainability, with Mend Your Way to Sustainable Style!
Cosabeth Parriaud is recognized in the world of patchwork as a designer, teacher, artist, and author. She designs projects for specialized magazines and fabric publishers. She has been passionate about upcycling and recycled fabrics for several years. She is also one of the teachers of the Artesane.com platform and teaches various subjects on patchwork in France and Europe.
Known for her work on color and transparency, she has been involved in the "contemporary patchwork" movement from the beginning and her quilts have participated in the largest exhibitions in France and abroad. Cosabeth is the author of the book Le Patchwork published by Marabout in 2022. She has also co-written three books: Les Patchworks du Rouvray (Martingale/ T.P.P), Patchwork, Les bases (LTA) and Provence, Quilts and Cuisine published by C&T in English.
