Mend Your Way to Sustainable Style: 26 Patchwork and Embroidery Projects for Personalized Sewing. Create Sustainable Fashion with Boro Stitching, Applique, and Easy Hand-Sewing Ideas for Beginners - Softcover

Parriud, Cosabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1639811567 ISBN 13: 9781639811564

Publisher: Landauer Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

Transform your wardrobe and reduce fashion waste with creative, mindful sewing projects!

Discover a stylish and sustainable way to refresh your clothes with Sewing Workshop: Wardrobe Makeover. Featuring 26 modern upcycling ideas, this inspiring guide invites you to embrace slow stitching and make 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.

• 26 beginner-friendly projects that teach simple ways to repair, restyle, and reinvent your wardrobe using visible mending and upcycling techniques
• Perfect for beginners, there is no special equipment required — 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 handbook, 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 over perfection, encouraging you to enjoy the process and rediscover the clothes you love, encouraging everyday wear. Support your personal wellness and creativity through slow crafting and enjoy the mental health and mindfulness benefits of stitching and handwork.

This is an ideal sewing book for beginners and creative adults who want to learn sustainable fashion and clothing repair at home. Perfect 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 Sewing Workshop: Wardrobe Makeover!

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Landauer Publishing
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1639811567
• ISBN 13: 9781639811564
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96