Choosing Sustainable Fashion: How to Create a Conscious Closet How to Shop Your Closet: 3 Sustainable Outfit Ideas Upstyle Sustainable Fashion: How To Build An Eco Friendly Wardrobe Do It Yourself 10 Sustainable Fashion Bloggers To Follow For Ethical Fashion Choices The Rise of Sustainable Fashion: How to Shop More Consciously. Sustainable Style accompanies sewers at all levels on their creative journey to reduce, reuse and recycle ultimately creating their own considered closet. Starting with the essentials, sewers will learn how to maintain and care for their sewing machine, find out the secrets to using an overlocker (and what to do if you don't have one) and the key to pattern matching. With a guide that demystifies the fitting process, and with expert sewing tips on making alterations, you'll be able to choose from 27 projects, for both women and men, that will ease you into the world of sustainable sewing. For burgeoning dressmakers, this book showcases a vast array of sustainable and natural fabrics, reveals how to breathe life into old garments and entices the would be sewer to dress handmade. Interspersed with sustainable tips, from advice on keeping an eco friendly sewing space and how to better care for your garments, to guidance on recycling old clothes, using up fabric scraps and making repairs, this book is an indispensable reference to a more considered approach to sewing, that will encourage you to create long lasting projects to cherish. With womenswear sizes ranging from 34 to 50 and menswear sizes ranging from XS to XL, along with downloadable PDF pattern sheets, expert sewers Caroline Akselson and Alexandra Bruce cover everything you need to build your sewing repertoire and grow in confidence as you sew yourself sustainable. Alexandra Bruce and Caroline Akselson run an independent sewing company. Coming from a background in costume design, they have a wealth of combined knowledge on garment construction and have independently worked for a number of high profile clients. Alexandra and Caroline also teach and speak about sewing and sustainability in a hope to inspire people to lead a more sustainable life through sewing.