Sew Liberated
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Crafting & Crafting Classes
About
Sew Liberated began in a drafty adobe house on a street without a name in rural northern Mexico. The year was 2006, and Meg McElwee was working as a Montessori teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. With spotty connections to the outside world, Meg spent much of her time honing her sewing and pattern drafting skills. Eventually, she started a blog and began selling patterns based on her designs. Sew Liberated was one of the first indie pattern companies to emerge from the crafting renaissance, and hopes to remain a friendly and fashion-forward presence in the sewing community.
Over the years, Sew Liberated has evolved to focus on slow fashion, sustainability, and mentoring makers to look at their sewing as a practice of self-care. We believe that the act of making one’s own clothes can be transformative, personally and on a global scale, when done through the lens of sustainable fashion.
We have a series of online courses. The Mindful Wardrobe Project helps people heal their relationship with clothing and style, and adopt a healthy slow fashion practice. The Creative Hinterland teaches sewists how to level up their skills and dive into pattern drafting. And our Learn to Sew course path takes you from novice to expert sewist, all while you make beautiful garments.