Creative Grit

This month, we challenge you to rethink your failures.

Fabric ideas and fitting details for this top.

Fabric ideas and fitting details for these overalls.

How to sew with twill fabrics.

Sewist and Black female entrepreneur Drea Johnson uses her creative platform for social activism, by Lori Caldwell.

Get creative with styling the Beckett overalls, by Farrah Dodson.

Break the rules with three pattern hacks for the Samson top, by Chelsea Miller.

When abandoning the quest for perfection makes you a better sewist, by Julicia James.

I challenge you to not just see your failures as obstacles, but as exercises in resilience, tenacity, and perseverance, by Maressa Fernandez.

How utilitarian workwear became a fashion staple, by Riley Smith.

Seamwork ambassadors show off their interpretations of this month’s pattern.

Meet the writers, makers, and artists behind this issue.