Creative Grit | Seamwork Magazine

The Samson Top & The Beckett Overalls

What is Creative Grit?

This month, we challenge you to rethink your failures.
Sew the Samson Top

Fabric ideas and fitting details for this top.
Sew the Beckett Overalls

Fabric ideas and fitting details for these overalls.
What is Twill?

How to sew with twill fabrics.
Hidden Opulence

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

Get creative with styling the Beckett overalls, by Farrah Dodson.
Pattern Hackers: How to Add Volume and Gathers to a Sleeve

Break the rules with three pattern hacks for the Samson top, by Chelsea Miller.
Create in Abundance: On Choosing Quantity Over Quality

When abandoning the quest for perfection makes you a better sewist, by Julicia James.
Failure Is the Birthplace of Creativity

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

How utilitarian workwear became a fashion staple, by Riley Smith.
8 Ways to Sew the Beckett Overalls

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

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