Welcome to Sew Your Own Style

Welcome to Sew Your Own Style! This course was originally run as a live 4-week Sew Your Own Style Programme, it proved so popular that I decided to offer it as a stand alone permanent course for you to complete at your own pace and dip into whenever you need inspiration. you can join by clicking on the “Join in” post or any other post in the programme series.  

What is Sew Your Own Style?

Sew Your Own Style is self-guided programme of thinking prompts, practical tasks and evaluation resources designed to empower sewists like you to start thinking like a designer for your own wardrobe. You will learn to explore and embrace your own authentic style and dress to express yourself with confidence. At the end of the programme, you will have a clear picture of your own style and what garments you want to make and wear to express this!

Stage 1 we’ll do a deep dive Wardrobe Audit and look at what you already have, what you actually wear and identify any gaps that need filling. You’ll create your making manifesto and some important guiding res-sew-lutions!

Stage 2 we’ll explore how you feel about your clothes and how your clothes make you feel. We’ll explore how you can communicate and define your own style through your clothing.

Stage 3 we’ll be starting to think like a designer, looking at how to process inspiration and creating mood boards and doing shop reports – it’s going to be so much fun!

Stage 4 we’ll look at how you can begin to express your authentic self and start to plan and design a wardrobe of clothes to do so!

When does Sew Your Own Style run?

The Sew Your Own Style course is self-led so you can start and finish at your pace.  The posts on this programme portal include all the information and resources you need to complete the tasks for each stage. They are designed to be followed stage by stage to get the most out of the programme as a whole. You can dip in whenever you like so even if you only have 20 minutes on your lunch break or a little weekend reading time between chores, you can start to think more intentionally about Sewing Your Own Style.

Do I need to complete all the tasks and is there a deadline?

Following all the prompts will enable you to fully understand your style and the requirements of your wardrobe, and then plan and design a wardrobe of clothes that truly fit your style and your lifestyle. Even if you only have little time, you can still utilise the prompts to start thinking more intentionally about sewing your own wardrobe to suit your own personal style. There is no deadline, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t complete all the tasks or if you dip in and out, do what feels worthwhile to you!

Bringing together our Sew Your Own Style community…

The sewing community is full of support and encouragement. Let’s support each other to empower one another to sew clothes that make us feel like our best selves.

If you would like to, please do share your findings and progress on Instagram using the hashtag #SewYourOwnStyle.

You can find posts fro the 2024 live Sew Your Own Style programme which I ran earlier this year using #SewYourOwnStyle24.

However, this process is a personal journey and you may not feel you want to share it, it maybe something you do just for you. So if you don’t wish to share that is also respected.

If you’re not on Instagram please do email me any pictures of your progress and any thoughts and, with your permission, I’ll share these in my newsletters and on the MHW instagram feed to inspire others on their wardrobe and style discovery.

In the next post I’ll share some quick, fun tasks to kick start your thinking about what you wear and how it makes your feel!