How to Sew Clothes: Learn with Intuitive, Super-Hackable Patterns Book by All Well

Learn to sew simple, stylish, wear-everywhere garments with How to Sew Clothes. Each chapter is filled with super easy instructions and patterns written for sewists of all skill levels. Pick up this book and learn essential skills such as how to choose fabrics, read patterns, and cut out pattern pieces and sew them together, as well as how to backstitch, assess fit, and learn from what you make. There are also instructions for making bags that will fit you and your style just right. 

There’s an envelope of printed patterns in the back (!!!), and full instructions for two of our classic garment patterns— the Box Top and the Cardigan Coat — and seven brand new bag patterns! In the envelope full of pattern sheets and the book are very detailed instructions to guide you through the process of making simple tops, dresses, a jacket, and a coat that will become wardrobe essentials. Several of All Well's bestselling, downloadable sewing patterns are included, in print for the first time! Whether you are just learning how to sew or want to reignite your excitement for sewing, How to Sew Clothes will help you learn to make clothes you love to wear—and have fun in the process.

a sewing book like a cookbook!

This book is a little bit different: it has 60,000 words (that’s a lot for a sewing book!), and 600+ images between photos and hand-drawn diagrams. It’s packed with information! From the start of our collaboration, we couldn’t stop dreaming about a sewing book that’s like a sewing lesson, the kind of thing we wished we had on the desk beside us when we started learning to sew clothes. A sewing book like our favorite books about food: we’ve both long loved the works of M. F. K. Fisher, Tamar Adler’s An Everlasting Meal, Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. There are so many connections between the way those books talk about food and the way we feel and think about sewing. A book that teaches you how to sew, but that also connects sewing to the life you already have. A book with a good mix of writing, of skill-building, and patterns.