Mindful, sustainable sewing is about making a garment using planet-friendly materials, that you will cherish and wear time and time again. So when you've found a sewing pattern that you love, make sure you keep it, and reuse it! For me, that's the Closet Core Pattern: The Cielo Top...
January can be somewhat of a bleak month. All the festivities, lights, and get-togethers are over. Decorations come down, making spaces look bare. However, I do take solace in that the beginning of the new year represents an opportunity for fresh starts.
I opened A KIND CLOTH as a small business during the pandemic lockdown. Like many small businesses, it was never about creating a business to make profit, but about creating awareness and accessibility to contributing towards sustainable living.
No matter how you celebrate this season, or if not, have a good one! If you're one of many that usually celebrate Christmas, but are struggling to feel festive this year, remember that that's okay!
Be safe, be kind, be joyful.
When you can't touch and see the fabrics directly, it's hard to know what fabrics will work for your intended project. In the picture above are three shirts made from the same sewing pattern but in three different fabrics. Below are the individual shirts with details of each fabric.
Over the Christmas weeks, with the strikes and bank holidays, we will not be dispatching any orders placed after 2pm Thursday 22nd December. Services will resume on Wednesday 28th December. There is also the new year bank holiday on Monday 2nd January 2023 where orders cannot be dispatched.
Plastic such as Polyethylene are not just added in the form of microbeads but can be added in other forms, combined with various monomers. It can be used to bind/hold ingredients together; to dilute solids; to prevent separation of oils and liquids; to form coatings on skin, hair or nails; and to polish teeth etc
There is a huge environment impact with Black Friday sales [...] So before you make that purchase, please do consider what companies you are supporting and question yourself as to whether you genuinely need the product. Don't get caught up with the hype!
Royal Mail has well-developed contingency plans, but cannot fully replace the daily efforts of their frontline workforce. They’ll be doing what they can to keep services running, but are sorry this planned strike action is likely to cause you some disruption.
I keep scrap pieces for using as pocket lining pieces, to put together to make bias binding, or to use as fabric cover buttons. Another way we can use up fabric scraps is to make a patchwork Christmas stocking either as a gift, or for yourself!
I love that we live in a country where we have all the seasons but sometimes the transition can be difficult, so here are 5 things we all need to know as we navigate through the change in seasons...live sustainably to prevent yourself burning out, never forgetting to look after yourself
It was said that 66% of the fast fashion industry is made of synthetic fibres derived from fossil fuels. Therefore it was suggested that even just kicking out the use of synthetic fibres derived from fossil fuels within the system would make a huge impact to our planet and help to see a more hopeful future.
