a curation of sewn items designed to give new life to second-hand textiles
Hi! I'm Emily Elisabeth!
And welcome to my sewing shop! I design sewing patterns and sew ready-to-wear items and accessories.
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My love of sewing started at a young age when my grandma taught me her craft. She would sew me and my dolls matching outfits and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. I still think that.
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I stopped creating at some point because I was scared that whatever I was making wouldn't turn out perfect. But then, of course, I wasn't making anything at all, which was even worse.
So began my TikTok series "Pretty Bad Sewing" where I told myself "you can sew even if it's not perfect." A year and 3 million views later, I have grown tremendously in practice, experience, and releasing the ideal of perfectionism.
All of the products on this page are made with second-hand fabric that I source myself. We already have more fabric on this earth than we know what to do with. In 2018, landfills received 11.3 million tons of textile waste. This was just within the US. My goal as a sewist is to not contribute to that number.