Liz Haywood
Liz Haywood
Rural Chicks table
Hi, I'm Liz Haywood and I'm passionate about reducing waste in fashion manufacturing and sewing through better pattern design. I'm a formally trained fashion industry patternmaker with a wide experience of garment types and 20+ years of working in Australian and UK fashion businesses. I saw (and helped create) some of the massive volumes of waste generated by clothing factories as fabric scraps, which was considered so normal it was never even discussed.
My business educates, makes and consults on zero waste patterncutting. A zero waste sewing pattern creates no scraps or waste; the pattern pieces fit together like a giant jigsaw puzzle, while still attentive to fit and appearance. As well as eliminating the typical 15% waste which is sent to landfill, it's highly economical on fabric in ways that cannot be achieved by conventional patterncutting; 20%-30% savings are not unusual.
I also produce zero waste sewing patterns for home sewing, and regularly write on sewing, fashion and zero waste patterncutting. I'm the author of The Dressmaker's Companion (2017), Zero Waste Sewing (2020), A Year of Zero Waste Sewing (2024) and the Craft of Clothes blog.
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