In This Issue:

• Patterns: Samson top + Beckett overalls
• What is Creative Grit?: This month, we challenge you to rethink your failures.
• Sew the Samson Top: Fabric ideas and fitting details for this top.
• Sew the Beckett Overalls: Fabric ideas and fitting details for these overalls.
• What is Twill?: How to sew with twill fabrics.
• Hidden Opulence: Sewist and Black female entrepreneur Drea Johnson uses her creative platform for social activism.
• Seamwork Style: Get creative with styling the Beckett overalls.
• Pattern Hackers: Break the rules with three pattern hacks for the Samson top.
• Create in Abundance: On Choosing Quantity Over Quality: When abandoning the quest for perfection makes you a better sewist, by Julicia James.
• Failure Is the Birthplace of Creative Opportunity: I challenge you to not just see your failures as obstacles, but as exercises in resilience, tenacity, and perseverance, by Maressa Fernandez.
• A History of Overalls: How utilitarian workwear became a fashion staple, by Riley Smith.
• 8 Ways to Sew the Beckett Overalls: Seamwork ambassadors show off their interpretations of this month’s pattern.