To prevent fabric waste at this custom sewing and design studio.
Strategy Make it easy to save and reuse remnants and scraps through good organization.
Tactics Freilah Allen-Sonn, the owner of Fashions by Freilah , hates waste. If she thinks that an item can possibly be reused, she saves it until she thinks of a way that either she or someone else can use it. The by-products of her sewing range from mere threads to large swatches of fabric, but no matter what the size, all are neatly organized to make it easy to sort through them and find the right item. Ms. Allen-Sonn keeps a large box by her cutting table for fabric scraps, which she later sorts by type and color and stores in labeled boxes along the back wall of her workroom. To capture the threads and fabric shreds that are discarded during the actual sewing, she places small containers, which led previous lives as tissue boxes, by her sewing machines.