The Refashioners

The online challenge launched in 2011, challenging sewists to see the potential in old clothes & household textiles. Click here for heaps of inspiration for your next refashioning project.

The Re:Fashion Wardrobe

TRFW shows you just how easy it can be to transform unwanted garments and household textiles into clothes you'll love and want to wear. Click to find out more.

Blog

For past and current articles, updates, photo heavy tutorials, past Refashioners challenges, and the occasional random musing. Click here to head to the blog.

Shop

Head to the shop for your author signed copy of The Re:Fashion Wardrobe. (Currently signed copies ship to the UK only. For non UK purchases check out your local bookseller.)

About Us & Our Work

Get To Know Us

Portia is a predominantly self-taught dressmaker and designer who has been passionate about recycling for most of her life. She has been writing about sewing since 2010 via social media, magazine articles and her recently published debut book, The Re:Fashion Wardrobe.

She is the founder/creator of The Refashioners, an annual sewing event launched in 2011, that aims to challenge the global sewing community to look at old clothes in a new light. She has been a regular contributor to Simply Sewing magazine since its launch in 2015, where she creates reader tutorials for a mix of refashioning, pattern hacks and patternless projects.

Portia lives in rural Essex, UK, with her partner and teenage son; and is currently working on her second book, due for release in 2025.