Hey, I’m Kayla!
-The artist behind The Scrap Collective.
I wanted to learn sewing as an art practice, but everything online felt like “THINGS YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE YOU START” and honestly scared the fuck out of me before I’d even touched a machine.
So before I even bought one, I stopped watching tutorials and decided to just figure shit out for myself instead.
In April 2025 I bought a sewing machine and started making things anyway. I fucked heaps of them up, made weird shit, ruined fabric, unpicked seams 14 times, and learned through doing instead of obsessing over rules.
Then in August 2025 I made my first hoodie, started posting online while I learned, and realised I genuinely loved the process.
I’m completely self taught. My first patterns were hand drawn and held together mostly by vibes and determination. Slowly people started following along, asking how I did things, and wanting to try too.
So I worked with a professional pattern maker to turn my hoodie silhouette into a real pattern, and wrote my own simple, jargon free, basic as fuck guide designed to help normal people actually start sewing without feeling overwhelmed.
Because sewing should not be gatekept by perfectionists.
These days I make one off wearable art full time and upload pieces as they’re finished, so there’s always new scraps in stock that I'm working on.
