The Clo3D for Zero Waste course is starting in just a few weeks over at @cut_to_zero ! @stitcherystudio and I are so excited to be running it for the second time. Join us to find an amazing international community of design enthusiasts and how to transform fabric into innovative, zero waste garments, where every pixel and pattern piece counts. Explore digital tools, creative problem solving, and minimal waste fashion practices that challenge convention and shape the future of design. Reserve your spot now via link in bio! See you there ☺️ #clo3D #zerowastepattern #zerowastedesign #onlinecourse

We’re grateful to @gsasustainability for funding two places for students across any discipline at the Glasgow School of Art. If you’re interested in learning about how to use the digital fashion space in @itsclo3d together with zero waste design, we’d love for you to join us! Booking is now live for our next block of online CLO3D for Zero Waste Design Course. Link in bio for more info! #clo3d #clo3dfashiondesign #clo3dfashion #zerowastefashion zerowastefashiondesign

CLO3D is one of the most powerful tools in a zero waste designer's kit, but only if you know how to use it with the constraint in mind from the start. In this course, @stitcherystudio and @decodecodecode are returning to teach you how to design zero waste directly in 3D. Every pattern piece counts, every pixel of fabric is accounted for before you cut a single thing. This is not a CLO3D basics course. It's zero waste design methodology, applied in a digital environment. Our first course was a smash hit and we're excited to bring it back in 2026. Link in bio to register. One subsidized seat per class available, reach out if cost is a barrier.

I’m Cass Belanger, one half of the Cut to Zero team. Since 2020, Danielle and I have been learning, growing, and creating zero waste design tools and resources together. I’ve spent the last 15 years in sewing and design education, founding @stitcherystudio in Glasgow and teaching everything from beginner skills to advanced garment construction, pattern cutting, and sustainable design. I also completed a Master’s in Fashion & Textiles, specialising in zero waste design. I am an avid patchwork quilter and during my masters developed zero waste garments and textiles from patchworked pieces (see images). In 2020, @decodecodecode and @holly__mcquillan and I co-founded the @zwdcollective and since then I’ve built online communities, designed patterns, worked with brands like Nike and Decathlon, and taught workshops at universities worldwide. I recently spent 2.5 years as the Resident Sewing Instructor at the Scottish school of Craft and Fashion and Textile Lecturer at Glasgow West College. I am incredibly proud of the Making Zero Waste project that @decodecodecode @moragseaton and @z_l_o developed in 2024-25 working with the @theorispresent in Accra, Ghana and @designers_consociate and @creative_pattern_cutter delivering workshops in Lagos, Nigeria. At the heart of it all is community, creativity, and pushing zero waste design forward. Join us on the journey—we can’t do it alone 🌿

Hi, I'm Danielle, one of the cofounders behind Cut to Zero. I've spent 15+ years figuring out how to design apparel without waste. Not as a nice to have, but as the entire design framework. I teach creative pattern engineering at FIT's MFA program, and on the industry side I've worked with brands like Nike, Adidas, Manduka, Cone Denim, Albino & Preto, and more to build zero waste design systems into how they actually make things, not just how they talk about it. I also run DECODE, my own zero waste apparel brand, where I practice what I preach at the product level. Every piece is designed so nothing ends up on the cutting room floor. (decode.design) What I've learned across all of it is that the constraint isn't the obstacle, but the most interesting design problem in the room. This account is where @cassandra__belanger and I compile the stories of that work. If you're building something that takes waste seriously from the first pattern piece, We'd love to connect.

We’re so excited to finally introduce Cut to Zero. ✂️🌍 Over the last six years Danielle Elsener @decodecodecode and Cassandra Belanger @stitcherystudio have been working together to develop educational content, design solutions and community within the wonderful world of zero waste design. We co-founded @zwdcollective along with @holly__mquillan , an absolute star in the zero waste design world. We’ve worked with industry, universities, COP26, tailors, brands and educators. We developed the Making Zero Waste project with our team @designers_consociate and @moragseaton in West Africa. It’s been quite an adventure! Our shared passion for accessible education and enthusiasm for zero waste design has led to our expertise being shared through workshops and design events around the world from Eastern Europe to America to West Africa and more. And here we are now… launching a Zero Waste Design Consultancy - Cut to Zero! We approach zero waste design from both a creative and practical angle, combining design thinking with real-world industry experience. Through presentations, demonstrations and hands-on exploration, we focus on sharing ideas that people can actually put into practice. We welcome different perspectives and aim to open up a broader, more holistic way of thinking about zero waste design. Over the next few posts we’ll introduce ourselves individually and share a bit more about the paths that brought us here. For now, we’re just really happy to finally share this with you. Welcome to Cut to Zero! Danielle + Cass x #zerowaste #zerowastedesign #zerowastefashiondesign #zerowastetextiles #circulardesign sustainabledesign designforchange wastereduction circulareconomy