Lauren Purdum

From the costume shops of the DC metro area to the production floors of Pittsburgh, Lauren has been sewing professionally since 2001. In 2017 she founded Why Sew Workshop, a small full-service sewing shop that's helped artists, entrepreneurs, film producers, fashion designers and more bring small-batch concepts from imagination to life. With a firm grounding in the realities of the industry, Lauren maintains that manufacturers and creatives CAN and SHOULD co-exist! Lauren's background in costume crafts brings an uncommon fearlessness and range to her sewing. Lauren loves good music, bad movies, and her family.