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So after spending way too much money and buying All The Things on Amazon, I’ve noticed a pattern.
- Browse clothes
- “Oooh, that’s pretty!”
- Check size
- Shucks, too small
- Buy it anyway
I was going to make this a meme, but image uploads are broken.
So after spending way too much money and buying All The Things on Amazon, I’ve noticed a pattern.
I added another step: time to learn sewing.
Turns out i’m quite good at it, and now i design my own clothes and i sell them :3
You just blew my mind. I mean, I realize it must take a lot of knowledge and practice to get a good result, but…
Wow, if I could get whatever design in exactly my size…
Sewing is an excellent skill to learn! Start small, learn to read patterns, don’t be afraid to call something practice and just rip the threads back out to give it a second try.
if you know how to sew, one excellent resource is Freesewing. It’s a community, a tool, and a collection of parametric patterns that are produced for your measurements. And free! It’s also an excellent help if you want to learn it
Clothes is one thing, shoes another. I wear a size 13 men’s/size 14.5-15 women’s. Finding shoes is either impossible (picking gender-neutral men’s) or ridiculously expensive.
Shoes are a pain already and I’m still a bit egg-y. I do not look forward to trying to find mens 6E width size 11 equivalents. It’s taken me years to find what I’m wearing already (Dunham boots, come in a surprisingly nice array of sizes and styles)
I started sewing for cosplay a couple years ago and was surprised at how much fun it is. Haven’t tried sewing everyday clothes yet, but that would be a good idea!
Any resources you found helpful for moving from basics of stitches to actually making a piece of clothing? I can hand-sew and I have used a sewing machine doing very basic stitches to make handkerchiefs. Was interested in learning to make & modify my clothes, but I feel a bit stuck and not sure where to start. (For example, a common beginner knitting project is making a scarf, then moving on to a cap, etc.)
i’d say a pretty common starter project would be a circle skirt. It’s basically a circle (or half circle, for less drape, but who want less spin, right?). Inner diameter matches your waist, and length is what you want. You can cut 2 half-circles (don’t forget seam allowance! And add like 4cm seam allowance at the bottom), and a waistband of 6cm * your waist (+ seam allowance also). You’ll need an invisible zip (and know how to sew it), and you can find instructions basically everywhere, like on Freesewing (you can ignore some things, like everything related to lining, here)
wow, you are amazing - thank you!
OK, so I am not familiar with some of the terminology, but I looked up “seam” and I am wondering if you would suggest a “plain seam” for a beginner project like this?
Is the invisible zip like sewing on a little zipper on the inside of the band? I have some leftover elastic band from a project, maybe that could be used.
you have the choice, when making a circle skirt, between having an elastic waist (in that case, the inner diameter, and the waistband length, would need to be larger, like a little bit larger than your seat, aka the largest diameter around your butt). It would need more fabric, the circles being bigger.
The other solution is the zip one. It would specifically need an invisible zip, because those are made to “finish” a seam line, by allowing to open it (without it, you wouldn’t be able to put the garment on).
And yes, by “seam”, i mean the stitch line between two pieces of fabric to attach them together. A plain/straight stitch is the way to go, it’s what you need 90% of the time, 9% of the rest would be some kind of zigzag stitch needed for example in stretch fabrics.
Umm akshually the pattern for a circle skirt is an annulus (I only know this because I’m collaborating with chatgpt to geometrically describe parametric patterns for modeling my clothes in CAD before I make them)
ok nerd :3
(there’s a free CAD tool for pattern drafting, it’s called Valentina)
Yep I’m using Seamly2D (formerly Valentina) for my 2D stuff, but 3D is also of concern and I’m using Onshape for that (although maybe Fusion 360 might work better I’m not really sure). Blender seems unsuited for my task.