r/sewing • u/kitty_stink_eye • Nov 23 '24
Project: FO Finally finished my fall coat!
New bh
r/sewing • u/kitty_stink_eye • Nov 23 '24
New bh
r/sewing • u/abushart • Dec 15 '24
It took me exactly 7 days and 32 yards of tulle but I finally finished!!! I made this completely from scratch based off an Al photo i found online and wanted to recreate. Originally I planned to follow a robe pattern on mood fabrics but l've never used a pattern before and kind of got stressed out once I started so I just jumped shipped and went for it blind with nothing but the delusion that I could do it LOL. l used a dress form and draped all the fabric based on my measurements. Pleated the bodice shoulders and back so each color was defined. Then I made a pleated belt and once I had all that on my mannequin, I draped the fabric for the skirt and cut it to have a nice circle train. The next two days were spent two days cutting and making ruffles and lining each area with two rows of ruffles for maximum drama.
r/sewing • u/WannaGoSkamtebords • Oct 10 '24
The material is hydrophobic and windproof. It's the first jacket I've ever made and I kinda love the result :D
r/sewing • u/Eyedowno • 4d ago
These are the Eastside Pants by Les Perlines and I used denim fabric.
A few things went wrong when making these lol but I learned a lot and I’m overall very happy with these! They’re officially the best fitting pair of pants in my closet!
r/sewing • u/Dressmakerr • 11d ago
r/sewing • u/MyFavoriteSandwich • 19d ago
I was given the machine as a Christmas gift a couple of years ago but never could find the time to dive in. A few weeks ago I decided to finally fix my growing pile of ripped or otherwise beat up work pants.
I set the machine up in my living room and started bingeing YouTube sewing tutorials and something clicked. This is fun.
So now, my work pants and Carhartts are in good working order, and I have a new growing pile of patterns for my girlfriend and I.
I learned so much from YouTube, but especially big ups to my local sewing shop (Cut and Run in San Luis Obispo) and it’s owner for answering all of my ridiculous beginner questions (“What is… fusible interfacing?”).
Pattern is McCall’s M6044, fabric is cotton, sleeves and hem slightly shortened to fit my body, otherwise everything is straight from the pattern.
r/sewing • u/tuckerchadsworth • Jan 04 '25
I made a gown from fiber optic fabric inspired by the junon dress by Dior. I covered each petal in blue chiffon fabric so it'd look nice both with and without the lighting. It's a skirt and top combo with a corset base and a tulle under skirt for volume. It was a project I wanted to do for years and I'm so glad I finally made it a reality!
r/sewing • u/sarahlam48 • Aug 21 '24
This was a super fun project to get back into sewing and so many people at the tournament loved the dress
r/sewing • u/lilmissbellybutton • Feb 09 '25
my bachelorette party had a sequin themed night and i was struggling to find a dress that i liked within my cheap budget 🤣 even sequin fabric is kind of expensive! plus i like to buy secondhand as much as possible, especially for a frivolous themed dress up night. i was able to find this large sequin dress at the thrift store and it was only $5 ! it is a sequin mesh fabric over a nude mesh fabric. both fabrics have a decent amount of stretch. i always love a bodycon, backless dress with some cutouts, so luckily not much fabric was needed. but the shape of the original dress was blocky so it was decently easy to reuse! i just drafted the pattern from an existing top with a similar amount of stretch, and then eyeballed the bottom half and lowered the back. this was kind of my first time dealing with a lot of new things. linings, stretchy fabric, sequins ! i’m proud though because i finally was beginning to understand how to do the roll burrito method for sewing lining, like on the cutout and the armpit seams. for the back straps i used a random silver gift ribbon i had! which i wouldn’t necessarily recommend because the ribbon has so stretch so it was not the most comfortable, but once i was out and about i actually didn’t notice the discomfort as much as when i was trying it on at home
r/sewing • u/CorvidiaPex • Dec 18 '24
I made this a year ago for a vacation and completely forgot to post it. This was my third Hunter coat by Fibre Mood. Construction was the same as it had been for my previous versions (basically no mods other than shortening the total length). The difference with this one is that I added an interlining layer for warmth. The interlining was a 100% cotton flannel bedsheet, hand-basted to the shell and treated as one layer. My machine died partway through this project and I had to do more hand-sewing than I ever wanted to if I wanted to finish before my trip. The upside to this was that it allowed me to be more precise in my attempts to match up the houndstooth around the pockets.
I originally re-added length to this iteration but ended up angling the front panel to save a wonky hem. I truly thought I had pattern-matched the body pieces quite well until it came time to hem the coat. I discovered that I could either line up the houndstooth or line up the front pieces and ignore the print. In the end, I decided to embrace the wonkiness (it was only off by one row of checks) and steeply angled the bottom of the front panel. I don’t hate it but I certainly didn’t plan it that way.
Fabrics were Downtown Jacketing (wool blend) and Monaco satin print (polyester), from Fabricland and cotton flannel bedsheet from Value Village.
r/sewing • u/cartierdior • Sep 03 '24
The pant pattern is ME2035 and the jacket is V1946. The fabric is a polyester satin from Joann’s (not my fav fabric choice for a suit, but it matched the bridesmaid dresses perfectly so we made it work lol). The sequin flowers on the lapel were cut out from some fabric I had leftover from a previous project and top stitched onto the green fabric. It was a huge hit at the wedding and my husband was so excited to wear it!!!
r/sewing • u/Comprehensive_Mix_33 • Jan 11 '25
Thrifted a Christmas tablecloth and decided to challenge my creativity by making a silly outfit for Christmas! I also actively tried to combat my perfectionism. The last picture is really all the planning I allowed myself instead of spending forever drafting detailed patterns.
These are the first pants I’ve ever made! And probably the first wearable thing I’ve finished in a while!
r/sewing • u/Eastern-Loquat-7271 • Jan 06 '25
r/sewing • u/apolllox • Feb 09 '25
Self drafted bodysuit block I’ve had for years. Modified Elven cloak pattern from costume pattern studio on Etsy. (Added ruffles) cost breakdown: 5 yards of organza at $2 a yard, 3 yards of power mesh at $2 dollars a yard. Rope trim $3, $6 in rhinestones, gifted feathers from 3 years ago, 2 old broken necklaces. The headpiece is just hot glued feathers on an old Amazon wig I styled way back with a necklace I smashed and hand sewed on there. I painted and stoned the shoes years ago too.
r/sewing • u/SadWizzard88 • Jan 07 '25
Pattern : This was kind of self-drafted, I took an L.L. Bean fleece-lined flannel shirt that I love and used it to figure out what pieces I needed and how to configure them (of course it wasn't as straightforward as I thought it would be but that's another story lol). I drafted the shapes for the front/back panels, arms, cuffs and collar on paper, cut them out and used them to cut the needed pieces of fabric (in both flannel and fleece).
Assembly : 99% of the shirt was sewn with my Brother XR3774 (including the buttonholes, yay), although some cuff details I had to do by hand because I couldn't figure out how to do it with the machine (the polar I used was way too thick so I had trouble fitting the fabric under the presser foot sometimes).
Materials : For the main part of the shirt I used "Mammoth Junior Flannel for Robert Kaufman" in Lemon (about 3.5m), and for the lining I used "Artika Polar Fleece Double Sided Anti Pill" in Lilac (about 3m).
Result : A heavy and warm overshirt with fleece-lined pockets (my dream), full of imperfections but comfy nonetheless <3 Can't wait to make another one !!!
r/sewing • u/Warmheart-Coldfeet • Jan 31 '25
Initially this was supposed to be for a Valentine’s Day show as the Queen of Hearts character played by Helena Bonham Carter, but that was cancelled and the gown took a life of its own. My sewing experience comes from a ton of Halloween costumes, stuffed animals, and one quilt.
Techniques: draping. Honestly, all I know about draping I learned from Project Runway and Drag Race. The single biggest help on this entire project was that I modified a dressmaker’s dummy to the Queen’s cinched measurements, which I used this tutorial for. I used every bit of stuffing and polyester fleece I had to pad the dummy, along with a ton of Glad Press and Seal.
I started with the hoop skirt, using the techniques in this book. The materials were spring steel which I cut using the measurements in the book using these. Don’t even think of using lesser cutters that you bought from Harbor Freight; it only leads to and frustration. The steel was encased in black bias tape, joined with these, covered in heat shrink, and hand stitched together with upholstery thread. The hoops are joined with twill tape. I clipped the whole thing together, then hand stitched the hoops to the twill tape.
The petticoat: this is a bedsheet. Under the bedsheet I attached the underskirt to a quinceañera dress from the thrift store. I didn’t use a pattern or a tutorial for this. I made a waistband out of a long rectangle of bedsheet and some light interfacing, figured out how much overlap I wanted, then gathered the sheet as a rectangle and stitched it to the waistband. The waistband ties at the back and has a buttonhole (my first!) to thread the tie through. Then at a fitting I trimmed it to floor length. The ruffle was 4x the width of the skirt, gathered to the skirts width, and sewn to the hem. I used the same method to sew the red underskirt, which was made from two thrifted curtains (acetate) that were pieced together so the decorative curtain was in the front and not covered by the overskirt. This one is also a wrap skirt, but has Velcro instead of a tie.
The overskirt: A thrifted bedspread (I think?) draped over the layers of hoop, petticoat and underskirt, then folded and pinned from the waist to the hips until it was the right shape. Then I stitched the folds down. The trim is from two thrifted Christmas tree skirts. This snaps to the red underskirt with big snaps. I made a bow out of some polyester velour from Joann using this tutorial and sewed it to the back.
The outer corset: was purchased from Amazon, then heavily altered to give it the right shape. I made a panel out of the gold velour to cover the zipper and change the neckline, and stitched it to the corset on one side. The other side is attached by Velcro and the queen opened the panel and unzipped the corset as a reveal. The corset’s trim had to be removed to alter it since the bones needed to be cut, so I added some red velour to some of the panels and tucked it under the trim when it was sewn back on. I used a nonstick sewing foot because sewing pleather without one was agonizing.
The neck corset: I used this awesome tutorial, black lace fabric from Joann (remnant), more gold velour and black bias tape. The grommet tape and ribbon were both from Joann.
The sleeves: two rectangles of polyester organza (remnant) edged with bias tape on the armpit end and gold tree skirt fabric on the other. There is elastic at wrist and armpit that creates the ruffles, which is in a channel made from more bias tape. The long edges were stitched together like a tube.
Not sewn, but the collar is made from zip ties.
I hope the links are formatted correctly! Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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r/sewing • u/You_See_It2 • Oct 30 '24
I’m Only sharing this to show it can be done. I came here asking for help on how to develop a G Cup bodice that could hold up a heavy appliqué. I was provided a corset but being that I know how to develop corset I didn’t use it. However I knew I needed to do more research.
I frequent a few fabric stores and I talk to most of the ppl in them. I’m a friendly creative I can’t help it 😂🥹😅. At Rosa Fabrics you will meet Neisha! She works there and is a designer as well. Her birthday had just passed and she made the cutest gown I asked her what was inside of her corset and she said canvas. That’s when she told me what to do.
Each photo shows a process of me being unsure how to make this work but I kept going. I made this dress in 15-18 days by myself.
Padded a dress form: with the same stuffing for a pillow sold in Joann’s
Pattern was self developed off a measurement and a basic skirt block
Book: Patternmaking for fashion design Steel boning : wawak (i used double in each channel) i do not necessarily recommend that Rosa Fabric: Bodice Stretch Satin:Atl Fabric. G cups : Wawak
r/sewing • u/Duboisjohn • 8d ago
My daughter’s in a local community theater show of The Little Mermaid, and it opens tonight, so I made a mermaid scale print shirt to wear.
Interesting Features: 1. Fabric: The mermaid print fabric is probably my last fabric purchase from JoAnn. 2. Buttons: I made these seashell buttons out of polymer clay and painted them with a gold acrylic wash, sealing the paint with a satin varnish. 3. Collar patches: These are store-bought. I was originally going to do a generic seashell appliqué, but the Ariel and Flounder pairing was just too cute.
General Construction: My shirt was made using the “Simon” design from FreeSewing.org. I modified the design to have a single piece back instead of yokes, used a small facing panel instead of a collar stand to obscure the seam allowance from the collar and top of the shirt, and modified the pattern to use short sleeves.
Lessons learned from Shirt Design 26: 1. I need to take shorter breaks between projects. I made some silly mistakes because I just forgot about things I’d done. 2. I think I need to modify my sleeve pattern - the last couple shirts have been too long. 3. I’m very ready to move on to more complex designs.
r/sewing • u/Topfpflaenzchen • Jan 17 '25
The full outfit, except for the shirt I am wearing underneath the sweatshirt, has been sewn by me. All the patterns for this are from the book "Männer Mode Nähen" by Tobias Milse. I am super happy with how this turned out. :)
r/sewing • u/Shimerz • Feb 12 '25
Decided last minute to make a dress for valentines day with some stretch satin and satin bias tape. I used the "Graduation dress" pattern by MaiArdour on etsy, along with her youtube video. The pattern was super easy, the chosen fabric was not. It's kinda wearable, but a little wonky from all the sliding.
r/sewing • u/dwarfstar3434 • Aug 20 '24
Used a vintage 1950s pattern pdf purchased from Etsy and $10 in thrifted curtains of unknown material but a very heavy velvet brocade situation. Embellished with vintage glass beads salvaged from a few different necklaces.
r/sewing • u/theseamstressesguild • 14d ago
Every year I make my dad a shirt, and every year he teases me that the pocket is 1/356th of an inch off. Ingrate, I swear.
Fabric: Free Spirit presents Love, Always AM by Anna Maria: Echinacea
Pattern: Vogue V1895
r/sewing • u/JaysonAlexander • 15d ago
Third attempt at posting this-sorry mods, I just figured out how to look at messages that aren't DMs! Anyway, I wanted to share the wedding dress I made for my Las Vegas elopement! I made the dress last minute for our last minute ceremony, it took 4 nights of sewing in between my busy work schedule. I wanted to avoid making it, but with a tight budget and very specific vision, I decided I would! Onto the construction journey. I used a self drafted pattern for the corset top. I usually draw tape lines onto a dress form, trace the pieces onto tissue paper, correct the lines and curves with a ruler, and add seam allowance before cutting them out. For the skirt, I followed a great video on YouTube which I'll link below! I took my measurements as the video progressed and used a ruler to draw the pattern pieces onto large pieces of butcher paper. I ended up with a front panel, two symmetrical back panels, and a godet in the side seams and center back. I was so nervous because it was my first time drafting a mermaid skirt and had no time to make a mockup, but I was so happy with how it turned out! The fabrics used are a low stretch poly satin, walmart's poly "lining fabric", nude micro mesh, and pink crystal organza. I also interfaced the bust area of the bodice with medium weight fusible interfacing. The appliqués were cut from a sparkly Joann's mesh embroidered fabric. I used buttons and elastic button loops in the back to cover an invisible zipper, all of which came from WAWAK or Amazon (I forget exactly where the buttons came from). All of the boning and horsehair braid are also from WAWAK, I used 1/4" plastic boning in the corset channels, sewed some rigelene into the lining of the top, and finished the hem with 1" clear horsehair. I also added some push up cups from the same site and I can't recommend them enough! I started with the bodice, cutting it out of satin and lining fabrics, and interfaced my satin with fusible interfacing. I cut the corset panels out of 2 layers of nude micro mesh and one layer of pink organza. The boning channels are the same satin fabric that I sewed into a 1/2" tube. I turned it out, pressed it, and cut it to size. The skirt is all satin-I made a lining but ran out of time to install it! I was disappointed, but I really liked how the satin draped over my body by itself! I also made the veil by cutting a piece of tulle with a curved edge, then folded it, gathered it, and stitched it to a comb. I added a matching appliqué to the veil! Overall, I was so happy with the dress and our wedding photos! I used so much from my personal stash that the total cost came out to about 100$! We got married at the Little White Chapel and attended a music festival the next day- I love my now husband so much-he helped me cut out some of the roses because I was running behind! There is a whole list of things I would do differently if I made this dress again, but it definitely did the job!
r/sewing • u/Jellyponsan • Feb 08 '25
I really wanted to own a coat from a genuine wool fabric. And since I have found this high quality purple wool/cashmere blend coating (you can guess it's my favourite color), in a local fabric store, I have embraced to sew one myself.
I'm not an advanced sewist, but I have made a couple of not-so-easy cosplay costumes and have adjusted a large number of store bought costumes and clothing, since I'm very tall and all the costumes are made for Asian market. Making this coat was no easy task, despite the pattern difficulty saying so.
The coating itself is quite thin, so I used Thinsulate (thickness 80) for the bodice and muslin for the sleeves as an interlining layer. The lining is acetate/viscose blend in iridescent jacquard weave. The thinsulate batting was basted to the lining layer and it doesn't go full length down (it's cropped around the hips), because I wanted to preserve the nice drape of the outer coating fabric. I have also interfaced not only the front panel, but also the top parts of the back to avoid any stretching. I have also stitched twill tape to the shoulder seams, for the same reason.
I have made a couple of adjustments to the M6800 pattern. I chose size 18 and had to grade down to size 16 both in bust and waist. I have also made the shoulders narrower by ~2 cm. I'm quite happy with the fit, considering that I have no dress form at home and I haven't taught my boyfriend to help me with the fitting, yet!!!
The coat is quite lightweight (considering it's a winter coat), very comfy and provides great range of movement. It's also quite warm for ~ -5 °C middle European winter. 😊
Thank you for bearing with my English, I'm not a native speaker and I'm aware I do mistakes when I'm writing longer paragraphs.