For the life of me I am desperate for a decent sewing course that offers more or other options than skirts or dresses as the clothing choice. I want to learn how to sew. I understand that some of these garments are easier to make and perhaps easier to teach.
However, I have no interest in wearing a skirt or a dress. I want to create clothing for myself, for my body. A button down, a pair of pants (they can be flouncy even, I'm okay with some drape), or even a vest. Something that may require a bit more information regarding construction, but men's clothing can't be all advanced only practice.
There are no classes near me at all. The online courses I have found are predominantly quilting, or deal with dresses and other items.
Is it my search terms? Should I be looking for tailoring course and now sewing courses? I'm happy to change my search terms if that's the miscommunication here. But I just want to learn how to use my machine and make something I can wear.
Don't even get me started on size inclusivity. I haven't even begun to add that to the search.
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Okay, so like for the past 19 days I have been unable to draw or do anything productive really but that's because I have been working on a LONGAN DRAGON COOKIE PLUSHIE!!
!!! AND THEYRE DONE NOW
please just look at them for a second. Look into those badly sewn eyes. Do you feel sympathy, love, or hatred? You should! Feel at least one of those idk.
Something about the eyes makes me laugh because they're so pathetic looking...
(more photos below + long discussion/breakdown on sewing this as an almost complete beginner)
This was like definitely top 10 on the "things you dont try to attempt as someone who has only sewn 4 plushies before" list 😭 But the good news is that I was able to make their clothes 100% removable (they're a dress up doll now >:D) including accessories!! (I'll probably try to see if I can get any doll clothes to fit them soon. )
I attempted to make it as game accurate as possible but uhh their clothing was NOT designed to be brought into the third dimension at all.
Their gem, a bit wonky because i didn't really sew it right, is attached via a small button the back, which goes underneath the hood and clips onto itself:
I wasn't able to add some of their cooler armor sadly :( I LOVE ALL THE GOLD BUT ITS SO STUPIDLY HARD TO TRY AND ATTACH???? While I could have tried to sew it onto their robes, I didn't really want to be forced to wash the gold with the white in case it ever needed to be cleaned.
I did end up adding a cheap real ring as an accessory (from TJ max) because it was too big to fit onto my fingers. I think it looks cute + makes up a little bit for the lack of armor :3
I'm not really sure how many people have tried to make cookie run characters in real life, but has anyone noticed they have the vastly different proportions than most other chibi patterns available? Their limbs are thinner and longer urgh. Anyways because of this I used a base head pattern from a pre-existing pattern but I had to MAKE MY OWN BODY PATTERN!!! Which is both exciting and a bit terrifying as a complete beginner 😭, but I wanted to at least try to make it similar to the game!
Again I am NOT experienced in sewing AT all. I have made 4 plushies total WITH PREMADE PATTERNS and I have no sewing machine! I have never, ever, even attempted a body pattern before.
So here's the various problems I encountered while making this plush:
#1: The pattern for the body had to be continually readjusted because of how big the head is! Seriously the body has to be so small compared to it, but not too skinny otherwise it looked like a glorified skeleton. I ended up looking at a bunch of anatomy guides for CROB and CRK.
(This is a test piece that I pinned together and it looks utterly horrifying. I went back in after this to adjust the seam allowance to be thicker 💀)
#2: I decided that I was going to add all my HCs to this design, which included gradient limbs! That sounds great, right? While it looks cool (if they're not wearing clothes) it required SO MUCH EXTRA SEWING. I am happy with the result but wow, lots of sewing and confusion.
( These are the arms sewn together with their respective colors, but not fully assembled yet. There was the front piece + back piece which both needed the gradient.)
#3: I uh, made their head a bit asymmetrical... I was still getting used to cutting minky (as I'd only ever used fleece before) with my dull little scissors and got stuck with a face thats a little bit wonky. They're still cute... I think?
( I am really sad I wasn't able to make the black portion of their markings as pointy as they are in game :( but I was literally struggling so bad at this point that I couldn't cut anything evenly.)
#4: Okay this one wasn't on me but why do they not have like a canon haircut, Devsisters? In their default outfit I literally cannot figure out what kinda haircut is going on there 😭 I gave them similar hair to their costume (Emperor of Eternal Paradise,) but with some minor alterations (it looks like they have mini goat ears and I find it adorable)
(This isn't really a complaint about sewing as it is about the fact I just found it really confusing.)
OKAY PATTERN COMPLAINTS OVER!!! NOW FOR RANDOM DETAILS TIME:
the random detail is them laying down dead.
Actually I wanted to make their horn a lot longer (as shown in game) but discovered I HATE sewing this long ass branch. And I was still trying to factor in how comfortable they'll be to hold. Uh. So yeah, no giant branch. BUT THERE IS A MINI ONE!! And maaaybe at some point I'll extend it to look similar to the massive outreaching stems.
The ring isn't actually holding it in place, but if you have a ring and place it there it just looks super cute. The actual pieces are sewn together around where the ring is.
Their actual horn is attached to the forehead while the larger one(branch?) is secured onto the back of the head with a small stich. The rest of it is free floating and can be flicked around like a tail and flops around when moved :D
Another detail is their helmet... which isnt attached very securely 😭
(looks like a banana peel)
Its attached with a stretchy piece of fabric i had laying around and (badly) stitched in place around the edge so I could slide it around their hair a little bit. I had to tuck the front part INTO their bangs in order for it to stay upright. The helmet itself is the yellow minky fabric + some off white felt in order to make it stiff enough to hold its shape :D
ANOTHER FUNFACT, THEY ARE ACTUALLY LIFE SIZE. ISH. Actually they're a bit larger than life. IIRC Longan is like 21cm or 8~ inches irl, and this plush is a bit over 11 inches 😭 (excluding the horns, w the horns they're over a foot in height.)
IDK IF ANYONE WILL READ THIS BUT I AM ACTUALLY HAPPY WITH HOW THIS TURNED OUT!! Despite the uh troubles and lots of confusion, they're super super cute and I hope to continue to improve if I make another plush. :D
Honestly I made this out of complete love and admiration for Longan. They're so evil but not in the way you'd think. They're extremely morally reprehensible but still care for the other dragons, yet their love comes off so twisted and manipulative/controlling to the point of violence. Such an interesting creature, I'd love to hit them continually with a table at some point. Im just really REALLY not ready for what will happen to them.... oh my sweet(?!) creature.
(I'm actually a bit anxious posting this since I know they look a bit awkward, but hopefully it just adds to their cuteness factor...?!?!)
I bought a sewing machine for my daughter and I'm trying to refamiliarize myself with machine sewing so that I teach her how to use it, and boy so far it's only confirming my preference for hand-sewing.
Not only does my neck hurt after using the machine for 20 minutes (the main reason I have sewn exclusively by hand for the past 15 years), but everything is so complicated! Want to sew a zig-zag stitch on lightweight fabric? You need a special presser foot and/or iron-on rinse-away stabilizer to keep the fabric from bunching into a little ridge. Want to sew a zipper? You need a special presser foot. Want to sew an invisible zipper? You need a different special presser foot!
When I sew by hand, I can just sew. Different fabric? Just sew! Zippers? Just sew! Object is three-dimensional and doesn't lie flat? Object is too small to fit over the bed of a machine? Seam is in the middle of a huge piece? Just sew! In my comfy chair! With my family! At the doctor's office! Watching TV? Just sew!
Now I recognize that this is 48 years of hand-sewing experience speaking here, and for most people, knowing how (and when) to do a catch stitch or a blind hem or a ladder stitch or needle-turn appliqué or sashiko or invisible mending or a buttonhole or a rolled hem is not "just sew"ing. But from my perspective they're all just "put the needle through the fabric and pull."
Unfortunately both my eyesight and my manual dexterity are going, so if I want to be able to keep sewing I'm going to have to get comfortable with the sewing machine. Also my daughter hates hand sewing, but she's very excited about making her own clothes and stuff.
So once a week I put the machine on the kitchen table and try to figure out how it does what. Maybe someday it will seem as intuitive as hand sewing?
In the meantime, here is a poster a co-worker made:
I have everything essentially mapped out for the skirt I was making, and have even sized and cut my pieces, but now I’m hesitant to even think of sewing it together because my settling on this lace and not listening to the voice in my head yelling at me about this not being good lace, this not-the-greatest-but-still-cute-but-again-not-great-quality-lace has been backed up by someone a little more experienced and I’m kicking myself for being impatient and settling on it because of my fear of shopping for supplies online and Joann’s crummy lace selection.
Part of me wants to say fuck it and use it anyway, but the rational side of me knows that I’m going to regret it.
Do I wait longer to find the right lace, buy it offline, risking it being an off-color that doesn’t suit the project?
Do I skip the lace altogether?
Do I skip the lace, but spend eternity doing ruffles instead?
Do I try to hand sew some on after I make it?
Do I throw it all in the trash and live in a garbage can indefinitely?
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You see that zig zag serving as an overlock on the sides? Got that shit done in less than twenty minutes overall for both panels. Beautiful. Simple. I love sewing.
THAT HORIZONTAL. HOOOOOOO. HURG. That fucker took at least six to seven hours to hand stitch an overlock on almost 100” of fabric (okay admittedly I also had to cut out the second panel in that time span but no way that took longer than an hour). I got through two movies and the third season of transformers prime. This shit better look good once I’m done. Out of spite y’all are getting an update. Why did I decide to work with this fabric.
I know why. It was my goblin brain seeing 60% off last chance fabrics and thinking this fucker would be easy to work with. :(
Trying to mark his dark stretchy fabric is awful: I have to press so hard to make a mark that it pulls the fabric out of shape and I end up with curved lines. Even my chalk wheel doesn't work.
At least I finally got the dart in the right place: I had to measure a photo of the marks for the previous dart with a protractor.
