Sewing patterns

Hitomi-chan · Post by **Hitomi-chan** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 9:10 am

How would you go about making your own sewing patterns?

+Kohyoh+ · Post by **+Kohyoh+** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 1:54 pm

sketch out the costume and find pics of different views...
and use whatever you can find to help you ^.~

Hitomi-chan · Post by **Hitomi-chan** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 4:07 pm

Thank you again!

+Kohyoh+ · Post by **+Kohyoh+** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 5:36 pm

welcomes ^.^

Hemuloki-sama · Post by **Hemuloki-sama** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 5:49 pm

For making your own patterns, you can also get clothes that look like the outfit's top and use that as a pattern. Just make sure you leave yourself tons of seam room.

Hitomi-chan · Post by **Hitomi-chan** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 7:13 am

ok ^-^

Hemuloki-sama · Post by **Hemuloki-sama** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:03 am

Yea, but as I said, leave yourself room for the seams and don't forget to compensate for space if the clothes are stretchy.

For my Dita jacket, I had to use a weird stetchy black hooded dress thingy but I forgot to add in the extra space and ended up wasting about three yards of uber expensive fabric. Oh well...

*goes back to embroidering her Legolas jacket, knowing she needs to get up for school in two hours.*

+Kohyoh+ · Post by **+Kohyoh+** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:44 am

gah! sama! you just reminded me... is there a embroidry machine that i can buy?... or is it done by hand?... i need embroidry done on my myoubi costume T.T

blue_eyed_fairy · Post by **blue_eyed_fairy** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:22 am

you can buy machines that have a progrme that will embroider, but they cost sooooooooooooooooo much! if you do a lot of complicated embroidry then it might be worth it.

Hemuloki-sama · Post by **Hemuloki-sama** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 12:34 pm

Bah! I never wanted to spend that much money on an embroidery machine (even though I do it on most of my costumes) so I just do it by hand. I would suggest buying a machine if you don't have all the time in the world as embroidering is horribly time consuming even if what you're doing is simple!

But believe it or not, I like embroidering and prefer to do it by hand. Gives me a better sense of satisfaction too, knowing that I just spent over 3 months on this one design.

But I think for some of Miyoubi's costumes that the details really are too small to do with a machine....but I've never used one so I really wouldn't know.

+Kohyoh+ · Post by **+Kohyoh+** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 6:26 pm

thanks ^.^ .... the costume i picked for myoubi only has about eight inches all together of embroidry...
i can't wait til summer ^.^
ROAD TRIP!

Hemuloki-sama · Post by **Hemuloki-sama** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 4:49 pm

Yea, sometimes even with the machine, you just wanna do it yourself.

Where ya going?

+Kohyoh+ · Post by **+Kohyoh+** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:09 pm

lol... i just found out for sure that me and my mom are going to be about an hour drive from A-KON this summer! so i'm hope'n for at least one day of A-KON... if not i'm off to coastcon in mississippi or persacon in alabama...

Hemuloki-sama · Post by **Hemuloki-sama** » Wed Jan 21, 2004 7:24 pm

A-kon is definitely a two day con! Most of the big names in cosplay go there with totally awesome costumes but they wear them on Saturday, the night of the Masquerade!

+Kohyoh+ · Post by **+Kohyoh+** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:53 am

hai... i hope to see cherry there!
she's so nice!

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