I'm so happy you came up on my feed. I'm at the spot you were in last year. I've bought clothes second hand for years and years, and nothing ever really fits right and the polyester makes me sweat. On top of that, I'm very apple shaped, so my hips are a size 16 in pants and my belly needs a size 20. It's ridiculous, I often have 3 or 4 inches too much material in the thigh, and let's not talk about finding shirts that fit. So I started to sew, and now I've made some simple garments, currently working on culottes. It's so hard to find your style when decades were "this is... alright...?", maybe one day I'll get there.
👏👏👏 I’m so glad you found me too 😊 congratulations on starting to sew your own clothes! Culottes are wonderful! I love the look of them!! I hope they turn out well.
One of the things I've been doing as a fat sewist is buying vintage fabric. There's not many vintage fat clothes I can pick from, but the vintage fabric market ain't half bad. I'm so glad I found your channel! I relate to so much of what you've said here.
Yay thank you! Yes vintage fabric is amazing for more true vintage style. I do shop frequently at the french market held locally and I’m occasionally able to find some vintage fabric for myself. But I mostly shop clearance fabric or fabric outlets for making my clothes. I occasionally am able to go to the goodwill outlet (when I’m in locations that do have them) and scour for fabrics, but I don’t have one of those near me either. I do have a 1970’s pattern I’m currently working on a video about resizing. But I think it will be a few weeks before this one comes out.
Interesting video and good thoughts! There is a *huge* time commitment when it comes to sewing one's own garments. The sewing itself is often the least amount of time, ironically. The rest of it is probably 85% of the time it takes -- buying or downloading or creating a pattern, cutting out the pattern pieces, sizing the pattern, altering the pattern to fit one's individual measurements, curves, and unique body issues, which often has to occur for each pattern, making muslins to perfect the fit (a friend of mine had to make 9 muslins to fine-tune the fit of pants before she was ready to commit), finding the fabric to use, preparing the fabric (washing, drying, pressing), laying out the pattern on the fabric, cutting out each piece, marking darts, notches etc. WHEW! Sewing is mostly NOT sewing, but all the other things that have to happen before the garment is actually sewn.
This is so true! That is why once I perfect the pattern I use it many times with different fabric. 😁 and always, always, always keep the ones that you feel amazing in. Thank you for commenting on my video.
I'm so happy you came up on my feed. I'm at the spot you were in last year. I've bought clothes second hand for years and years, and nothing ever really fits right and the polyester makes me sweat. On top of that, I'm very apple shaped, so my hips are a size 16 in pants and my belly needs a size 20. It's ridiculous, I often have 3 or 4 inches too much material in the thigh, and let's not talk about finding shirts that fit. So I started to sew, and now I've made some simple garments, currently working on culottes. It's so hard to find your style when decades were "this is... alright...?", maybe one day I'll get there.
👏👏👏 I’m so glad you found me too 😊 congratulations on starting to sew your own clothes! Culottes are wonderful! I love the look of them!! I hope they turn out well.
One of the things I've been doing as a fat sewist is buying vintage fabric. There's not many vintage fat clothes I can pick from, but the vintage fabric market ain't half bad.
I'm so glad I found your channel! I relate to so much of what you've said here.
Yay thank you! Yes vintage fabric is amazing for more true vintage style. I do shop frequently at the french market held locally and I’m occasionally able to find some vintage fabric for myself. But I mostly shop clearance fabric or fabric outlets for making my clothes. I occasionally am able to go to the goodwill outlet (when I’m in locations that do have them) and scour for fabrics, but I don’t have one of those near me either. I do have a 1970’s pattern I’m currently working on a video about resizing. But I think it will be a few weeks before this one comes out.
Interesting video and good thoughts! There is a *huge* time commitment when it comes to sewing one's own garments. The sewing itself is often the least amount of time, ironically. The rest of it is probably 85% of the time it takes -- buying or downloading or creating a pattern, cutting out the pattern pieces, sizing the pattern, altering the pattern to fit one's individual measurements, curves, and unique body issues, which often has to occur for each pattern, making muslins to perfect the fit (a friend of mine had to make 9 muslins to fine-tune the fit of pants before she was ready to commit), finding the fabric to use, preparing the fabric (washing, drying, pressing), laying out the pattern on the fabric, cutting out each piece, marking darts, notches etc. WHEW! Sewing is mostly NOT sewing, but all the other things that have to happen before the garment is actually sewn.
This is so true! That is why once I perfect the pattern I use it many times with different fabric. 😁 and always, always, always keep the ones that you feel amazing in. Thank you for commenting on my video.