DIY sewing

Everyone wants to dress beautifully. But not everyone can afford to order dresses and blouses in the best fashion houses, and the services of very average ateliers are sometimes expensive. But in the shops you will find a lot of beautiful fabrics, which are extremely easy to work with, and in fashion magazines - a lot of models for the manufacture of which complex patterns are not required. So sewing clothes with your own hands is quite affordable. We’ll talk about some popular sewing methods now.

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What do you want?

You just decided today to do this and you don’t have any sewing accessories or patterns yet? Nothing wrong. You need to know where to start, what will appear over time, and what you can completely refuse. Sewing fashionable clothes with your own hands is best on a typewriter, and if you can buy carpet - will be even better. For knitwear - the king of the modern fashion industry - this is the perfect device.

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What to refuse?

But let's start with what, at the initial stage, you can do without. Any person who decides to do some business strives to quickly get a good result. Success inspires him, and a spoiled piece of fabric can forever discourage interest in sewing.

Therefore, taking up sewing clothes with your own hands, for starters, refuse:

• from complex patterns;
• from fabrics that are difficult to process.

You will have time to return to complex patterns. And even more than that, if you decide to continue sewing, you yourself will learn how to build them. As for fabrics, in stores you can easily find not only traditional cotton, linen or silk, but also modern knitwear and polyester. Of these, pretty quickly and without exorbitant efforts, you can make fashionable clothes, they are beautiful and hygienic, draped luxuriously, so you can use the most approximate patterns and even do without them.

Important! When working with knitwear, it is best to use a special needle, and the carpet allows you to grind and sew seams at the same time.

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What can you do without?

You can sew fashionable clothes with your own hands without a machine at all. And do not be surprised, it is better to look in fashion magazines - there you will find including models of all kinds of ponchos and capes, where there are only a few short seams that can be done manually. But it’s much more useful to master the machine.

In addition to her, you need:

• a long line - it is best to buy a tailor’s meter, which is used to measure fabrics in a store;
• tailor's square (in the manufacture of models that are laid directly on the fabric, the thing is simply irreplaceable);
• centimeter tape (best double-sided, with centimeter and inch divisions);
• aquamarker (replaced with soap or chalk);
• needles for manual and machine sewing;
• threads of different colors and qualities, as well as for embroidery;
• accessories - buttons, buttons, hooks, zippers;
• sharp scissors;
• elastic tape;
• corsage tape;
• wide band for backstage;
• graph paper (in roll);
• tracing paper;
• materials for decoration - thermal stickers, applications, etc.

Do not be afraid that you will have to buy all this right away. Of course, a ruler, a square, a centimeter and a marker, as well as scissors, will always come in handy on the farm, so it's best to buy them right away. But the rest can be selected for each specific model.

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Two words about patterns

Modern fashion is very interesting! And so many different things can be sewn simply by eye or along the general contours! So where to get the pattern? There are several ways.

If you are going to sew complex models in the future, it is best to order patterns in the studio. You can build them yourself - on the Internet you can easily find a guide on exactly how this is done and what measurements need to be taken (there are a lot of measurements to build a basic pattern, and they must be accurate).

Important! The advantage of these traditional methods is that with such patterns you can sew anything from a knitted dress to a draped coat with complex processing of picks.

Folk way

The most popular option for beginner needlewomen is to flog something suitable, but already unnecessary, and make patterns for the details. A great way out of the situation:

• the product is perfect in size;
• the beginning dressmaker roughly represents what she will do;
• there is an opportunity to slightly rake the cabinet.

For knitwear

When working with knitwear, starting sewing clothes with your own hands, you can do the following:

1. Find a knitwear that is approximately the right size (the main thing is that it is not stretched).
2. Circle it twice on the fabric - for the front and back.

Actually, this is the whole cutting when sewing clothes with your own hands. The old T-shirt, miraculously retained its shape, is most suitable as a “pattern”. An alcoholic T-shirt will do. According to such a primitive pattern, you can sew:

• T-shirt
• a blouse;
• loose-fitting dress;
• a sweater made of fleece or something like that.

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First product

It is best to start sewing clothes with your own hands from a loose blouse with short seams - and you will get a new beautiful thing for your wardrobe, and get comfortable with the machine. The perfect fabric is polyester. It is light, wide and very easy to process, because it does not stretch, does not crumble and does not sit down. The colors are very different. The measure is only one, that is, the length of the product. Everything else is regulated directly on the model. Calculation of quantity - the most elementary, 2 product lengths.

So, we get to work to understand that sewing clothes with our own hands can be quite simple:

1. Fold the cut in half across.
2. The cut is best swept away or chopped off - the fabric, of course, does not slip, but the layers can still move, but this cannot be allowed.
3. We spread the material on the floor or on a large table.
4. We are looking for the middle of the bend, carefully set the point with an aquamarker, put 10 cm on both sides.
5. We make a cut-boat.
6. From the bend along the edges we put aside 20 cm (the main thing is to observe symmetry).
7. From these points we draw symmetrically perpendicular lines towards the center.
8. Set aside 5-10 cm on them.
9. Through these new points we draw lines parallel to the edges to the bottom.

Sew a blouse

Actually, there is nothing to stitch here, only two side seams. They can go from the armhole to the bottom, and you can make cuts - 5-10 cm from the bottom edge. You need to sew on the front side, even stitching, middle stitches. The bottom is simply hemmed by 0.5 and 1 cm on the wrong side.

Important! Polyester stitched with synthetic threads!

We process a neck

There are two ways to trim a neckline. The simplest thing is to make cuts in the corners by 1 cm, bend the edge twice and sew. But a good way out is to process it with strips:

1. Cut 2 strips 3-4 cm wide, 2 cm longer than the cut.
2. Baste the strips to the neck, folding the parts with their faces facing each other.
3. Stitch them.
4. Iron on the wrong side (pay attention to the iron thermostat - it should be at the “synthetics” mark).
5. Cut in the corners so that the strips are joined butt.
6. Fold the free long edge 0.5 cm and sew.

How will you wear it?

The blouse is ready, but it can be improved. Not everyone likes loose clothing. You can, of course, wear it simply with a belt, but it is better to make a drawstring - at the waist or under the chest, and insert a cord or elastic there.This option for making clothes with your own hands will be affordable and simple for a beginner craftswoman:

1. For a drawstring, take a wide braid or strip of the same polyester.
2. Mark the seam line on the wrong side.
3. Sew the drawstring, leaving a hole on the wrong side.
4. Insert an elastic band or cord.

Important! You can bring the cord to the front side by making 2 holes in front and overcasting them.

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Dress

Free clothes are now in fashion, so the dress can also be sewn in the described way. At the same time, it is not necessary to make seams on the front side - it is also possible on the seamy side, backing 2 cm from the edges. But still the dress is better not to be so wide. Therefore, when sewing clothes with our own hands, we do this:

1. Fold the polyester or knitwear in half across.
2. Find the middle of the fold.
3. We spread the t-shirt so that the middle of the cutout coincides with the middle of the fold (if there is a tag on the neck from the wrong side, we combine it with the mark on the fold).
4. Maximally straighten the sleeves.
5. Outlines, except for the bottom.
6. We continue the side seams to the desired length - the distances should be the same on both sides.
7. Draw a bottom line.
8. We outline the contours again, but with allowances of 1 cm at all seams.
9. Cut out.

Assembly

Sewing fashionable clothes with your own hands in this way is a pleasure:

1. Sew shoulder seams.
2. Sew side
3. We process the bottom - overcast or hem by 0.5 and 1 cm.
4. We sew a notch along the contour with a basting seam.
5. We try on and adjust the assembly.

And you need to think about how to process the sleeves and the neck so that it is both stylish and beautiful. Sleeves can be:

• on an elastic band;
• on cuffs;
• with a fringing.

Rubber:

1. Cut 2 strips 3 cm wide, equal in length to the sleeve circumference.
2. Fold the strip and sleeve with the front sides, matching the slices.
3. Stitch.
4. Unscrew the strip on the wrong side.
5. Fold it to 0.5 cm.
6. Sew on - you don’t need to sew on short edges, but it is better to sew them on knitwear.
7. Insert the rubber band.

Cuffs

For each cuff, cut a strip - the length is equal to the girth of the arm along the bottom of the sleeve, plus 3 cm to the fastener. Width - 2 times the width of the proposed cuff, plus 1 cm for allowances.

Further:

1. Fold the strip along the front side inwards.
2. Stitch short cuts.
3. Turn out.
4. Lay a mark on the bottom of the sleeve.
5. Align one long edge with the bottom of the sleeve, adjusting the assembly.
6. Sew on the cuff.
7. Iron the oversize of the free long edge inward.
8. Stitch the free edge into an existing seam.
9. Delay the cuff around the perimeter.
10. Mark, cut, and overcast the loop.
11. Sew on the button.

Important! Cuffs can be on buttons and on hooks.

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Pants

Pants without a pattern? To many, this thought seems heretical. Pants - perhaps the most complex item of women's wardrobe (and men's too). But it all depends on what kind of panties you are going to sew. Put off jeans or classics until better times, but harem pants or bananas - why not?

You need:

• lightweight fabric that drapes well;
• linen gum;
• elastic tape.

To understand how much fabric you need to sew such clothes with your own hands, you need to know:

• product length;
• hip girth.

Important! For cutting, the total length of the middle seam of the seam is also needed - it is measured from the waist from the back through the groin to the navel.

If the fabric is wide (140-150 cm), you will need 1 length of the product, if 70-90 cm - 2 lengths. Oddly enough, it is more convenient to sew from a narrower cut - there will be no need to process allowances. And, of course, to any calculation you need to add 10 cm to the processing of the top and legs.

Sewing clothes with your own hands in this case looks like this:

1. Fold a wide cut in half lengthwise.
2. We divide the length of the middle seam in half and add 2 cm.
3. We postpone the result by bending and edges and make noticeable marks.
4. Cut the cut along the bend.
5. We sew step seams.
6. We leave one leg turned inside out, the second - we turn it on the front side.
7. We put the second in the first, combining sections of the middle seam.
8. We are concentrating.
9. We hem the legs and insert the elastic bands.

Belt

You can simply hem the top and insert an elastic band into it. But in the store you will find a wide elastic tape of all grades and types, so that nothing prevents you from making a belt out of it, especially if you did not take care of this in advance and did not leave a sufficient allowance on top:

1. Turn the gum into a ring.
2. We sweep it in several places to the slice of the belt.
3. Attach, forgetting to pull on - best of all in a zigzag pattern.

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Thus, sewing fashionable clothes is not at all such an impossible task. Modern fabrics are so beautiful that an overly complex cut is not necessary, just the opposite - it can distract attention from the material itself. If the fabric is discreet, and the cut is simple - nothing prevents you from decorating your clothes with thermal print, embroidery, applique and other interesting ways.