May 12, 2021 • 37 mins
Sometimes the things you want to wear do not exist... so make them! This week join me as I discuss sewing, how I got started, answering my musts asked questions. P.S. Thank you so much for the love I have received on my makes.
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Miss Pinup Miami (00:05):
Good day and welcome back to the pin podcast.
I'm your host Pinup Miami. Andhere at the pin podcast, we talk
about modern topics with vintagefee.
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Today's episode is going to be alittle different. I don't have a
guest, it's just gonna be me.
And the reason behind it is I'vehad to do a life change in my
work place and with theheaviness that being hectic and
having to find a new job. And,you know, last year was
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difficult for everyone. So we'rejust making do with what we
have. And hopefully by nextweek, everything will be back in
order and better. Yeah, it'sgonna be better than ever. So
today's episode is going to beabout something that I have been
asked about. So many times, Ihave been asked about my sewing,
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you know, sewing and how I gotinto it, how to start sewing,
Unknown (01:40):
you know,
Miss Pinup Miami (01:41):
I get compliments on my outfits all
the time. Um, either they couldbe bad or good. I've gotten
both, but mostly they'repositive remarks. And number one
thing is how it fits on my body.
And that's what I love aboutsewing, you could create eight,
anything you want, with reason.
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But you can create anythingyou'd like if you'd like a dress
with a peasant top, but you wanta full circle or you want a
wiggle skirt or a circle skirt.
You know, you could design itthe way you want that feels
comfortable for your body withany embellishments and any
fabric. So starting in the verybeginning, how I got into sewing
was I was working because soon Iwon't be working there anymore.
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I was working at a pillowfactory manufacturing pillow
inserts. I ran the warehousethere. And at this job, there
was seamstresses, you know,because they have to sew
pillows. And I was going todifferent events and car shows
and I love dresses but I justcouldn't afford it like pinup
girl, or the dresses that Imostly wear pinup girl. They
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were really popular when I firststarted in pinup. And I wanted
those dresses that kind ofstyle, but I wanted it in like a
certain look or I wanted it morevintage, you know i'd be on
poshmark I'd be looking atvintage dresses that I love but
they were always like a waste of30 You know, my waist is closer
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to a 40. So the only way I couldhave thought of having something
is if I made it. So I startedoff by at the warehouse asking
the seamstresses to teach metechniques. And at this
warehouse, it was mostly allstraight stitching single stitch
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industrial machines. That meansthat the needle only goes
forward in one direction like astraight line. Because in
pillows all you need isstraight, it's four corners. So
I learned the basics with them.
And I would show them the dressthey would think I'm crazy
because they're not into thestyle that I'm in but they they
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enjoyed it. I feel like theylike the final product and they
got to see the vision at theend. So I would bring different
clothes, I would ask them toalter it or change it or teach
me how to stitch and that's howI picked up the basics. But I
never actually did it for likethe first two dresses because
those two dresses took forever.
It was actually a blue dressthat I wear for Viva ease to had
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like a rough on the front. Ifyou're watching on YouTube, I'll
put up a picture. I've alsomentioned it to a couple friends
of mine to where it's likepromise events and to Viva Las
Vegas. I haven't been to VivaLas Vegas but I can say one of
my dresses has. So once I lovedthe look I was getting from
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these dresses that these ladieswere helping me make. I wanted
to do it myself. So I neverpicked up a sewing machine. But
I practice with the very basics.
So this is what I recommend forpeople to do when they're
learning. do research. Like Idid, I had hands on research.
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But the magic with technologytoday is that you can look up
anything on YouTube. And on Ticktock, I've actually learned so
many things on Tick Tock that Ididn't know about sewing even
about my own machine. So useTick Tock us on YouTube. And I
was asked by somebody onInstagram, like, Do I have a
recommended youtuber to watch?
My answer is always watch themall. Because of the say, for
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example, you want to learn howto hem a skirt. One youtuber
might do it one way you find itdifficult. And then you're going
to want to give up. So make sureto watch like how to him in like
five different videos and findthe way that you think you
understood the most. And thatyou could do and you found more
efficient. I do that all thetime. Back to my first project,
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my first project that I ever didwas I wanted to show off my
skills. So I did napkins. So Iliterally went to Joanne's got
this Thanksgiving fabric that Igot for Thanksgiving, and I cut
up squares. And then I learnedhow to turn the corners and and
so so I did like fancy clothnapkins. And then with the
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Cricut I cut out my family'slast name, and put Thanksgiving
in the year. And it was supercute. So just learning the
basics of doing that and thepatience of going in a straight
line.
Because sewing machines, I knowa lot of people think that like
sewing machines do the work foryou. But you really have to put
in the work yourself. And so andhelp you know and guide the
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machine, the machine justdoesn't do it. And I think
that's a misconception peoplethinking all the machine is
gonna do all the work when inreality, you're the one doing
the work. Because if you if theoperator, if there's a user
error, your outfit or whateveryou're working on, is not going
to come out, right. So after Imade those napkins, that took me
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forever because my family has isbig. I really learned how to do
a straight line how tobackstage, which means like
closing the stitch at the end soit doesn't come undone. So you
learn very basic straightstitching. So projects like that
doing straight even on scraps,you could go to Goodwill,
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Walmart and just do straightstitches. If your machine has
different like stitches, you canpractice with bad decorative
stitches. I did do napkins withdecorative stitch that was like
an arch and clear curves. Andthen you cut around it. And it
came off super cute. But thenafter that I really wanted to do
close. So close is like the maingoal that was in my head when I
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first even picked up a sewingmachine. And my sewing machine
was gifted to me by Linda fromthe Misfits Car Club. She was
nice enough because she knewthat I wanted to there had a
vision and I wanted to do acertain type of look. And she
believed in it. And I'm sograteful that she gave me a
sewing machine because I wasable to practice at home and and
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thank you, Linda, you'relistening. So from there, I
still have the machine to today.
I actually after that onebecause that one only did a few
stitches, I wanted to be likethe one of the cool kids and and
I got a machine with a bunch ofstitches. In reality, my tip is
you do not need a machine thathas 300 or 100 different
stitches because you're notgoing to use them. I ended up
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just using the zigzag and astraight stitch. You really
don't need anything else unlessyou're quilting. Because it is
not really necessary to do anystitches. And I'm telling you
that that's the truth. And thisyear, I acquired an industrial
sewing machine that just does astraight stitch which is like
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back to my original. A heavybeginning of learning sewing and
a serger. a serger is like ifyou it does surging stitches so
it cuts the edge and reallycleans it gives you a clean
finish. Most t shirts anddresses have this kind of like
zigzag like double zigzagstitch. It looks like if you
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look up serger you'll see thestitch I'm talking about. It's
most all of your clothing. I'msure if you're wearing something
right now, it's on there. Sothen from there, I started with
no patterns. I actually startedwith just sewing and cutting and
trial and error that reallyhelped me learn my own body. So
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I knew like how patterns aresupposed to look. I would cut
the fabric on my own body. layit out, cut it again with some
seam allowance meaning adding anextra piece so I could cut and
sew it. So that's used to likeput things together if I cut it
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exactly where I want, I won'thave any sewing and if I saw it
like that, it's just gonna besuper small. So I tried to get
on my own body. And I realized,you know, that's very difficult,
but I gotta say, it reallyhelped me learn a lot about my
body, the human body what I needto take in, take out. And if you
do wear undergarments, make sureyou measure your body with the
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undergarments on because thenit'll be baggy, like I always
wear a corset. So I make surewhen I test out my outfits that
I always have my corset on, itreally helps to make sure that
the dress fits according to howyou want it. If not, you're
gonna have a dress that lookstotally not fitted, if that's
what you're going for. If you'regoing for a caftan, it doesn't
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really matter yourundergarments. So the next thing
after doing that I startedgetting into patterns, because I
really wanted to try differentpatterns, vintage patterns. And
with these patterns, I found isso difficult. I literally
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collected them, I never touchedthem for a while, I was very
intimidated, because it's likejust a piece of paper, and you
got to do what they tell you.
But then when you see thepatterns, it's just very
confusing at first. But once youget to read a pattern and know
it, it's a perfect guideto also grow your sewing. So
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little by little. I hope I'mmaking sense. But a little tip
that I have about sewingpatterns is do not depend on a
pattern to learn how to sew, orto create or use it as like a
golden rule for an outfit. Letme explain. When you use a
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pattern, what when I startedusing a pattern, the pattern
tells the modern patterns, theones you see at Joanne's Walmart
simplicity, McCall Vogue, thosepatterns have instructions. So
they tell you how the pattern issupposed to go. If you shop on
eBay, for vintage patterns, oronline for draft at home
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patterns 98% of the time, andbecause I've yet to find one,
but just in case there is oneout there. They don't have any
instructions because in thosetimes in the 20s 30s 40s and 50s
those patterns, people it was ait was a skill that women
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already knew how to sew. So theyknew looking at a pattern where
the pattern where they all fitto be sewn and what to do. And I
find this so interesting,because when you think of
sewing, right now, a lot ofpeople don't know how to sew. I
think during the pandemic, a lotof people learned how to sew.
But it's not really a skill thatis like they don't see Tomek I
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guess you could say I never hadhomag but I'm guessing that
that's why people knew how tosew. But sewing was such a
necessity at home it saved onhaving to go shopping you could
have your custom clothes, youcould make it off of curtains
like if you've seen Gone withthe Wind, like the dresses were
made out of curtains, like Ilove it. And that's I mean I've
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made a dress out of skirt andfabric because curtain fabric
because it's cheaper thanfabric. But back to the pattern.
Yeah, it those patterns don'thave any instructions. They
literally are just littlecutouts and then you got to
figure out the rest on your own.
But that's because you have tobe knowledgeable in how to put
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it together. I tried thesepatterns called Miss. Do you
pull the Pew patterns on? Mr.
Pew, her website and she hasthese draft at home patterns
that I would say is difficult tohave your beginning. Do not do
it. If you saw me make a dressinspired by the American Horror
Story was it American HorrorStory but it was the the nurse
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from ratchet it was a showratchet. One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest, the nurseratchet. It was a yellow outfit
she did and I really wanted thatlike look, I tried one of those
draft at home patterns, whichmeans that it's like small and
then according to your bodyshape, you use a ruler that you
have to print out and it's likeproportional to make a pattern.
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So you get the pattern pieces.
So you got to make the pattern,then add your seam allowance.
And then then figure out on yourown how it goes. So that's
challenging, I would say don'tstart off with one of those or
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any vintage patterns because youwill be so confused. But once
you start one pattern, you'll beable to see the gist of how
they're supposed to be puttogether with the notches mean
because of vintage patterns.
Most of them have like littlenotches and you'll be able to
understand where they go. So inmodern patterns when I first
picked one out up, you know, Ilooked at it, I read the
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instructions. And I have to saythat honestly, I know I just
told you guys not to use it as alearning guide, but use it as a
resource. Because let's say youget one of those quick so
patterns from Joanne which Irecommend, because they're quick
to so. Um, if I click this one,I mean, easy, less cutting, less
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having to mark like any darts.
So get that. And when you readthe instructions for every word
you do not understand. And thisis what I did. I would Google
and YouTube. And again, I wouldlook him more than one source
because I would watch one videoof somebody saying, you know,
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the pattern was, say, gatheredfrom the two markings to the
other marking. And I'm like, Howthe heck do I gather I've never
gathered before. So I would goon YouTube, and look at
different videos, because somepeople make it difficult. Some
people made it easy. And it'sjust finding what works for you.
And that's the magic of sewing,finding what works for you.
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Because at the end of the day,if you like it, I mean, that's
the point. And the dresses willnot be perfect my dresses in the
beginning, but they were notperfect. I mean, the first
couple of dresses I made, Ididn't know.
Or I was so frustrated andputting a zipper that I didn't
put a zipper and that's why Idon't own those dresses anymore,
because I put no zipper in. AndI regret it. But I was just so
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frustrated that I was like, Idon't know how to put a zipper.
I'm not putting one it wouldjust be a one time morning dress
and then literally had to cutmyself off of it. That's
probably something I shouldn'tsay out loud. But I'm letting
you guys know cuz you'relistening. But yes, zippers are
difficult. But once you get thehang of it, it's just patience
with that I usually take alittle more time when I do a
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zipper. Just because I know itfrustrates me. And if you have
fabrics that have you know, tostart off, don't use fabrics
that have like, prints and in inone direction because you're
going to end up using morefabric and it's going to
complicate it if you want it toline up with your patterns.
Start with a solid or likepatterns that are very
repetitive, but it doesn'tmatter what direction you're
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turning if that is stilluniform. And then once you get
more comfortable with knowingthe basics of putting your
pattern together, thenexperiment with different
fabrics. And if you want toexperiment with different
fabrics. bedsheets are amazing.
The first bedsheet dress I evermade was this Toy Story one. And
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I have to say that it's still tothis day one of my favorite
outfits and it was only like $5for the whole bed set when at
least in Florida because if yougo to California or New York,
they have this garments districtthat is like everything's like
$1 or less 50 cents fabric ayard. We don't have that in
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South Florida. But you could usebedsheets if you like there's
like beautiful like on eBay.
They also sell vintage bedsheetslike different styles. And when
you go thrifting make sure tohit that bedsheet area, you will
find solid colors, you'll findflowers, you'll find so many
different types of things. Andeven if you like Disney like
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today, not today, yesterday, Ipicked up Star Wars bedsheets,
then make a perfect gather. It'snot a full bed sheet. But with
the fabric, I think it's just aflat, I can make a skirt and
maybe a little top and I want tomake a two piece set out of it.
So that I could wear it as askirt with a plain top or I
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could wear it as you know theStar Wars blouse with a black
skirt and have it tointerchange. My goal this year
is to improve my having moreessential pieces like not
essential but like two piecesthat I could style differently,
not just dresses. So that's oneof my goals and gowns. I want to
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make more gowns and more coutureand more fun cosplay items. That
is something that I've beenslowly trying to get into this
year. But haven't focusedbecause of the change of my job.
But now after everything settlesdown, I'm going hardcore with
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that. And so yeah, so try doingthe patterns. Um, and just play
around with different things andlearn your machine. Every
machine is different, butYouTube, YouTube, I can't
recommend YouTube enough. And ifyou have any machine that you've
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ever seen me using, and you havethe same one, feel free to reach
out I'm always willing to help.
I used to run before thepandemic I used to run a sewing
Meetup group and it was reallynice, but it ended up being more
artistic Because it wasdifferent people every time and
I want to make more YouTubevideos on how to sew and how to
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make different things or my notso so long because I think it's
a skill that people do the soullongs because you address is not
made in three minutes. But thesevideos are three minutes, three
minutes, guys. I don't know. Itried it, I edit all my own
things. So I think everything'simportant. So that's why I
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called it a not so so long.
Because I feel like I I can'tedit it in a way of putting
everything important in onebecause I think everything's
important. So then I just, thenI don't record everything and
then then it just becomes a notso so long. Let me see, I had a
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few questions that you guysasked here. How would you say
oh, I answered, how would yousuggest to beginner start? Well,
so begin bygetting a sewing machine because
or hand stitching. I don't likehand stitching, even though it
is necessary for a couple stepswill be necessary when putting a
zipper or when you want to makeyour garment look clean any
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inside, meaning that you want toline it. And you don't want to
see any raw edges, which is theedge of the fabric. I really
tried now, not in the beginningto make sure my garment looks
pretty in the inside, meaningthat I lined it. No raw edges
are showing, hopefully with thenew serger that I have, like
everything will be nice andclean. And that way your closes
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in free and open up. But that'syou don't need that in the
beginning. In the beginning,it's all about just getting
started getting your machineyour thread. Don't start with
stretchy fabric because that isa little harder to get. Start
with cotton, and non stretchyfabrics.
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Let's see
Miss Pinup Miami (22:04):
a beginner project. So my recommendation is
starting with napkins just likeI did. If you have a family
gathering coming around, makelittle napkins and hem all four
corners, you're gonna hate itbecause it's very repetitive.
But it does help it helps youunderstand your machine. Play
around with it, you could trythe new decorative stitch so you
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can understand what I'm meaningby these decorative stitches on
the machine. Then move up to ifyou're talking about a garment
piece, the first garment piece Iwould suggest is a circle skirt.
Um, you don't need a pattern forthat if you google circle skirt
calculator, the first websitethat comes up it's like London
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something or any of them,there's so many like little
calculators to make a circleskirt. And this calculator, you
will put your waist size, youwill put how long your skirt you
want, and the fabric width thatyou have. And I'll tell you the
recommended radius. So that wayyou just fold it how they tell
you and super easy and there youget to practice your hemming,
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which on a circle skirt is alittle difficult. But if you got
the napkins and you go to thecurves and take a little step up
and every accomplishment isreally great and you'll be using
the same skills you used in thenapkins. You could even make
headscarves start with smallerprojects that you can handle.
Let's see next where to buy yoursewing notions I would suggest
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going to a store to see them.
And I wouldn't get threadsecondhand because thread does
expire. And it's not going to beas strong. So I would always buy
the thread in new on I use anormal depending on what your
stitching you would depend onthe thread the needle. At the
moment I have all universaltypes. I get my feet on Amazon.
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So on your machine, you can adddifferent feet. I don't like
gathering by hand. So I did buya gathering foot which is like
the foot for where your needlegoes. You could buy many and
there's so many interesting oneson Amazon. There's like a pack
of like, for 20 bucks of heck of50 of them. And you can
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experiment on that. You alsoneed a foot for your zipper.
Invisible zippers are different.
So you want it to be closer. Soevery foot helps you line up
where your stitches going to go.
Something I wish I learned inthe beginning is it feels weird
to ask myself questions becauseI'm the only one in the room.
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But something I wish I learnedin the beginning was Hmm,
there's so many things.
The first thing that comes to myhead is expensive fabric. I wish
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I knew that if I'm going to usean expensive fabric because it's
happened to me and I learnedfrom it, you learn from your
mistakes. And that's the mostimportant thing. If you make a
mistake, and you learn from it,kudos girl, because there's some
people that don't even learnfrom their own mistakes. So I
would have to say that if youbuy an expensive fabric, because
you want to make an amazinggown, or this vintage fabric
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that you're never going to find,again, make sure to make a
Muslim, just make a Muslim ormake it out of another fabric in
case you need to fix it. And youcan't, you could you could tuck
it, you could make it smaller,but you can't make it bigger
once you cut it. So a Muslim islike using the cheapest fabric
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or using Muslim creating thepattern really quick. So you
make it quick, it doesn't haveto be perfect. But it has to be
the measurements of where you'reputting your seam allowance on
the pattern where it's going tobe so that when you try it on,
you know where you have to tuckin, or remove or add. So this
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Muslim is to make it perfect foryou. So let's say I want to make
a dress and it's a new pattern,I get my Muslim or whatever
fabric you have laying aroundthis extra doesn't even have to
match is just for you to makesure this is an extra step. I am
guilty of not doing this all thetime. But for sure I do this now
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if my fabric is reallyexpensive, because that's always
so minor. So I would make theMuslim really quick cut it out.
So it cried on my body. And Ialways try it on inside out,
making sure you have thegarments and stuff that you want
to wear with it. And then well Ido it on my own. So I know it's
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possible, you would clip inusing bobby pins, or, um, pink
girl clips. That's a tip pinkgirl clips. Like if you don't
want to use my god like pins ifyou don't want to use pins, and
I don't like using pins becausesometimes they poke through the
thing or you forget to take himout and then you step on them.
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It's like worse than our Lego.
So when you try it on yourselfinside out, you're able to pick
the section that you want tobring in, then you take out your
Muslim using a seam ripper,you're going to open it up
adjusted, try it again, and thenopen it up and make a new
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pattern with the new size. Thisis something that I perhaps
should make a video on becauseit's kind of difficult to
explain. But if you if youunderstand you're you're you're
technically tailoring the dressto you. And then bringing it
back to your pattern andadjusting the pattern so that
next time you use that pattern.
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You could you already have yourmeasurements, you don't have to
worry about it, you can use thatexpensive fabric and you're good
to go. Oh, another thing I wouldsay that I wish I knew in the
beginning was don't cut yourpatterns. You will realize when
you're looking for patterns,patterns are so expensive. If
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they're vintage, so you don'twant to be cutting them up.
Because if a lot of the Okay, alot of the patterns come with
more than one size. So let's sayyou lose weight, and you're
going to need a smaller one.
Yeah, you could have just theone you have. Or you could just
cut it or if you're making yourfriend one, you know. So just
use, I bought a roll like a hugeroll of medical paper, the ones
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that they use to put on the bed.
When you go to get a checkup,that roll is like 20 bucks on
Amazon. And with that roll, Iput it over the paper pattern is
very thin Have you seen is likea very thin sheet of paper. But
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that medical paper could goright over it, you could see it
and outline the pattern. Andthat way you don't have to cut
your pattern, you just have tosell it later. You can sell it,
you can keep it you have all thesizes in the world. So make a
copy. And then I like totransfer it on to like a harder
paper so it lasts longer like acardboard. But that's up to you.
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sewing patterns. I mean stuffsorting patterns, if you have a
lot. My recommendation is to geta binder and get one, get those
clear. The clear sheets that youput in a binder, because I don't
know the magic of how people puttheir paper patterns back into
that envelope. I don't have thepatience for that. So I just use
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one of those clear papers. Putit in next to your papers, those
clear, transparent folder thingsthat you use like for school
projects. Put it all in thereand then put it in the binder.
You could write any notes on itif you like. And,
yeah, it's like, that's how Isort my things out. So I have
little binders and the ones thatI don't use. I keep a little
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Barbie box somewhere until Iopen them up. And then I can't
put them back in the envelope.
If you so you know what I mean?
Let's see are patternsnecessary? patterns are not
necessary. Like I said, Istarted off in the beginning not
using patterns I, a lot of thedresses in the beginning, they
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were handmade, they do takeroot, they don't take longer.
It's all about learning yourbody. Use it as a guide, as I
said, and it really does helpbecause you try I've learned
techniques through patternsbecause again, gathering when
the pattern expert I had no ideaI would just Google it and I
learned the skill practice it onscrap fabric and you learn a lot
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and you learn how patterns aresupposed to go. What fabrics
would you start off withCotton's nothing stretchy until
you realize that you know, forstretch fabrics is like a
different kind of science. Youneed to make it smaller because
it stretches. But you can't makeit too small because you want it
to fit. So yes, yeah, andresources for sewing. Like a
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book. I have not used the book.
Um, I am more of a visualperson. I know books have
pictures, but I would have tosay YouTube. And there are many
YouTubers to do so long. So ifyou're interested to see a
pattern here, I'll give you atip. I'll give you a tip that I
do all the time when Joanne hasa sale. Well, first of all,
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number one, get on Facebook andfollow any sewing group that you
find. I know that I love birdiessewing so Intel like if you like
her patterns, they're amazing.
If you like the like vintagerepro style, vintage style, she
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has a Patreon that every monthshe comes out with a new
pattern. And she her patternshave intense instructions like
it's a pedia. It's a PDF andit's a book. So so you'll learn
a lot and you'll get differentideas from reading these
instructions because she givesyou so many options on what you
could do with your your garment.
I also joined my call patternall the patterns have their own
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Facebook group, and their peopleput up there makes like what
they make you could see whatother people do get inspired go
on Pinterest. And when Joy has asale, I love to go to the Joanne
website first. Look at all thepatterns because you don't want
to sit at the store and have tolook at their book and like sit
there for hours are not forhours. But I have sat there for
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hours. That's why I'm friendswith everyone. I met Joanne's
and if Deborah is listeningbecause I know she's listening
Hello. I want to have Deborah onthe show one day, we'll see.
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so yeah, so make sure I go home I look at
the Joanne unnatural and I go tothe straight to the let's say
Simplicity's having a salesometimes you have a $99
patterns or 199 patterns. Andthat's really cheap because
patterns are usually 14 bucks.
It breaks the bank especially ifyou want all of them. So I wait
for the sale, which is $1.99 or99 cents sometimes, but usually
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they're 199 I go on tosimplicity website or whichever
one and I write down all thepatterns that I want. Then I go
to my local Joanne's and Ialready have the list with me
and then buy them from there.
Because you honestly elicitedvintage pattern which I have
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like if you guys followed me Idid a bold pattern with this
crane fabric. I got the fabricat Joanne's but the pattern was
a discontinued Vogue pattern andI did want it for so long. I
ended up finding it on eBay andit was so hard to find in my
size. Make sure talking aboutsize. I'm gonna leave you with
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one more tip here. When you buya pattern, make sure that you
don't go off your clothing. AKAif the pattern says this is for
size 678 910. That does not meanthat it's for dress size 678 910
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that means that you need to readthe pattern and the pattern will
tell you what measurements gowith that size. Now, don't
assume that because you're thissize and this person pattern,
the pattern You're the same,every pattern is different.
Never assume, make sure you lookat what they recommend behind
the pattern. And then look atthe back of the pattern tells
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you everything what you're goingto need, what notions how much
fabric, and the fabric, take itwith a grain of salt, because
for example, that crane fabricI'm talking about, or Swan
sorry, this one fabric I'mtalking to you about it had a
pattern. So you're going to needa little more fabric if you want
to line up everything together.
So just keep that in mind. Ifeel like I was able to explain
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my journey into sewing and a fewtips and a few questions that
I've been asked recently ononline. If you're interested in
seeing like more videos, seeingvideos on my YouTube about this
I really want to push onceeverything is settled in my
life. I've been a little crazytrying to get my life I'm sure a
lot of you have. And that's whythis podcast is incredible to me
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because I've been able to meetso many incredible people and
share them with you. And that'sbeen my sanity. So thank you
truly from the bottom of myheart. Thank you guys for
listening in supporting me beingthere. It means more than y'all
will ever know. Next week, nextweek, I am going to have these
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to dapper day and I saw thesetwo guys I made parasols but
these ladies these are not justa parasols these, his art are
they create our own parasols arecalled the umbrella fellows.
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sure if you have any questions,hit me up. I'll ask them. Well
guys, I hope you're staying safegetting vaccine. I will see you
next week.
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Today's episode is going to be alittle different. I don't have a
guest, it's just gonna be me.
And the reason behind it is I'vehad to do a life change in my
work place and with theheaviness that being hectic and
having to find a new job. And,you know, last year was
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difficult for everyone. So we'rejust making do with what we
have. And hopefully by nextweek, everything will be back in
order and better. Yeah, it'sgonna be better than ever. So
today's episode is going to beabout something that I have been
asked about. So many times, Ihave been asked about my sewing,
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you know, sewing and how I gotinto it, how to start sewing,
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I get compliments on my outfits all
the time. Um, either they couldbe bad or good. I've gotten
both, but mostly they'repositive remarks. And number one
thing is how it fits on my body.
And that's what I love aboutsewing, you could create eight,
anything you want, with reason.
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But you can create anythingyou'd like if you'd like a dress
with a peasant top, but you wanta full circle or you want a
wiggle skirt or a circle skirt.
You know, you could design itthe way you want that feels
comfortable for your body withany embellishments and any
fabric. So starting in the verybeginning, how I got into sewing
was I was working because soon Iwon't be working there anymore.
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I was working at a pillowfactory manufacturing pillow
inserts. I ran the warehousethere. And at this job, there
was seamstresses, you know,because they have to sew
pillows. And I was going todifferent events and car shows
and I love dresses but I justcouldn't afford it like pinup
girl, or the dresses that Imostly wear pinup girl. They
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were really popular when I firststarted in pinup. And I wanted
those dresses that kind ofstyle, but I wanted it in like a
certain look or I wanted it morevintage, you know i'd be on
poshmark I'd be looking atvintage dresses that I love but
they were always like a waste of30 You know, my waist is closer
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to a 40. So the only way I couldhave thought of having something
is if I made it. So I startedoff by at the warehouse asking
the seamstresses to teach metechniques. And at this
warehouse, it was mostly allstraight stitching single stitch
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industrial machines. That meansthat the needle only goes
forward in one direction like astraight line. Because in
pillows all you need isstraight, it's four corners. So
I learned the basics with them.
And I would show them the dressthey would think I'm crazy
because they're not into thestyle that I'm in but they they
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enjoyed it. I feel like theylike the final product and they
got to see the vision at theend. So I would bring different
clothes, I would ask them toalter it or change it or teach
me how to stitch and that's howI picked up the basics. But I
never actually did it for likethe first two dresses because
those two dresses took forever.
It was actually a blue dressthat I wear for Viva ease to had
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like a rough on the front. Ifyou're watching on YouTube, I'll
put up a picture. I've alsomentioned it to a couple friends
of mine to where it's likepromise events and to Viva Las
Vegas. I haven't been to VivaLas Vegas but I can say one of
my dresses has. So once I lovedthe look I was getting from
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these dresses that these ladieswere helping me make. I wanted
to do it myself. So I neverpicked up a sewing machine. But
I practice with the very basics.
So this is what I recommend forpeople to do when they're
learning. do research. Like Idid, I had hands on research.
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But the magic with technologytoday is that you can look up
anything on YouTube. And on Ticktock, I've actually learned so
many things on Tick Tock that Ididn't know about sewing even
about my own machine. So useTick Tock us on YouTube. And I
was asked by somebody onInstagram, like, Do I have a
recommended youtuber to watch?
My answer is always watch themall. Because of the say, for
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example, you want to learn howto hem a skirt. One youtuber
might do it one way you find itdifficult. And then you're going
to want to give up. So make sureto watch like how to him in like
five different videos and findthe way that you think you
understood the most. And thatyou could do and you found more
efficient. I do that all thetime. Back to my first project,
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my first project that I ever didwas I wanted to show off my
skills. So I did napkins. So Iliterally went to Joanne's got
this Thanksgiving fabric that Igot for Thanksgiving, and I cut
up squares. And then I learnedhow to turn the corners and and
so so I did like fancy clothnapkins. And then with the
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Cricut I cut out my family'slast name, and put Thanksgiving
in the year. And it was supercute. So just learning the
basics of doing that and thepatience of going in a straight
line.
Because sewing machines, I knowa lot of people think that like
sewing machines do the work foryou. But you really have to put
in the work yourself. And so andhelp you know and guide the
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machine, the machine justdoesn't do it. And I think
that's a misconception peoplethinking all the machine is
gonna do all the work when inreality, you're the one doing
the work. Because if you if theoperator, if there's a user
error, your outfit or whateveryou're working on, is not going
to come out, right. So after Imade those napkins, that took me
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forever because my family has isbig. I really learned how to do
a straight line how tobackstage, which means like
closing the stitch at the end soit doesn't come undone. So you
learn very basic straightstitching. So projects like that
doing straight even on scraps,you could go to Goodwill,
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Walmart and just do straightstitches. If your machine has
different like stitches, you canpractice with bad decorative
stitches. I did do napkins withdecorative stitch that was like
an arch and clear curves. Andthen you cut around it. And it
came off super cute. But thenafter that I really wanted to do
close. So close is like the maingoal that was in my head when I
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first even picked up a sewingmachine. And my sewing machine
was gifted to me by Linda fromthe Misfits Car Club. She was
nice enough because she knewthat I wanted to there had a
vision and I wanted to do acertain type of look. And she
believed in it. And I'm sograteful that she gave me a
sewing machine because I wasable to practice at home and and
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thank you, Linda, you'relistening. So from there, I
still have the machine to today.
I actually after that onebecause that one only did a few
stitches, I wanted to be likethe one of the cool kids and and
I got a machine with a bunch ofstitches. In reality, my tip is
you do not need a machine thathas 300 or 100 different
stitches because you're notgoing to use them. I ended up
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just using the zigzag and astraight stitch. You really
don't need anything else unlessyou're quilting. Because it is
not really necessary to do anystitches. And I'm telling you
that that's the truth. And thisyear, I acquired an industrial
sewing machine that just does astraight stitch which is like
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back to my original. A heavybeginning of learning sewing and
a serger. a serger is like ifyou it does surging stitches so
it cuts the edge and reallycleans it gives you a clean
finish. Most t shirts anddresses have this kind of like
zigzag like double zigzagstitch. It looks like if you
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look up serger you'll see thestitch I'm talking about. It's
most all of your clothing. I'msure if you're wearing something
right now, it's on there. Sothen from there, I started with
no patterns. I actually startedwith just sewing and cutting and
trial and error that reallyhelped me learn my own body. So
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I knew like how patterns aresupposed to look. I would cut
the fabric on my own body. layit out, cut it again with some
seam allowance meaning adding anextra piece so I could cut and
sew it. So that's used to likeput things together if I cut it
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exactly where I want, I won'thave any sewing and if I saw it
like that, it's just gonna besuper small. So I tried to get
on my own body. And I realized,you know, that's very difficult,
but I gotta say, it reallyhelped me learn a lot about my
body, the human body what I needto take in, take out. And if you
do wear undergarments, make sureyou measure your body with the
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undergarments on because thenit'll be baggy, like I always
wear a corset. So I make surewhen I test out my outfits that
I always have my corset on, itreally helps to make sure that
the dress fits according to howyou want it. If not, you're
gonna have a dress that lookstotally not fitted, if that's
what you're going for. If you'regoing for a caftan, it doesn't
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really matter yourundergarments. So the next thing
after doing that I startedgetting into patterns, because I
really wanted to try differentpatterns, vintage patterns. And
with these patterns, I found isso difficult. I literally
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collected them, I never touchedthem for a while, I was very
intimidated, because it's likejust a piece of paper, and you
got to do what they tell you.
But then when you see thepatterns, it's just very
confusing at first. But once youget to read a pattern and know
it, it's a perfect guideto also grow your sewing. So
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little by little. I hope I'mmaking sense. But a little tip
that I have about sewingpatterns is do not depend on a
pattern to learn how to sew, orto create or use it as like a
golden rule for an outfit. Letme explain. When you use a
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pattern, what when I startedusing a pattern, the pattern
tells the modern patterns, theones you see at Joanne's Walmart
simplicity, McCall Vogue, thosepatterns have instructions. So
they tell you how the pattern issupposed to go. If you shop on
eBay, for vintage patterns, oronline for draft at home
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patterns 98% of the time, andbecause I've yet to find one,
but just in case there is oneout there. They don't have any
instructions because in thosetimes in the 20s 30s 40s and 50s
those patterns, people it was ait was a skill that women
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already knew how to sew. So theyknew looking at a pattern where
the pattern where they all fitto be sewn and what to do. And I
find this so interesting,because when you think of
sewing, right now, a lot ofpeople don't know how to sew. I
think during the pandemic, a lotof people learned how to sew.
But it's not really a skill thatis like they don't see Tomek I
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guess you could say I never hadhomag but I'm guessing that
that's why people knew how tosew. But sewing was such a
necessity at home it saved onhaving to go shopping you could
have your custom clothes, youcould make it off of curtains
like if you've seen Gone withthe Wind, like the dresses were
made out of curtains, like Ilove it. And that's I mean I've
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made a dress out of skirt andfabric because curtain fabric
because it's cheaper thanfabric. But back to the pattern.
Yeah, it those patterns don'thave any instructions. They
literally are just littlecutouts and then you got to
figure out the rest on your own.
But that's because you have tobe knowledgeable in how to put
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it together. I tried thesepatterns called Miss. Do you
pull the Pew patterns on? Mr.
Pew, her website and she hasthese draft at home patterns
that I would say is difficult tohave your beginning. Do not do
it. If you saw me make a dressinspired by the American Horror
Story was it American HorrorStory but it was the the nurse
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from ratchet it was a showratchet. One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest, the nurseratchet. It was a yellow outfit
she did and I really wanted thatlike look, I tried one of those
draft at home patterns, whichmeans that it's like small and
then according to your bodyshape, you use a ruler that you
have to print out and it's likeproportional to make a pattern.
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So you get the pattern pieces.
So you got to make the pattern,then add your seam allowance.
And then then figure out on yourown how it goes. So that's
challenging, I would say don'tstart off with one of those or
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any vintage patterns because youwill be so confused. But once
you start one pattern, you'll beable to see the gist of how
they're supposed to be puttogether with the notches mean
because of vintage patterns.
Most of them have like littlenotches and you'll be able to
understand where they go. So inmodern patterns when I first
picked one out up, you know, Ilooked at it, I read the
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instructions. And I have to saythat honestly, I know I just
told you guys not to use it as alearning guide, but use it as a
resource. Because let's say youget one of those quick so
patterns from Joanne which Irecommend, because they're quick
to so. Um, if I click this one,I mean, easy, less cutting, less
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having to mark like any darts.
So get that. And when you readthe instructions for every word
you do not understand. And thisis what I did. I would Google
and YouTube. And again, I wouldlook him more than one source
because I would watch one videoof somebody saying, you know,
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the pattern was, say, gatheredfrom the two markings to the
other marking. And I'm like, Howthe heck do I gather I've never
gathered before. So I would goon YouTube, and look at
different videos, because somepeople make it difficult. Some
people made it easy. And it'sjust finding what works for you.
And that's the magic of sewing,finding what works for you.
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Because at the end of the day,if you like it, I mean, that's
the point. And the dresses willnot be perfect my dresses in the
beginning, but they were notperfect. I mean, the first
couple of dresses I made, Ididn't know.
Or I was so frustrated andputting a zipper that I didn't
put a zipper and that's why Idon't own those dresses anymore,
because I put no zipper in. AndI regret it. But I was just so
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frustrated that I was like, Idon't know how to put a zipper.
I'm not putting one it wouldjust be a one time morning dress
and then literally had to cutmyself off of it. That's
probably something I shouldn'tsay out loud. But I'm letting
you guys know cuz you'relistening. But yes, zippers are
difficult. But once you get thehang of it, it's just patience
with that I usually take alittle more time when I do a
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zipper. Just because I know itfrustrates me. And if you have
fabrics that have you know, tostart off, don't use fabrics
that have like, prints and in inone direction because you're
going to end up using morefabric and it's going to
complicate it if you want it toline up with your patterns.
Start with a solid or likepatterns that are very
repetitive, but it doesn'tmatter what direction you're
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turning if that is stilluniform. And then once you get
more comfortable with knowingthe basics of putting your
pattern together, thenexperiment with different
fabrics. And if you want toexperiment with different
fabrics. bedsheets are amazing.
The first bedsheet dress I evermade was this Toy Story one. And
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I have to say that it's still tothis day one of my favorite
outfits and it was only like $5for the whole bed set when at
least in Florida because if yougo to California or New York,
they have this garments districtthat is like everything's like
$1 or less 50 cents fabric ayard. We don't have that in
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South Florida. But you could usebedsheets if you like there's
like beautiful like on eBay.
They also sell vintage bedsheetslike different styles. And when
you go thrifting make sure tohit that bedsheet area, you will
find solid colors, you'll findflowers, you'll find so many
different types of things. Andeven if you like Disney like
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today, not today, yesterday, Ipicked up Star Wars bedsheets,
then make a perfect gather. It'snot a full bed sheet. But with
the fabric, I think it's just aflat, I can make a skirt and
maybe a little top and I want tomake a two piece set out of it.
So that I could wear it as askirt with a plain top or I
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could wear it as you know theStar Wars blouse with a black
skirt and have it tointerchange. My goal this year
is to improve my having moreessential pieces like not
essential but like two piecesthat I could style differently,
not just dresses. So that's oneof my goals and gowns. I want to
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make more gowns and more coutureand more fun cosplay items. That
is something that I've beenslowly trying to get into this
year. But haven't focusedbecause of the change of my job.
But now after everything settlesdown, I'm going hardcore with
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that. And so yeah, so try doingthe patterns. Um, and just play
around with different things andlearn your machine. Every
machine is different, butYouTube, YouTube, I can't
recommend YouTube enough. And ifyou have any machine that you've
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ever seen me using, and you havethe same one, feel free to reach
out I'm always willing to help.
I used to run before thepandemic I used to run a sewing
Meetup group and it was reallynice, but it ended up being more
artistic Because it wasdifferent people every time and
I want to make more YouTubevideos on how to sew and how to
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make different things or my notso so long because I think it's
a skill that people do the soullongs because you address is not
made in three minutes. But thesevideos are three minutes, three
minutes, guys. I don't know. Itried it, I edit all my own
things. So I think everything'simportant. So that's why I
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called it a not so so long.
Because I feel like I I can'tedit it in a way of putting
everything important in onebecause I think everything's
important. So then I just, thenI don't record everything and
then then it just becomes a notso so long. Let me see, I had a
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few questions that you guysasked here. How would you say
oh, I answered, how would yousuggest to beginner start? Well,
so begin bygetting a sewing machine because
or hand stitching. I don't likehand stitching, even though it
is necessary for a couple stepswill be necessary when putting a
zipper or when you want to makeyour garment look clean any
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inside, meaning that you want toline it. And you don't want to
see any raw edges, which is theedge of the fabric. I really
tried now, not in the beginningto make sure my garment looks
pretty in the inside, meaningthat I lined it. No raw edges
are showing, hopefully with thenew serger that I have, like
everything will be nice andclean. And that way your closes
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in free and open up. But that'syou don't need that in the
beginning. In the beginning,it's all about just getting
started getting your machineyour thread. Don't start with
stretchy fabric because that isa little harder to get. Start
with cotton, and non stretchyfabrics.
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a beginner project. So my recommendation is
starting with napkins just likeI did. If you have a family
gathering coming around, makelittle napkins and hem all four
corners, you're gonna hate itbecause it's very repetitive.
But it does help it helps youunderstand your machine. Play
around with it, you could trythe new decorative stitch so you
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can understand what I'm meaningby these decorative stitches on
the machine. Then move up to ifyou're talking about a garment
piece, the first garment piece Iwould suggest is a circle skirt.
Um, you don't need a pattern forthat if you google circle skirt
calculator, the first websitethat comes up it's like London
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something or any of them,there's so many like little
calculators to make a circleskirt. And this calculator, you
will put your waist size, youwill put how long your skirt you
want, and the fabric width thatyou have. And I'll tell you the
recommended radius. So that wayyou just fold it how they tell
you and super easy and there youget to practice your hemming,
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which on a circle skirt is alittle difficult. But if you got
the napkins and you go to thecurves and take a little step up
and every accomplishment isreally great and you'll be using
the same skills you used in thenapkins. You could even make
headscarves start with smallerprojects that you can handle.
Let's see next where to buy yoursewing notions I would suggest
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going to a store to see them.
And I wouldn't get threadsecondhand because thread does
expire. And it's not going to beas strong. So I would always buy
the thread in new on I use anormal depending on what your
stitching you would depend onthe thread the needle. At the
moment I have all universaltypes. I get my feet on Amazon.
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So on your machine, you can adddifferent feet. I don't like
gathering by hand. So I did buya gathering foot which is like
the foot for where your needlegoes. You could buy many and
there's so many interesting oneson Amazon. There's like a pack
of like, for 20 bucks of heck of50 of them. And you can
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experiment on that. You alsoneed a foot for your zipper.
Invisible zippers are different.
So you want it to be closer. Soevery foot helps you line up
where your stitches going to go.
Something I wish I learned inthe beginning is it feels weird
to ask myself questions becauseI'm the only one in the room.
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But something I wish I learnedin the beginning was Hmm,
there's so many things.
The first thing that comes to myhead is expensive fabric. I wish
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I knew that if I'm going to usean expensive fabric because it's
happened to me and I learnedfrom it, you learn from your
mistakes. And that's the mostimportant thing. If you make a
mistake, and you learn from it,kudos girl, because there's some
people that don't even learnfrom their own mistakes. So I
would have to say that if youbuy an expensive fabric, because
you want to make an amazinggown, or this vintage fabric
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that you're never going to find,again, make sure to make a
Muslim, just make a Muslim ormake it out of another fabric in
case you need to fix it. And youcan't, you could you could tuck
it, you could make it smaller,but you can't make it bigger
once you cut it. So a Muslim islike using the cheapest fabric
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or using Muslim creating thepattern really quick. So you
make it quick, it doesn't haveto be perfect. But it has to be
the measurements of where you'reputting your seam allowance on
the pattern where it's going tobe so that when you try it on,
you know where you have to tuckin, or remove or add. So this
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Muslim is to make it perfect foryou. So let's say I want to make
a dress and it's a new pattern,I get my Muslim or whatever
fabric you have laying aroundthis extra doesn't even have to
match is just for you to makesure this is an extra step. I am
guilty of not doing this all thetime. But for sure I do this now
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if my fabric is reallyexpensive, because that's always
so minor. So I would make theMuslim really quick cut it out.
So it cried on my body. And Ialways try it on inside out,
making sure you have thegarments and stuff that you want
to wear with it. And then well Ido it on my own. So I know it's
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possible, you would clip inusing bobby pins, or, um, pink
girl clips. That's a tip pinkgirl clips. Like if you don't
want to use my god like pins ifyou don't want to use pins, and
I don't like using pins becausesometimes they poke through the
thing or you forget to take himout and then you step on them.
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It's like worse than our Lego.
So when you try it on yourselfinside out, you're able to pick
the section that you want tobring in, then you take out your
Muslim using a seam ripper,you're going to open it up
adjusted, try it again, and thenopen it up and make a new
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pattern with the new size. Thisis something that I perhaps
should make a video on becauseit's kind of difficult to
explain. But if you if youunderstand you're you're you're
technically tailoring the dressto you. And then bringing it
back to your pattern andadjusting the pattern so that
next time you use that pattern.
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You could you already have yourmeasurements, you don't have to
worry about it, you can use thatexpensive fabric and you're good
to go. Oh, another thing I wouldsay that I wish I knew in the
beginning was don't cut yourpatterns. You will realize when
you're looking for patterns,patterns are so expensive. If
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they're vintage, so you don'twant to be cutting them up.
Because if a lot of the Okay, alot of the patterns come with
more than one size. So let's sayyou lose weight, and you're
going to need a smaller one.
Yeah, you could have just theone you have. Or you could just
cut it or if you're making yourfriend one, you know. So just
use, I bought a roll like a hugeroll of medical paper, the ones
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that they use to put on the bed.
When you go to get a checkup,that roll is like 20 bucks on
Amazon. And with that roll, Iput it over the paper pattern is
very thin Have you seen is likea very thin sheet of paper. But
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that medical paper could goright over it, you could see it
and outline the pattern. Andthat way you don't have to cut
your pattern, you just have tosell it later. You can sell it,
you can keep it you have all thesizes in the world. So make a
copy. And then I like totransfer it on to like a harder
paper so it lasts longer like acardboard. But that's up to you.
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sewing patterns. I mean stuffsorting patterns, if you have a
lot. My recommendation is to geta binder and get one, get those
clear. The clear sheets that youput in a binder, because I don't
know the magic of how people puttheir paper patterns back into
that envelope. I don't have thepatience for that. So I just use
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one of those clear papers. Putit in next to your papers, those
clear, transparent folder thingsthat you use like for school
projects. Put it all in thereand then put it in the binder.
You could write any notes on itif you like. And,
yeah, it's like, that's how Isort my things out. So I have
little binders and the ones thatI don't use. I keep a little
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Barbie box somewhere until Iopen them up. And then I can't
put them back in the envelope.
If you so you know what I mean?
Let's see are patternsnecessary? patterns are not
necessary. Like I said, Istarted off in the beginning not
using patterns I, a lot of thedresses in the beginning, they
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were handmade, they do takeroot, they don't take longer.
It's all about learning yourbody. Use it as a guide, as I
said, and it really does helpbecause you try I've learned
techniques through patternsbecause again, gathering when
the pattern expert I had no ideaI would just Google it and I
learned the skill practice it onscrap fabric and you learn a lot
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and you learn how patterns aresupposed to go. What fabrics
would you start off withCotton's nothing stretchy until
you realize that you know, forstretch fabrics is like a
different kind of science. Youneed to make it smaller because
it stretches. But you can't makeit too small because you want it
to fit. So yes, yeah, andresources for sewing. Like a
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book. I have not used the book.
Um, I am more of a visualperson. I know books have
pictures, but I would have tosay YouTube. And there are many
YouTubers to do so long. So ifyou're interested to see a
pattern here, I'll give you atip. I'll give you a tip that I
do all the time when Joanne hasa sale. Well, first of all,
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number one, get on Facebook andfollow any sewing group that you
find. I know that I love birdiessewing so Intel like if you like
her patterns, they're amazing.
If you like the like vintagerepro style, vintage style, she
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has a Patreon that every monthshe comes out with a new
pattern. And she her patternshave intense instructions like
it's a pedia. It's a PDF andit's a book. So so you'll learn
a lot and you'll get differentideas from reading these
instructions because she givesyou so many options on what you
could do with your your garment.
I also joined my call patternall the patterns have their own
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Facebook group, and their peopleput up there makes like what
they make you could see whatother people do get inspired go
on Pinterest. And when Joy has asale, I love to go to the Joanne
website first. Look at all thepatterns because you don't want
to sit at the store and have tolook at their book and like sit
there for hours are not forhours. But I have sat there for
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hours. That's why I'm friendswith everyone. I met Joanne's
and if Deborah is listeningbecause I know she's listening
Hello. I want to have Deborah onthe show one day, we'll see.
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so yeah, so make sure I go home I look at
the Joanne unnatural and I go tothe straight to the let's say
Simplicity's having a salesometimes you have a $99
patterns or 199 patterns. Andthat's really cheap because
patterns are usually 14 bucks.
It breaks the bank especially ifyou want all of them. So I wait
for the sale, which is $1.99 or99 cents sometimes, but usually
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they're 199 I go on tosimplicity website or whichever
one and I write down all thepatterns that I want. Then I go
to my local Joanne's and Ialready have the list with me
and then buy them from there.
Because you honestly elicitedvintage pattern which I have
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like if you guys followed me Idid a bold pattern with this
crane fabric. I got the fabricat Joanne's but the pattern was
a discontinued Vogue pattern andI did want it for so long. I
ended up finding it on eBay andit was so hard to find in my
size. Make sure talking aboutsize. I'm gonna leave you with
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one more tip here. When you buya pattern, make sure that you
don't go off your clothing. AKAif the pattern says this is for
size 678 910. That does not meanthat it's for dress size 678 910
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that means that you need to readthe pattern and the pattern will
tell you what measurements gowith that size. Now, don't
assume that because you're thissize and this person pattern,
the pattern You're the same,every pattern is different.
Never assume, make sure you lookat what they recommend behind
the pattern. And then look atthe back of the pattern tells
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you everything what you're goingto need, what notions how much
fabric, and the fabric, take itwith a grain of salt, because
for example, that crane fabricI'm talking about, or Swan
sorry, this one fabric I'mtalking to you about it had a
pattern. So you're going to needa little more fabric if you want
to line up everything together.
So just keep that in mind. Ifeel like I was able to explain
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my journey into sewing and a fewtips and a few questions that
I've been asked recently ononline. If you're interested in
seeing like more videos, seeingvideos on my YouTube about this
I really want to push onceeverything is settled in my
life. I've been a little crazytrying to get my life I'm sure a
lot of you have. And that's whythis podcast is incredible to me
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because I've been able to meetso many incredible people and
share them with you. And that'sbeen my sanity. So thank you
truly from the bottom of myheart. Thank you guys for
listening in supporting me beingthere. It means more than y'all
will ever know. Next week, nextweek, I am going to have these
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incredible artists that I that Ifollowed through because I went
to dapper day and I saw thesetwo guys I made parasols but
these ladies these are not justa parasols these, his art are
they create our own parasols arecalled the umbrella fellows.
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You're not going to want to missnext week's episode and make
sure if you have any questions,hit me up. I'll ask them. Well
guys, I hope you're staying safegetting vaccine. I will see you
next week.
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