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⌈ Secret Post #4831 ⌋

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Re: Crafters and also anon who wanted to learn to sew from yesterday

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That site is great! Used to be called Craftsy (I think they got bought out), and it has a lot of professional video classes. No e in the URL, though: it's mybluprint.com.

I'm a self-taught seamstress and learned primarily through blogs, free youtube videos, and sewing books. Vintage sewing books from the 1970s are extremely helpful and still relatively easy and cheap to come by used. I recommend The Vogue Sewing Book (which comes in a beautiful slipcover ) and anything by Adele Margolis. Also blogs. Find a pattern you like, google it, and read all the blog entries from people who have made it and taken time to fully detail their constructions process. From there, you will find people whose blogs click with you, and at this point many of those blogs are so old that they're a goldmine of archived information as good as any sewing book.

The site sewing.patternreview.com has active forums and is an excellent resource for beginners.

Sewing is not hard, but it takes a lot of patience and the drive and resourcefulness to seek out information.

Making patterns, on the other hand, is serious business. I have almost a decade of experience with garment construction, and I still won't attempt it. There are designers who won't attempt it. They design by draping and have someone else draft the design into a flat pattern. Not only must you have the technical expertise for drafting, but you must be familiar enough with garment construction to work without instructions. Not trying to discourage anyone, just a reality check. If you want to make patterns, I would suggest working with as many different commercial patterns as possible. You will get a feel for it and soon be able to alter commercial patterns to suit your own designs.