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Traditional Asian and Middle Eastern sewing methods are always intriguing, to me, because they are so focused on the comfort, economic use of the fabric (& work time), as well as functionality and durability. One thing I think is what drives it for me, is the almost 'origami' approach they use. I've a few things rolling around in the back of my head, that I want to try, using some of those techniques, for this winter.



Hi Carla, are you talking about kimono, harem pants, churidar or something like that? I am looking forward to seeing your creations!

When I lived in Singapore, local Indian ladies typically wore punjabi suits. I loved how they looked so put together, matching scarf, tunic and pants and every one was unique. I saw a video of how to lay out and cut a pair of bias churidar. It was pretty economical indeed.

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May Lotito wrote:

Hi Carla, are you talking about kimono, harem pants, churidar or something like that? I am looking forward to seeing your creations!

When I lived in Singapore, local Indian ladies typically wore punjabi suits. I loved how they looked so put together, matching scarf, tunic and pants and every one was unique. I saw a video of how to lay out and cut a pair of bias churidar. It was pretty economical indeed.



Yes! Exactly!! And hakama, and there is another pants style, made with 2 rectangles, offset - depending on how deep you want the crotch to hang, then folded around and sewn so that the crotch is formed with a gusset, then, the waistband is added. I saw it, and can picture it, but can't find the link to share. There is another - essentially a harem style, where a square is folded on the bias, the corners at the fold are cut, to form the ankles, and the corners that meet are cut, and a drawstring added to make the waist.

**edited to add the link! https://ofdreamsandseams.blogspot.com/2011/09/traditional-chinese-pants-pattern.html

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I am so glad I saw this thread, it inspired me to get to sewing this skirt I bought this beautiful heavy linen for!
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A few more photos because I am new to posting and thought I did it correctly the first time
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I sewed this robe from linen. The red sweater is separate...
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I made wool pillows out of an old blanket, filled with sheep's wool, for my 'haybox'. All hand sewn (with merino wool as sewing thread, in 'blanket stitch').
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Last few days I experimented with sewing furs. I restored one thrift store found fur coat, patching a big hole and replaced pockets and lining. Mostly done with hand sewing and the result was quite satisfying. I feel the coat is too dressy for grocery shopping but it is nice to wear when I feed chickens in the morning.
Another project is a coon hat for neighbor's kid. Almost done, just need to secure the head a little more.
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More craft sewing of bags and blanket.

The top of the blanket was made from recycled wool coats and felted wool knit scraps. Backed with organza then stitched to a layer of fleece. I made it for my younger son who loves minecraft. It is super warm and cozy.
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Minecraft is ingenious for quilting! This is the first I've seen of this. It would be one home-made item kids would really appreciate.

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Jordan Holland wrote:Minecraft is ingenious for quilting! This is the first I've seen of this. It would be one home-made item kids would really appreciate.



I am not the first to do that, I saw a quilt with many minecraft figures and liked the idea. It is very easy and versatile to create the patterns you like. My other kid already requested another one with TNT and chicken.

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May Lotito wrote:Last few days I experimented with sewing furs. I restored one thrift store found fur coat, patching a big hole and replaced pockets and lining. Mostly done with hand sewing and the result was quite satisfying. I feel the coat is too dressy for grocery shopping but it is nice to wear when I feed chickens in the morning



I would love to see a photo of you wearing your fur coat feeding the chickens🥰 it may become another classic image like the photo of the late Duchess of Devonshire feeding her chickens in her red satin Balmain ball gown
 
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I would love to see a photo of you wearing your fur coat feeding the chickens🥰 it may become another classic image like the photo of the late Duchess of Devonshire feeding her chickens in her red satin Balmain ball gown



I like your comparison, most of the time I am dressed in clothes unfashionable but functional. I am making an ultimate parka featuring:
Waterproof woo blend shell
Thinsulate interlining for warmth
3D pockets for eggs/walnuts/seedheads
Underarm gussets for maximum mobility
And tall hood to fit over my bun
Hopefully I will finish it before winter storm takes out the power.

I salvaged an umbrella by turning it into a wrap for hair cutting. Kids can use it as batman costume the other time too.
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May Lotito wrote:

I salvaged an umbrella by turning it into a wrap for hair cutting.

What a brilliant idea! I've been using an old plastic table cloth which I cut and edged, but it's over 30 yrs old and is showing its age. Also, the "kid" still likes me to cut his hair, and with covid, Hubby does also, and they both outgrew me years ago, so the hole for the neck is totally too small at this point. However, the aforementioned "kid" has a habit of picking up broken umbrellas as he knows I will often repurpose bits, so this is an easy fix idea. Thanks!

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One caveat with umbrella is that hair will get stuck in the seams. Some form of seam sealing will be necessary.

This lady has many novel refashion idea, including this one with umbrellas.

https://upsew.ie/2019/12/22/save-it-for-a-rainy-day-umbrella-and-tent-upcycling/

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G Freden wrote:I think it's great when people show small projects that can inspire beginners and that can be made with small bits of fabric. It can be really expensive to buy quality fabric these days, which I would find pretty scary if I was just starting out. I would cheerfully give scraps of fabric to a newbie sewer to make something small but pretty or useful if it got them started on a path to a new skill.



I have found lots of good fabric scraps at thrift stores. Some of them are rather large bits, some are smaller. Also, I find lots of my fabric as linens from the thrift store too. My next quilting project is going to be backed with a beautiful damask sheet I found.

So...if you are a new at sewing and find the cost of new fabric to be a burden, try the linen section at thrift stores. And bonus...the fabric there is pre-shrunk!

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Portable solar oven. I needed a way to cook during fire season in Oregon while kayaking. I made up a version 1.0 and after a few tweaks this was version 3.0. The materials are Cordura nylon and a reflective material used in draperies. The truncated cone has sleeves top and bottom that a semi rigid nylon tube  slides through and holds the cone shape. It all folds up into a packet that is 8x1x16 inches.  We use an oven baking bag over the cooking vessel and the temperature easily runs in the 250 degree range. We sold them at the local Sol-West events for several years. My wifes maiden name was Molly Baker so what else could we call it but the "Molly Baker" solar oven.  We started making these in 2000 and there are now similar designs out there. She was a patient tutor and we'd sew them up in the evenings to sell at shows. It was a fun project and we have pictures of their being used by missionaries in Africa and elsewhere. I made masonite patterns that we would place over the fabric and run the wheeled cutter dingus around since we'd cut out 10-15 at a time. She sold them for 75.00 and we sold out every time we went to a show. It was a profitable side income. A loaf of bread takes about 2hrs and people buy when they smell fresh bread. Better pics on Google someone asked about the longevity of my oven. I'm still using number one so it seems relatively robust. Though some mud,red pumice, marinara sauce and corn bread batter are permanent parts of it now.

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Robert Ray wrote:Portable solar oven



Ooh! Ooh! What is your reflective fabric called?

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Joylynn, It's a radiant barrier used in draperies to reflect or retain heat inside a house or RV. I first saw the material used in  curtains inside a RV and snooped around a bit and found it.

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I've spent a good amount of time looking... My google fu has failed me. Where were you able to purchase this? All I've found is how to submit to be a dealer.

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Joylynn, Try googling radiant vapor barrier it is a similar material. Single layer it does not need to be double thickness, or have any bubble or any other form of insulator. I'm sure it would work but we used single layer.
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or this
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Mix and match scrap busting utility sewing:

Home dec + fleece/ minky into pet beds
Fashion fabrics + quilting cotton into sun hats
Found three coordinating pieces to make a apron
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I sewed a pair of pants! What is exciting or permie about that, you may ask?  
The fabric is very non-permie. It was cheap. Some kind of polyester. The solid maroon fabric is a cotton denim. What is neat, is it's the pattern debugging for the rest of the work pants I'm going to make, as my "pattern" consisted of a pair of military camo pants that I traced off, then modified a bunch of different ways. Part of what I need is work pants that are mean enough to survive what I do to them. They also need pockets the right size, shape, and locations for me. And I am SICK of wearing nothing but grubby camo that looks like I just crawled out from under a tractor, even when they are clean. I have 6 more fabrics: 3 heavy cotton, two polyester, one a blend that's embroidered with flowers. I got them all cheap, with intent of making killable pants. I am HARD on work clothes. So I made all of my mistakes on this pair of pants, and the rest will be made off the modifications I'll do that I can see now that they are made.

The maroon is reinforcement, in all the places I tend to rip my pants. My camo has a second layer under the knee, but it only covers the knee, and I end up ripping them where the knee hits the thigh. So my knee layer goes way up. The full waist girdle makes it so that lightweight fabric has enough body to not fall apart, and the lightweight fabric needed the zipper area reinforced too. I ended up with 11 pattern pieces I made to make this all work.

The pockets are weird, they go into/behind each other so I have space for what I carry. I'm pretty pleased with the placement, need to tighten some elastic, and one pocket was just the wrong size, have to correct that on the next pair of pants.

And they are gaudy! I  picked this fabric because it ain't camo, will hide the dirt, and is bright enough to be visibility when I drive my mower or tractor on the street (which I do fairly often.) For visibility I'll wear a hot pink tank top with it, but normally it'll be a black one. I made a hat band to go with it, will put it on a black hat. I'm tired of looking like a grubby guy when I work. I want to look like me! And I'll admit to grubby, but I want to be able to look in the mirror when I get dressed, and not cringe at what I see (or not look, because I really don't want to see it.)

Gaudy pink pants!


You can see the pockets on this shot


reinforced tail


reinforced front


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Well done, Pearl! The pants were really well made and I am sure you are very visible driving down the street. And you got matching hot pink belt too, lovely!

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May Lotitio: Thank you for reminding me, I had forgotten to post the blue flowered pair!
Made to be oversized, so they do not bind if I'm on the tractor or mower. Length is part of that too, I strap the bottoms of my pants tight to keep ticks out, and any pants I wear on machinery have to be long, or they are too short when strapped to bend easily.
Lots of pockets, sewn so they kind of layer on each other.





front


Inside of front, with my lovely assistant, Kai!


Back reinforcing


Pocket seams drawn on so you see how they nest. The pockets are straight, the fabric had wrinkles.


The pants came out too big in the waist, but until I have worn them to work, I'm not sure where I want to take them in.

They are nice and light and comfy, and tick proof!
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I prefer pants that are comfortable, easy to care, hold up well so I don't need to change multiple times a day doing gardening, watching kids, running errands and going to work.

I took a coffee break after innoculating a dozen mushroom logs and turning compost piles. The ponte pants still look clean. I love linen but linen pants tend to grow and get baggy knees. Maybe I should bite the bullet and make one pair with silk organza underlining.
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May Lotito wrote:They say hoodie is in. Well, I don't have any. So I made my 24" doll a vlone hoodies and matching sweatpants. She has a more fashionable wardrobe than I do.



Hoodies have their own class. My daughter has a doll like this. I have also made some clothes for it which is having a hoodie.
 
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Howdy!
I have been a person who sews since ... well, a long time. Many eons. Dinosaurs roamed the earth.

I have many more outfits/items - including some quick and easy things (most of my stuff is quick and easy, come to think of it).Some of it is/was sewn by hand. Some wasn't. I know I have more pictures, some of them from back in them olden times when cameras needed film *and* batteries to function!

I'm including what I have deemed "The World's Ugliest Top" that was a very cheap poly blend used because it was 2020 and I was out of my pattern test non-woven stuff.
I needed something to go to a special ceremony in, and my funeral clothes just did nothing for me. So I found a gorgeous teal blue panne velvet and made a skirt. Simple-ish. I had enough left over to make a top, but just couldn't stop over thinking it, so .. The ugly tester was born.

The hooded caftan was made out of fleece in some truly amazingly unidentifiable color. It is very thick fleece and very warm, and I had enough from cutting the combo sleeve/side seam to make the hood. It's not perfect, but it is warm.

The vaguely Italian Rennish dress has several chemises that could go with it. And more on the way. I also need to refit it as I seem to have shrunk a bit, which is Good Thing. I had planned for an underskirt, something suitably Spring-y, but haven't moved forward on this. The sleeves of the Overdress are removable, and somewhat reversible, at least until I add beads to the sleeves and something embroidered on the reverse, then they will be fully reversible.

The "Instant Pirate" outfit is a fun thing - leggings (not that you can see them, and isn't *that* a blessing!), an under shirt, the Poet's Shirt that I made for Darling Adorable to wear with his kilts, an appropriate sash, also invisible, and the eye-patch from a medical event a few years back. The mask is also MBM, though I don't remember if I made the "artfully tied scarf" or not. Meh.

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Amazingly ugly fabric test top
Amazingly ugly fabric test top
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My ugly nasty greenish heavy duty hooded caftan
My ugly nasty greenish heavy duty hooded caftan
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Vaguely Italian Rennish chemise and over dress with fitted bodice
Vaguely Italian Rennish chemise and over dress with fitted bodice
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Instant pirate outfit, just add mask

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I'm actually really digging the caftan! It looks like just the thing that I'd have loved, back in February, when the house couldn't get above the mid 50s, or on any of the many days when my physical nonsense hits, and I can't maintain body temp...

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Carla Burke wrote:I'm actually really digging the caftan! It looks like just the thing that I'd have loved, back in February, when the house couldn't get above the mud 50s, or on any of the many days when my physical nonsense hits, and I can't maintain body temp...



I think I pulled this one out during the Great Texas Freeze of 2021, simply because it is so very warm and we lost power long enough to make it a minor issue.
The pattern is easy and one of the first "all you need are measurements" I learned/taught myself.

The very first T-Tunics I every made were hand sewn out of a cheap poly/cotton muslin and then dyed in a crockpot. Awful things, but the first actual clothing I made that didn't end up looking like a mangy bathmat.
Since that fateful Fall, I have made many more - fleece ones with and without hoods for around the house wearing in cooler times, lightweight cotton ones for around the house during warmer times, ones that "made" an outfit, and ones that are better used as a topper to protect better clothes from the ravages of glitter, glue, mud, angry geese, and really muddy dogs.

Basically, it's a long T-Tunic, one of the cosplay/historical costuming standards. When possible, the body and arms are cut as one huge piece, with a small hole for the head and cut away from the sleeves (to differentiate them from the body) along the side seam. That way you can do whatever you want along that side seam.  

https://stursula.lochac.sca.org/articles-stories/how-to-make-a-t-tunic/
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-T-Tunic-for-a-Renaissance-Fair

Once you have the basics, you can start to get fancy.  You can play with color blocking, make huge swirly skirts by adding gores, make sleeves angel or bell shaped, or have little tippets that "drape gracefully". Really, the sky's the limit! I love using fleece because it doesn't unravel and you don't have to hem it - perfect material for experimenting.

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I sewed this dress years ago, and dug it out the other day. Had to resize it to make it fit, I have lost a lot of weight. Then I added pockets! And got them in so perfect I had to show them off!
They are full pockets,  ( https://permies.com/t/145113/sewing/fiber-arts/adding-pockets-pants#1135570 ) and the best place for them was not on a seam. That's complex...
I made pleats that matched the ones the dress already had for fullness and shape, and hid the pockets under them. They are really invisible until I put my hand in them.
Edit: Actually you CAN see the pocket in the side view, didn't think it would show up. It's very hard to see.

Dress: front, back, side,

Front


Back


Side


And pocket:

Nice big hidden pockets!


I'm smug, that came out REALLY well!!  It's always hard to add something like that in.

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Gosh Pearl, I absolutely LOOOOVVVE that fabric (and you did a great job with the sewing!) My oldest sister would love it too!

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Jay Angler wrote:Gosh Pearl, I absolutely LOOOOVVVE that fabric (and you did a great job with the sewing!) My oldest sister would love it too!


I wore it to a party, and a friend's 4 year old fell in LOVE with it. She asked where I got the fabric, and he got curtains in his room made of it. Next time I saw him he told me all about his lizard curtains!!

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Howdy!
I love that dress!
I'm also a big fan of the side seam ties to better fit it, and POCKETS??!! Amazing. Pockets are perfect for any seditious behavior. You have to have something to id your pamphlets in, or a small book, snack, interesting rock, ...
Love pockets! (And have been thinking about adding some to my currently un-pocketed clothes, especially for the ones I muck about in.

I love that pattern, too!

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i got it in my head a few months ago i really wanted to learn to make these cool rope basket and rope bowls...and so...several thousand yards of rope later --->
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Wow, Leila! They appear to be machine sewn which I imagine must be really tricky! They're gorgeous.

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Leila, will you be selling any of your baskets? Maybe teaching how to do them? Maybe making a video?

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thanks =) yeah they are cool. and totally the point is to sell them...i have picked out the best of the batch and thats what some of those nicer pictures are for...the ones i think are sellable.

then i have a whole pile ready for next years christmas gifts =) of all my beginning ones...when i was working out the kinks. then theres like a middle pile...maybe good enough to sell maybe give aways, maybe sell cheap at a craft fair or something =) and already made myself at least 4 so far =)
actually already gave my mom a set, a basket and a bowl...filled up with her fave chocolates...that went over well for mothers day =)

it is tricky, but then again...basic. you just keep going round and round with zig zag stitch...and yes -on a sewing machine. its actually kinda satisfying and a bit addictive to keep on going round like that.

i just have a pretty basic mechanical sewing machine, kinda wishing i had one that allows a wide stitch, like 7mm width...the max of my brother machine is 5mm...but i make it work. the tricky parts are keeping even tension as you go...or giving loose or tight tension to increase or decrease in size, to make it curve gracefully and not be lumpy.

the other tricky parts are wrapping...for when you wrap scrap fabrics around it...that part takes a real long time and youve got to do nice and neat...again to not make it lumpy...and then...that can change the tension/width of a section if your fabric is too bulky. so a few of them i made were too curved up going from a thick fabric to a thin one, or none. i like to do it so that some is just the plain rope, then parts have wrapped fabric...then back to the plain rope, and also using colored ropes and different types of rope for the parts where its bare. also i have dyed some rope, one end one color and the other end another color...to get that effect. the plain rope is a LOT faster.

also thats another factor...depending on the type of rope you use...well it shapes differently. so i have been experiementing with different types of rope. the soft cotton i was starting with...well its hard to keep it flat, its too soft. some with poly cores, or some nylon in the center...actually stay in their shape better and make the basket firmer...its way easier to do those flat like a classic basket shape. at first i really struggled to figure it out...and it wasnt until i tried different ropes that i got how it is. even though i would rather use all cotton...and made some nice all cotton ones...well its flexible, even thick, and so its better for bowl shape or curvy baskets.

i actually dont have a big scrap pile these days...i havent been sewing as much as i used to...so i got a lot of different types of ribbon and used up what scrap i did have. the ribbon actually looks nice cause it has a clean edge, although the scrappy look is cool too...i did tear up a big boring sheet...and then tie dyed it nice turquoise, blue, green and other colors...to make some scraps...i still have a bunch of strips of that dyed scrap old sheet... and even just got...several thousand yards of rope...different stuff..some more nylon cause i like the look and the way it works...and all different colors =)
 
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but yeah going to make a few more...i like the idea of making matching sets and then...someone could buy one or the set...and list them up on my etsy store ...take the pics and get together the listings first...well a few weeks or so and i will have them up maybe at --> https://www.etsy.com/shop/leilahamaya

still...well feeling like its new and working on it some, you know building up my skill and confidence that its all nice and solid and sellable work...

and need to figure out handles! well...of everything i have tried i like the feel and function of the loose simple handle design i have settled on. for using them, and actually carrying them around, that handle style seems best, and its nice and quick and simple. but ...well i would like to try out some different handle styles and come up with some other ones. what i have tried so far...to make stand up handles or little handles...i havent liked it as much for actually using it...
 
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