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Did you hear the one about the baby trans walking into a female stereotype? (self.mtf)
submitted 3 months ago by OldEggNewTricks to c/mtf
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I was going to make this a meme, but image uploads are broken.

So after spending way too much money and buying All The Things on Amazon, I've noticed a pattern.

  1. Browse clothes
  2. "Oooh, that's pretty!"
  3. Check size
  4. Shucks, too small
  5. Buy it anyway
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[-] alx 5 points 3 months ago

i’d say a pretty common starter project would be a circle skirt. It’s basically a circle (or half circle, for less drape, but who want less spin, right?). Inner diameter matches your waist, and length is what you want. You can cut 2 half-circles (don’t forget seam allowance! And add like 4cm seam allowance at the bottom), and a waistband of 6cm * your waist (+ seam allowance also). You’ll need an invisible zip (and know how to sew it), and you can find instructions basically everywhere, like on Freesewing (you can ignore some things, like everything related to lining, here)

[-] dandelion 4 points 3 months ago

wow, you are amazing - thank you!

OK, so I am not familiar with some of the terminology, but I looked up "seam" and I am wondering if you would suggest a "plain seam" for a beginner project like this?

Is the invisible zip like sewing on a little zipper on the inside of the band? I have some leftover elastic band from a project, maybe that could be used.

[-] alx 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

you have the choice, when making a circle skirt, between having an elastic waist (in that case, the inner diameter, and the waistband length, would need to be larger, like a little bit larger than your seat, aka the largest diameter around your butt). It would need more fabric, the circles being bigger.

The other solution is the zip one. It would specifically need an invisible zip, because those are made to "finish" a seam line, by allowing to open it (without it, you wouldn’t be able to put the garment on).

And yes, by "seam", i mean the stitch line between two pieces of fabric to attach them together. A plain/straight stitch is the way to go, it’s what you need 90% of the time, 9% of the rest would be some kind of zigzag stitch needed for example in stretch fabrics.

[-] anothercatgirl 1 points 3 months ago

Umm akshually the pattern for a circle skirt is an annulus (I only know this because I'm collaborating with chatgpt to geometrically describe parametric patterns for modeling my clothes in CAD before I make them)

[-] alx 2 points 3 months ago

ok nerd :3

(there’s a free CAD tool for pattern drafting, it’s called Valentina)

[-] anothercatgirl 2 points 3 months ago

Yep I'm using Seamly2D (formerly Valentina) for my 2D stuff, but 3D is also of concern and I'm using Onshape for that (although maybe Fusion 360 might work better I'm not really sure). Blender seems unsuited for my task.

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