T4Textiles

sewing patterns for trans people (under construction)

[djbodyhorror]

jerkin it. And by jerkin. Lerts just say. A sleeveless jacket or coat

[t4textiles]

The free digital PDF sewing pattern for the Scarlet Elastic-Waist Pants is almost ready!

Designed for trans women / transfemmes 🏳️‍⚧️

[vincentbriggs]

Finally finished the leaf waistcoat video!! It is 58 minutes.

[t4textiles]

yeah I’m a content creator… creating the contents of my wardrobe…

[t4textiles]

Pattern testers are needed for the Scarlet Elastic-Waist Pants [trousers], a sewing pattern drafted for transfemme teens and adults! Apply here: https://tally.so/r/zxKKQ0. Answers are confidential and you do not need to share your full name.

Scarlet Elastic-Waist Pants Sewing Pattern Test

Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

The pattern was designed for comfort, ease of movement, and versatility, with a feminine silhouette.

Pattern testing will run from March 20th through April 12th. Please only apply if you are able to commit to this. Contact T4Textiles directly if you would like to participate but this timeline doesn't work for you.

You may sew the pattern for yourself, or for someone close to you, if they agree to be measured and photographed. All body types are welcome, but the focus is on fitting this pattern to transfemme people.

The final pattern will be released for free. All you get in return for testing is early access, a fun group sew-along, and the opportunity to improve the fit of the final pattern for people like you :)

[t4textiles]

[t4textiles]

Share so everyone can make these :) it’s a beginner-friendly pattern that can be made in a wide variety of fabrics! Make it in rayon for summer or corduroy for winter… wool suiting for the office or flannel for pajamas… cut it into shorts or capris… the choice is yours…

[t4textiles]

Pattern testers are needed for the Scarlet Elastic-Waist Pants [trousers], a sewing pattern drafted for transfemme teens and adults! Apply here: https://tally.so/r/zxKKQ0. Answers are confidential and you do not need to share your full name.

Scarlet Elastic-Waist Pants Sewing Pattern Test

Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

The pattern was designed for comfort, ease of movement, and versatility, with a feminine silhouette.

Pattern testing will run from March 20th through April 12th. Please only apply if you are able to commit to this. Contact T4Textiles directly if you would like to participate but this timeline doesn't work for you.

You may sew the pattern for yourself, or for someone close to you, if they agree to be measured and photographed. All body types are welcome, but the focus is on fitting this pattern to transfemme people.

The final pattern will be released for free. All you get in return for testing is early access, a fun group sew-along, and the opportunity to improve the fit of the final pattern for people like you :)

[t4textiles]

[t4textiles]

Pattern testers are needed for the Scarlet Elastic-Waist Pants [trousers], a sewing pattern drafted for transfemme teens and adults! Apply here: https://tally.so/r/zxKKQ0. Answers are confidential and you do not need to share your full name.

Scarlet Elastic-Waist Pants Sewing Pattern Test

Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

The pattern was designed for comfort, ease of movement, and versatility, with a feminine silhouette.

Pattern testing will run from March 20th through April 12th. Please only apply if you are able to commit to this. Contact T4Textiles directly if you would like to participate but this timeline doesn't work for you.

You may sew the pattern for yourself, or for someone close to you, if they agree to be measured and photographed. All body types are welcome, but the focus is on fitting this pattern to transfemme people.

The final pattern will be released for free. All you get in return for testing is early access, a fun group sew-along, and the opportunity to improve the fit of the final pattern for people like you :)

[t4textiles]

The fit testing was a success!

The Scarlet Elastic-Waist pants are now graded up to a 74” (188cm) hip size! We’re in a great place for upcoming pattern testing, and I hope plus size trans femmes will participate, to help fine-tune the pants proportions if needed.

Ignore the extra 4” of length and 2” additional hem allowance shown here… Also don’t look at the tank top that I also made which has raw edges and needs several adjustments and probably detracts from the look…

A huge thank you to my neighbor for fit modeling!

[t4textiles]

I’ve held off on opening up a pattern test for the upcoming Scarlet Elastic-Waist pants because I have the opportunity to fit test the largest size on a model, and wanted to do that first.

[dkettchen]

I'M RUNNING A SURVEY!

🧥👔👕👖🩳👗👚🩲🩱👙🦺🥼🧵✂✏

LINK TO SURVEY

If you qualify, please consider participating!

You'll need:

some time, as measuring can take a while

a measuring tape

a long straight object like a ruler

ideally some means to mark measurements on yourself (string & pins (if clothed) or a pen/makeup pencil (if shirtless))

ideally someone to help you measure

if you habitually tuck/pack/bind/pad your bra, the means to do so

If you don't qualify, still consider sharing it with anyone who might! :)

For now the plan is for the survey to run until May 2026, but this will depend on how many responses we get how quickly. If we get a lot of responses I might close the survey in March already. If we don't have enough answers by May, I may extend it until Summer.

If you found it in March 2026 or later, please check the survey link before reblogging it.

LINK TO SURVEY

[t4textiles]

Another trans sewing pattern sizing survey! This one includes quite a few more measurements than mine so be prepared!

[antlered-vixen]

The Allotment Series, 4 pieces, Penelope Williams (2024)

[crochethub]

Mushroom Musician by Jennifires

[stellaluna33]

Historical context is of course very useful for important things like Politics and Science and everything, but will also open your eyes to things like, uh... the way the clothing/textile/crafting industries try to use the word "natural" as an excuse to sell shoddy and bad quality goods and make you think that's normal.

God knows there are worse things going on in the world, but it really pisses me off when I see companies advertising "Real Shell/Pearl buttons!" like that's supposed to be some upscale selling point, and the buttons in question are the thinnest, roughest, most crudely-made buttons in existence... 🙄😒 "But they're made from Natural Materials! You can't expect Natural Materials to look refined and consistent like synthetic ones!" They are lying to you. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! And I know this because I've seen "real shell buttons" from 100 or even 50 years ago. And most of them are sturdy and smoothly polished, of a consistent thickness, and sometimes even finely carved. The buttons on nice men's dress shirts? Those are the cheap, plastic IMITATIONS of what people expected actual mother-of-pearl buttons to look like! "Natural" isn't an excuse! Your product is cheap and badly and lazily made! And I'm so sick of this, because I see it EVERYWHERE. "Linen-look" has become shorthand for "coarsely woven fabric with visible slubs" and that drives me CRAZY because do you KNOW what kinds of linen I have seen??? Antique linen so light and fine and smooth you can't even SEE the weave unless you magnify it!!! A fragment of a linen damask tablecloth so smooth and glossy, it looks like SILK? 😭 (On that note, "dupioni silk" is so roughly woven that it would have been considered hardly fit to sell a century ago) "This fabric is woven of Natural Materials, so imperfections will be inevitable!" 🙃 No! 😀 You just made it cheaply and sloppily, and that was your choice! 😊

[t4textiles]

Good news! A neighbor has volunteered to fit test the largest sizes of the first T4Textiles sewing patterns.

After that, the beta versions will be available for a wider audience to test and share feedback.

[fiskael]

Happy year of the horse!!!! Have my wild horses sweater finally released from the void!

[crowcrafts]

Has everyone seen my wonderful chicken? Now you have.

[vinceaddams]

Lots of posts out there about falling down a Textile Hole where you start doing yarn stuff and then acquire drop spindles and spinning wheels and looms and then start dreaming about having a sheep farm, but that's far from the only kind.

You can also start off sewing and pattern drafting and embroidering and then your vintage sewing machine is acting up so you snag another one for super cheap while that one's being fixed, and then that one also needs fixing and you had a bad and expensive experience with the repairman so you look up youtube videos on how to do it yourself, and then a friend of a relative is decluttering and gives you an antique treadle which mostly just needs a lot of cleaning, and then you find 2 more vintage cast iron machines for dirt cheap at a garage sale and hey how hard could it be to replace a rotten wooden case?