#freesewing.org

[fwoosheye]

My sister just told me about a site called freesewing, where you can adjust patterns from your exact measurements and it will "generate" them — but not generate as in what ShitGPT does, just mathematical tweaking of existing patterns, the way professionals would do it if you were going to a tailor. Many patterns also have photos of people posting what they've made, and it seems like it works really well most of the time. I just thought it seemed like a neat site, especially since i saw a lot of example photos with my build that had gotten some pretty good results. That they also don't sell your data is a neat bonus

Free Bespoke Sewing Patterns | FreeSewing

FreeSewing is open source software to generate bespoke sewing patterns, loved by home sewers and fashion entrepreneurs alike.

[siriscrafts]

Sewing adventures! I made an evening gown for myself, all the way from drafting the pattern to hand-sewing the finishes. It was very fun, challenging and very much not straight forward.

I had the inspiration a week and a half before an event I wanted to wear the new dress to, and I managed to finish it the night before. The first version was ready for fitting after one long day full of sewing, but I had to cut out the bodice and make a new one due to fit and fabric issues.

The fabrics were cheap polyester velvet that was knit = stretchy, and a shiny and slippery polyester fabric for the lining that was not stretchy (this stretch mismatch caused problems). The first version had continuous panels all the way from the neckline to the hem, and the weight of the skirt stretched the bodice out of shape so that I had a really hard time attaching it to the lining at the armholes.

So I adjusted the pattern to have a waistline to help support the weight of the skirt by attatching it to the lining, and added sleeves so that I didn't have to attatch the dress to the lining at the armholes. And I got extra practice with sewing the invisible zipper, which was originally in the back seam, but that I moved to the side for the final version, eliminating the need for a seam at the center back.

Here's the final outfit! I also painted my nails to match the dress and I was very happy with how closely I managed to match the colour.

The base for the pattern, a princess-seamed bodice block, is from freesewing.org. It's a fantastic website that lets you generate sewing patterns to your measurements, and there's tons of customisation, tweaks and design options to choose from for each pattern. Highly recommend! They also have a paperless option, that gives you all the lengths of the sides and points on the patterns so that you don't even have to use a printer. I traced the pattern pieces to paper by hand that way!

[sunnyrinusstudies]

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Studyblr Re-Reintroduction

12/02/2021 12:04

Hi everyone! I’ve been using this tumblr account off and on for a while now, and then proceeding to forget about it in favour of using my other account (the one true main tumble :p). So here’s my nth attempt at getting back into studyblr.

About me

Call me Rinus

He/him pronouns

I’m 20

Currently doing first year at Uni in the Netherlands

Queer as hell

Germanic/Norse heathen (shitty exclusionists not welcome here. there are no nazis in valhalla, none)

Newspaper delivery guy by extremely early morning, English student by day.

Interests

Linguistics

Conlangs?

Beekeeping!

Open source stuff, privacy stuff, security stuff

Whatever my obsession of the week is.

Academia

After some hiccups I’m finally in my first year at uni! Studying “English Language and Culture”

Classes

So far there’ve been two subjects every block, one is linguistics focused, the other is literature focused. For literature we’re currently discussing renaissance and restoration period texts. Linguistics is focused on phonology (and using voice frequency analysers, there’s suddenly physics in my english :/ ), syntax, and morphology.

Self-study

(I’m not that good at like, keeping up with any of these though)

Beekeeping!!!

Scottish Gaelic

Welsh

Esperanto

Trying to learn some programming because I wanna dabble in mobile development

Godot (game engine)

Germanic & Norse heathenry, and some local folklore

Sewing

Getting much more into online privacy, security, and open source stuff

Things I’m involved in

Freesewing! Where I’m attempting to help adapt old timey pattern drafting books to work with their pattern drafting software. Join in if you’d like! :D

See me struggle to code something functional on github if you feel like it, and if I ever get to it

Maybe check out my art website? It’s over at hornedmousestudtio.nl , I used to have a different one and then I forgot to renew my domain and such. So uhhh it’s still very under construction.

General Goals

Survive this schoolyear

Get vaccinated as soon as I physically can.

At some point I’ll hopefully become a teacher, or something in that direction.

Maybe do more art things?

finally learn to code so I can make that one app that I’ve been thinking about for so long

Maybe this year is the year I finally win nanowrimo

Why a studyblr?

I just really wanna get involved in the community again

Making friends!! or at least acquaintances :p

Hopefully this will help motivate me to keep studying.

I have opinions on some things, that I gotta just blurt out somewhere on the infinite void of the interwebs

What you’ll see here

Reblogged content

Probably some aesthetic-y things

Bujo stuff

Fibercrafts things?

Maybe some witchcraft and heathenry things too

Plant and gardening stuff?

ADHD studyblr things

A few shitposts probably

Mostly attempts at good vibes

(I’d like this blog to be a place where you can maybe take a break from all the things in the outside world. I wanna try to just no longer have any kinds of reblog bait or big news things or such going on on here. I’m on not here to feel miserable, I can continue participating in activism outside of hellsite dot org)

Original content

hopefully notes

planner pictures

desk setup stuff?

fibercraft related things

gardening stuff

probably heathenry stuff but in a studyblr vibes kind of way

I wanna make a short post series on how to get more open source stuff in your life, and also why it matters.

pictures of my chickens maybe?

Inspirations & cool mutuals

in no particular order

@studyfajr , @eintsein , @raebae-studies , @myhoneststudyblr , @upside-down-uni , @derflauschigstefuchs , @forensicscienceblr , @obsidianstudy , @softlystudying

[morgue-xiiv]

Me, sewing when it's cold;

Oh, look I made this perfectly fitted body with a capped sleeve as practice (freesewing.org for fitted patterns)

me, sew when it are hot...

I mayd stretchi potayo sac I can swet in whil I wayt to diee

(I used a 5cm seam allowance and I realised I'm wearing it back to front in the picture.)