Like I don’t want him to touch me at all and he would have to maintain a three foot distance from me at all times. But I also would accept him as a small pet in the backyard guest house who occasionally put on performances on the weekends.
step 1: have a entire room completely set up just for tailoring
it needs an iron, masking tape, a pencil, and see-through paper. you don’t need the pins if you’re careful about keeping it lined up. you could do that on your floor and hand-sew it after that if you wanted to. the most specialised piece of equipment they used in the video, apart from the sewing machine, was a clear ruler.
I do this professionally, and it turns out you do not need the iron or the masking tape but you do, really, really, really need the big table. Don’t do it on the floor.
The iron and the masking tape will make things easier if you have never done it before, but once you learn the stretch and density of your material, it really isn’t necessary. Wrinkles matter a lot less than you think they do and if it’s clothing you can just pull it out of the dryer and hang it before it wrinkles. Your patterning paper can really be anything. I use plastic sheeting. If you really can’t bring yourself to go out and buy a clear plastic ruler, cut something to the size of your seam allowance and use that as a jig to float your line.
The thing this video does kind of blithely skip over, is the time consuming tedious technical part of adding in all the little details. There’s a zipper and a button and belt loops and top stitching and pockets in there. Which are all significantly more complicated than flat patterning. It is still all things you can do fairly cheaply and without a ton of tools, but you do have to know how to do them.
The gotcha on this video isn’t that he has a ton of money invested in a room set up for tailoring and he’s telling you it’s so easy. It’s that he has a brain set up for tailoring, and he’s telling you, it’s so easy.
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