Do You Make Your Own Clothes?
 

My 14 year-old daughter is sewing a lot of Vintage Vogue patterns. I help with those. They are so gorgeous but a royal pain to put together.

For myself, I knit. Sometimes it doesn't work out, mostly it does. See? Pretty. That's one of my daughters showing off something I made to give to a friend. The yarn is alpaca lace weight, handpainted, 5% glitter.

Are you a crafty schmoo, too?

I'm making my own Kilt soon !

...Really.

I've done a few things over the years, I think I'm going to have to bust out the singer again, Missy loves sun dresses but I don't like the styles with the thin spaghetti straps for her.

My mom is a seamstress/tailor and has made her living as such for most of my life (both industrial and small shops).

She hardly ever ever made clothes for us at home (the cobbler's kids going without shoes kind of thing) and while I'm aware of all that goes into clothesmaking (though small home machines are an enigma to me; I was the only kid in high school home ec making my clothes on industrial sewing machines) that childhood pretty much added "clothesmaking" to "car repair" as a reason I went to college and got a well paying job: so I could pay other people to do it.

It is just a bonus that the other people are generally 8-year-old Bangladeshi children.

This goes up there with baking, auto repair, and carpentry - I sometimes wish I'd spend the time to learn how to do these things myself (as well as be able to afford all the nifty toys that go along with each pursuit). But truthfully, I know I'll continue to take Alex's route and pay others to do them for me.

I make clothes, but nothing appropriate for this century.

I don't make clothes, however I am a pro at curtain, pillows, table cloths and other "decor" stuff. I just never seem to get around to doing it much any more.

Only piece I ever made that got treated as a regular part of my wardrobe was a red velvet dress back in my teens. Otherwise my sewing is purely costume.

I love being able to sew -- I can make anything I can imagine, which comes in handy when I can't find it on the rack handily made by 8-year-old Bangladeshi children. :p

I'm plotting some cool duds for some upcoming decidedly unswanky events I'm attending this Spring.

Costume - that is the extent of my seamstressing. I would love to evolve to skirts and blouses, but never make the time. Costumes always have a deadline so I can push myself to finish those. Regular clothes are on my own time, no pressure, no results. Maybe next summer :)