Make Your Own Leggings! Pattern Drafting and Construction Techniques for Perfect DIY Leggings
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- čas přidán 23. 06. 2024
- Is anyone else super bored with the plethora of plain black leggings? I definitely am! On top of that I find most ready to wear legging patterns aren't really made with fit in mind, they're made to conserve on the amount of material used to make the biggest profit, so a great fit is pretty hard to find if you happened to deviate in any way from the standard straight size measurments the industry expects. I've been making my own leggings for 10+ years now and will never go back to ready to wear. They're super easy to sew up and drafting a pattern that is exactly suited to your body is pretty easy too! In this video I share all of my tips and tricks that I use for my own leggings so you can get going on creating your very own perfect pair for yourself! The construction techniques that I show in the video only use a domestic sewing machine so you don't even need a fancy cover stitch machine or serger to make these.
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0:00 Intro
0:21 Material Choice
1:21 Taking Your Measurements
3:23 Adding Negative Ease
4:49 Calculating Rise Depth
5:51 Drafting the Pattern
11:17 Cutting out the Pattern from Fabric
11:44 Assemble the Leg Tube/Sewing the Inseam
12:20 Choosing the Right Needle and Sewing Stitch
13:29 Joining the Leg Tubes/Sewing the Crotch Seam
14:37 Making Final Adjustments
15:02 Hemming
15:36 Finishing the Waistband
18:24 Outro
Music:
Look Both Ways by Nathan Moore from the CZcams Audio Library.
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Criminally underrated!! Such a useful video :)
i don't wear leggings, i don't sew (except the patches i jankily attached to my punk vest), i don't even do any DIY shit at all, but this is my new favorite channel.
Dude I don't even wear leggings and I loved this!! :D The way you explained how to sew shut the crotch area (where you invert the one leg and put it into the other one) was so helpful, so I'm totally gonna use that in my next project! Thank you so much!!
Excellent! I'm glad to hear! And ya you can absolutely do this technique with any pants. I find it really helpful to do this so that I can get perfectly aligned seams on both legs.
You don't even want to know how many botched crotches I made because I had no knowledge of this useful trick lmao 😭 But now with all this newly acquired knowledge I shall no longer fail! 😂❤@@Atheeni
Loving these explanations. Thank you!
I've got a question: the front and back rise depth are normally 1/3 and 2/3. I've got that. What if the belly of a person is larger than her bottom? Like if I want to draft a pattern for a pregnant woman, or one with a large fupa? Would I move the 1/3 and 2/3 towards 1/2 and 1/2, or would I take a complete crotch measurement from waistline back to waistline front and rise the front waistline point on the pattern?
Thanks to no real options around me, I'm forced to buy all my apparel fabrics online; do you have any favorite online stores to order nice, heavy stretch material from? I'm a quilter transitioning into sewing my own clothing, and this video was *very* helpful!
That's fair, it's definitely getting harder and harder to find stuff locally these days. I'm from Canada so my online shopping go-to places are usually fabricville.com/ and www.braandcorsetsupplies.com/ for stretch materials. If you're hunting around for special effects and fun prints you can get many of the same printed spandex materials that I show from spandexworld.com/ Hope that helps!
@@Atheeni It does! thanks so much ^_^
I’m somewhat confused. Waist line is parallel to the ground, and one leg of the carpenter’s square is parallel to the ground, so you’re essentially measuring two opposite sides of a rectangle. How would the front rise be different than the back rise?
Yup that's true, the difference is basically if you end up lowering the level of the parallel leg of the square lower up in the back because you want the leggings to sit up lower up in your bum if that makes sense? From a mathematical standpoint you're totally right though :3 The trick here is trying to figure out how to accommodate a little extra space for your bum if you're a bit more curvy. Some folks will have the measurements be the same, some will have a bit more because the bum.sits a bit lower than the front pelvis if that makes sense.
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