sewing help.. patterns!!

[laura-aap]

okay.. I want to make my own stuff. but have no idea how to.
I once made a skirt but I want to make a lolita skirt or dress myself.

anybody has some tips or tricks for me?
or a great site where I can find great tutorials and patterns??

even things like normal skirts and dresses will be fine too!

thanks!~

[the_zorya]

I would suggest www.craftster.org!
great tutorials and suggestions on cute things to make.

[hrwait]

Haha! Holy, I've been researching this all week too! Sites I found that are interesting are:

www.threadbangers.com
www.burdastyle.com
boredandcrafty.wordpress.com
-- http://boredandcrafty.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/my-own-guitar-bag-oh-yeah-happy-2008/]Guitar Shaped Bag (So cool!)

And there's a bunch of books out there that you can buy that are "apparently" great, such as "99 ways to cut sew, & deck out your denim" Although I haven't decided on buying those or not until I get more reviews on it. I can post more links as I find them, if you want. I have a dress almost made but I never finished the zipper... lol I ought to finish that!

What is really a shame is my great aunt is one of the best seamstresses around. She used to travel around Canada when she was younger. But she's like, 84 now and lives far away so I can't just call her up and be like, "Teach me to sew!" She used to make barbie doll clothes for us and all kinds of things. Plus she customized my grad dress for me too. ^-^

[the_zorya]

^ Thanks for those links!
I'm excited about the last one!

[SilverRain]

I agree with burdastyle, and craftster, those are AWESOME sites for patterns/tutorials! The people there are really nice too!

Since you seem at least familiar with using a sewing machine, a simple skirt shouldn't be hard. there was a skirt tutorial on this forum, a while back.
http://forum.asiajam.com/made-me/4285-super-cute-lolita-cancan-skirt-tutorial.html
^ you can totally use black/pink fabric, and sew on lace trimming, for a lolita skirt

I hope that helped! If you do manage to make one, post pictures! ^_-

[laura-aap]

thanks everybody!!!!

I'm going shopping for nice fabrics soon =)
also found a great pattern for a kitty cat thing.