How was your day?

teach me pls. ;-;




Working and having an active social life?

 feels like...

[video=youtube;-kl4hJ4j48s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kl4hJ4j48s[/video]

A Singer would probably be the best machine, but I got this thing for 20 bucks and it works okay, only it can only do one stitch and I can only manual reverse stitch.

Everything else, look on YouTube. It took me like 4 out of those 5 hours to figure out how to work the thing, then after that I tried altering and old t-shirt and it sucked. I tried 3 more times before I did a good job, and just now I altered two more shirts to fit perfectly. Basically you pull at both sides to your desired fit, measure how much you pulled. Then measure your arm and forearm, both relaxed. Mark the shirt accordingly at the forearm, arm, armpit, and torso, connect the dots, sew. After practicing a few times you'll be able to do it easily.

EDIT: I followed this video along with some written guide on r/malefashionadvice to learn:

[video=youtube;vcDRcgDYVlQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcDRcgDYVlQ[/video]

 written steps

1. Wear shirt, pull both sides at the seams until the fit looks good, then measure how much you pulled (fold it over to make it easier if possible)
2. Measure your arm and forearm, both relaxed
3. Turn the shirt inside out. Lay the sleeves flat, seams at either edge, and measure the width at the arm/forearm. If the sleeves already fit, that's good.
4. If not, take half of your arm measurements, add half an inch, then mark appropriate points at the sleeves.
5. Lay the torso flat (seam at the edge), mark your initial torso measurement.
6. Take the average of your upper arm/torso measurement, mark that at the armpits. If your sleeves already fit, you'll be tapering the new seam back into the existing seam at the sleeve.
7. Very important: All of your measurements are from the seam.
8. Also important: If your shirt has a seam with any kind of width and you're marking from opposite sides of the shirt, then the markings on the back should be measured from the outside end of the seam, and those on the front should be from the inside end. Opposite if your sewing machine is left-handed.
9. Connect the markings, proceed to ruin your shirt.

GLHF