#Handmade garment

[rtwoneday]

Excuse the mess, but I just finished making this outfit and I'm kind of excited. I kind of want to wear it out tomorrow...

[staceart]

Here's another thing that I forgot to share - my first sewing project! I made the Sasha Starlight cocoon jacket for my friend's wedding back in June! Thankfully there was a video tutorial I could follow because this was a challenge for a beginner like me! I am really happy with how it turned out.

[Image description: Four photos. First three photos feature Stace standing outside in a garden. They are wearing a cocoon jacket made of green leafy print fabric, a cream colored shirt, a necklace with a rectangular pendant, black palazzo pants, and black shoes. The last photo is of a table with the paper patterns of the cocoon jacket on top of the green leafy fabric.]

[elucubrare]

i need to start a collection of Takes About Alienation From The Material Conditions Of Production That Only Make Sense If You Yourself Are Alienated From The Material Conditions Of Production

[magic-mayhem-mischief]

I knitted a thing!!

Yes I will be wearing it E V E R Y W H E R E for the foreseeable ☺️

[blue-nebraska]

finished my first pair of pants!

ID: two photos of a pair of pants against a white background. the first photo is of the back of the pants from the knee up, the second is the front also from the knee up. they are made of brown fabric, with a side pocket with a patch of a strawberry and a button fly with brass buttons.

[kvroii-arts]

I finished sewing my second sealskin capelet!

As well as dark green dyed sealskin, it has a rabbit fur lining and trim, as well as an arctic fox tail as the collar. The strap is genuine leather and adorned with a mother of pearl button.

It is entirely sewn by hand.

[strawberrum]

thinking about how I had a few folks at my last market suggest to me (kindly and with good intentions) that I make and sell some versions of the hand knit cardigan I was wearing because people would "totally pay $300 for that!"

I appreciated the sentiment, but people don't understand what goes into handmade clothes! I don't use a knitting machine. Every stitch in that garment is created by hand on needles, and the sleeves were brioche. Even using inexpensive acrylic yarn for the whole project, and accounting for the HUGE sleeve stitches (saving me time making the sleeves)—the material cost was $55 and the labor was well beyond that.

Let's conservatively estimate the cardigan took me 30 hours to create. Currently, when pressed to put a dollar amount to my time, I use the living wage as a baseline and then go up from there $1/hour for every year I have been actively practicing that particular skill. In the case of knitting that would be 11 years, and the current living wage in my area is approximately $23/hour. Setting aside the fact that this is calculated based on a 40 hour work week and I don't believe that is ethical or sustainable, we'll just leave it at $34/hour. That would make labor alone $1,020.

This brings the "production cost" to $1,075.

Items are not sold at production cost because that would leave your profit margin at 0%. This is not sustainable because it costs money to run a business (think things like paying for computer repairs, buying tools, the tablecloth you use at markets, paying for a website, etc.). Realistically to cover business costs and still come out with a 7% "net" profit margin, which is just a number pulled from averages in the clothing retail business...

... I'd have to sell that cardigan for $1,350.

So yeah! Something to think about when you see the price of clothes that are handmade. :o)

[foragedberries]

if i post my crochet work on here will ppl actually engage with it bc i want PRAISE i want FEEDBACK i want INSPIRATION but no one gives that on instagram

[luvtsblog]

Luvt’s handmade crystal top.

[backstitchbroidery]

Functional mockup of a skirt with a flat-front/stretch-back waistband. I hadn't combined gathering with pleats before, but I like how that softened the shape.

[minimewtreasures]

Instagram: Selena & Abbye | Wool & Pine

[needle-salad-rnd]

Bonnet I made from a baby hat but subsequently lost on the Paris metro :(

[viciousewe]

Hmmmm I do like the heather and think it would make an amazing base for a moody dye job but….im haunted by the thought of separating the colors….

[anielskaaniela]

Irregular Circle Flounces -How to Draft and Sew

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[thenessa]

I was recently alerted to the presence of fellow fibre nerds in this basementopia?! Yay!

Ive been working on this top for four years (and before that the yarn was something else). It’s laceweight therefore slow af, but I really like the fabric so ehhh worth it. Yarn is old Habu A-1 Tsumugi Silk and the pattern began as a Scarletta Mini but I have modified it to have raglan shoulders, and I did a provisional cast-on so I can use up all remaining yarn for small sleeves.