#tiger sews

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

I can finally post this!

For Christmas this year, I made one of my niblings a MLD.

A My Little Deadpool.

It's about 16 inches tall, velvety soft, with weighted feet to help it stand. I used a few different patterns I found online to make the body, but the tail, wings, and most of the head were drafted from scratch to give me the look I wanted.

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

I teach sewing, and one of the first things I taught my students was 'Oh my god, the sewing machine can hurt you, be ever vigilant!' I still don't have all the feeling back in my index finger from where my machine punched through the bone.

That said-

I recommend using bar soap as a marking method. If you use something like Irish Spring, it'll show up on any colour of cloth, and rinses right out when you wash the garment the first time.

Practice your buttonhole on a scrap piece of your fabric. Every. Time.

If it's your first time using a pattern, make a mock up. Even if you have a ton of sewing experience.

Knit fabrics are very forgiving when it comes to being slightly the wrong size. Their raw edges don't need the same level of finish sewing as woven fabrics.

Cotton will have a bit of stretch along the horizontal weave, and quite a lot on the bias, even if it doesn't have elastane in it.

If you're working with a plush fabric- velvet, faux suede, fake fur, etc- make sure your following the nap direction as well as the grain line. The nap is the direction the plush falls. Think petting a cat from head to tail.

Sergers are the devil.

Whoever decided that seam allowances should be pressed open needs to be dragged out into a street and shot.

If you're making pants, add a Chub Rub panel(A pre-emptive patch on the inner thighs, sewn from inside the garment)

Cheat's invisible zips are 100% acceptable.

Measure twice, cut after you've measure a couple more times just to be sure.

Seriously, sergers are the devil.

Things I wish I had read in "beginner" sewing tutorials/people had told me before I started getting into sewing

You have to hem *everything* eventually. Hemming isn't optional. (If you don't hem your cloth, it will start to thread. There are exceptions to this, like felt, but most cloth will.)

The type of cloth you choose for your project matters very much. Your clothing won't "fall right" if it's not the kind of stretchy/heavy/stiff as the one the tutorial assumes you will use.

Some types of cloth are very chill about threading, some are very much not. Linen doesn't really give a fuck as long as you don't, like, throw it into the washing machine unhemmed (see below), whereas brocade yearns for entropy so, so much.

On that note: if you get new cloth: 1. hem its borders (or use a ripple stitch) 2. throw it in the washing machine on the setting that you plan to wash it going forward 3. iron it. You'll regret it, if you don't do it. If you don't hem, it'll thread. If you don't wash beforehand, the finished piece might warp in the first wash. If you don't iron it, it won't be nice and flat and all of your measuring and sewing will be off.

Sewing's first virtue is diligence, followed closely by patience. Measure three times before cutting. Check the symmetry every once in a while. If you can't concentrate anymore, stop. Yes, even if you're almost done.

The order in which you sew your garment's parts matters very much. Stick to the plan, but think ahead.

You'll probably be fine if you sew something on wrong - you can undo it with a seam ripper (get a seam ripper, they're cheap!)

You can use chalk to draw and write on the cloth.

Pick something made out of rectangles for your first project.

I recommend making something out of linen as a beginner project. It's nearly indestructible, barely threads and folds very neatly.

Collars are going to suck.

The sewing machine can't hurt you (probably). There is a guard for a reason and while the needle is very scary at first, if you do it right, your hands will be away from it at least 5 cm at any given time. Also the spoils of learning machine sewing are not to be underestimated. You will be SO fast.

I believe that's all - feel free to add unto it.

[ladycels]

My Year of the Tiger (a few years out of sync) at Magfest was a lot of fun! Amie worked magic and really made me look cute!!

She was also super comfortable to wear :) I'm really happy all the hand done embroidery work came out so well, even it in the scheme of the whole costume it's a small detail. That's pretty much my trademark now, small intricate details that could have been done simpler. But I personally enjoy doing them :D

Photography by @amiephoto

Design by @uekuraeku

[adventure-waffles]

I got to wear my finished Jiang Cheng cosplay at a con yesterday! It is my first time sewing a cosplay and I'm happy with the results 😌 My roommate also made a Lan Wangji

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

Trying to pattern match while cutting??? EVIL.

Tbh I think ironing is the worst part of sewing. That and cutting things out

Yes agree

Actual sewing? Lovely. Cutting and ironing? Ghastly unbearable

[garfieldstim]

stimboard challenge -> random colour palette

x x x / x - x / x x x

[nocturnal-stims]

Orange stimboard

Sources: 🍊 🍊 🍊 🍊 🍊 🍊 🍊 🍊 🍊

[art-crumbs-main]

Put a tuna sandwich out and caught a tiger!

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

A combination of priority, what they would be used for (craft sewing vs lingerie vs garment), then by colour then style. So my lingerie fabrics are separate from my garment fabrics, which are categorised into 'Goth' 'Historical' 'Winter' 'Nerd' and so on.

[crouchingtigrexhiddenrathian]

Thank you @hannahorca for my awesome back patch!!!

I put it on asap, and started it late last night with intentions of putting it up to work on later. Potentially after work days while I unwind. But I ended up staying up all night sewing it on. I couldn't stop. I'm new at sewing, so this was kind of a first attempt for me.

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

This outfit has been a long time coming!

I bought this black fabric with blood splatters on it in a post-Halloween sale last year. I didn't have a specific project in mind at the time, I just couldn't pass up blood splatter at 5$ a metre. So it sat in my fabric stash for a while. Then, I started teaching my sewing class. And in the process of showing my students all the amazing things you can create for yourself, I made my first(successful) fully tailored blouse. And LOVED it. And I thought, hey, you know what would look cool? A black blouse with that blood fabric as a contrast.

And thus, the Blood Splattered Rockabilly Ensemble was born.

It features a circle-and-a-half(ish) skirt with more than two dozen pleats of varying sizes, a black stretch cotton princess seam blouse with slight ruching detail over the bust and heart shaped buttons(I sew my button plackets closed so I don't risk gaping, and sew the buttons on where the holes would be. The shirt is pulled on.), and contrasting cuffs and collar.

It's a really small thing and you wouldn't notice because it's against my neck or under the collar, but I am so pleased with how the pattern matching came out on the collar and stand. Those streaks of blood really just blend right into each other in some places!

As a final touch, I picked up a 5$ pair of faux leather sneakers and used dimensional fabric paint to make them a bloody mess.

While this is technically a Halloween outfit, I have to be honest. I would wear this year round.

(Also, please appreciate how adorable I am in those gifs, because my phone died recording them)

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[catschimericalcreations]

Happy 5th Birthday to Cobb-On the Winged Tiger plush by Cat's Chimerical Creations!

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[girlonposter]

Tiger pouch for holding my things

Made with a free frog pouch/plush pattern i saw on Pinterest and I just added ears and a tail

He used to be a sweatshirt

[tigers1o1]

Cutting out the pattern for my Chip jacket and OUGH

I forgot how draining this shit is

[mildmayfoxe]

final tally of all my sequince 🔥 now i just need to get them all ON the jacket

[keysmanydudes]

pompompurin plush I made as a holiday gift

I thought about posting progress photos but I'm historically really bad at those and forgot

(I did take them though ↓)

shoutout to HFVRAI playing