Hello hivans,
I greet you and my follow needleworkers I salute you all.😊🤷🏼 How’s everything on your ends? Hope you all are doing wonderfully and marvelously well, am well too all thanks to God almighty who had intentionally protected me on a daily bases, keeping out of harm always so friends am still breathing cause of the love of God and his love is so amazing so divine ☺️ if you’ve tasted it you’ll sure understand where am going☺️.
Omg.......... 😱 can you imagine me I almost forgot we’re still in the valentines week and it’s not over yet on till it’s finally over 😂 the celebrations still continues, the love still continues even after this week ooo we should still continue loving one another ooo😊, now am so curious ,🤔 very curious, super curious to know how we all spent our valentines 🤷🏼 I mean it was a day for lovers and to show someone some good loving either boyfriend and girlfriend’s own or husband and wife’s own or even parent to there’s kids or siblings to themselves or even strangers to another stranger 🤷🏼and there are deferent ways of showing love on this day which are,
- positive
- negative.
And you know everything in life has two sides either good or bad as well as possible and negative and we at the end of the day choose which one we want to engage in, I trust we all had a good and positive valentines celebration 🍾 well...... (I know some of us will be like won’t get tell us about his own too)😂 😂, trust me you don’t want to hear 😏 cause mine was super boring to the last point, that day I literally wore my red and white and waited if someone will call to take me out not even mom had my time 😏🥺 I was just there on my bed from morning till evening that day, all I did was eat, sleep, wake up again and eat, sleep again that was the routine I followed that day and I remember at the early hours of that day I was the one who woke up and I first everyone to take my bath 🛀 as if I was going somewhere special, my cousin was just looking at me hoping am going out after taking my bath 😂 and he later went and took his bath after finishing his work and he went out and me that first everybody to bath as if I was going out 😂 in the evening when they all came back I was the topic for the night my mom, anuty, cousins that came to the house all laughed at me 😒🥺 that I didn’t go out but was the first to take my bath they mocked me 😂 but I was fine the next day when I got a call from Toni my friend, he told me to come he wants to take me out and he took me out for a very nice treat and I came back with a smiling face and also with some takeaways and ice cream as evidence that I went to somewhere sweet and I had a good time, I just wanted to prove a point to them that I didn’t go out yesterday which they end up laughing at me for it doesn’t mean I won’t go out some other day and when I came back I made sure they saw what I brought back 😂 and non of them where able to say a thing to me 😂 I was just on top of the moon 😂, I enjoyed my week tho everything went so smoothly and I had a great time this week.
So friends it’s a brand new day for creativity for us to create and educate other and also learn from others creations too, have been here on this platform for a good number of time and I have learnt a lot of things from person’s creativities, so I urge everyone to keep the fire burning, keep our creativities coming and also we should support each other in everywhere possible so we can stand out to be one of the greatest community here in hive😊.
Today I want to share with you all my first ever attempt on suit, few months ago I posted my new work place which I went there to get myself trained on how to make a suits, waistcoats of all designs, so I started work there few months later after I had paid money and gave him drinks to train me, I found out that he didn’t really do the suit thing he sews suit once in a blue moon and am like how will I be able to learn this way so I had to leave his place and currently now am in search of another place to enroll myself for this suit training. But regardless I watched a YouTube tutorial on how to cut a suit and I thought of trying it out, my problem basically is how to do a perfect cutting on suit, sewing is not really that hard to be honest I can but the cutting was just my problem so I had to check on YouTube for clips and I found not one but so many of them which made me kinda confused because they all have deferent ways of making it. Well....... I just had to combine there ideas and to get my own 😂 so I did a screen recording and saved in to my phone and I immediately off my data very important 😂 after everything I sat down and carefully watched it the video to my understanding and I used the video to do my cutting. This is me wearing the suit when I was done 😊
Items used:
- Ankara fabric
- Plain Black fabric
- Tissue gum
- Paper gum
- Suit lining
- Matching thread 🧵
My sewing processes:
Steps 1:
I lay the Ankara fabric, according to the clip I watched, I was asked to skip 2inches and draw my body measurement after that 2inches and I did same and I realized it’s kinda same pattern with how to draw a shirt, you’ll also skip 2inches before drawing your measurement after that 2inches🤔. So I did same and after that I cut it out perfectly well. I cut out the back view too.
Step 2:
After I was done with the cutting, I took out the front and lay it and with my chalk I drew out the front curve to form the front lapel, and I added the tissue cum to it and I too out the black and I kept it under the already formed lapel to cut out same sharp cause I’ll be using the black to form the front lapel.
Step 3:
After I had used the black fabric to cut the lapel just the way it was in the main front and now I added the tissue gum to front with an iron I gummed it to the front.
Step 4:
I used the blacks fabric from the front, I sewed it and turn it to the inside of the front, I did same with the other side and when I was done I refolded it to the front and the black was now at the right spot I wanted it to be, now the both sides were ready.
Step 5:
I did the dat on the front so I could make my pocket, so from the top shoulder I measured 14inches and that’s was where I did my pocket.
I cut the paper gum and I gummed it on the black and I used it to make the pocket after that I cut the paper gum again and I made a pocket cover same size and I added it to the pocket and I repeated same thing on the other side of the front.
Step 6:
I used the lining to continue from where the black turning stop inside and line everywhere.
I carefully join the back to the front through the both shoulders, and I joined the neck too now I moved to the both sleeves.
Step 7:
Now I cut the both sleeves, actually I didn’t really understand how a suit sleeves is usually cut and it wasn’t part of the clip I used in cutting the front, and I had to cut the sleeves in my own way which was the normal senator sleeve 🤦🏼🤦🏼 but I made it very fitted so it could look like suit sleeve from afar and if I didn’t disclose it to you you would’ve know but I lined it and it was nice actually and I used shoulders pad in the shoulder to make it come up I just gave it a try on my own and from what I have seen I think with consistent training on this I will actually be good at it. I mean can’t believe on my own I did this and the clip I used was only for the front cutting how to sharp out that front lapel I had an imagination on how to sew it so I just pictured it in my mind and I used that to sew it and also alone with my sewing experience and from how have been looking at suits so I was able to make it I was o glad when I wore it to church 😊😊. Am just waiting to see a good place to learn my suit and guys don’t worry I’ll make sure to carry everyone along when am sure of what am doing 😂 as it is I just managed, so I didn’t really know how the explanation should go yet 😂 cause I didn’t even really know what I was doing I just happy that what I did came out great 😂 but I’ll sure keep you guys posted when I know what am doing full time 😂. Thank for understanding friends!!!!!
Thank friends for your time, have a blessed day and a great weekend 🍾🍻🍻 Good vibes 😎!!!
Great job and well done @smilestitches! It fits perfectly and looks amazing on you. Bravo!
How freakin SNAZZY is that suit you made!!!
I LOVE IT!
That is my kind of blazer- full of colour, unlike the boring black and gray ones we have over here!
If that was the first one you've ever made, then you out did yourself as that is truly amazing!!!
I hope that you get to make more and I get to see them!
Ofcourse @chocolatescorpi you'll get to see them more often don't worry I'll definitely show them to you trust me and this actually my first ever attempt I was scared I'll end up ruining my fabric but I just thought giving it a try won't harm so I did and I got a great results
No seriously you created something incredible!
I think saying *great results *is not giving yourself enough credit!
And I can't wait to see the future results!
Actually I'll take some photos of mine- all second hand and ofcourse, all very colourful...🤣
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You look really good in your suit. Great work of designing on your own 👏👏.
Thanks so much @racn you're such an amazing person
Amazing work. well done. love the colors
Thank you so much 😊
Beautiful work @smilestiches . Your designs are so edgy and unusual. Lovely 😊❤️💕🤗
Thanks so much 😆😆😆
A shawl collar jacket with such lovely fabric/😍💖🌹..
I really covet this, comman dash me.
😂 😂 😂 😂 even when you knew it was my first attempt and it might not bit your taste 🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼leave my kinda suit for me ooo 😂
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I love your work, the colors you use very beautiful! Blessings 🌹
Thank you so much @bleuclair
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Ooh I love it. The color, the pattern, the style, the WORK...all great!!
Thanks so much @barracudadiaries
I think you can have a big smile after managing to get yourself suited up! I can tell you, DIY including the learning process is something that is not to be underestimated. My mom used to tailor clothes for herself and also for me when I was a kid. She was never trained to be a tailor, no YT available at the time, but magazines only. But she would not only use magazines but also quality tailored clothes to see how they are cut and sowed. Sometimes she would take those apart to drill into the details, always confident she could get the sample back to its original. Logic, time, patience and details she used, always with great results. Why I'm telling this story? Well, I think you shall continue the path you took, self-learning. I believe YT is super to learn about things you like to do yourselves. Of course, a super professional tailor as a teacher may help, but when you can't find one, I can only advise continuing the path you take: Self-learning. I do love all the colours of your jacket! We don't see such colourful suits in my country too often, and when, only worn by more or less eccentric peeps. I suppose many in my country don't have the confidence to make a statement. Maybe that's a business opportunity for you? :)
This is super great, for this to be your first attempt, then, you've done a great job.
Sometimes, the YouTube videos can be so confusing that you'll end up ruining your fabric but thank God you were able to follow a good video to achieve this. I love the colours on the fabric, Great work.
Excelent job 😍
wow I love the colors, congratulations
Wow, my boss on this. You did a great job
I am impressed with your work!
Wow, you were spectacular, you have a great talent friend @smilestitches.
For the first time, you did amazing. If you had said nothing I would have never guessed it's your first time making a suit. It's perfect❤