Klee's coat but make it comfy 

Subtle, nerdy wardrobe pieces is the best kind of wardrobe pieces imo! Also, this video serves the exact kind of chaotic sewing energy I need to pull me through my first con crunch in two years 😂

I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds comercial pattern instructions confusing 😅

I never knew a button foot was a thing! I would probably be too afraid to ever use it >.

button foot wins my vote as it can be used for other things like hook and eyes, and saves more time than the buttonhole foot because it swaps hand stitching for machine stitching whereas the buttonhole foot just makes the machine stitching slightly easier. both are great though and I might just be biased because my machine didn't come with a buttonhole foot, so I could just be trying to make myself feel better by downplaying its greatness 😊

The worst thing for me about commercial patterns,p is how the measurements listed aren’t the finished measurements. I just made a mock-up of a pinafore pattern and found out that the size that should have fit me perfectly according to the measurements has about 5 inches of ease and so I’m gonna have to size down 2 to 3 sizes.

I just discovered your channel today while doing a mountain of embroidery for my own cosplay and I’m so glad I did!! your videos are so entertaining and informative, and it’s also fun to see another cosplayer in the south east :D here’s hoping this comment takes you one step closer to monetization!!

Wohooo - I am not the only one who thinks commercial pattern instructions are impenetrable. Thank you for sharing this opinion, it makes me feel less alone in thinking that pattern drafting is less confusing than trying to work out what the step-by-step instructions on the patterns saying.

The button foot is my new favourite discovery from your channel

As always, I love how educational your videos are!!

Klee is the cutest and I'm trying to learn to sew just to make a Klee cosplay, but by the time Im ready I might not even like genshin anymore haha

Yay! I was wondering if you knew Lizard! I love their channel, & their amazing cos plays. I'm definitely team buttonhole foot. To speed up sewing on buttons by hand, double the thread before you put it through the needle, so that you sew with a quadruple thickness. Your coat is so lovely! But commercial patterns add a lot of ease, so for historic-style garments, or costumes, you can often size down. Greetings from Czechia!

Commercial patterns have plagued me my whole life. Your explanations and guidance give me hope that I will be able to create things that actually fit me properly! You are a wonderful creator. Thank you for everything you do!

That button foot is a lifesaver! I got so mad at buttons; I never do then right and I'm not even making the coats, just fixing preexisting ones that also had bad buttons!

I learn so much watching your videos! Keep it up Sarah!

im so glad i have notifs on for your channel! this turned out so cute!! (i cant wait for a klee rerun to have her on my team! :D)

i've been watching a tonnnn of your videos lately and i love how well edited they all are! you're so good at explaining concepts while still keeping it fun and interesting and i'm a little obsessed. i found you while looking at wig styling videos and HAD to see the miku one, but i've been watching more while working on a veryyy simple cosplay to wear at my job during a local con in like 2 weeks (i work at a ramen shop half a block from the hotel it's held at, so you can imagine how it goes). i used to cosplay a bit back whwen i was in high school/early college and haven't really touched it in a few years, so i feel really rusty. watching you "overexplain" some sewing basics has either been informative or exciting for me, since i can't remember how or if anyone ever actually taught me some basics, and when i see i actually have been doing things correctly i feel accomplished lol. it's a shame i'm not into genshin because i might have watched this video earlier, ideally 2 weeks earlier when i was making a vest for a quick sanji cosplay for work and totally fucked it up twice. i might have saved myself some time seeing this sooner. same with the buttonholes, i just hand sewed them yesterday and they are crustyyyyy anyway, i love your videos! you made me want to get back into cosplaying, even if we cosplay totally different things. never in my life have i ever wanted to try to make a frilly dress, but now i kinda do :)

my mouth wide open when i saw the button foot. never know it exist. as always great video. always boost my serotonin level to get sewing

Wow. First time seeing this channel and its great. I'm not into cosplay myself, but I have immense respect for the people who do. GL on the channel and your future cosplays.

I swear, her videos always make me smile by the end of them. The videos are just super creative and fun to watch, especially while I do crafts

I’m making a Klee cosplay around this time this was amazing!

Wow! The coat looks great :D

i love the nerdy clothes that arent explicitly nerdy, i need more in my life! also the button foot is absolutely wild to me

Really nicely done little coat. Its adorable.

I just want to say that I love ur work and channel so much :0!!!

woo i used the inverted corner tutorial and it worked perfectly, so helpful

I too fear buttons but this gives me hope lol

I LOVE THE BUTTON HOLE FOOT IT MAKES LIFE EASIER

I dont know what it means that i just started sewing last april but now i know how to construct my own patterns, ive made my own costumes already but theyre either sailor uniforms or existing clothes from thrift shops which i gave a make over What i do is use my existing clothes and trace them to make my pattern or i look for tutorials on how to make certain clothes

New to the channel just been binge watching while I finish up all my Christmas projects

I appreciate another cosplayer who cannot stand commercial patterns. I loathe cutting them out and YES the instructions hurt my brain. I find so much more satisfaction and sanity in patterning myself. I am glad to know there are others wired like me.

Omg I am making a Klee costume rn! Your coat looks so super cute

Amazing Video like always 😍

As someone who only learned their machine came with a buttonhole stitch and foot (an potentially a button stitcher!) from this video I have to say both are amazing and thank you for showing me what that strange piece of white plastic is for!

I have both those feet in a little bag that came with my machine and I never knew what they were for! Thanks!! The coat is super cute too

Button holes are simultaneously the easiest things and the hardest things to sew. I had to make six of them for a project and I about died.

Stunning work as always! Looks super snuggly!

It looks really nice :D

Button foot! 😍 I have an old machine without any programs.. the zigzag stitch is my best friend

i’m always afraid to make my own coats so thanks for making it look doable.

button foot for sure. I had no idea that even existed lol! I love this coat!! you're so talented

Very pretty 😃

The Mona and Qiqi stickers! So cute.

Klee is also me favorite 😊

1:16 that is why I gave up on sewing a garment for myself like 20 years ago! Maybe I will try again now that RU-vid tutorials exist :)

The button foot is very cute

I feel so validated. Even when I started sewing as a child I saw them instructions and said...Nah Imma puzzle it together.

It was actually nice that you cut the pattern too big, 'cause it gave you the chance to do a fuller skit thingy that matches Klee's sillouete even better

AHH iTS ADORABLE

recently found your channel and that's pretty cute reminds me of one time I bought just some gray jeans and blue white stripe shirt at some random store and suddenly felt like I was Casually Cosplaying as Bakura from yugioh. I looked normal cuz it was just a shirt and jeans but inside my evil Egyptian soul was being awakened xD tho I definitely would like to learn making clothes so I can make casual stuff with patterns that are a bit more obvious to what they based on ... cuz not all anime characters are as basic as bakura who just has a common blue abd white stripe shirt u can easily find at any store xD

buttonhole foot my beloved

awesome lov KLEE

This is the exact pattern I have fought with off and on for years now as my next winter coat that I just never happen to actually make bc I want to over tailor it to oblivion and get to intimidated to do anything more with ahahaha. Nice to watch someone else complete it though! Little spiritual closure for me…

I like using commercial patterns as a base, then do my odder cuts and seams from there. It does save some time in having to draft out certain things I hate, especially sleeves. I make a muslin and then chop it up from there.

For the button hole foot vs. button foot debate, I choose the button hole foot. The button foot is cool, but fiddly. The button hole foot is also fiddly, but to me, button holes seem so much harder to make than buttons are to attach, so I feel like that's a more miraculous invention 😂

I recently bought my first sewing machine. Got a used machine for super cheap, and it only came with button and buttonhole feet. Still trying to get proper feet, but it's like 40 years old, so spare parts are a little difficult to come by. Long story short, button hole foot is the best of the two.

This video made me figure out on the buttonhole foot and button foot was. When go my sewing machine I didn’t know what it was( my sewing machine came will them).

You blew my mind with that button foot like wtf

I can make my own parents But I have also used commercial patterns but I had never in my life actually follow the instructions I just cut it piece of altogether and make it work

Best arson outfit.

That button foot is so cool and scary😅

Очень мило очень красиво

This outfit reminds me of the school trip I took to France one winter. I was on a bus in Paris. I saw a cute girl in a red coat. I looked at her and she turned away, pretending that she wasn't looking at me. We stole glances at each other until finally we arrived at her stop. She looked back once more before stepping into the street and out of my teenage life forever. But I've never been to France. The coat is just that good. Hope this helps with engagement :D

I want to do something like this wow!

So, for those of you who want to make your comercial patterns more robust, there is a neet trick that Costuming Drama put out there. What you do is take a waxed baking sheet paper and on the lowest setting of your iron, wax side down on the paper, iron it onto the pattern paper. It will stick to the pattern paper, make it strong enough to fold up neatly and easy to store. This will extend the life of your pattern and make it nicer to use.

Totally the button hole foot.

Buttonhole foot is best, hand sewing buttons is literally the easiest, (well maybe after straight seams) and I could almost certainly handsew it in the time it would take to fiddle the machine into the right width zigzag.

I wish I could subscribe multiple times

Sarah do you think we can have tutorials on your favorite pattern making tricks and what we can do if we come across something unusual in cosplay? Along with your favorite books?

I want to make something like this but a white mage coat from final fantasy. 😊

Button foot gang rise up!!

hey this looks awesome! what fabric did you use for the sleeve mock-up?

If I could only have one for the rest of my life I would choose the button foot

I am chaotic and don’t use the button foot (even though I have one and am perfectly capable of actually using it). I just use the standard foot to hold my buttons in place while I do the zig zag method lol

One time I bought a coat from eBay about the same style, for a similar reason. To cosplay without actually cosplaying. But… I bought it from a seller in china and…. A size 3X was actually like a size small here in America 🫠 I ended up giving it to a good friend of mine that didn’t know the lore behind the cosplay 😂

Botton foot is cooler and I only know how to hand sew but I can’t wait till I get an actually a sewing machine.❤

It's been YEARS using commercial patterns and I NEVER follow pattern instructions, been almost 15 years sewing. I'm so bad at math I can't self pattern, BUT I'm super good at altering commercial patterns to make wild and strange shapes

Hey hey hey so I'm gonna send you my sizes so you can make one for me? 😘😘😘 Jk... Unless 😂 I absolutely loved how this turned out! Especially all the blessed seams!

I think commercial patterns are good for a beginner BUT they're outdated. I don't know how to pattern draft clothing, and many don't. We're more of a visual society now and commercial pattern companies need to start making video's for their patterns. Then when someone has the basics, they can pattern draft. But yeah, the language in patterns is so much harder to understand then it's needs to be lol

Okay but personally the foot that makes the buttonhole is so much cooler to me lol I’d rather sew in every button by hand for the rest of FOREVER if it meant I didn’t have to make a buttonhole by myself again 😂😂😂

if i could get it, when its cold, specially this weathers, when i cosplay klee and i get cold, i could use that coat!🙀😸

You're way too cute I can't

Behind every self patterner is a sewist who couldn't figure out how to work commercial patterns and figured that constructing an entirely new pattern themselves was easier

Button foot is cooler but I still prefer handsewing 😅

U for forgot the white but it still looks good

Oh dear, that button feet seems way more dangerous and fiddly than just sewing the thing by hand XD

LOL I've been sewing for 30+ years and commercial patterns are indeed difficult to understand and I often just glance through them as I go...

Whats the cutter tool?

Commercial patterns have an absurd amount of ease built in. The assumption from Big Four pattern companies is that you will make a muslin/mock-up for any garment for which you have bought a pattern. For something like a coat or a tailored dress, that's not necessarily an unreasonable assumption. It is absolutely absurd assumption for *baby clothes.* The ease in the baby sleeper pattern I tried to use was an *entire year's* worth of baby sizes too big. (Baby clothes are sized by months/years of age.)

the button foot is cooler because it looks like a machine gun when it's going

Who else was holding there breath while they were doing the pivoted corner?

Button hole is cooler

Not being able to understand commercial pattern instructions, is me trying to understand knitting patterns

button foot is cooler

No, no. That is not an unpopular opinion about comercial patterns. I hate them. I have used a solid 3 in my life despite sewing since I was 9. Also the buttonhole foot is cooler. Handmade or bound buttonholes are dicks, sewing on a button is easy. Plus the only problem I ever hear about sewing on a button is if you do it too tight it can pucker the fabric, which can easily be fixed by putting a pin in the fabric horizontally if you are sewing it in vertically or vice versa. Or ya know just don't do it so tight, but some peeps struggle with that and that's okay.

Undeniably the button foot is cooler, fight me heretics.

Nah, I'm still on team hater for patterns because the paper is wayyyyyyyy too thin. Shit, it's so thin that it Thanos snaps itself if it comes within 5 miles of a gust of air, no matter how small. 😅 seriously, too, too thin.