Count me thoroughly impressed! I love your willingness to research this skill and your bravery to jump in and try it. Your garments came out beautifully.
Just a thought - maybe buy a couple of basic patterns, so you can familiarize yourself with the basic shapes and where adjustments are done in the various pieces. This might help you extrapolate for when you are making your own patterns. You might want to save all the remnants that surround the pieces you cut out and use them to practice on the sewing machine. This way you can follow angles and curves without fear of ruining an actual garment. Very impressive figuring out all those skills on your own!
This was great fun 😊 absolutely please do the follow up. We’re all dying to see your Halloween garment! I’m super impressed with the effort you’ve put into these, and you look fabulous!
This was so fun to watch! I am a lifelong sewer and I had so much fun watching my two special interests collide in your video. You are doing a great job for a beginner and I love that you are making bold fabric choices (I’ve noticed a lot of beginners get intimidated and stick to cheap quilters cotton and then get frustrated because their projects don’t look right and it’s coming down to bad fabric not skill level). I highly recommend the book How Patterns Work: The Fundamental Principles of Pattern Making and Sewing in Fashion Design, it’s great if you want to continue making your own patterns but it’s also really helpful from a fit perspective because if you know how patterns work you know what to change and how if you need to adjust darts, or take fullness out of a sleeve cap, ect. Great video! Thanks for sharing your new hobby with us!
I would absolutely be down for more of these very long videos. It's fun to hear your commentary in the books obviously but also your commentary on learning to sew in your progression in it since that's never been a thing that I've been interested in. I also just really love long videos like this that I can put on and do other things but still hear you talk and understand what's going on without having to watch the screen the entire time.
I ❤ this vlog! I had a phobia of a needle going up and down that is not controlled by me. Watching you putting your projects together was stress-free fun. Thanks for sharing your journey.
What I loved about your process is that you show that you don't necessarily need to know how to do all the things before you start. You can identify what specific skill goals you have for a project, figure out some things as you go, and leave some finessing for later.
absolutely LOVED this vlog! so fun to see the garments come together (hard to believe these were your first attempts!) that the books almost became an after thought 😱 (jk). also: you should absolutely incorporate that fairy crown look in your everyday life (maybe skip the ears). you looked sooo very cute and impish. 🥰
😮 That cape and deerstalker are AMAZING!! Your choice of colors is immaculate. Take a well deserved bow. All your projects were fun to watch and I can’t wait for your next sewing project video.
This whole video was so wonderful. Watching you keep going and learning sewing is so awesome. Sewing is where I get most of my audiobookage done too. I’ve been a professional seamstress for 6+ years so I feel the love for all of this and it is so wonderful to feel proud of yourself to make your own stuff.
Darts are the best thing to make to control the fit of your dress. (Good idea to use dress later as summer boho !). Pirate Nerd Info - Only Aristocrats were legally allowed to buy fancy clothes. Pirate Captains were usually not Aristocrats so they prized fancy clothes, jewelry, hats & wigs (any personal effects & affects) of any Captain or dandy as Booty. Really enjoyed seeing your costumes. 👍👍🙅👰♀🧚😃
Not me watching your vlog while I’m sewing! 🙈 good job! 💪Im terrible at hand sewing I prefer the machine even if I mess up I cut the seam and start over if need be! So I admire your patience for doing it by hand! 🙌
I don’t sew clothing but I do quilting on my sewing machine and definitely love listening to audiobooks when I do it. I love the talk of combining reading with crafts and hobbies!!
How fun! I took a fashion/sewing class in high school and it was a challenge for sure. I'm hoping to get back into it, so this was just a merry video to watch.
This is incredible!! I’ve been teaching myself how to sew over the last couple of years and I’m still a novice but having projects is definitely the way to go. You learn so much with each one. Excellent job!!
This made me smile so hard. Coming from supertraditional upbring I had ALLLLL the domestic skills sewed everything from clothes costumes MY UNDERPANTS and even swimwear. I made pieced quilts. made table linen sets. Did crossstich crewel embroidery pillowcases on&on. BUT because this was all in the name of extremely repressive PATERNALISTIC culture I decided to walk away from it all. Destroyed and burned down everything I could find. Still keep some very nice British crewel work know exactly how to fit&remake everything but wouldnt sew anything EVER AGAIN. That being said I saw how hard you are working and of course you know how many supplies+++ you are missing. Work tables. HEADLAMPS. Adjustible dressforms. Much better pins and pens. Magnets. Plus storage for it all. Yet your outfit turned out very nicely. So another talent gaining on you. Bravo for Atelier Mara the Mage of Magnificance. PS regarding storage Amazon sells terrific sets of cardboard lidded storage boxes in wonderful colors. I basically use them for storage and decor because they are so pretty. PPS currently in terrible reading slump. Ugh
I've been :O at the whole video, you did such an amazing job with these clothes! I'm proud of you! You look so good in the Sherlock outfit oh my god!!! You're right about first full projects. This is a topic I'm writing on in my journal right now. Often the first full project is what decides if that hobby is for you or not, and if it is, the first successful project gives you just enough confidence boost to Move Forward and learn new technical skills. I'm really really proud of you that you took the leap! Being stuck in practice phase when I was learning to knit made me feel pretty miserable, took a lot to pull myself through the gateway to new obsession, so whenever I see 'first projects' now I get really excited.
I loved this video!! So happy and exciting for you that you’re getting into/finding joy in a new hobby. I love to knit and listen to audiobooks too and descended into full obsession a few years ago
Absolutely a joy to see your sewing projects, wit a few audiobook reviews thrown out. Please continue! if you have access to any BBC programes I recommend the Great British Sewing Bee. This would be very inspiring/informative.
I love this video! I would watch another. You are amazingly talented. One thing I wish is the colors and patterns were verbally described, because of my vision impairment I don't always see everything
“Ask and ye shall receive” sewing inspiration from Mara haha thank you for this video 🧵 Also good on you for working with linen and seersucker in your first couple of projects as those can both be kind of tricky on a machine from what I remember 😊
What a really fun video and concept! Wow! I just started sewing myself. I took a few classes at a local studio. Really fun and intimidating. Satisfying though even with all the mistakes. 😊😊
We have mandatory DIY lessons in elementary and middle school, so in a pinch I can sew my own clothing. Sewing with machine is actually really simple (and so much faster than by hand) once you get your head wrapped around the mechanics. Preparing and cutting the fabric often takes longer than the actual sewing. 🤣
I taught myself to sew at 25 and I enjoy this video. There are sewing classes through fabric stores and community colleges. My favorite class I took was sewing lingerie, elastic and lace oh my.
I absolutely loved this! Isn't it wonderful to make clothes that actually fit?! It was a joy to see your early successes! I'd love to see your long project. My only suggestions are get a thimble and a seam ripper. Thimbles are awkward at first but your fingertips will thank you. Somewhere in Bernadette's videos she shows how she made her own leather one - which fits better than the metal ones. Making your own stuff is so very rewarding!
This was such a fun video! I enjoyed watching you discover and improve in a new hobby and your projects all turned out great. I really love your fairy tiara and I really hope that some days it is part of your everyday attire.😊 Also you may enjoy the channel Coolirpa. She transforms thrifted clothing, but goes through a lot of sewing techniques.
This is inspiring me to pull out my sewing machine and make something. The issues I have with finding clothes is that I'm short (5'0") and have a large bust, so nothing fits. If something fits me in length the bust area is way too small, and if it fits me in the bust it's too big everywhere else.
This was a great video. Learning how to sew… by hand! Wow! I’m excited for the Halloween costume video. 😉 You should make a peplum (?) top out of that linen you used for the dress.
One more silly thought and tell on myself. Being so terribly ND have many odder personal twists. Become PRO at removing elastic from sleeves because I CANNOT STAND the feel of it. If I am calm simply trim off edge HOWEVER bad dayz start cutting VERY SHORT sleeves. hehehe PS You look so lovely in pearls. Strongly recommend getting Pro photographer portrait done to document this creative lovely time in your life. Happy dayz!
you mentioned that hobby tiktok a couple of vlogs ago and i'm glad to see you progressing to doing the hobby stage rather than the type of ADHD i have with my hobbies where i get obsessed but can never work up the energy to do them
Amazing job on your projects! Well done! I’m frequently inspired by Bernadette Banner but have yet to attempt her depth of recreation. So far my costume projects are mash ups of existing printed patterns. Thanks for inspiring me to pull out my sewing machine to finish some dresses I previously started!
Loved this! Absolutely want to see your Halloween costume video! I've been saving reading Lud in the Mist for this summer so it was so fun to see your costume! (Loved the adventurous background music.)Have no interest in sewing myself but I clap for joy every time Rachel Maksy downloads a video! I'm going to look for Origins on audio at my library, the Leah Sottile book was so good! Inspired by you!
Look at you go😊! Starting with linen instead of cotton. I have always heard you hem last so you can adjust properly or you might make it to short. Personally heming is me nemesis. It is infuriating that fashion designers laziness has been treated as the preferred form.
I tried to sew my Halloween costume 4 years ago and I think I still am traumatized by that experience, I swear that sewing machine is my arch nemesis now LOL
this is so cool. i could never. i don't have the patience to do smth like that. i tried to pick up cross-stitching in highschool and i still want to try it at some point when i'm like in my mid-thrities i think but yeah, sewing is a no for me xD but when you said you have feelings about how the clothes used to be done by hand in the past and how much work it is i remembered a book that i already thought you might like but now i'm convinced you would. it's called The Corset and it's by Laura Purcell. it's a bit of a mystery, a bit of a paranormal, or is it? ~wink~ it's historical and is set in like edwardian england i think. and sewing is a big part of it. i would really recommend you give it a try
