Dude I don't even wear leggings and I loved this!! :D The way you explained how to sew shut the crotch area (where you invert the one leg and put it into the other one) was so helpful, so I'm totally gonna use that in my next project! Thank you so much!!
Excellent! I'm glad to hear! And ya you can absolutely do this technique with any pants. I find it really helpful to do this so that I can get perfectly aligned seams on both legs.
You don't even want to know how many botched crotches I made because I had no knowledge of this useful trick lmao 😭 But now with all this newly acquired knowledge I shall no longer fail! 😂❤@@Atheeni
i don't wear leggings, i don't sew (except the patches i jankily attached to my punk vest), i don't even do any DIY shit at all, but this is my new favorite channel.
Thanks to no real options around me, I'm forced to buy all my apparel fabrics online; do you have any favorite online stores to order nice, heavy stretch material from? I'm a quilter transitioning into sewing my own clothing, and this video was *very* helpful!
That's fair, it's definitely getting harder and harder to find stuff locally these days. I'm from Canada so my online shopping go-to places are usually fabricville.com/ and www.braandcorsetsupplies.com/ for stretch materials. If you're hunting around for special effects and fun prints you can get many of the same printed spandex materials that I show from spandexworld.com/ Hope that helps!
I've got a question: the front and back rise depth are normally 1/3 and 2/3. I've got that. What if the belly of a person is larger than her bottom? Like if I want to draft a pattern for a pregnant woman, or one with a large fupa? Would I move the 1/3 and 2/3 towards 1/2 and 1/2, or would I take a complete crotch measurement from waistline back to waistline front and rise the front waistline point on the pattern?
Hmmm that's tricky. I think if it's for a pregnant lady I think you're probably ok with leaving the rise depth ratios as is and just extending the rise to be longer so there's more fabric to cover the belly protrusion. The rise depth balance is more if you have extra body fat really low in your belly or if you're drafting for a male. If it's just a bigger belly or a pregnant belly the extra space is usually taken up higher on the body so adding to the overall rise should cover it.
I’m somewhat confused. Waist line is parallel to the ground, and one leg of the carpenter’s square is parallel to the ground, so you’re essentially measuring two opposite sides of a rectangle. How would the front rise be different than the back rise?
Yup that's true, the difference is basically if you end up lowering the level of the parallel leg of the square lower up in the back because you want the leggings to sit up lower up in your bum if that makes sense? From a mathematical standpoint you're totally right though :3 The trick here is trying to figure out how to accommodate a little extra space for your bum if you're a bit more curvy. Some folks will have the measurements be the same, some will have a bit more because the bum.sits a bit lower than the front pelvis if that makes sense.
