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VERY BIG FILE!This is for my set of Sailor Moon inspired tutorials, the Sailor Collar.
Link to the sailor collar pattern [link]
Since I made the normal Sailor Neptune, I did not put a ribbon on it. I hope my explanation is detailed enough to help you attach a ribbon.
As I've said in the tutorial, if you need any more help, please ask me and I will do my absolute best to help you.
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Thanks, this is so cool! Me and my friends are doing the dance Hare Hare Yukai from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya for our school talent show this year, and this might help if I have time to make collars for the shirt's we're wearing. I always wondered how to make the collar on sailor outfits...
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They can be confusing if you don't know what to do. :3
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That's where the tutorial comes in handy!
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GOD! I wish you'd done this in 2009! I ended up modifying the collar on a pattern that I had to make it from a round-backed regular collar into a square one. The only difference between your method and mine is that I use a round neck so that it can button over any collared shirt. Mine pins on, but my #2 method would be to put button holes in the lower layer so that it fits into the top button of an existing shirt. (I couldn't put snaps on my shirts and ruin them for other use, since I needed them for work at the time.)
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Sorry!
Button holes would work, but my machine won't let me do them. That's why I do snaps instead.
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My machine doesn't have a button hole setting either. I just make them by hand. (I thought that's how it was done...my machine is...rather old...much older than me, in fact, and I'm an adult.) I also sew by hand a lot, since that was the first sewing I learned as a little girl, so I'll always be nostalgic about doing everything by hand.
My machine also has tension problems, which drive me to just do it by hand, since I make up the extra time in not having to drag out the stool, take the thing down, fight with it for an hour, sew six inches, fight with it for another hour, and repeat. It may need to be repaired (again) or replaced.
Hopefully a relative will get me that (or money towards it) for my birthday this fall...especially since I want to go into seamstressing as a career but can't afford a new machine right now. (I don't want anything fancy, but I do want a Singer and not an off-brand, since Singers come with a guarantee and all metal parts...I only want straight, zig-zag (for reinforcement), and buttonhole. I don't even need a new machine. Just one with good tension, metal gears, and basic stitches. I need to make and alter clothes with it. I don't need to be able to draw the Taj Mahal on a quilt with one click.)
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My machine is only a few years old but it's a small mini model. It has 8 different stitches, 5 straight and 3 zig zag. Perfect for what I do with it. Although I would love one with a button hole stitch and zipper foot.
I'm trying to make money to get a new one and possibly a tailors dummy as well.
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That's more than mine has. Mine has five lengths and five stitches, ranging from a single straight stitch through varying levels of zigzag.
For me, a tailor's dummy would be pretty useless. I have an extreme hourglass figure, so it would actually hinder me, since they're generally unable to get my proportions, or, indeed, even a waist as small as mine. I make do with fitting things on myself as I go, with cutting on the floor (don't own a cutting table, and they're too high for my short stature anyway), and a very basic old machine. All I want is a reliable tension.
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I have a basic figure so a dummy would help me. I have one I made from duct tape currently and it's really helpful. You could make one yourself if you ever need one.
I use our dining room table for my cutting and sewing uses. It's perfect for me.
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I use a conveniently uncarpeted spot in the living room to cut. Floors work wonderfully for me.
The hardest thing was adding triple dart seams to a coat to make it actually tiny enough in the waist...it was a child's pattern, too. But I've done it once, and that means it will be easy to do again. I actually find it easier to pin on myself or another living person than to pin on a dummy, since if you're doing the alteration on the person it's intended for, there's no chance that the measurements are off. I guess I'm just used to pinning on myself.
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I always need help when pinning on myself. C:
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I don't have anyone to help me, so I've just adapted. I'll figure out how much it needs to be shortened or taken in, pinch it, put in a guide pin, do them all, and try it on with the pins before ever cutting or stitching. Measure twice, cut once.
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As always, measure twice. I've made the mistake of cutting before I was sure before. Terrible idea.
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I can only think of one project that that would benefit, and that's drawstring bags.
The mistake I made on this one was to try to put elastic waist on my bloomers. Silly me didn't think that a Civil War era pattern might not go over my wide hips, even if the elastic waist did. At least this was an easy fix. Open the back seam a few inches, add buttonholes, and make it a lace-up. I love it when these things actually work out nicer.
Now if only this lace would affix itself...Seriously. It took me three days to cut and sew the bloomers, including my fix and much time that I had to rest because of bad wrists, but it's taken me more than twice that to put the stupid lace on...
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Aww, I hate having to re-open a seam. With me, I usually make things without elastic waistbands, like skirts, too big for me and I don't bother going back to fix it unless its absolutely necessary.
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Pretty much everything I've ever made is modified both in size and style. I always have to do two different sizes for the hips/bust and the waist. I also replace pretty much every elastic waist with drawstring. I'm not a big fan of elastic. I'm not making costumes or cosplay. I honestly wear these things on a regular basis, so they have to be comfortable to me, and they have to fit. They also have this other prerequisite of being washable.
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I'd love to make my own clothes sometime. I usually alter ones I have to make them fit me better.
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I don't think I could get dressed without taking in waists, hemming things shorter, tucking pant legs into boots, shortening straps, or things that tie. (Seriously, when you have a tiny waist, things with bows on the back are a godsend because they mean you don't have to sew that shirt.)
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When you have a tiny waist and a big chest, you either buy things for the waist and wear an undershirt for the chest or you buy things that fit the chest and have some kind of tie...in my case, that would be an XS...yes, an XS is gigantic on me. They're usually too long and are always baggy in the stomach area. It's not for nothing that my boyfriend jokes that I'm practically a doll. I wear smaller clothes than my 9-year-old cousin. The only member of my family whose clothes are smaller than mine is in kindergarten.
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I used to have problems with pants and sleeve lengths. They were always too short for me. But now, thankfully, they usually fit me or I get a longer length.
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I have the opposite problem. Even a size 0 petite short is too big in the waist and too long, but I can't wear kids pants because I have hips. In shirts, I have to wear a little girl's 8 for it to fit in the waist and sleeve length. I can't even wear a junior's extra small unless there's some way for the cuffs to keep the extra six inches of sleeve over my wrists.
I'm planning on making two vintage-style sailor dresses when I'm done with my current Lolita project. Perhaps I'll make pants after that if I don't fine another summer pair...not like I need any more navy blue pants...
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I can't wait to see your dresses. :3
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Those won't be done until late spring or early summer, probably. I want to do sleeveless, warm weather dresses, and I live in a pretty cold climate. Basically, I'll be putting a collar on a retro sundress, essentially.
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I've thought of doing that myself. I made a Sailor dress, long sleeved, some time in 2008 and it turned out really nice.
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I mostly wear them in the summer, since it is the traditional time for natuical themes in women's wear. That, and where I live, cotton dresses just aren't warm enough for the rest of the year, even if they have long sleeves. My sewing machine has a bad tension, so I can't sew anything but cotton, cotton/poly, homespuns, or flannel. I can't even think about doing something thick like denim or stretchy, not that either of those would be comfortable to me. I own crinolines, so I'm probably going to do something 1950s style. They suit my figure and the look I'm going for. But I won't even look at patterns for the dress until I finish making my lolita outfit.
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My machine can sew up to, but probably not including, denim. It cans't sew through thick layers or it just stops or the thread breaks.
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You'd want to use heavyweight thread for sewing denim. Regular thread can't take the tension. You also need a heavier weight needle for machine sewing it. Those, I have. In my case, the tension can't handle it. It won't even go forward going through two or three layers of denim, even with the proper needle and therad. Thankfully, I don't wear denim. I could probably do a heavier weight cotton, something like curtain fabric or dress pant fabric, but when I made my coat, I did it by hand. It's easier than dealing with the constant headache of tension problems that it would have caused.
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I don't think my machine actually allows me to change to a heavier needle, since it's a mini model.
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Ah. A mini machine might not, but if your needle breaks, there should be some way to replace it. If there is, there would be some way to switch to a heavier needle. If not, then you're s.o.l. if your regular needle does break. It happened to me once. You only get hit in the face with a broken needle once before you learn what the sound means.
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Yea, it has a certain sized needle I can buy. I've had a needle bend, but not break, so I'm down to one left.
I think my machine uses a 14 and a 90 needle, but I'm not certain.
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My machine is a Singer, albeit an old Singer. If I need to get needles...well, Singer makes their own needles to fit their own machines, and needles don't cost that much. Unfortunately, mine with all the tension problems is past its 25-year warranty. Sewing with an antique isn't the easiest thing, clearly. At least you can still get needles and bobbins. for it.
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Well, at least there's that.
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I do love my old machine....but it's...difficult.
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It's kind of like teaching your cat to play fetch in a rainstorm.
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Well my cat knows how to fetch, but I doubt I could get him to play in a rainstorm. XD
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My boyfriend has two males, both five months old. They're littermates. (They're also getting that special operation tomorrow, so I don't think they'll be too happy with him.) One of them is a lap cat. He'll fetch. He'll try to kill monsters in movies or video games by clawing at the screen. He's super cuddly. His brother is a little less so. My aunt's cat is their mother, and my aunt also owns a male Papilon. The other kitten is convinced he's a dog. He hoardes his treats and growls if his brother goes near his hiding spot. The lap cat even likes to swim in the bathtub. (Which is fortunate, since he's a longhaired cat that tends to get really dirty.)
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Aww that's adorable. Ours hates water but he loves getting in the bathtub for some reason. And he has this weird habit of sleeping on the tv.
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One of my aunt's cats sleeps on top of a grandfather clock, so TV doesn't really surprise me too much. It's probably warm. I'm guessing that it's an older TV, since the newer high-definition TVs aren't wide enough to support a sleeping cat balanced on top.
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Yea it's one of the bigger ones. Don't have the money for an hdtv yet.
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I grew up with one of the older ones...and not a big one either. 19" I think...but I actually like the old ones better. They hurt my eyes less. I don't really watch a lot of TV, but it's kind of important that I don't get a headache while getting my news and weather.
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Yea, but the new HD ones are so pretty. Ours is fairly big. Headaches are annoying when you're trying to watch something. I usually have to stop what I'm doing when I get one cause they can turn pretty bad.
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I'm not a big fan of the HD's. It took six months for my first laptop to grow on me and for the headachees related to that to stop. Plus, I've seen all the History Channel specials I could possibly want. Mostly, I just want my news and weather, which I can get online, so a big TV is kind of a waste to me. When my boyfriend and I move in together, we've already decided that we won't be getting cable, since I only want documentaries, news, and weather, and he doesn't watch TV and only wants movies. He has a giant HD TV as a computer monitor and gaming screen, so we'll probably get Netflix through his XBox. He has a spare, much smaller HD monitor that will be hooked to my laptop. He has a desktop computer, a travel laptop, and an archive laptop. I just have my one laptop. He's 500 miles away, so I got a laptop instead of a desktop so that I can bring it with me on visits, but I'd prefer to have it set up as a desktop with a monitor. He likes a giant screen, but for me, his old one is more than plenty. It's a regular monitor-sized HD. If it's any bigger than that, it becomes painful for both my eyes and neck.
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Yea, I don't know how people can have a TV sized monitor. Seems kinda like a waste to me. Our TV is mostly used for gaming and sometimes TV when something of interest is on.
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My boyfriend uses the same monitor for his computer (and by extension his computer games), his XBox, his Playstation (rather, he would if he ever hooked it up again...it's been stored under his bed for a few years now), and for watching movies (either on his computer or XBox.) Most of what he does on the computer is gaming, keeping in touch with his family (He has a brother haflway across the country, and the rest of his family lives in the same town where I live, 500 miles from where he's stationed.), or checking his airsoft forums. Gaming takes up the majority of his computer time, so he uses a huge monitor and puts up with it for everything else.
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Most of our gaming and movie watching is on our TV. Although a really large monitor would be wonderful for my art but I can manage with what I have.
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