How to Take Body Measurements When Sewing Your Own Clothes
Sewing is one of the most fun machinery you can invest as a hobby and by time cultivating a creative lifestyle and pursuing sewing can gift you many new additional items to your home, and to your closet. This is an ancient craft and once you learn the basic of the art of sewing you will be free to do what ever you want. Sounds great? Sewing is freedom. You can venture on a tailoring journey and make whole new clothes to yourself, to your loving pets or family members, create fun unusual home decors or little accessories, even fabric leftover and textile scraps can be utilised and be turned to key rings, book notes, scrunchies small objects like mini attachable belt bags or cosmetic bags.
Measurements are important for every seamstresses therefore everyone whoever is sewing at home and is a hobby dressmaker should follow the tips taken from pros regardless the source of the fashion clothes patterns bought/downloaded from. They are designed by professionals, although since every body is different there are always small adjustments and fixes to be made and the below guide will help you to make notes to be accurate and watch out for a few tips.
Details such as proper fitting helps your unique, home made clothes be measure to made. Custom made elements can really elevates any garments as they are tailored and fine tuned to each squares and curves on our body. Although if you bend more towards refashion clothes DIY projects and planning to transform your already bought clothes with simple sewing hacks, the ones are hanging lifeless in your wardrobe and by spicing them up would give them plenty of opportunity to bring them back in circulation, it can be somewhat easier as the majority of the clothes are constructed already. All you need to do is to re-check the portions and make sure what ever changes and fixes or ruffles you create would be fitting to your piece.
Any type of fashion DIY clothes idea can use a bit of measurement even if it as an up-cycling project you are working on, you can either make marks whilst standing in front of the mirror or once they lay flat.
It is also a great technique for complete beginners to clone your existing clothes, although these would work for fashion items with not much tailoring however for jumpers, straight fits blouses and t-shirt work perfectly fine. Whatever you create any handmade clothes and accessories make a perfect and fun, unique, one of a kind designed piece to your closet.
Let’s gather together all the places you should take measurement from before you sew, read the below guidelines which have been written from a practical point of view.
Bust or Chest Area
Wrap the flexible measuring tape around the fullest part of the chest, the measuring tape should go all around under the armpits back to front. Make sure whilst you are doing it the tape is parallel to the ground all the way around for an accurate measurement.
Waist and Hips
Measure this with the same manner as the above, taking the measuring tape around your natural waste line, below your rib cage in the line of your belly button is should be around where you body bends side to side.
And finally your hip measurement is at the fullest part of your hip, not necessarily at your hip bone
Neck to Waist Length
Important measurement for accuracy for the length. Start at the nape of the neck and run your finger along your spine and take the measurements at the waist line.
Shoulder
Measure the place between the tip of your shoulder and the base of your neck. It is also useful to take a note from the back from shoulder to shoulder to get the length.
These are the most basic data you may need to double check the pattern and perhaps it is also advisable to get one of your own garment from your closet and take measurements form that one alongside and compare the both to see an idea.
Additionally it is always good to take measurements around your neckline, your fullest part of your bicep and the fullest part of your thigh. This just to make sure clothes won’t be too snuggly and too tight which can turn out incredibly uncomfortable if the textile doesn’t have any flexibility.
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