We sew without patterns: interesting ideas, recommendations and features

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

All girls must have thought about making their own clothes more than once. In their dreams, this process proceeds without a hitch, and the result is stunning wardrobe items that conquer everyone around with their beauty and elegance. However, in practice, this case most often turns into a complete failure.

For most beginner dressmakers, the greatest difficulty is the construction of a technical drawing of a product and patterns, according to which its elements will be created. But in fact, you can sew easily and without patterns or with the help of elementary schemes, which even first-graders can create. In this article, we will just talk about what even inexperienced couturiers can make with their own hands. So, today we sew simple dresses, skirts, pants and bags without a pattern. Our article proposes the manufacture of ten things that will appeal to any fashionista and probably will notgathering dust in the closet idle!

Long sundress

Starting our hit parade is a very beautiful maxi sundress made of fine jersey. In this outfit, you can safely go to the beach or take a walk to the store, and expectant mothers should also pay attention to this model. With its simple and loose fit, it will suit all girls!

This dress is sewn without a pattern - it will be replaced by a regular T-shirt, suitable in size. The amount of fabric for a sundress depends on how long the finished product will be. In the store, you should ask to make a cut equal to the length of the dress, plus 5 cm for processing sections. The panel is folded in half so that the fabric stretches in width, and not in length, then it is necessary to put a T-shirt in its upper part and circle its contour in the neckline and armholes with chalk. The side lines are extended to the very bottom, while the sundress is made a little flared.

First you need to stitch the side seams, then the sundress is sewn along the shoulder line, the cutout sections are processed in front, behind and in the armholes. Lastly, the hem of the product is hemmed. This is how easy and simple we sew a very beautiful sundress without patterns. Every girl will be able to make it.

Dress with spaghetti straps

What else can you make with your own hands without a pattern? We sew a bag-dress on shoulder straps from a wide ribbon! There are two versions of this model. The first photo shows a gray dress, which is sewn from a rectangular piece of fabric.

Directly on the fabric you need to draw a rectangle, the length of which will be equal to the width of the product plus a few centimeters for the seams and freedom of fitting. As a starting point, you need to take either the volume of the hips, or the volume of the chest (whichever is larger). The width of the rectangle is the length of the dress plus 5 cm for the hem and 10 cm for the drawstring. A ribbon will be threaded through it, draping the fabric into beautiful folds and playing the role of straps. Recall that we sew this dress without patterns. First, the fabric is cut off at the side, then the hem is processed, and lastly, the upper part of the product is formed with a double hem.

The second version of the dress is a little more difficult to sew. The top picture shows a step-by-step master class on how to make it. This dress has an armhole. To form it, you can, as for the sundress from the previous section, use a T-shirt, along which you will need to trace the contours of the top of the product. First, the armhole is processed, then the top of the front and back are already hemmed. Only after that the parts are sewn together, and the hem is enclosed.

Beach dress

Now we will learn how to sew easily and simply without patterns a dress for the beach or sauna. It can also be worn at home. This model has a semi-fitted silhouette, so it is better to use stretchy cotton fabrics for sewing - knitwear or terry on a knitted basis.

As you can see from the picture, our dress isjust a rectangular piece of fabric with cutouts for the arms on both sides. The cut must be hemmed around the perimeter with a sewing machine, it is also recommended to process the places through which the hands are threaded. This will prevent the fabric from fraying and make the product neater.

Short skirt with elastic waistband

Skirts are indispensable items in any women's wardrobe. They can be long or short, tight or loose, straight or flared - there is simply an unlimited number of models, each of which is good in its own way. Some of them are real works of tailoring art, but there are skirts among them that can be sewn easily and simply without patterns. For example, such a model as in the following photo.

Its length can be adjusted depending on the height of the girl and the type of her figure. Our proposed option is a skirt that reaches the top of the knee. For it, you will need to prepare a piece of fabric about 65 cm long. The length of the finished product is 45 cm.

This skirt is sewn very quickly and easily. First you need to cut out a new thing, taking a piece of fabric that will be equal in width to the volume of the hips plus 5 cm for seams and freedom of fitting, and in height - the desired length of the skirt plus 10 cm.

First of all, the hem of the product is processed with a double hem. It is better to enclose at least 1.5-2.5 cm, so the bottom of the skirt will look more presentable. Next, you need to choose the length of the skirt and postpone this distance from the folded cut. Another 5 cm is measured from this line, the excess fabric is cut off, and the product blankironed along the hem line of the belt and hemmed. Then you need to make a side seam, but do not sew up the belt so that you can insert an elastic band there. It is best to overcast the side seams with an overlock or zigzag so that they do not crumble while wearing the skirt. When the elastic is inserted into the belt, the opening must be sewn with a sewing machine or by hand.

Shirt blouse

Next, we will make a beautiful elongated blouse, and this time we will also do without patterns. We sew a product from two ready-made things - an old shirt and a thick knitted T-shirt or T-shirt. In addition, we need a finishing tape for edging the neckline and decorating the connecting seam.

You need to cut off the top of the shirt - it will no longer be useful. The back and front are tapered, while the buttoned shelves go back, and the back panel turns into the front of the blouse.

From a T-shirt you need to make a bodice with a round neckline and a back with a deep V-neck. The armholes are lined and stitched. The neck is processed by turning. Then you need to align the top and bottom of the blouse, sweep them together and sew on a sewing machine. Finishing tape is adjusted over the stitching on the front side of the product.

Hare trousers

Now we sew trendy harem pants without a pattern with our own hands. You can do yoga, dance, flaunt on the beach or in the country in them - this model of trousers does not hinder movement at all, because they are very free and spacious.

They consist of two parts - the trousers themselves, which are made from a rectangular piece of fabric, and a belt. The material needs to be taken thin, flowing and well draped - it can be viscose, cotton fabric with frequent interweaving of threads, t-shirt knitwear, etc. For trousers, you will need a cut 140 cm wide and 120 cm long. For girls with a height of about 160- 165 cm pants will reach (at the lowest point) to the very ankles. In addition, you need to prepare a piece of fabric 64 x 20 cm for the belt and a wide elastic band.

Such trousers are sewn extremely simply:

• cuts and edges of the fabric to enclose;
• fold the material in half and in the upper part in the center, where the halves meet, mark a place for the belt (32 cm);
• lay lines on both sides to the marks;
• belt detail folded lengthwise face to face and sew;
• baste the belt to the trousers, stitch;
• Insert an elastic band into the belt and sew up the open cut with a hidden seam.

Everything! So quickly and without patterns we sew cool harem pants.

Home pants

The production of the following item is demonstrated on the basis of children's pajamas, but this does not mean that such pants cannot be sewn for an adult. And it can be not only wide pajama pants, but also tight leggings. Their creation will also occur without patterns and without patterns. We just sew on some finished thing, which will become a template.

Clothes need to be turned inside out and folded leg to leg,straighten all the wrinkles well. Then the "pattern" is placed on the canvas, folded in half, and circled with tailor's chalk. When cutting trousers, it is necessary to consider in which direction the fabric stretches! It is necessary to cut out two such parts, which are then sewn together. The place of the fabric fold is the future lateral outer seams, and the sections indicated by the dotted line are the lines along which the inner (step) seam, the central and back seams, and the crotch are sewn. The belt can be made with an elastic band or with a drawstring.

Retro top

Another elementary thing in tailoring is a top with ties. This wardrobe item was especially popular in the 60s and 70s in the West, but now it is regaining its former glory. This top pairs well with high-rise skinny jeans or a flared skirt.

It consists of a rectangular piece of fabric and four ties that are sewn into its corners. The width of the product should be approximately equal to the width of the shoulders. The length of the material is two lengths of the product plus 5-6 cm for the hem. Before sewing the top, you need to prepare two narrow braids that are tied at the back, and cut out two wide ties that cross from back to front. Their length should be enough not only for the girth of the body, but also for the formation of a beautiful bow. How to sew a top can be seen in the picture in the article.

Shopping bag

Finally, we will show how you can make two types of bags with your own hands. We also sew them without patterns, since all measurements and calculations can be applied immediately to the fabric. The first bag is a shopping bagThe sack is rectangular and lined, so you need to prepare not only the outer fabric for it, but also the inner lining.

After cutting two panels of the required size, handles are sewn to the outside. Then side seams are made in both parts. Between themselves, the parts are connected so that the seams are inside the bag. To do this, turn the parts inside out, stitch them together in a circle, leaving a small hole unsewn, enough to turn the bag back inside out. The unsewn section is then folded over by hand. To prevent the lining from slipping, you can give a line around the circumference of the bag at a distance of about two to three centimeters from the outer edge. The bag can be left as it is, but you can even form a bottom in it before sewing the two parts together. To do this, cut the corners, as shown in the figure.

Beach bag

Our last craft is a fabric bag, for which it still does not hurt to prepare a pattern. But we assure you that its construction will not be difficult. It is undesirable to make drawings by eye directly on the fabric, since the product consists of four parts, which will subsequently need to be combined with each other. In general, the progress of work is clear from the picture, we will only draw the attention of readers to how the handles are sewn together. To make the halves nicely connected, one of them needs to be slightly narrowed.

We hope that the proposed master classes will appeal to readers, and they will certainly bring them to life.