Recently moved to a new place and haven't found a good spot for a permanent setup yet.
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I've never thought about this and now I'm about to seriously consider sewing as a regular activity.
It's a really nice hobby.
It's mostly not that demanding, and super easy to learn. You see what you make with your own hands as a result (which is nice) and in the long run can replace most of your wardrobe with stuff that is exactly your style.
I make all of my underwear myself (boxers are a super simple pattern, 2h a piece), have self-made joggers, work outfits with trousers and shirts, high vis cycling jacket with merino lining in a softshell windbreaker, pullovers, backpacks...
And you can listen to podcasts and audiobooks while you're at it, and it's a hobby that needs little usage of screens (working in front of a display all day I want to spend time doing sth offline)
I actually know a good deal about sewing, my mother was a pretty well known dress maker in the Midwest renfair scene so I was raised to know all the tricks. I'm even restoring a singer rocketeer to be my main machine. I just don't have a lot of room and can't really find patterns for stuff I'd wear. The projector idea fixes one of those problems though!
Can clothes be reverse-engineered for patterns? Unstitched and traced? Is that a common practice or are there other methods
Made trousers that way and will make a copy of my SIL's favorite onesie the same way this spring (it's seen too much love, so time for a new one)