That feel when they tell you to make it 2 sizes smaller because they swear they are going to lose weight, and dont.

That feel when some penniless, foreign, 12 year old wants you to build the most complex and difficult costume you've ever made for as little money as possible.

That feel when you tell them you can't and so they ask how you made the whole thing instead.

That feel when working with new material for the first time and it's doing everything within its power to piss you off because it fucking can.

>sewing lamb plushes
>husband texts you at work
>Hey, can you make 20 of these, so I can sell them in bulk for $50?
>50/20 = $2.50 per lamb.
>text him back, with a HELL NO.

Is sewing and tailoring difficult?
Lurker hurr who might want to get into it. I pick up pretty fast, it's just getting started that is the issue

>I have how much time to get ready? Piece of cake!
>Never finish.

Seriously. Fuck sewing.

That feel when commissioner changes their mind after you already bought the fabric.

Learned my lesson from that.

>that feel when you sewed the sleeve inside out again.
>and lock stitched it.
Time for at least half an hour with the seam ripper.

That feel when you've been sewing and sewing and sewing and then you realize your sewing machine has been set to base stitch the entire time.

That feel when those awkward corners that you have to iron down to make the seams prettier cause you to burn the tips of your fingers.

That feel when ten thousand pricks when putting in/taking out pins.

>>5545105
>that feel when you sew on the floor
>back ache
>that feel when you stab the pins into your carpet when you remove them while sewing.
>that feel when you dont notice where your sitting down when it's time to cut more fabric
Did that the other night. It hurt quiet a bit.

I hate pins, they prick me while sewing, pinning, and apparently now while cutting.

>>5545055
SOML

>Finish Embroidery on the end of the sleeve
>Realize you did it on the wrong side.

>>5545116
Oh gosh oh gosh that sounds so painful!!

That feel when you don't have enough room for your huge amount of fabric so to keep everything you've already cut out separate you have to drape it over everything ;;

>>5545116
>have nowhere to cut fabric
>remove carpet, vacuum floor, commence laying
>three hours squatting on the floor waddling around go cut out pieces of fabric from different positions

>Modifying basic Finn hat pattern to make Fionna hat.
>Uses wires for ears
>Can't follow the pattern instructions for the lining as wire is in the way.
>Gone midnight, night before con, give up and leave it unlined.
>Have an epiphany at 4:30am on how to do the lining. Leaving at 6am and too tired to sew.

>That feel when your friend begs you to finish a costume for her because her other friend who was going to do it is a talentless hack
>It's for a con in a few months so what the hell, might as well help her.
>That feel when you give her a list of things to buy thinking it will be easy and a free way to improve your own sewing skills.
>That fucking feel when she returns with DARK PINK fabric for an Ichigo Cosplay
>Dark Pink Fabric for Ichigo from Tokyo Mew Mew

She even brought a reference picture to the fabric store and somehow came out with that. I should have just let Hack-chan do it, but she "doesn't need to draft patterns" she just "cuts things that look right."

On a related note, does anyone know how to lighten fabric evenly? Is it possible? That fabric she gave me is pretty bad.

>That feel when you get a PM on coscom regarding a wig you listed.
>Buyer waffles for several days but no problem, it's been listed for a while w/ no serious inquiries.
>Buyer then asks if you can make a full costume for them, you look and decide yes, and give them a quote.
>"Your price is way too much. I can get this on eBay for $60".
>Ok whatevs, enjoy your POS "closest to your size" costume made in a sweatshop then.
>Pays for wig + standard airmail shipping, ship wig next day. Buyer didn't want to pay for tracking etc.
>Buyer flips the fuck out after 4 calendar days and threatens to open Paypal dispute because the wig didn't arrive. Accusations of being a thief and whore flung at me.
>Explain that international shipping can take 1-2 weeks because of customs.
>Sure enough, 11 calendar days later, wig arrives, customer loves it but no apologies came for calling me a thief and a whore.

Seriously, buyers on coscom, what are you smoking? Calm the fuck down. International shipping always takes longer.

Do any of you guys have a coscom/email to receive commissions?

>Plan a cosplay
>Lay awake in bed at night planning how to sew it/what patterns to get/use.
>Finally get fabric
>Sewing machine jam
>Ugly thread knots everywhere.
>Seam Ripper in the sunset on its way to Mexico for all you know
>Why, Sewing Machine? Why?
MFW

>>5545208
Don't you know? You should have a teleporter by now.

>That feel when you bend a sewing needle on a pin.
>That feel when you replace it with one you luckily have on hand.
>that feel when that one bend and breaks on a pin.

Seriously, fuck pins.

>>5545228
I lost my ripper in the middle of my last cosplay project. It resulted in so much extra work carefully using my huge shears to cut threads since my tiny clipping scissors traveled with my sister to her dorm room.

>I know that feel all to well.

>>5545172
Baw, don't hate on it just because you can't visualize things without using a pattern. Some people are really good at it actually, so just because your friend sucks doesn't mean no one does it right. Granted it's definitely a skill, and not everyone can do it...

Your friends sound shitty, good luck.

>that feel when someone asks you for a homestuck cosplay commission and you can't do it because of hussie's ban on all 3d commissions

>>5545254
Actually you can do commissions on Homestuck, but they have to be discreet. you can't advertise that you make Troll horns or Zodiac shirts in the corresponding colors.

>>5545266
yeah, but this request was for more complex sewn items -- things that i'd want to be credited for if someone were to wear them, which would defeat the purpose of doing the actual transaction discreetly.

>>5545248
I'm more hating on the fact that she thinks she is good at this when she really, really sucks at it. The friend who was asking me to help also brought another "cosplay" from Hack-chan for me to fix. It was literally a cylinder with straps and 6 inches too small for her. Thankfully she brought Hack-chan's scraps too, so there was plenty of fabric to fix it up a little bit. The only reason she irks me so much is that we both started cosplaying together in 2007, and while she's been spewing out 3-4 cosplays per year and I've only been doing 1-2, mine have improved exponentially, while hers have stayed pretty much the same if not worse.

>>5545238
>Don't you know? You should have a teleporter by now.
Hoshit son, I was unaware! TEACH ME YOUR WAYS!

>Have to cut/fold something longer than 2-3 yards

The floors in my house are always disgusting, so cutting/folding my 8 yard petticoats are always a pain. My table can only hold so much.

Also, stop losing your seam rippers. Buy a tool box or something.

>>5545410
I hardly ever lose seam rippers while working on a project because I stocked up on extras after breaking one mid project. The only other seam ripper I had at the time was a heavy duty one that was like trying to rip out stitches with a butter knife. Learned my lesson.

captcha >ineffectual tslyHa

>>5544112
That fucking feel, bro.
>Get into cosplaying with weeaboo friend
>I'm cosplaying San from Mononoke, she is Kuranai from Naruto
>Spend weeks making mask (which eventually shattered, FUCK AIR DRYING CLAY), purchase expensive white fur, spend ages artfully sewing, ect.
>Night before con, she still hasn't finished her costume. I offer help.
>She has handstitched everything with these awkward as fuck stitches that I could pull out so easily.
>It's a bedsheet that's been cut with a blunt pair of scissors or her teeth or something because it's fraying like hell and she doesn't realise she could just you know...fold it on over and stitch it...but with her fucked up hand stitching, it would probably be a wreck...
>The black lines are hand painted with some acrylic paint. The least she could've done is gotten some tape and kept the lines STRAIGHT and neat.
>The red arm piece is a strange cut off from an old pair of red track pants. It's dangling by the stupid freakin' hand stitches and is probably gonna fall off at any second.
>I realise I'm going to be hanging out with this incompetent retard the whole con and she's telling everyone I made her costume for her (I just reattached the "arm" to the costume a little better so it wouldn't fall off.
>I forever detest handstitching.