Out of fabrics made from natural fibers (cotton, linen, silk, and wool), you can choose woven fabrics to start sewing clothing garments.
Among woven fabrics, you can narrow your choice to few ones that you like to sew clothes with.
You can choose low GSM (Gram per Square Meter) or light fabrics for top, blouses, shirts, and dresses.
Light cotton woven fabrics includes voile, lawn, broadcloth, poplin, quilting cotton or printed fabrics, double gauze, flannel, chambray…
You can choose few medium weight fabrics for bottom and jackets.
Medium GSM woven fabrics good for pants, skirts, and jackets include linen and cotton (corduroy, twill, medium weight denim…).
If you are new to sewing clothes you can pick a few fabrics to sew with at the start. As an adult with a lot of responsibilities, it can be challenging to find enough time to spend on learning a new skill. Therefore, to speed up your learning process, you can pick few easy fabrics to sew with so that you focus on learning how to sew and latter once you master it enough, you can try different fabric types to learn how to handle them.
How to define waistline when sewing boxy tops?
For tops with no darts, no button, no zipper, you can cut the pattern on bias to make the top drapey as woven fabric is not stretchy and holds its weight. With the waist length be approximately the same as the bust, to allow the top to go through the head, shoulder, and bust easily, cutting the pattern in bias allow the top to drape instead of been boxy.
Additionally, you can add features around the waist such as waist tie.
If you cut the top straight, you could rush the waist or shirr it to mold it around the body at the waist a little as well.
Conclusion: What fabric to use for sewing clothes?
The video explains as a beginner sewer how we pick fabrics to sew clothes:
Fiber: Linen, Cotton.
Fabric weave (woven, knit): woven
Woven fabrics for tops: broadcloth, poplin, quilting cotton, flannel.
Woven fabric for pants, skirts, and jackets: Linen, corduroy, twill.
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