Easy Beginner Sewing Projects

[MTPipeliner]

I’m not allowed to touch my wife’s sewing machines, but she has made several things for me that would be easy projects to start with. Most recently she made silnylon meat sacks, and she has made a couple gathered end hammocks.

One of my favorite diy items is a polar fleece sleeping bag liner that my mom made me 25 years ago, it’s just a simple sleeve that is sewn about 3/4 of the way up but it adds quite a bit of warmth to a bag and always feels warm instead of cold like nylon. It would be an easy starter project as well. She also made me a polar fleece jacket about the same time that’s still going strong.

 

[Beendare]

I agree with using a heavier fabric like 1.7 would be great to start with. I started with the 1.1 oz silnylon and there was a lot of frustration when I started due to the fabric being extremely hard to work with.

Yep, Sooo much easier than that siliconized very thin 1.1 oz sil. That stuff is a PITA. Managing that fabric is the hardest part of the project.

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[Billy Goat]

Masks.


Around her several of the church groups are sewing them and donating.

Kinda said as a joke, but it's not really.

 

[FS38]

My wife has 3 sewing machines. I've never used but thought about it. I've got a large piece of silnylon in a box somewhere.

 

[William Hanson (live2hunt)]

Here is a good place to start:

DIY Pullouts, pouches and pockets

I wanted to get a thread started even though I don't have a full walkthrough ready as of yet. First, big thanks to Manosteel and his thread here which inspired me to give this a shot. My thought on starting this thread now was that it would allow me to provide some preliminary info so people...

www.rokslide.com

I also have a build thread on a megatarp style shelter once you get some experience.

If you need help hit me up.

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[William Hanson (live2hunt)]

Here's mine:

Diy megatarp

To give credit where it is due, this is Tim M's design with some minor modifications. I'm probably going add an annex and stove jack as well but haven't yet. Due to the amount of requests I added the plans here:

www.rokslide.com

Read through all the comments because they contain information on the plans too.

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[shotacoffey]

ZPP boxy bags, zipper pouches and tool rolls are what I started on. Ripstop by the roll has some good kits for these projects and they come with video instructions.

 

[trogers449]

Im slowly learning myself but a couple things I have done so far are face masks, adding molle straps to gear, and a few small stuff sacks. Also made a belt from webbing. Im pretty amazed at the repairs I have been able to do also like repairing a worn nylon wallet.


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