Recently moved to a new place and haven't found a good spot for a permanent setup yet.
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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)
Ah, now that first comment makes a lot more sense.
As for your second problem, did you ever hear of freesewing.org? It's an open source parametrized pattern generator. (can be very frustrating though if you spend 2 days on a buttoned shirt to find that you took a wrong measurement and your shoulders are too tight now) but with your background this could be the way to go. Goes very well with the projector too.
Never heard of this and now it's my new interest for the week!
What's really nice from my POV is that they have the github repo there for self hosting, but also got a public instance run by the initiator for all those who - like me - are too stupid to set up their own infrastructure and rather want to spend time on their sewing machine than in front of a display