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You don't need expensive paper patterns to make your own clothes. Simple clothing is easy to make with just a needle and thread, and a measuring tape.
Clothing to Make Without a Pattern
Websites that will give you guidelines and direction to make your own clothes without paper patterns.
- Patternless Robe
- Even if you don't need a bathrobe, check out the hints on creating necklines.
- Patternless A-line Skirt
- Step by step directions, with photographs.
- The Mary Dress
- A simple, loose-fitting dress made to your own measurements.
- How to sew caftans
- Directions for a patternless caftan.
- The Tangled Web: Garb
- No pattern clothing with a Renaissance look. Directions for a chemise, gathered skirt, gored skirt, and bodice.
- Costuming Through the Centuries
- An SCA page with 'patternless patterns' for everything from from pants and tunic to Elizabethan undergarments. Some are much more complicated than others, and some require homemade patterns, but there is a wealth of information here.
- flamenco skirt (tutorial)
- Make your own flamenco skirt pattern.
- Civil War Skirt
- How to make your own Civil War era skirt.
- Easy Drawers Project
- How to make a pair of shorts out of two pillowcases.
- Paneled Skirt Instructions
- Make a gored (paneled) skirt.
- making petticoats
- A forum discussion with several ideas for making petticoats (or Navaho skirts) without patterns.
- Jacket
- Make a jacket out of a sweatshirt.
- Poncho with no pattern
- A plan for making a patternles poncho out of a fleece blanket.
- Saphonda's gloves
- An easy way to make glamorous lycra gloves
- DawnPages -- Costume Patterns
- Aimed at costumers, this site has instructions for several basic items, including pants and tunics. It also has instructions for a few Elizabethan accessories.
- Easy Cloak
- A simple rectangular cloak.
- whatthecraft?
- WhatTheCraft has craft and sewing tutorials, articles, and resources for all of your diy needs. Check out the tutorials for directions on making or modifying several kinds of clothing.
- Hooded Cape
- Step by step directions, with pictures, to make a hooded cape without a pattern.
- Wrap Skirt
- Directions to make a wrap skirt to your own measurements.
- Free Clothes Patterns
- Huge list of free patterns and pattern free sewing directions. Links to underclothes, skirts, shirts, aprons, kimonos, plus some other odds and ends
- Weekend designer
- A blog with several diy patterns ranging from a simple dirndl skirt and pillows to a somewhat more complicated coat and artistic jacket.
- Handkerchief Skirt
- Directions to make a two-layer, eight pointed 'handkerchief hem' skirt.
Books to Buy
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sewing Illustrated
Includes no-pattern projects and general sewing information.
Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 12/14/2009) 
Patternless Fashions: How to Design and Make Your Own Fashions!: With New Appendices on Sewing for the Beginner!
Amazon Price: (as of 12/14/2009)
Simplicity: Simply the Best Sewing Book
Includes a section on patternless sewing.
Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 12/14/2009)
Bits and Pieces
Just need help with one part of your clothing? Look here for directions you can mix and match to create your own patternless clothing.
- Sleeves
- One of the sleeves (version F) has a patternless option.
- Simplicity Tips & Tricks: One Woman Hem-Marking
- A trick to make your hem come out even.
- One-hour Wide Belt
- "Create this patternless Japanese-inspired wrap with a twist."
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Advice and Inspiration
General helps and ideas for sewing without a pattern.
- Making a Muslin
- How to make a mock-up of your project (traditionally using muslin, though any inexpensive fabric will work) so you don't waste your good fabric on a test run.
- I made a skirt!
- A skirt made without a pattern.
- A reversible cafe-style apron
- An apron made without a pattern.
- Serendipity Gloves
- Felt gloves made out of a sweater.
- You can make puppet costumes!
- Detailed direction to make patternless clothing...for puppets. A lot of this will still work on a larger scale.
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- sunnysumersmile sunnysumersmile Oct 7, 2008 @ 8:16 pm
- Hey this is great! Awesome, easy ideas for everyone!
check out my sewing projects at http://www.squidoo.com/funkyfashion
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- minerva minerva Jul 30, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
- Nice page. I learned about a lot of new resources. Thanks for all your hard work.
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- badmsm badmsm Jan 21, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
- This is wonderful! Love to save $$$ on my sewing and crafts. Keep up the good work, 5 stars for you. :)
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- Martina Martina Feb 9, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
- Your new website is really great. Keep up the good work.
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