And now here I am in my free sewing lesson.
The free sewing tool is the sewing machine that has the curved line underneath.
While we're here, take note that we have segments sewing and free sewing.
And then again we have the edit sewing tool above that in CLO.
When you see a tool that has the cursor with it and it is similar to a tool without the cursor, that
means the tool with the cursor is the edit version for the main creation tool.
Now, if you notice here, we have pattern pieces that in some places have.
Extra segment points.
So, for example, if I look here at my.
Center front of my.
Hoodie that I have here, I could in fact, sew these together segment to segment if I wanted to.
But free sewing would allow us to not have to worry about this extra segment point.
Now free sewing different than segment sewing rather than two clicks.
It takes four clicks.
You still have to pay attention to the start.
Mark So I'm going to start by clicking on this segment point click and I'm going to hover my cursor
down the center front and note where the start marker is.
It is up towards the top.
I'm going to click at the bottom for a second time.
I'm then going to come over here and click at the center front on the other side.
And as you can see, the dotted lines are telling me this is where my sewing relationship is, is coming
together.
Once I do that, I have fully established that sewing relationship.
If you notice here you have the length measurements.
18 and 18in.
If I use my edit sewing tool and click on that sewing relationship, you will notice that my cursor
displays the measurements.
The first measurement is the difference between the two, which tells me there is no difference.
They perfectly match.
And then the other two measurements are the measurements of the two segments.
So this entire pattern can be sewn together with free sewing.
And again, this is a symmetrical pattern.
So if I again take my free sewing tool and I start on my underarm on my side seam, click once.
Click twice.
Third time.
Fourth time.
My pattern pieces begin to come together.
I can do the same on the sleeve underarm.
The sleeve underarm come up.
Stop at the blue picking point.
Sleeve back.
Sleeve back of the picking point.
And this gives me the option to now look at what I have here.
If you notice those two sewing relationships.
Okay.
If I select them with my edit sewing tool.
These are correct.
Okay, these match perfectly, but there's a small gap.
That's okay with my edit sewing tool.
I can do two things here.
The first thing I can do is if I click anywhere on one of these sewing segments, I can slide this back
and forth.
So if I want to change the position of where this is.
The other thing I can do is I can click on either one of these segment points and drag the end of this.
So I'm going to edit this and drag the ends of this sewing so that they match at the top of the shoulder.
That will ensure that I have the sleeve cap eased into my sleeve opening.
Now you can also free so in the 3D window, but it's a little bit different.
If I come over here and I want to free so my hood together.
Watch what happens when I click here to start.
My cursor is telling me that I have to double click to complete this, which means that when I get to
my second segment point where I want to stop, I have to double click in the 3D window that sets my
first half of my sewing.
I can then go and finish this.
I can finish it here in the 3D window or even come here and finish it in the 2D window.
And you can see I also have the command there to double click to complete.
So you can.
So in the 2D or the 3D window, it's completely up to you.
I like to look in the three D window to see where all of these pieces are coming together.
I also often like to hide my avatar by going into the Avatar display and clicking the first icon here,
which will hide my avatar.
This allows me to see better what is going on with my patterns.
The the sleeve cuff is a good example of how basic sewing in CLO will help you with gathering.
As we can see, the bottom of the sleeve itself is very long, 11in but the cuff.
Is only just only 5.75in in this case.
That's okay.
We would want the sleeve to gather at the cuff.
And I think I would like to turn on simulation.
Not bad.
I'm going to simply rotate here while simulation is on.
You will notice that your cursor turns into a hand.
This means I can actually pull the fabric in CLO to fix the drape of the garment as it's being constructed.
I'm going to then turn off simulation.
As you can see, my pockets fell to the ground.
How can we fix that?
Well, we could use reset.
3D arrangement, but it would reset everything and we don't want to do that.
So I'm going to shift select these two.
Right click and say Reset 3D arrangement.
Now to sew these pockets into place, although I can with my free sewing tool, I can go all the way
around here.
I cannot go all the way around when I when I am on an internal line and a pattern edge.
So I am going to have to sew the internal lines separately.
So if you have started a sewing relationship and it's not going to work at all, you can simply hit
escape on the keyboard to remove it.
I can then go and free.
So the top of the pocket and free.
So the side of the pocket.
Now, if I have if I have started a sewing relationship here and then I come to sew this into place
and I realize that I have done the wrong thing in this case, I have not started in the right place.
On my second part, I should have started here rather than having started here.
Okay, so I don't have to hit escape here to go back so that I can finish this correctly.
I can just hit the delete or backspace key on my keyboard.
My sewing relationship that I started the first half is there.
I can then come here and finish this.
To sew that into place.