How-To: Sewing Pattern from Packing Tape

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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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October 1st, 2009

You can make a sewing pattern for anything by covering it with packing tape (after putting a protective layer of plastic bag over it), cutting it off into pieces and tracing onto paper. Instructables user megg shows us how while making a cover for her bike helmet.