Built by Wendy’s designed a clothing line just for you, with shirts, dresses and jackets made exactly to your specifications and measurements. The only catch is, you‘ll be the one sewing.

Wendy’s selling the patterns for all her clothes, so if you know how to sew, this is kind of a jackpot. Of course, the designs are adorable - comfy mini dresses and go-anywhere tops that have the same feel as Wendy’s own line.

We don’t have to tell you that picking your own fabric, colors, prints/stripes, means totally flattering clothes. Plus, each package includes instructions so you can change up designs with Peter Pan collars, rows of buttons, or whatever you want to make your perfect piece.

At $14.99, even with the fabric you’ll have to buy, this is about the same cost as any rayon number you’ll pick up at H&M, not to mention you’ll be able to reuse and remake it as many times as you want. Economic and cute - we like it.

—HAYLEY PHELAN

P.S. if you don’t know how to sew, or you need a refresher - Wendy also sells a basic sewing how-to book called Sew-U.

According to the Daily Telegraph, sales of sewing machines are way up, which means more people must be sewing their own clothes.

They cite the culture of fast fashion as inciting a backlash and causing people to want to customize their own clothes and make sure it wasn’t sewn in sweatshop.

We’ve had dreams of being super seamstresses long before Season 1 of Project Runway. The idea of making clothes exactly the way we want it - rather than scanning a zillion stores and sites in search of a dress design that popped into our head - and of it fitting us exactly how we want is enough to make us consider taking our own sewing machine down from its high place in the closet, before we remember that we don’t even remember how to thread the machine, let alone sew straight lines.

We’ve been considering taking a sewing class or two to get things started, but there are just a lot of other factors - time (it seems like it’s a lot faster to shop rather than design a dress, pick out the fabric, actually make the dress, deal with mending the dress that we probably didn’t sew correctly, etc), quality (after all, what the hell do we know about designing clothes?), and, oh yeah, skill.

So we’re wondering, do any of you sew your own clothes? And if so, how did you get started?

(Editor’s Note: If you make a compelling enough of an argument, you might be able to convince Britt and Natalie to sew their own dresses for an upcoming event. DIY ball gowns? Only if you’re inspiring…)

We’ve always had fantasies of making our own clothes. We could whip up little dresses in time for a party and finally have the perfect pair of jeans, all while claiming to people that we only wear couture.

But we can barely handle sewing lost buttons onto our coat without filling up with fear and dread. So, we’re seeking professional help – from Brooklyn boutique Flirt’s Home Ec sewing classes (held at 303 3rd Avenue between Carroll and 1st Street.)

They’ll teach you embroidery, block printing, appliqué, and there’s even a three-session workshop on how to make a skirt. The classes are very reasonably priced – about $40 -$60 per session – and you’re sure to save money on having your clothes repaired and tailored.

The class comes just in time for tonight’s Project Runway, but if you don’t think you’ll ever be able to sew a dress out of corn husks, maybe you’ll get enough sewing skills to make finger puppets of the Harry Potter characters.

—ALISON COOL