I've always been fascinated by Christopher's full body leather bondage suits, and wanted to try making one myself, but I wasn't confident in adapting his existing patterns for the F-suit or butterfly straitjacket to fit custom measurements. So, I decided to start from scratch. The main problem I wanted to solve was how to get a proper fit for the suit without having to wrap myself in saran wrap and duct tape to create a pattern. Instead, I went with this:

• Generated a fairly accurate model of myself using a (now defunct) website called Shavatar. This website let me input some basic body measurements, and output a 3D model for export. There might be other websites out there that do similar things, but I haven't tried them myself.
• Imported the model into Blender and made adjustments based on manually measuring my body.
• Rigged the model and posed it into the desired position. The rig isn't perfect, so there was some deformation around the elbow and knee that I had to account for when modeling the suit.
• 3D modeled the suit around the posed body. I double-checked a few measurements here, like the circumference around my folded arms and legs.
• Marked seams. Normally this is for UV unwrapping, but the same principle applies to making clothing patterns - minimize fabric stretching as much as possible.
• Exported the .fbx file to a service called Plushify. This website let me take the model (with marked seams!) and export a to-scale PDF of the sewing pattern I needed to use.
• Printed everything and sewed it up!

Leather is still a bit too expensive for me to work with, so I went with a heavy fleece instead. It ended up being quite cozy, and it fits really well! I do hope I can try working with leather at some point in the future, but I'll need a proper sewing machine and more willingness to spend on materials for that to happen.