Stardew Valley: A Complete Guide To Making Clothes

Prior to starting a new farm in Stardew Valley, you will be given the opportunity to pick your outfit. This is a tough decision since you will be wearing these clothes for a while, but eventually, you will be able to craft and wear new outfits. In this guide, we're going to go over everything you need to know about making clothes.

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These clothes can be made from the sewing machine, which sits in Emily and Haley's house.Unfortunately, you will not be able to use the sewing machine right away. First, let's go over the steps to unlocking the sewing machine.

Updated May 31, 2024 by Jacqueline Zalace: There are a bit too many clothing options available in Stardew Valley. As such, we've updated this guide with a table showing all the best clothing options for you to choose from! Now, you can head to the sewing machine in Emily's house to make the most fashionable garments.

How To Use The Sewing Machine In Emily And Haley's House

There are two different ways to use a sewing machine in Stardew Valley. First, we'll look at Emily's, and then we'll look at the one you can get for your own farm.

To unlock Emily's sewing machine, you will need at least one cloth in your inventory. Cloth can be created by putting wool in a loom. You can get the wool needed to make cloth from sheep (barn) or rabbits (coop).

Both of these animals require the highest barn and coop upgrade, so before you can make wool, you will need to upgrade these buildings.

To make a loom, you will need to be at least Farming level seven and have the following materials.

• 60x Wood
• 30x Fiber
• 1x Pine Tar

Now that you have your cloth, wait until the next day and leave your farmhouse between 6 am and 11 am. If it is not raining, Emily will approach you, talking about her sewing machine. Once the cutscene ends, you can start using the sewing machine right away.

Cloth can also be made by placing Soggy Newspaper in the Recycling Machine, and as a potential drop from Mummies in Skull Cavern.

The sewing machine is located in Emily and Haley's house in the smaller front room. You can use it whenever you like; nobody has to be home. As long as you visit when the house is unlocked between 9 am and 8 pm, you can make as many garments as you want.

How To Get Your Own Sewing Machine To Place Anywhere

By completing a special order for Emily, you will also be able to obtain your very own sewing machine.

After completing the order "Rock Rejuvenation," Emily will give you a sewing machine that you can place on your farm. To complete this quest, you need to gather the following materials.

All of these gems can be found in the mines that are north of Pelican Town, but we will include the specific location of their associated node to help you find them a bit easier.

Gem Node Type

Location

Ruby

Floors 80 and above

Topaz

Any floor

Emerald

Floors 80 and above Once you make it to the bottom of the Mines, Jade nodes will appear on every floor

Jade

Floor 40 and above Once you make it to the bottom of the Mines, Jade nodes will appear on every floor

Amethyst

Any floor

Each of these gems can also randomly appear in gem nodes, which spawn on every floor of the Mines.

Your personal sewing machine can be placed anywhere in your house or shed and can be used at any time. It's a great addition to your farm if you love to make clothes, but don't want to travel to Emily and Haley's house.

How To Use The Sewing Machine

​​​To use the sewing machine, place a piece of cloth on the left side. Above, you can see an empty square with the cloth outline. This is where you will put the cloth.

Next, place an item on the right side, above the power button. This is the spool of the sewing machine, where the thread would usually go. On the right panel, you will see a clothing shape appear.

If you're making new clothes, this will display with a question mark with the outline of the clothing. If you are making something already known, you will see a picture of the clothing. Pressing the power button will turn the machine on, giving you the clothing.

One cloth will create one piece of clothing, so if you want to make multiple outfits, be sure to bring additional cloth with you.

Types Of Clothing

There are four different types of clothing in Stardew Valley; hats, shirts, pants, and shoes. With the sewing machine, you will only be able to craft hats, shirts, and pants. Footwear cannot be crafted because it functions as a combat item. However, you can transfer stats across footwear. We've covered that down below.

There are a lot of clothes in Stardew Valley, and a majority of the clothes that you make will be shirts. There is a range of unique shirts in the game, but many objects will create a shirt that is simply called 'shirt' and has the color of the item used.

There are considerably fewer pants and hats. Both of these pieces of clothing can be made at the sewing machine and still require just one cloth and an item. Below, you can check out the five pant styles.

Pant Style

Appearance

Normal-Length

Shorts

Dress Bottoms

Skirts

Genie Pants

​​​​​​Lastly, we have hats. There is a variety of hats, with some being a bit more silly than others. Oftentimes,you will get a normal hat, but for stranger items, you will get a mask. For example, a blobfish added to a sewing machine will give you a blobfish mask.

Clothes cannot be sold! If you use an expensive item to make clothing, you will have to make peace with the fact that it's now essentially gone.

The Best Clothes To Make

There are countless clothing options that you can make, so we're here to give you some of the best options out there. These pieces of clothing mentioned are based on uniqueness, appearance, and overall rareness.

Clothing

Item(s) Required

Green Tunic (similar to Link's outfit in The Legend of Zelda)

Ancient Sword

Bikini Top

Rainbow Shell

Sailor Shirt

There are several fish that you can use, but the easiest to obtain are Clams and Mussels

Bridal Shirt

Ornamental Fan

Bobo Shirt

Strange Doll (Yellow)

Arcane Shirt (this looks like the Wizard's clothing)

Void Essence

Witch Hat

Golden Pumpkin

Hair Bone

Prehistoric Tibia

Hot Pink Shirt

Poi

Belted Coat

Autumn's Bounty

Slime Shirt

Petrified Slime

Mayoral Suspenders

Vegetable Medley

Denim Jacket

Field Snack

Hoodie

Normal Geode (Grey), Frozen Geode (Blue), or Magma Geode (Red)

Once you have enough cloth, try experimenting to see what new clothing you can make. If you don't like a piece of clothing, you can just tuck it away in a dresser (which is purchased from Robin).

How To Dye Clothes

Some clothes will be dyeable as well. When reading the description of clothes, they may say 'dyeable.' To dye a piece of clothing, add it back to the sewing machine in the spot where the cloth would go. Next, you will want to add another item to the spot above the power button.

On the right panel, you will see what the new color of the clothing will be, so you can test out a few different dyes from your inventory. You will be able to place pretty much any item in the top right spot.

Some clothes can be dyed multiple times to get a stronger color. If you use a red item on a white shirt, it may take a few different tries to get it really red.

How To Use Dye Pots

In addition to using the sewing machine to dye clothes, you can use dye pots. These pots are found on the right side of the sewing room in Emily's house.

You can only use dye pots to dye the clothing that you are currently wearing.

Interacting with the pots will bring up a menu, displaying your inventory and six different pots. The pots will be color-coded, and you will need to add an item to a pot with the associated color. For example, a cherry would be placed in the red dye pot.

Fill all six dye pots, and you will be given dye, which will grant you the ability to change an item's color on the color slider.

Below, you can find each dye pot color and what types of items are accepted. Items in your inventory that can be placed have a little circle showing what color dye they make.

Color

Item Examples

Red

Apples

Lava Eels

Magma Geodes

Orange

Glazed Yams

Clay

Hardwood

Yellow

Oil

Sap

Parsnips

Green

Hops

Seaweed

Duck's Feathers

Blue

Sardines

Aquamarine

Blueberries

Purple

Amethyst

Iridium Ore

Sweet Peas

Transferring Footwear Stats

Finally, we have boots and shoes. Although you can't create or dye footwear, you can use the sewing machine to transfer stats between different footwear.

For example, the sneakers will boost your defense by one, and the Genie shoes boost your defense by one and immunity by six. With this method, you can put the stats of footwear that you don't like onto those that you do.

To begin, place the footwear with the stats that you want in the upper right square. Then, place the item you want to give the stats to in the bottom left square. Powering on the machine will transfer stats to the item on the left, and your new shoes will display as custom-tailored.

This will consume the item on the right side, so only do this if you definitely don't want this item anymore.

With the ability to transfer stats between your footwear, you no longer have to walk around in brightly colored shoes that do not match your outfit.

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