Not with the price of fabric around here!
I can get finished garments on clearance for far less than it would cost to buy fabric and a pattern.
(louveciennes , Volvospotter, Thu 10 Nov 2011, 20:22, 3 replies)

If you can sew though, you can buy cheap stuff at charity shops or whatever, and adjust it to fit properly, or make something entirely new out of outsize clothes - used to do that all the time when I was a teenager, had some awesome, unique stuff which cost next to nothing.
(Freakmandu, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 2:58, closed)

This
I made myself a nice dress back in the summer, I didn't bother with a pattern as it was a nice simple strapless, shirred number.
2 rectangles of fabric, some wide ribbon, matching thread and some shirring elastic. Came to about £15.
Week later went to the local factory shop, found a dress in exactly the same style (and much more professionally made), for £9.99.
I save my sewing machine for fancy dress outfits now :)
( user_names_suck, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 16:09, closed)

i didn't so much mean making clothes
as repairing clothes you already have, instead of throwing them out because there's a tiny tear in them
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 20:22, closed)