Long video showing the very basics of starting with Blender for making mesh clothes in Second Life
Teaches: basics of blender, weight painting, uv mapping, making alphas
Links Required: http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/older-versions/
http://blog.machinimatrix.org/avastar/mesh/[CHANGED-TO] http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.machinimatrix.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F01%2FSLCollada-1-111.py&ei=IIkNUaq6Hoqb0QXhioGgBQ&usg=AFQjCNER91MzPtO2PFgyPb33kWjxznXOFQ&bvm=bv.41867550,d.d2k&cad=rja
http://blog.machinimatrix.org/bone-weight-copy-in-blender-2-52-6/
http://dominodesigns.info
http://archive3d.net/?a=download&id=dfd82d1a#
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Clothing_Tutorials
how to import your avatar body to get something to cut up and work on inside this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJIrQw-RMd0&list=PL11D6E99BB51A2BB2&index=1