Count tarps before anything else. Every suit takes four, and a tarp cannot be crafted at all. The calculator's full view turns the tarps and kits into 620 cloth, but no bench makes tarp or rope out of it: tarps come from crates, barrels and the recycler. The same box feeds your planter boxes, so decide early who gets them.
The kits are the second wait. The suit sits at Level 2, while crafting your own sewing kits needs a Level 3 bench, so the first pairs come from road barrels and recycled clothes. Set two aside for every suit you plan.
The blueprint is cheap, and a suit pulled from a crate is the usual way to it at the research table. After that, look after the suits you own. A worn one goes to the repair bench, not the recycler, which hands back only half the tarps.
