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Measuring Curves

I’ve tried all sorts of methods for measuring curves on sewing patterns. I thought I’d test them all out, since I just got a curve measuring wheel and I wanted to see how it compared to other methods. I tried

Posted in Patternmaking, Sewing

Break the 5/8” Habit

Years ago, when I first learned about using narrower seam allowances like the garment industry does, it didn’t work for me. I’d sit down at my sewing machine and without thinking, I would sew 5/8″ from the edge, forgetting I’d

Posted in Patternmaking, Sewing

Creating Tiled PDFs in Inkscape

Do you want to make professional looking print-at-home PDF patterns? How about doing it with free software? There are many ways to create a tiled PDF pattern. Here’s how I do it in Inkscape, which is a free vector graphics program.

Posted in Inkscape, Patternmaking

Beanie Boobies

So, my brother recently signed up as a subscriber to my blog, just in time for a post all about my breasts. Yeah, you might want to skip reading this one, bro. I’ve never been able to buy a bra

Posted in Bra-making, Patternmaking, Sewing

Jeans for Me!

I’ve had denim sitting in my stash for years waiting to be made into jeans, but I kept putting off making them because I didn’t know how to get the fit right. I finally did it. It took making four

Posted in Patternmaking, Sewing

My First Tried and True Pattern!

Looking back over what I sewed in 2014, I counted 26 items for other family members and 2 for me. The 2 for me are actually just wearable muslins for my jeans that I sewed up in gray canvas (which

Posted in Patternmaking

A New Free Half-Scale Dress

I added another free dress on Craftsy to fit my DIY paper mache or stuffed half-scale dress forms, just in time for the new year.

Posted in Half-Scale Patternmaking and Sewing, Patternmaking, Sewing

Free Quarter Scale Sloper Patterns

I made quarter scale versions of a few of the half scale sloper/basic block patterns I developed to fit my paper and stuffed half scale dress forms. I’m putting the quarter scale patterns out there for free so you can

Posted in Half-Scale Patternmaking and Sewing, Patternmaking

Half Scale Sloper Patterns

I designed a set of sloper/basic block patterns to fit the DIY dress forms I have on Craftsy and Etsy. I designed them to fit the paper version of the dress form. If you made the stuffed dress form version,

Posted in Half-Scale Patternmaking and Sewing, Patternmaking

Tips for Pattern Drafting with Inkscape

Amy at Cloth Habit wrote an awesome post about pattern drafting for the hobbyist with Adobe Illustrator. If Illustrator is out of your budget, you can try pattern drafting using Inkscape, which is free vector graphics software that can be

Posted in Inkscape, Patternmaking
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