Creating Cutting Diagrams

In this video, I’ll show you how to create cutting diagrams to include in your patterns. You can download the template here: Important: To download…

Calculating Yardage Requirements

In this video, I’ll show you how to use these handy-dandy templates to calculate fabric yardage requirements for your customers. It is a bit of…

Anatomy of a Pattern

In this video, I’ll give you a tour of a great PDF sewing pattern to show you exactly what pieces you should include in yours.…

Tiling for At-Home Printing

Tiling pattern pieces for at-home PDF printing is a somewhat elusive process, but it’s super duper easy! To tile your pieces, you will create an…

Notches, Title Blocks & Grade Lines

You’re getting so close to having your pattern pieces ready for that last tiling before sending to testers! But first, we need to mark up…

Creating a Seam Allowance Action

Finally, I’ll show you in this video how to create a nifty action to speed up the seam allowance addition/subtraction process.

Stroke Method

In this video, I’ll show you my preferred method for adding/subtracting seam allowance. Again, which one you use is completely up to you and what…

Offset Path Method

At this point in the pattern design process, you might want to print out and test sew your pattern to check the fit and proportions.…

Grading with Seam Allowances Included

At this point, you’re ready to add seam allowances to all your pieces! Yahoo!!!! OR, if you’re feeling confident with grading AFTER adding seam allowances,…

Troubleshooting the Blend Tool

Occasionally, you will get unexpected and undesirable (!!) results like this when using the Blend tool: Don’t worry – this is usually easily remedied, and…

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