In this section, you’ll find a variety of free online interactive tutorials and calculators designed to help you create your own sewing patterns with ease. These tools simplify pattern drafting by calculating dimensions based on your unique body measurements and specific requirements—no manual calculations needed, no more mistakes doing the math!
Simply fill in the form for your selected sewing pattern tutorial and click “Design tutorial.” The results provide you with a custom basic block pattern-drafting tutorial tailored to your body measurements. Use these basic blocks to create simple, stylish garments, or get creative by adding elements like pleats, flounces, bias tapes, or style lines. Whether you’re crafting straightforward designs or intricate garments, these tools make it easy to bring your sewing projects to life with precision and ease.
Most pattern drafting tutorials can be downloaded as PDF documents with step-by-step instructions and illustrated images. For now, those are: basic skirt sloper, basic sleeve sloper , basic bodice sloper , basic pants sloper, any type of circle skirt, and bubble skirt.
The basic skirt sloper can now also be downloaded as a custom, FULL-SIZE PDF pattern.
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Drafting your own sewing patterns: basic blocks
Learn to draft a basic bodice block (bodice sloper) based on your measurements. Enter the measurements into the user-friendly interactive tutorial. Get approximate fabric consumption for the bodice and includes the measurements you have taken (and also measurements, that need to be calculated) in the detailed step-by-step pattern drafting tutorial, which you can download as a single pdf document.
Simple instructions on drawing the actual pattern are available. Moreover, if you use my interactive sleeve tutorial, all the necessary dimensions: both measured and calculated will be included in the step-by-step tutorial. You can easily download the easy-to-follow tutorial with your body measurements onto your computer.
A basic skirt (pencil skirt) is one of the very basic sewing patterns you can use to draft your own new fancy skirt patterns. This basic skirt pattern interactive tutorial will compute two versions of the basic skirt pattern: with one dart or two darts. Simple instructions on drawing the actual pattern are also available. As with other interactive tutorials, you can gain the custom-tailored tutorial as a PDF document.
One of the essential slopers you may consider drafting is your own basic pants sloper. Easy-to-follow instructions on drawing the actual pattern are available. If you use my pants interactive pattern tutorial, all the dimensions you need for drawing the pattern with ease will be included in the tutorial.
Sewing patterns for various types of skirts
Use this calculator to get circle skirt pattern dimensions based on your body measurements for any type of circle skirt (quarter, half, three-quarter, full, one and a half, and double circle skirt). Fabric consumption and instructions on drafting the real-size pattern are included. Download all of this in a single PDF document.
Calculate sewing pattern dimensions for gathered circle skirts made of 6, 8, 10 or 12 panels. Fabric consumption for two different pattern arrangements on the fabric is also computed. A step-by-step easy tutorial on drafting the life-size pattern is also available. Easily get all of this information in a single pdf document.
Speed up your garment decorating with the following pattern designers
Flounces
Flounces, sometimes also called circle gathers, are decorative elements made from a circle-shaped piece of fabric. The designer will compute the radiuses of the circles you need to draw to apply the flounces to the selected part of your garment.
Box pleats
A box pleat is a piece of fabric folded in such a way that a box-like shape is created. Box pleats are a series of multiple fabric pleats. They add fullness to a garment or part of a garment. The designer computes the amount of fabric you need for a specific box pleat width and depth.
Knife pleats
Knife pleats are a series of multiple pleats folded into one direction: to the right or left. They add fullness to a garment or part of a garment. You can use them to make a pleated skirt or simply as decoration for different clothing – for example skirt or dress hems, or sleeve cuffs. The designer computes the amount of fabric you need for a specific knife pleat width and depth.