Design your own clothes

In Fashion Design Apps for Beginners Part 1, Doctor T shares a step by step tutorial with the basics of sketching clothing designs on her custom MyBodyModel fashion croquis with Adobe Fresco.

If you love to sew your own clothes, you’ve definitely come across and used commercial sewing patterns at some point, but did you know that those patterns originate from blocks or slopers? And those blocks and slopers are created using a technique called pattern drafting. Pattern drafting is a pattern making process using the measurements of different body areas to create basic patterns – or blueprints if you like – of essential pattern blocks – this is often referred to as a pattern set!

When sewing clothes knowing how to take measurements accurately will result in clothes that fit right. This post tells you what, where and how to measure.

12 steps to consider when designing your clothing line.

Pattern making is a fun activity for anyone who likes to make their own clothes, but it can be daunting to start with if you've never learned about the pattern making process before.

A beginners guide for how to cut and sew clothes. This breaks down how clothing is made and how easy the step by step process is!

Handmade clothing is good. Clothes that look homemade-not so much. Find out the 10 sewing mistakes that will definitely give your clothes a homemade look.

Have you been thinking of sewing your own self sewn wardrobe this year? SAVE yourself from some of the frustrations I encountered. In this post I share key ah-has, takeaways, pitfalls and lessons I learned this year as I sewed all of my own clothing.