Season 1 – Francesca W
Check out Season 1 of our design blog! Each Season we collaborate with a friend, blogger or client one to create a gorgeous custom fitting garment using PatternLab’s made-to-measure basic sewing patterns. They’ll brief us on what they want and we’ll design and create it using PatternLab. We’ll take you through the whole research and design process, blogging an explaining the whole journey from initial idea to finished product.
You’ll learn about the different design stages that we go through such as, briefing a client, collating research, creating mood boards, formulating ideas, fashion design, fashion illustration, print design, print production, pattern making in Adobe Illustrator and finally garment construction.
Bikini cover-up lifestyle shoot on location in Corfu
Although we absolutely loved the High-fashion photoshoot, we always planned to take some lifestyle images of Francesca in her bikini cover-up whilst we were away on holiday. To be fair, there isn't...
S1. EP11. Bikini cover up photoshoot on location in Corfu
In this episode, we take you behind the scenes of our Bikini cover up photoshoot on location in Corfu, Greece. Originally, we were going to create a small lifestyle photoshoot simply using the...
S1. EP10. Pattern Making and Constructing the Long Coat Kimono Bikini Cover-up Sewing Pattern
In this episode, we look at the next garment in our range of bikini cover-up sewing patterns. This time we focus on the Long Coat which is essentially a skinny kimono with a chevron hem, waist tie,...
Updates and extras
Here you can find all of our software updates, extra content and other bits and bobs. Enjoy!
Update! Restrictions for plus size measurements and petite have been lifted
What's new? We have now lifted petite and plus size measurements restrictions for all of our basic sewing patterns. Are you frustrated with our restrictions on petite and plus size measurements? Do you want to experiment with drafting basic blocks that actually fit...
PatternLab updates
We've added some important updates to transform how you draft your basic blocks in the Lab. Check out the full list of changes below. Updates to the Lab It's been a few days since we've added updates to the Lab and thought we'd give you a bit of a run-down on what has...
Basic skirt blocks
Start designing your next project with our brand-new basic skirt blocks. Customise the fit, skirt length, front and back dart positions and even add a yoke. Then choose from a range of different basic waistbands to finish the job. Start designing your next project...
