Season 2 – Made-to-measure Leggings
Fashion Illustration in Adobe Illustrator – Designing a Range of Leggings
Digital Fashion illustration in Adobe Illustrator is a fantastic tool to have and something that...
S2. EP2. Leggings Fashion Illustrations – Transforming hand-drawn sketches into digital fashion illustrations
In this episode we take a closer look at the hand-drawn fashion sketches that we created in...
SE 2. EP 1. Fashion Design Leggings: Image Inspiration & Initial Fashion Sketches.
To celebrate the release of our latest made-to-measure pattern, the basic leggings block, we've...
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...
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...
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...
S1. EP9. Some Exciting News – Indigo Robe Fabric & Bikini Cover-ups!
We've got some fantastic news! We've finally got the gorgeous Lily print fabric back from Fashion...
S1. EP8. The Final Toile of Francesca’s Indigo Robe
In this episode, we take one more look at Francesca's original Indigo Robe pattern and make the...
S1. EP7. Creating An Initial Pattern & Toile – Indigo Robe
In this episode, we update our existing mood boards and fashion illustrations to display the...
S1. EP6. Creating textile prints for fashion design
In this tutorial, we use the source imagery (lilies and palm fronds) created in the last episode, S1. EP5. to design and build a series of professional, full-repeat, digital prints in Adobe Photoshop.
S1. EP5. Creating source imagery for floral print design
In this episode, we show you how to create your very own source imagery or stock imagery, allowing...
S1. EP4. Digital fashion illustration in Adobe Illustrator
In this episode, we demonstrate how to transform our hand-drawn fashion illustrations and sketches...
S1. EP3. Fashion design process using fashion templates from Pret-a-Template
In this episode, we start to sketch out a range of garment designs based on our clients brief and...
S1. EP2 – Creating fashion mood boards in Adobe Illustrator
What are Mood Boards? We define mood boards as an arrangement of images, materials, pieces of...
S1. EP1 – The fundamentals of fashion design – Understanding a brief
Hey guys and welcome to the first episode of our brand new video blog! In this blog, we aim to...
S1. EP0 – Video blog teaser
Each month we’re going to collaborate with a friend, blogger or loved one to create a gorgeous custom fitting garment. 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.
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...
