Crafting Perfect PDF Print Templates for Your Patterns

Struggling with printing your sewing patterns? Are the edges getting cut off, leaving you with mismatched pieces? It’s a common issue due to printers having varying printable areas, which can make standard PDF templates unsuitable. But there’s a solution, and we’ll guide you through it in this pattern making project.

Tailoring Templates to Your Printer

Learn to create custom PDF print templates that align precisely with your printer’s settings. We’ll take you step by step through the process, ensuring your patterns print out just right, without any unwanted cropping.

Personalise with Professional Branding

It’s not just about practicality; it’s also about presentation. We’ll show you how to infuse your brand into your templates by adding logos and customising page size and layout. Whether for personal use, sharing with peers, or for sale, these details elevate your patterns and pattern making projects to a professional standard. Join us in this Adobe Illustrator journey to transform your pattern making into seamless, branded, and print-ready masterpieces.

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Essentials for Following Along

Before we dive in, you’ll need a torso basic block to keep up with this pattern-making project. We offer two types of torso basic blocks for your selection. Standardised basic blocks are ready for immediate use, allowing you to start drafting right away, though they might not match your measurements perfectly. On the other hand, a bespoke basic block, tailored to your specific measurements, offers a precise fit but requires time to create, as we’ll need 28 of your body measurements. Choose the one that best suits your needs!

Standardized Basic Block

Start pattern making immediately

Visit our partner site, DesignLab.London, for a variety of torso basic blocks available in multiple sizes. These serve as an ideal starting point or base pattern for your pattern-making project. Explore the collection, select your preferred style and size, and download it to proceed with your project.

Bespoke Basic Blocks

Craft a personalised basic block designed for your unique measurements

Looking for a tailor-made torso basic block for this project? You’re in the right place. Construct your personalised basic block in the Lab by providing your measurements. Simply create a profile, input your measurements, and utilise this profile to design a range of basic block styles. You’ll need the torso basic block for this project.

What’s Next?

You’re not done there though! If you want to share it online or print it off at home, you’ll need to add seam allowance and transform it into a PDF sewing pattern. Check out the projects below to find out how.