Sew Patterner guides
How to use Sew Patterner, part by part. The same guides are in the app: press F1 for help with whatever you are working on.
- Getting started
Choose a design, your size, and print the pattern
- Designs and style options
The garments and projects, and how to change them
- Taking your measurements
What each measurement is and how to take it
- Sizes, nested sizes and units
Standard sizes, made to measure, several sizes on one pattern, cm or inches
- Reading the pattern
Cutting and sewing lines, grainlines, folds, notches, darts and labels
- Seam and hem allowances
Included or not, and how wide
- Printing the pattern
Home printer, copy shop or plotter, and putting the pages together
- Projector mode
Cut straight from a projected pattern, without printing
- Cutting layout and fabric amounts
How the pieces fit on the fabric, and how much to buy
- Instructions and materials
The sewing steps, the notions, and the sketch
- Your own pieces
Add rectangles, circles and shapes you draw to any pattern
- Save, load, share and export
Keep projects in this browser, or share them as links and files
- Keyboard shortcuts
Undo, help and moving the projection
- Glossary
Sewing and pattern words
- Accessibility
Using Sew Patterner with a keyboard, a screen reader or high contrast