hello there, I am Michelle from Barbados. I have been sewing as a hobby (with patterns) since I was around 12 years old. I am 37 now. Over time I have learned how to alter existing patterns or mash up 2 or 3 patterns to make new designs. However, I have never worked with pattern-making software so I am eager to learn. 
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Hello and welcome to the Seamly forum, @ellehcim_creations
Oh, wow! You’re on an amazing journey. I’ve been on it for over 5 years now, and I’m still loving it. We’re a friendly crowd on here and are always willing to help, so please don’t hesitate to ask if you get stuck.
Hello! I’m new here.
My name is Rebecca, I work for a company that makes stretch fabric event decor. Imagine colorful triangles hanging in the air to provide shade for festival-goers at Coachella, or sublimation-printed signage or step and repeat logo walls for photography backdrops. My job is to create the patterns for these products and program them for our big CNC cutting machine, along with instructions for the production staff. At work I use Sketchup and PatternSmith, which is the proprietary program for the CNC machine.
I do love garment drafting and sewing, even though I haven’t been working in that industry. I taught myself through books and trial and error. I’ve made a lot of jackets, dresses, and pants. I designed and marketed a baby carrier almost 20 years ago that did pretty well for a couple of years. I’ve always done that sort of work by hand with pencil and paper, or directly on fabric (I prefer yarn-dyed gingham to muslin for that), so I am very interested to see if I can translate those skills to this software.
My hope is to be able to use this to create printable patterns, both for my own personal use and potentially for sale. I’ll probably start with home goods, things like aprons, tea cozies, and quilts. I think it would be a lot of fun to work up some fabric designs to have printed, and use those for coordinated furnishings.
It’s nice to meet you all!
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Welcome Rebecca…
Yes… that sounds like fun to design some printed fabrics to use with patterns designed in Seamly. Would love to see what you come up with. I own a costume shop and we recently did a some jackets for a production of “Catch me if you can”, where the fabric was custom printed with large sized various denominations of US bills.
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Those are amazing! So much fun!
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Thanks. Even after 40+ years of cutting costumes, this job proved to be a challenge. Especially cutting and sewing the curved center back seams. One of my long time employees did a great job putting the coats together.
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Hello everyone!
My name is GreenCactus! I started making my own clothing at the start of the pandemic using patterns from the store and printable patterns. I’ve had a lot of practice sewing clothes together, making small adjustments to patterns and feel comfortable enough to make drippy clothing gifts for my friends and family. So now I want to get good at making patterns for different shapes and sizes.
I hope to learn a lot from you all. Thanks for reading!
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Hi @GreenCactus, 
Welcome to the wonderful world of garment construction! Seamly can be a bit confusing when you’re just starting out, so feel free to ask dumb questions, there’s a very good chance that they’re actually very good questions! & if you find a pertinent thread that’s been quiet for a while, but you have an additional comment or question on it, feel free to revive it.
Happy drafting!
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Welcome.
You’ve come to the right place. This is precisely what Seamly2D is designed to do… that is, making a pattern that you can easily (more or less) resize to fit different sets of measurements. I say more or less as with any drafted pattern there is a range of sizes that a pattern will work for given the body shape it was drafted for. For example a jacket drafted for a young mens size will not grade (scale) very well to a stout or corpulent body.
At any rate if you have a question or problem feel free to ask - someone will help.
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Ahh I see, good to know… I’ll have to play around with different patterns to see what works and what doesn’t. I’m going to start by making a vest pattern for myself. I found some cool floral fabric that I’d like to turn into a vest and shorts.
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Hi eyeryone! I hope you are having a nice day!! I’m Lia & I’m new here. I am a dress- and patternmaker from Germany. I learned pattern construction on paper at Müller & Sohn! Now I want to digitalize my patterns to make them available in different sizes online. So I found my way here!
I’ve already created some basic blocks and everything works fine so far. Now, as I want to create different sizes and some values are fixed while others are variables with min. & max. values… I’m starting to have some trouble.
I was wondering if anyone here works with Müller & Sohn and if there is a place in this forum to help translate the formulas used in Müller & Sohn? Could you be so kind to point me in the right direction please?
Thanks in advance!! And I’m looking forward to exchange with all of you!
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Hello and welcome to the Seamly2D forum, @LiaRu. We are always happy to help and I’m sure that there are some Muller & Sohn users who will be happy to help you, or someone else may be able to help you.
Just start a new topic with the category Patterns, Patternmaking and optional tag Howto. The title can be something like Muller & Sohn Variables. Give a description of what it is that you are doing, and the line of the instruction that you need to add to your pattern.
Otherwise, you can do a search of the forum for Muller & Sohn and see what comes up… If there’s a solution for you in a previous topic.
I hope this helps and happy patternmaking.
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Hi Lia, I’m also new here, from Germany and I also work with Mueller&Sohn. Maybe I can help you. What exactly doesn’t work?
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Hallo zusammen,
ich bin aus Deutschland, arbeite seit 5 Jahren mit seamly und habe mit Müller und Sohn gelernt. Mittlerweile ein Sammelsurium mit eigenen Erfahrungen, Müller und Sohn und anderen Medien.
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Hello all together!
I would like to introduce myself after I have already reported bugs
I’m Alex (she/her), live in Germany and have been sewing a lot for the last 3 few years. Last year I started learning pattern making more seriously and started working with seamly. Besides “normal” clothes I also work with latex, make clothes out of latex and also work with liquid latex as a media artist.
I have been working as a user experience designer for agencies and software companies for over 8 years. In this context I got in contact with Sue to improve user guidance and visual design of Seamly and to make it maybe even better for the users. I look forward to meeting everyone here!
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Wow! @AlexR, and welcome. I’d love to see some photos of what you do. It sounds really interesting. Thank you for sharing.
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Hi all,
picking this thread up and using the opportunity to introduce myself:
I am Christoph (he/him), living in Germany and I am a software developer / IT manager and open source enthusiast, and I got into contact with Seamly2D via a friend who sews a lot.
I like working with cross-platform code, I have mac, linux and windows here and I maintain a cross-platform Jitsi Desktop app: GitHub - jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron: Jitsi Meet desktop application powered by
Here I got the opportunity to work together with Letterus (Johannes Brakensiek) · GitHub to revive the linux version of seamly2d, bring it to Flathub to ease installaton (Flathub—An app store and build service for Linux) and next on my list is improving the mac version (eg. easier installing) and improving the German translation of Seamly2D.
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