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If you're not familiar with Freesewing, our Freesewing essentials guide will bring you up to speed.
Before you start
Basics
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This website not only drafts patterns, you can also fork drafts.
To fork a draft is to take its settings and preload them as defaults for your own draft.
Forking is especially useful for complex patterns with many options.
Correct measurements are crucial. Learn how and where to measure.
If you're new(ish) to sewing, we have explained everything you need to know to make our patterns.
A step by step tutorial that walks you through the process of what it takes to design a made-to-measure pattern.
We've grouped a number of basic things that you should get before you take a deeper dive in our pattern design tutorial.
Our designer theme renders your pattern with all the point data included. Handy while designing.
You can use freesewing to underpin your pattern business, we even encourage it.
Freesewing core comes with hand-crafted API documentation that will (hopefully) answer all your questions.
For frontend developers, we have documentation on our data API and the freesewing.org frontend.
If you're new to freesewing, this overview of key concepts will get you up to speed in no time.
Our developer theme alows you to drill down into the objects and methods used to generate your draft.
Never guess how to call a method again, thanks to this handy cheat sheet to the core API.
We've bundled the most essential information for new contributors, including ways to contribute and where to get help or report a problem. Also check out our code of conduct and list of open issues.
Other noteworthy links are our install instructions, and our infrastructure and repositories pages.
Our repository overview and infrastructure page shows how we collaborate to build, test, and deploy freesewing.
Our entire website is open source. We have documentation on how to add or update information on it, or suggest changes or improvements.
The freesewing community on Gitter is the best place to ask questions, meet other freesewers, or just hang out and share a laugh.
Try the blog, you might like it
Documentation can get pretty dry. Our blog might be a good palate cleanser.
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