Welcome to our free sewing patterns! Most are in .pdf form, so
you will need
Acrobat Reader, which is also free (hurray!).
There are NO licensing fees at
all. You can make things using these patterns and sell them. The
only thing we do enforce is that you to NOT do is to sell the patterns
themselves. If you wish to purchase patterns pre printed on large paper,
they will be available soon in the Sewing Mama Boutique.
Please share your creations with us over in
the Runway! If
you have a pattern to share, please read this post on how to contribute, and
thank you very very much!
You can copy and paste a sew along right here. If your sew along requires files, you can attach them. If you'd like to show off your skills you can add a .pdf download. Here is one way:
1. Download the pdf pattern guide, attached here. (the big DOWNLOAD button)
2. Print/make as many tiles as you may need
3. Tape together the tiles. I suggest folding in the margins as opposed to cutting them off as this will help ensure accuracy when scanning each full page later.
4 Arrange your pattern pieces over the tiles in a way that minimizes the amount of paper needed when re-printing.
5. Draw a test square on one of the tiles that is 4" X 4" (10 cm X 10 cm). Be sure to mark it as the test square and what measurements it should be.
6. Trace off your patterns using a spiked-tracing wheel. Mark the actual sewing line if your hand-made patterns already have seam allowance added, and then when you are finished add the seam allowance to the tiles. This helps prevents error.
7. Finish all pieces with necessary seam allowances, using tools like the oh-so-handy clear, plastic ruler and the french curve.
8. Make all necessary markings:
(1) Be sure to mark the grainline, and any where the piece is to be cut on the fold.
(2) Mark whether or not the Seam Allowance is included, and what the seam allowance is.
(3) Mark how many of this piece is to be cut.
(4) If you have given the piece a number, mark that.
(5) Label it with your name (if you're the designer- you should give yourself credit!) and the name of the pattern.
9. Mark points where the pattern tiles should join together (arrows). If your pieces include the seam allowance but don't show the sewing lines, it might help to mark the points where pieces will join .
10. Disassemble the pattern, keeping the pages in an order that you can understand- like bottom row-left to right, second row- left to right, etc. .
***At this point, if you don't have Photoshop or similar program you can send the scans to mtellianoATgmailDOTc om and I can do the rest for you, so long as they are all numbered and easy to layout.***
11. Scan the tile with the Test Square on it by importing it into Photoshop at 300 dpi, in Black & white, for Print Quality.
12. Select 1/4" (6 mm) around the entire tile, and COPY.
13. Create a new document L U.S. Letter size or A4 in CMYK Color. Paste image.
14.To make sure the tile was scanned straight, drag guidelines by clicking in the rulers on the side, and align with tile sides. If it is not straight, Click Edit, Transform, and Rotate and rotate the tile until it is straight.
15. Send to print. Center Image- do not scale/fit to print. If prompted with a "some areas will be clipped. . ." message, press proceed.
16.Check measurements of the test square and the tile. If it printed properly, scan the rest of the tiles and save each page in order, as a jpeg. If it did not print properly, try again with different scanning options.
***At this point, if you don't have Adobe Acrobat you can send the file to mtellianoATgmailDOTc om and I can do the rest for you***
17. Open Adobe Acrobat and choose the option to create a PDF from multiple files.
18. Select all pages of tiles, in order, as the PDF will be made according the order the files are added. Save PDF and print a test.
19. Layout pieces. Hopefully you have just successfully created a print-at-home pattern PDF to share with the members of SewingMamas!
Sharon