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Designer
About the Designer
You are a holistic thinker and planner, at least when it comes to sewing. Your biggest motivation is to build a handmade wardrobe that feels right for you. You are thoughtful, intentional, and highly creative. You love to play with color and texture, and use them to craft a story that is meaningful to you. You want to make pieces that work together to express who you are, even as your identity evolves and changes throughout life.
Your Goals
Create a meaningful wardrobe.
Make pieces that can be worn together.
Bring a sense of stability and personal style to what you wear.
Celebrate your individuality.
Your Biggest Challenge
The Process Gap
You have clear priorities and an intentional mindset, but actually designing and creating the wardrobe of your dreams hasn’t been easy. You often feel distracted, or like you can’t quite bring it all together in a coherent way.
You feel you might be lacking in some area of your creative process. Or perhaps you feel like you don’t have a creative process at all!
You Might:
- Have difficulty deciding exactly what to make.
- Be unsure about how to create garments that go together.
- Have difficulty articulating your style, especially as it changes over time.
- Feel challenged by blending your style with the functional requirements your clothing might have (like climate, activities you do, work environment).
Where to Start
To address the Process Gap, the most important thing is just taking some time to think, dream, explore, and plan. Sounds easy enough, right? But actually incorporating design practices into your sewing can feel like quite a hurdle.
Here’s how to get started on that path:
Design Your Wardrobe (or our free planner)
We created a class called Design Your Wardrobe just for creatively-minded sewists like you. This 3-week program is free to all our members, and includes a complete video class along with daily dispatches and exercises to help you develop a small seasonal collection you can sew.
And even if you’re not a member yet, you can still download the fee planner we use within the class. We’ll even send you a slimmed down version of the Design Your Wardrobe class to go with it, so you’ll know how to use it.
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How to continue your adventure
As you begin to create your handmade wardrobe plans using either the Design Your Wardrobe process or the free planner, you’ll find tons of options for things to sew in our pattern catalog. Here are a few classic wardrobe-building patterns that we recommend.
Why we recommend this for you:
A pair of jeans can be a strong foundation in many wardrobes. Make them in classic dark denim, or experiment with colors that suit your style.
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Alternative Options:
Why we recommend this for you:
A classic button up can be worn with just about anything. Make a casual chambray version, a silky and feminine blouse, or keep it a crisp and white classic.
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Why we recommend this for you:
Create a classic lined coat with Francis. Use the bonus version to add a hood!
Resources to Help:
- One pattern, three linings
- A guide to fabrics for coats and jackets
- How to I master heavyweight fabrics?
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Would you like to join us?
If you’re interested in becoming a part of the Seamwork community, we’d love to have you along. We’ll help guide your sewing adventure with patterns, learning, and our amazing community.
Patterns
Choose from over 200 patterns, with two new patterns each month. Build your confidence with easy patterns you can sew in an afternoon, or challenge yourself with a bigger project and a video class. No matter what your experience level is right now, our in-depth instructions will guide you.
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Classes
We like to think of sewing as an adventure. There might be a map, but you get to choose what path you want to take. We’re here to help you discover those paths and support you along the way. We do that with our online classroom, as well as weekly videos, articles, and tutorials. Whatever you want to sew, we’ve got your back.
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Community
You don’t have to go at it alone. The fastest way to grow is to lean on the experience of others. After all, so often we don’t know what we don’t know! Our private community is just for Seamwork members, where you can post projects, track your goals, and ask questions. You’ll always have a place to go for a little advice or to find your cheering section.
Visit the CommunityWhether you're a seasoned sewist or just starting out, Seamwork gives you all the tools and resources you need to succeed:
Unlimited downloads from our library of 250+ patterns, with new patterns added monthly. Many of our patterns are available only to members. Plus, you can filter by difficulty.
Free access to our members-only Design Your Wardrobe Program. Learn to think like a designer and plan an entire wardrobe with this hands-on course. You'll create a moodboard, build a palette, define your look, and plan your projects.
Free on-demand sew-along classes that walk you through every step. Start and stop them anytime. They're comprehensive but not too long so you can spend more time sewing.
Discounts at your favorite indie fabric shops. Save at dozens of beloved online indie fabric shops around the world. The savings alone may pay for your membership.
Feedback, support, and inspiration from the friendly Seamwork community of 20,000+ sewists. You don't have to go it alone. Ask questions, share your creations, and browse more than 5,000 member projects.
Get fast support from our experts. Our pattern makers, designers, and instructors are there to help anytime you get stuck.
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