260+ free dress patterns, diy projects, and sewing tutorials for women. Sew women's maxi dresses, evening dresses, knit dresses, sundresses, and more, plus simple and easy dresses for the beginner. This list of free PDF sewing patterns is now updated for 2018, with a. in front of all the updates & new additions for the year. Each pattern company/blog shared which was their most downloaded free sewing pattern; this is a great way to try a new designer and branch out! New – I have a separate post for patterns published in 2019!
Butterick Sewing Patterns
Fittingly Sew is primarily a program for people who want to draft their own patterns, and it has some very powerful tools to start you off, with a set of basic sloper patterns and templates which you can use as a starting point for your original creations.
You can also draft your own patterns starting from rectangular blocks, just as you would with pencil, paper and ruler. The on-screen editing and the use of the Clipboard makes the construction process accurate and simple to do.
Unlike most pattern making software of its price range, Fittingly Sew's emphasis is on freedom to design rather than on ready made garments. The built-in pattern and body blocks in Fittingly Sew are all women's, but you can adapt any of them to use for men's or children's clothes, or even for dolls.
New in version 2 is the ability to trace pattern pieces from background images, which may be photos of existing garments, scans of patterns from other sources, or even screen captures of other pattern design software. (More)