5 Free Downloads to Create Your Own Clothes

Looking to add a personal touch to your style? Download these 5 free resources to help you create your own clothes effortlessly.

You don't like how second hand clothes smell of their previous owner? You don't like the prize tags attached to high fashion wear? Do you save grandma's clothes in a dusty drawer (and you are ready to break them all apart)? Then you comply with all the prerequisites necessary to become a fashion designer!

Free PDF Sewing Pattern to Make Your Own Bomber Jacket

Your grandma's clothes are save for now, unless she was a biker in her youth! Be careful, stealing that jacket!

Click on this link to find a detailed A4 bomber jacket sewing pattern and introductory article by Lydia Higginson (@lydia_mademywardrobe). At the end of the PDF you’ll also find a glossary and key information. The pattern is unisex and includes UK sizes 6 - 24.

The A4 size can be printed at home on A4 paper or US letter paper... for a dwarf to wear... Well, no! It's actually a similar size to an A4 paper... It's for a normal sized person that will later be folded up into an envelope... I hope your biker grandma laughed at this one!

Free Sewing Guide: How To Sew a Perfect V-Neck

The designers behind the independent Italian tailors Nivule + Pesci Rossi (@nivule_pescirossi), Tania and Novella are all about slow fashion and handcrafting each piece with care...

Why should you care? Don't you know who they are? They made this free PDF just for you, ungrateful readers...! Sorry, I'm a little uptight, perhaps I should let my neck breath a little! Biker grandma, are you there?

Click on this link and you will find an article and the free file in .zip format containing the How to Sew a Perfect V-Neckline Guide by Nivule + Pesci Rossi.

Free Patterns for Making your Own Dress

Okey, first of all let me explain to you what a pattern is... Oh, you already know! And a dress? Do you know what a dress is...? What do I talk about then? My article is going to come out so thin...!

I'm sure you know her as well, but let me write a bit about Juliet Uzor (@julietuzor)! She is a self-taught dressmaker who is passionate about showing others how to make bespoke sewn outfits. I'll let her tell us about her creative journey:

"Never did I think that learning how to sew my own clothes would afford me the sort of freedom I have had since I bought my first sewing machine in 2013. Ever since that year, I have gone ahead to win the popular BBC show: Great British Sewing Bee in April 2019." - Juliet Uzor

Click here to win the Great British Sewing Bee contest! Oh, wait! You have to buy a sewing machine first... and sew with it, too...

Free Download: Pattern Cutting Manual

Reagen Evans (@reagenvarross), a driven and professional womenswear designer and the charitable free manual he gifts us through this article might just be the answer to your prayers (poor things, always praying for charitable downloadables!).

In Reagen's PDF with tightly fitted information you will uncover the detailed step by step process followed to complete your "Flat" pattern. From the basic bodice block to the grain line, the labelling pattern, the seam allowance and the notches... All words you'll need to look up in the manual's definitions chapter!

Free Download: Blouse Patterns

In the hands of a creative, curtains, pillowcases, tea towels, or even tablecloths can be transformed into unique items of clothing. All you need is a vision and some basic sewing skills.

In this article and the free download inside it, Selina Sanders will teach you how to recognize the potential of textiles to create beautiful pieces of clothing. Learn to craft your own puff-sleeve top from scratch by "upcycling" materials that would otherwise be wasted...: "That shirt you are wearing doesn't fit you well! It kind of looks bad on you, actually... What a waste! Give it to me instead!".

Leave your grandparent's clothes be for once, though! At this rate they'll be forced to join a nudist community soon...! And if you don't visit regularly now, how often will you visit then?

Even More Tutorials

I know I'm dealing with tutorial addicts... Why would you be reading past the 5 links I already provided, otherwise? So, here are more Domestika courses that might satiate your thirst for now:

- Join our courses on fashion design
- 10 Fashion Designs Inspired by Iconic Artworks An article by 12caracteres
- 10 Fashion Design Apps to Go from Sketch to Technical Art An article by Lauren du Plessis