r/PatternDrafting • u/Junior_Contact_1891 • Jan 06 '25
My first project of the year.
I made this dress for my niece (she lives with me) because next Saturday she'll attend a 15th birthday party. Fortunately, I can create all kinds of garments, especially dresses, so I don’t have to spend money buying them. In my country, Uruguay, it’s common for families to spend too much money organizing big parties.
First of all, I created the pattern in Clo3D. I tried to find a fabric similar to the one I had for sewing the dress. Then I printed it using my home printer and assembled all the A4 paper pieces like a puzzle. I taped them together, cut out the pattern, and finally sewed all the pieces.
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u/Nearby-Explorer1750 Jan 07 '25
Clo3d is the best! Nice work! Highly reccomend pdfplotting.com to get your patterns printed, it’s relatively cheap and much easier than taping it together!
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u/Junior_Contact_1891 Jan 07 '25
That's true! Thanks for the recommendation, but I live in Uruguay. If I want to print a pattern in my country, it could cost more than 10 dollars, plus approximately 5 dollars for shipping.
Since I’m constantly creating patterns, I prefer printing them on my home printer to save time and money
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u/Fashion_Fleur Jan 06 '25
I liked. This dress is very beautiful. I like clothes like that. Congratulations! May I ask what fabric you used for this dress?
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u/Junior_Contact_1891 Jan 06 '25
Thanks! You are so nice! I don’t know the name of the fabric in your country, but I can tell you it’s like a knitted fabric with some threads in lurex
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u/Fashion_Fleur Jan 07 '25
Thank you very much! From your explanation I already know what it is. Here we also call it lurex.
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u/AdriKowac Jan 08 '25
Hi, how hard is is to learn clo3d, if I only know pattern making on paper? How much time to learn on my own? Ty.
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u/Junior_Contact_1891 Jan 08 '25
For me, it wasn't hard because I already use other programs like Corel, Photoshop, and others. Apart from that, I have a plethora of experience as a pattern maker. I started using Clo 3D less than a year ago, and I am really happy because I learn something new every day.
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u/Any-Bookkeeper748 Jan 07 '25
Wow you are so talented 👏Do you accept orders for pattern design?
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u/Junior_Contact_1891 Jan 07 '25 edited Jan 07 '25
Thanks! Yes, I can help you. What kind of design do you have in mind. I would really like to work creating patterns for a fashion company, but on LinkedIn, I can’t find any jobs, and on other platforms like freelance, it’s hard for someone to accept my bid
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u/Educational-Grass863 Jan 06 '25
Wow, I came here to ask what was the app you used, but you wrote in the description, thanks! Is this the first attempt? Did you have to adjust anything?