I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio.

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio where we share practical ideas for building a creative process so you can sew with intention and joy.

So Haley's out on maternity leave with her new baby, so I have a special guest today.

I'm talking to Robin, our pattern development manager here at Seamwork.

She's been pattern making with us here at Seamwork for more than seven years now.

And prior to that, Robin worked in the ready-to-wear apparel industry as a pattern maker

with companies like Patagonia, Ugg, and Hannah Anderson.

Robin's going to share all her secrets for developing patterns from Haley's initial design sketch to the finished

PDF patterns you download each month. She'll talk about the process for developing patterns

digitally and then fitting them on live models, and she'll explain how the patterns are graded

and how they become the final product that you sew with at home.

And stay tuned for the next episode, and Robin is going to bust five common fitting myths.

Robin, thank you so much for being here.

Oh, it's my pleasure. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, this is going to be fun. All right, so we are talking about how patterns get made today.

So let's just go through it, and we can start at the very beginning.

So what's the first step in the process of transforming what starts as a designer's sketch

into a usable pattern? What's the first step? So the first step, we look through our back

catalog and see what we've done in the past that has similar style lines or ease, whether

it's a woven or knit fabric. And we find something that's close, not super close, but that has

the same details so that we don't have to reinvent the wheel. It's helpful if we don't have to

start over from scratch because we've already got pieces and we know the construction and that kind of thing.

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