Category: Sewing
The Lily Top Gallery
Looking for a bit of Lily inspiration? Check out this gallery of Lily Tops showcasing the full range of sizes from the testing team. There was a wide range of fabrics used, so you can see it in all sorts of colours, patterns, and with and without contrast ruffles. Plenty of variations to get your own ideas flowing!
Continue reading The Lily Top GalleryHow to use the Rosalee dress pattern to make a jersey top!
You can now take your Rosalee sewing pattern and make it into a top using jersey! This means no zip, less fabric, and another way to wear your Rosalee.
Continue reading How to use the Rosalee dress pattern to make a jersey top!Check out the Rosalee Gallery
The Rosalee pattern tester group covered every size in the pattern range using all sorts of different fabrics. Click here to check out their pictures for some amazing inspiration!
PDF Layers: How and why to use them in your PDF Sewing Pattern
If you have a PDF sewing pattern, it might have a handy feature called layers. It saves you ink when printing sewing patterns and makes it easier to see the sizes that actually matter to you.
What is it?
PDF patterns designed with layers allows you to turn the visibility of sizes on and off before printing. This means only the size lines that matter to you will be shown.
How to use it
Open your PDF in Adobe Acrobat. This is the program that lets you access the layers (if the designer has created them). In the small icon menu on the left, you’ll see what looks like a stack of three papers. This is the ‘layers’ icon.
Click on the ‘layers’ icon to open its menu. It will display a list all of the layers you can turn on and off before printing. This will typically be organised by size.
Unselect the sizes you don’t need to print by clicking the eye symbol next to those sizes. Now all you have to do is print and only the sizes left selected will print!
All of the Experimental Space patterns have size layers you can turn on and off. Hopefully, this helps make PDF printing easier for you in the future! If you have any questions you can always get in touch, I would love to help.