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BE YOUR own designer

Basic blocks are a simple template used by pattern cutters to create their own designs from. They don’t usually have seam allowances and are a starting point for sewers to get creative and introduce their own design style to garments!

Anicka Design

www.anicka.design

Anna Hatáková is a programmer, who studied at the Czech Technical University decided to connect fashion and programming and produces various pattern calculators and enjoys automatic pattern drafting based on an individuals measurements.

BasicPatternBlock

www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BasicPatternBlock

Asimenia is based in Thessaloniki in Greece and has designed a wide selection of pdf blocks, slopers and basic templates.

Bootstrap Fashion

www.bootstrapfashion.com

Yuliya Raquel, a DIY sewer-designer and her co-founder Don Straub created this pattern

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