Made-to-measure sewing patterns

Your body is not a standard size.

Commercial patterns are drafted for a single body: 5'5", B cup. Everyone alters. VertPatron drafts the pattern to your measurements, ready to project or print, in seconds.

My first pattern, free

Free · No card · Your measurements stay yours

The VertPatron studio: measurements on the left, the drafted pattern on the right

The studio, as it is today.

Aldrich methodTaught in fashion schools

Seams verifiedChecked before every export

5 × 5 cm squareSo you can check the scale

A4 · A0 · projectorCut the way you like

§ 01

Everyone alters. Nobody says so.

We read the forums. The same sentence has come back for twenty years, from beginners and seasoned sewists alike.

I sewed the top following directions to a T even for the muslin and the top is HUGE.
PatternReview · “Patterns NEVER fit”

The only person they fit right out of the envelope is the fit model.
PatternReview · same thread

I suffered through making too-large garments for years before I realized what the problem was.
PatternReview · same thread

Verbatim, from a 597,000-member forum. We changed nothing.

The workaround the community invented: draft a sloper to your own measurements, then sew to finished measurements rather than to a size. It is slow, technical, and reserved for those who learned patternmaking. VertPatron does it for you.

A sewing atelier table: a paper skirt pattern pinned onto green linen, with tailor shears, pins and a tape measure

The last step: pin the pattern, then cut.

Sheet 1 of 1 · Drafted for a real body

Watch it redraft.

Move the chest measurement. The piece is not stretched: each stop is its own draft, computed from the Aldrich block.

Chest circumference 96 cm

Every stop on the slider is a redrafted pattern, not a stretched picture.

Piece: Front, cut on fold
Scale: 1:1
Chest: 96 cm
Method: Aldrich
Seams: Verified
SVG: —

Projector output, actual colours.

§ 02

Three things, done properly.

01

Accurate

Drafted with the Aldrich method, the reference taught in fashion schools. Every seam is checked: two edges that must be sewn together have the same length, or the software tells you.

02

Simple

Your measurements, or a standard size to adjust. A preview that moves while you tune it. Your profile carries over to every garment.

03

Ready to cut

Projector, A0 at the copyshop, or A4 to assemble at home, with registration marks and the overlap band. Cutting plan and assembly guide included.

§ 03

We give you the means to check.

Every pattern ships with a 5 × 5 cm square. Print it, measure it. If it isn't 5 cm, your printer is lying, not the pattern: set the scale back to 100%.

The draft rests on Metric Pattern Cutting by Winifred Aldrich, the method taught in fashion schools. And before every export, an automatic check compares the length of the seams that must be sewn together.

This is not a generated picture

The draft is computed, not drawn: patternmaking mathematics applied to your measurements. There is no pretty invented image being sold to you as a pattern that cannot be sewn.

Test square · Printed at 100%

5 × 5 cm

On screen it isn't 5 cm. On your printer, it is.

§ 04

A full set, not just an outline.

01 / A4

A4 to assemble

Numbered tiles, a shaded overlap band and registration triangles. No more jigsaw.

02 / PROJ

Projector

One single sheet, dark or light background, to scale. Project onto the fabric and cut.

03 / A0

A0 copyshop

The large-format file, ready to send to your print shop.

04 / PLAN

Cutting plan

The layout on your fabric width, the estimated yardage, and the illustrated assembly guide.

Open beta

Your first pattern, to your measurements, free.

We are looking for sewists to sew a toile and tell us whether it hangs right. Open the studio: your first two patterns are on us, and you tell us how they hung.

Open the studio

Free to start · No card · Two patterns on the house