Once you have printed them out try to keep them in order as this will make your life a lot easier. If it does, you’re good to print the rest of the pages. You can check you’re printing to the right scale by printing off the test page first – usually the first or second page of your pattern. If you don’t do this your pattern will be printed at the wrong size, which will mean eventually the sizing will be wrong on your finished garment. So when you print you need to uncheck any “fit to page” boxes, or select “actual size”.

Once you have opened the file, you will find that the pattern has been broken down into A4 size pieces that can be printed out and stuck together. The most important thing to get right here is the scaling. (If you don’t have this software you can download it for free here.) Then you can right click on the file and choose Open With… Adobe Acrobat Reader. (You will find out why this is important in the next step.) So always go to your Downloads folder and copy and paste the file into a new folder (in your Documents for example). We have found that printing settings for browsers can be quite limited, and often the correct printing options do not exist. We do not want to look at the file in our browser. When you click on this button, the file will open, but it will open in your browser. On our computers, when you download something, a linked button appears at the bottom of our browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc) screen. The first thing that you want to do after you have downloaded your PDF pattern is save it into a new folder on your computer, removing it from your Downloads. Saving and opening your PDF pattern correctly. We’re big fans of saving paper and helping the environment where we can, so we personally prefer to just read them off our laptops or iPads. The instructions come in a separate file so that you don’t have to print these if you don’t want to.

You then assemble them together with glue or sellotape, and once that’s done you can use them as if they’re a normal tissue pattern. PDF patterns are downloadable patterns which you can print at home on a normal domestic printer. Did you know all of our sewing patterns are available in digital PDF format? That means you can buy a pattern and sew up a new dress in the very same day! In this blog post we’re going to guide you through how to assemble a PDF pattern so you get it right every time – and we’ll try to prove they’re not as scary as you think!

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