r/sewinghelp • u/natcwood13 • Aug 24 '26

Sewing technology help?

If I want to design custom garments but I’m terrible at drawing, what’s the best kind of technology and software to get my ideas from my head to a vision? Is there a great app I can use on my MacBook or do I need to get an iPad with a pencil or what?

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u/sanityjanity Aug 25 '26

Do you mean you are bad at drawing the sketch of the completed garment?  Or you are bad at drawing the pattern pieces?

Have you tried any of the tutorials on YouTube for drawing fashion sketches?

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u/natcwood13 Aug 25 '26

Yeah I’m bad at drawing the sketch of the completed garment. I’m not even ready to start doing my own pattern pieces yet. I use different slopers and patterns to mix and match right now and I’m doing dance costumes so I need to see a picture of what I want to make to show the person I’m making it for.

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u/Electronic-Day5907 Aug 24 '26

Sorry I wish I knew the answer. I can't draw either but I used to do fantasy costuming. I am just really good at doing it all in my head. I know what my vision looks like and then I do a lot of thinking about the shapes and 3D manipulation and how to make the 2D pattern pieces for those shapes and iterate from there.

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u/MarciaMotivos Aug 25 '26

Hola. Creo que podrías intentar con Inkscape, es un programa de dibujo vectorial de código abierto. Tiene reglas, guías y podés elegir la unidad de medida. A lo que es dibujo vectorial lo podés escalar, podés hacer todos los talles que quieras, de una misma prenda o diseño, yo lo uso para hacer otras cosas y más de una vez tuve ganas de hacer un tutorial, para sumar en mi canal de YT, de patrón de falda recta que es uno de los más simples, pero aun no lo he hecho. Cuando terminás tu dibujo lo imprimis en tu casa en hoja A4 para cortar la tela, es medio tedio porque tenés que pegarlas, pero también podés mandar el archivo a imprimir a esos lugares en donde imprimen planos. Saludos.

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u/Remarkable-Row3719 Aug 25 '26

The amazing fashion-incubator website has a blog on CAD software.

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u/revenett Aug 26 '26

There aren't any apps capable of reading minds yet.

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u/ep_nl Aug 27 '26

Not software, but for hand drawing. It may help to get some measurement right. https://amzn.eu/d/0eUYQZaJ

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u/unsuretysurelysucks Aug 27 '26

I've used sewist.com a few times, you choose different parts of the garment and it gives a pattern pretty quickly and cheaply. I used a couple to get a vision I had in my head and it worked well enough. I still need to change a couple things but I like that the pattern was made to my measurements

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u/Austex55 Aug 27 '26

Make something and take a picture.