Amazing. I forwarded this to my fiance, she's gonna love it.
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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@Cool_Name that's super cool! 🪡 plus, they have mastodon accounts : @freesewing @joost 🤩
Holy shit, I have a meme of the guy who made this software! Or, at least his name lol
That's actually fucking kickass
Absolutely.
I don't know enough about sewing or programmable vector designs (heck, I don't even know what it's call). So, I can't really contribute to the project. But I really want it to grow, so I promote it wherever I can.
I dream of it taking off like blender or Wikipedia and eventually having an archive of thousands of designs. Even, if most people wont sew their own it would help some people start small businesses creating quality clothing.
On the concept of blender, I've been recently trying to get into Seamly2D/Valentina for pattern drafting - I'd love to see some kind of simple integration format between the two so that the FreeSewing patterns can be easily loaded into Seamly2D instead so the measurement files can be used from there and the pattern tweaked.
I guess the main benefit is clothes will potentially fit better, but isn’t the fabric still gonna be likely sourced from a sweatshop country? And isn’t it going to result in a lot of waste fabric as I cut out a template?
You can also learn to repair your clothes, which can be done well before they need it, extending the time for which they look great.
That's the phrasing of someone who loves their shoppies. The main benefit is using, honing and promoting a skill to make quality clothes for yourself and your loved ones that will be significantly removed from the chain of dumb but vicious exploitation.
Yeah, it may not be completely exploitation free, but it’s a step in the right direction for the people with time and skills.
That’s a very narrow segment of people though, and even for those people I would argue it’s a better use of time to just…buy fewer clothes in the first place. This sounds like a bourgeois solution for people with a sewing machine and several hours free to make clothes for themselves.
Just like learning how to cook for yourself is a poor solution for people who live in a food desert or don't have access to a kitchen, sure.
There are quality fabrics still manufactured but they are not often used in mass production of garments.
Any garment production requires scrap fabric. However a crafts person can repurpose and use those scraps where as a factory will just discard them. Also a huge amount of the waste in fast fashion in over production of products that don't even sell and never get used before going to a landfill.