freesewing.com

November 13, 2025

What you’ll find at freesewing.com right now

If you type freesewing.com into a browser today, you don’t land on the FreeSewing project. You land on a domain sales page (the domain is listed for sale). So if your goal is the open-source, made-to-measure sewing pattern platform people talk about, freesewing.com is not the right address.

The project most people mean is FreeSewing, which is reachable via freesewing.org (and it currently redirects to freesewing.eu). That site describes FreeSewing as open-source software that generates bespoke sewing patterns, and it’s positioned pretty directly against standard “industry sizing.”

What FreeSewing actually is

FreeSewing is a community-run, open-source platform for generating sewing patterns that are customized to measurements. It’s not a “pattern marketplace” where you buy PDFs. The website itself says it’s not a company, it doesn’t sell anything, and it avoids ads and tracking.

Practically, it’s a system that takes:

• a design (for example a shirt, apron, jacket, dress),
• a measurement set (your body measurements, or someone else’s if you’re drafting for them),
• and a set of options (fit, style, details),

…then outputs a pattern you can print and sew. The flagship way to do this on the site is the FreeSewing Editor, which is explicitly described as the place where you “tap into” custom pattern generation.

The core workflow (how people actually use it)

FreeSewing’s flow is straightforward, but it helps to think of it as a few repeatable steps rather than “download pattern → print.” The site itself breaks it down as: pick a design, add measurements, customize.

Here’s what that typically looks like in practice:

1. Choose a design
   The editor lists a lot of designs you can start from (tops, accessories, blocks, outerwear, and more). You’re not forced into a small catalog, which matters because made-to-measure is only useful if the design you want exists.

2. Create or select a measurement set
   FreeSewing uses “measurement sets” as a saved bundle. They’re private by default, and you can choose to make a set public if you want others to use it (useful for pattern testing or community collaboration).

There’s also the idea of curated measurement sets—collections representing real people that designers use to test patterns across a variety of bodies. That’s a big deal for parametric patterns, because a design that behaves nicely at one size can break at another if it hasn’t been tested.

3. Customize the pattern in the editor
   The editor documentation lays out the moving parts: editing the pattern, selecting measurements, running tests (advanced), creating a print layout, and saving patterns to your account.

4. Save settings, regenerate later
   One detail that’s easy to miss: FreeSewing doesn’t necessarily store “the PDF pattern file” as the core artifact. It stores the settings used to generate it (options, core settings, UI preferences, and measurement inputs) so the pattern can be regenerated. That fits the whole parametric approach and makes iteration easier.

What makes it different from “free sewing patterns” elsewhere

A lot of websites offer free patterns, but they’re still usually graded sizes, even if there are many sizes. FreeSewing is aiming at a different thing: patterns drafted from inputs.

That difference has two consequences:

• Fit control is more explicit. You can end up spending less time doing manual full bust adjustments, length adjustments, blending sizes, and so on, because those changes can be baked into the generation step (depending on the design and available options). The tradeoff is you need decent measurements, because the output depends on them.

• Design behavior matters. Parametric drafting has edge cases. That’s why FreeSewing puts effort into measurement documentation and design best practices for contributors, so patterns reuse standard measurement names and stay more consistent across the ecosystem.

Examples of what’s on the platform right now

FreeSewing keeps adding and updating designs, and they publish release posts. For example, they announced v4.4 with “Sophie,” a slip dress design, and v4.3 with “Percy,” described as fall-front puffy shorts.

The design pages include context from designers about why the pattern exists and how it was approached. For Sophie, the notes talk about slip dresses being adaptable across formality and fabrics, and that the designer drafted it using FreeSewing’s developer tools.

If you’re technical: the open-source and developer side

FreeSewing isn’t only a website. It’s also a JavaScript-based ecosystem for parametric pattern design, with separate developer documentation at freesewing.dev. That documentation frames FreeSewing as a library/stack for on-demand garment manufacturing and custom-fit fashion.

On the code hosting side, the FreeSewing organization exists on GitHub, but the main monorepo indicates the project moved the repository to Codeberg (GitHub pages point users to the new home).

This matters if you’re trying to:

• contribute code or pattern designs,
• build your own pattern generator pipeline,
• or verify you’re looking at the official source.

Practical safety note: avoiding confusion and lookalike sites

Because freesewing.com is currently a parked/sales domain, it’s easy for someone to assume it’s official. If you’re telling others where to go (or bookmarking it yourself), use freesewing.org (redirects to freesewing.eu) and treat anything else as “verify first.”

Key takeaways

• freesewing.com is currently a domain-for-sale page, not the FreeSewing project website.
• The actual FreeSewing platform is reachable via freesewing.org, which redirects to freesewing.eu.
• FreeSewing generates made-to-measure patterns using designs + measurement sets + options through the FreeSewing Editor.
• Measurement sets are central (private by default, optionally public), and curated sets help with testing across body variation.
• The project is open source, with developer docs at freesewing.dev, and code hosting that points to a move to Codeberg.

FAQ

Is freesewing.com the official FreeSewing site?

No. At the moment it resolves to a “domain for sale” listing. The FreeSewing project is accessible via freesewing.org (redirecting to freesewing.eu).

Is FreeSewing actually free?

The platform describes itself as not selling anything and being supported by voluntary contributions, with no ads and no tracking.

What do I need to do to generate a pattern?

Pick a design, create/select a measurement set, then customize and generate in the FreeSewing Editor. The editor docs also describe print layout tools and saving patterns/settings to an account.

Does FreeSewing store my pattern files?

FreeSewing documentation explains that it stores the settings used to generate a pattern (options, measurements used, and related settings) so it can regenerate the pattern later, rather than storing the pattern itself as the main artifact.

Can I contribute patterns or code?

Yes. FreeSewing maintains developer documentation and public repositories. If you’re contributing code, note that the monorepo pages indicate the project moved to Codeberg, with GitHub pointing to the new location.