What follows is the essentially the script from the YouTube video. The Marvelous Designer project file for the flight jacket and several sleeve garment files are available in the Fearless Makers store. Video Inspiration I was working on a video about sleeves and one of my great YouTube visitors, Sayuri Kim, sent me a message […]
What follows is part of the script from the video at the bottom of this page. The full Marvelous Designer Peasant Skirt project is available in the Fearless Maker’s Store. Can You Copy a Fashion Designer’s Garments? A couple weeks ago, Chris, one of my wonderful YouTube viewers, gave me a link to a dress. He […]
(This is essentially the script to the video at the bottom of this post) Visit the Fearless Makers Store for a set of reference material. Many people on my YouTube channel have asked me for more complex projects. I can sit here all day long designing patterns to show you, but I’m not really teaching you […]
This is essentially the script covered in the video shown at the bottom of the page. You can watch the video to learn the concepts, then use the information below for reference while working in the program. Correction – Since creating this tutorial, it has been brought to my attention that MD does in fact […]
We’re going to model several collars in Marvelous Designer. These methods are actually just like the methods that you would use when drafting actual sewing patterns. Even if you don’t use MD, you’ll want to learn these techniques for making your own real world patterns. This post is part of a Full Class Set. That […]
I wear gloves when I’m woodworking. Their are people on YouTube that throw a complete tantrum when woodworkers are shown with gloves on. Their theory is that gloves kill. Okay, maybe not kill, but seriously maim. This is utterly ridiculous, in my opinion. I am not a sheep. I don’t do anything just because everyone […]
One of my YouTube subscribers, Anton Glukhovsky, asked if I would do a tutorial on asymmetrical patterns in Marvelous Designer. I asked him if he had a particular design in mind and he was kind enough to provide an image. Originally, I was going to create the garment he provided by reverse engineering it in […]
James, a good friend of Wayne’s, has two little girls. I volunteered to make Halloween costumes for them this year. He asked the girls what they wanted to be and both responded with the Frozen characters. One wants to be Anna and the other Elsa. I located a pattern from Simplicity to use: One of […]
Wayne and I are computer programmers and we’ve been in the biz a long time. In the last few years we’ve focused on application programming, but we still do websites for some of our older clients. I was introduced to WordPress by one of our clients awhile back. To someone who has been doing sites […]
This is the complete video series of the entire contest. Complete instructions and full-sized patterns for the Mardi Gras Mask are available in the Fearless Makers store. INTRODUCTION Element 14 and Adafruit Industries created a contest called the Gemma Hats Off Challenge. I thought it would be a fun project to try, so I scoured […]