Sewing Patterns & More
Welcome to Renelope Patterns!
Renelope Patterns was created to showcase my love of fabric design, fashion design and patternmaking. The site is broken down into three sections: Vintage Releases, Custom Fabric (including Cut-N-Sew designs) and Renelope Original Patterns.
About Me
I trained as a costume designer and worked at various theaters for over 10 years. I then transitioned to a successful career in information technology, where I worked for over 30 years. During that time, I continued to be interested in fashion history and design, studying screen-printing, advanced computer graphics and began to design my own fabric. While exploring fabric design, I was often frustrated that I could not find the right pattern to compliment my fabric, and so began to design my own garments.
After designing a number of simple but interesting garments, I became more interested in pattern drafting and started studying digital pattern drafting which led me to begin digitizing my designs. I combined my love of fashion, art and technology to create custom fabric designs on my computer and then sewing patterns from designs I had created to showcase the fabric.
After being gifted a large number of vintage patterns, I fell in love with their creative pattern drafting and interesting details. I began to catalogue my collection and soon discovered that most were not in my size. Using my patternmaking software and a digitizer, I was able to digitize the patterns and resize them quickly. I then realized that I had a methodology to share my collection with others and Renelope Patterns was born. I am thrilled to be able to share my love of sewing patterns with others and hope to be able to preserve some of my vintage patterns.
