Journal

Backpack

Backpack

Saturday, January 23, 2021
Over on YouTube, Jonathan Flores said he'd love to see a tutorial on how to make a backpack in Marvelous Designer. Unfortunately, I don't have any spare time. Fortunately, I a Read more …
Newsletter

Newsletter

Friday, January 22, 2021
Fearless Makers Newsletter Hi, I didn't actually send this newsletter out. I decided to just post it here for now. We have big changes coming and we wanted to share the new Read more …
Digital Fashion Design Class

Digital Fashion Design Class

Wednesday, July 15, 2020
I read an interesting article in Forbes about Prada and their attempt to digitize fashion design, primarily because of the pandemic. A lot of the choices they were making didn Read more …
New MD Beginner Class

New MD Beginner Class

Monday, July 6, 2020
My Marvelous Designer beginner's tutorial has been very successful with over half a million views on YouTube, but it is also getting very old. I decided it was time to create Read more …
Sew for the Planet

Sew for the Planet

Thursday, April 9, 2020
Second Largest Polluter in the World The clothing and textile industry is arguably the second largest polluter in the world. It is estimated that 15% of the fabric used ends u Read more …
3D Cloth Textures in Blender - Part 3

3D Cloth Textures in Blender - Part 3

Monday, November 6, 2017
This is the 3rd video completing the 3D Cloth Textures series. This tutorial shows you how to use Blender to create very realistic fabric. Here is a link to the Glitter Shade Read more …
Marvelous Designer Version 7 New Features

Marvelous Designer Version 7 New Features

Monday, October 9, 2017
Marvelous Designer version 7 was released on September 27th, 2017. As usual, they highlighted just a handful of changes, but I found many more. Here's what I found: Flatten T Read more …
Marvelous Designer Version 6.5 Features

Marvelous Designer Version 6.5 Features

Thursday, August 17, 2017
Marvelous Designer version 6.5 was released on April 26, 2017. Here are all the new features that I found: Transform Points & Segments Smooth Curve Tool 3D Pattern Line T Read more …
3D Cloth Textures in Blender - Part 2

3D Cloth Textures in Blender - Part 2

Friday, February 17, 2017
This is the second video in our multi-part series on 3D Cloth Textures created using Blender. The video script is below. Video Script In this video we’re going to use Ph Read more …
3D Cloth Textures in Blender - Part 1

3D Cloth Textures in Blender - Part 1

Tuesday, January 10, 2017
This video, the first in the 3D Cloth Textures in Blender series, starts with Marvelous Designer. The script of the video is below. Video Script Recently I was employed to cre Read more …
How to Hem a Skirt in Marvelous Designer

How to Hem a Skirt in Marvelous Designer

Friday, June 10, 2016
One of my PatternMaker PRO subscribers, Diane, was asking how to hem a skirt in Marvelous Designer. I did this quick video to teach her the essentials. Download Hem a Skirt M Read more …
MD Doesn't Create Real-World Patterns

MD Doesn't Create Real-World Patterns

Thursday, May 5, 2016
Can You Make Real Sewing Patterns with MD? Many people have been asking me the same question about MD, so I thought I'd do my best to answer it in a video. The video script is Read more …