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The FreeSewing development environment

If you have been to FreeSewing.eu the FreeSewing development environment will look familiar. That's because under the hood, it re-uses the same building blocks.

At the top of the page is the header with a row of icons that lay out what is available to you.

The icons in the header of the FreeSewing development environment

From left to right you can see:

  • Home will take you to the home page / welcome page
  • Design will offer you a list of templates to start a design from (more on this below)
  • Documentation will show a page with links to our documentation
  • Code will show a page with links to our source code
  • Support will show a page with the various ways you can get help
  • Theme allows you to change the theme (in other works the color scheme)
  • Language allows you to change the language
  • Sign In allows you to sign in to your FreeSewing account so you can use your (and our) measurements sets while designing

Design templates​

If you click the Design icon it will show this menu:

Design templates provided by the FreeSewing development environment

It allows you to choose a design template to start from. The following templates are included:

  • From scratch: Start with an (almost) empty design
  • Tutorial: Start with the end result of this very tutorial
  • From Brian: Start with a design that extends Brian
  • From Bent: Start with a design that extends Bent
  • From Titan: Start with a design that extends Titan
  • From Bella: Start with a design that extends Bella
  • From Breanna: Start with a design that extends Breanna

For the following along this tutorial, you have two options:

  • Pick Tutorial if you prefer to read along, make small changes, and see how they affect the design.
  • Pick From scratch if you prefer to actively participate by recreating the design in this tutorial.

I recommend the latter. You will learn (and remember) a lot more if you are actively engaging.