Learn to Plan Your Fabric Layouts Using Pattern Tetris! (Affinity Designer iPad Pt5)

Hate wasting fabric? Then, get started playing pattern "Tetris" to plan your fabric layouts before cutting out a sewing pattern with a projector!
This tutorial reviews how to use Affinity Designer iPad, but the same process can be used on the desktop version.
This can also be done in Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator.
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[@Time2weave]

Great tutorial. Thanks! After pattern Tetris is complete, how do you save and rename your file?

[@projectorsewing]

Go back to the Home Screen. Next to the file you are working on, click the 3 line “hamburger menu”. You’ll have a save and save as option.

[@Time2weave]

@@projectorsewing Ah! Thanks! I had looked everywhere!

[@sosewmama]

Is affinity more user-friendly than Inkscape for us older, struggle with technology folks? Can’t get the hang of Inkscape at all.

[@projectorsewing]

I find some things more intuitive, but there is definitely still a learning curve. There is a free trial period, if you wanted to check it out.

[@maggieguidry556]

Can I do this with Procreate? I have procreate on my iPad, but when I tried to open a pattern I couldn’t access the layers… maybe I opened it wrong?

[@projectorsewing]

Now, I’m not a Procreate pro, but I’d say Procreate really isn’t made for working with vectors (including PDF pattern lines). Rather it works with raster images (png, jpeg, tiff,etc). Again, there may be a way to do it, but I’m not sure because I don’t work much with Procreate.
If you want to give Affinity Designer a try, it’s around $20 and works well with vectors and raster images.

[@maggieguidry556]

I think I might need to get affinity designer then. procreate identifies as a vector drawing program, and i work with layers when creating my own stuff, but I've never opened a file in procreate that had accesible layers. I'm really interested in learning how to hack and combine projector patterns from two different files. for example i have a pattern that has a nursing panel, that i would like to grade to use in another pattern i have. I'm having issues understanding how to keep the scale of both patterns correct, s i can mesh them together. I also use inkscape and know i can copy and paste pattern piecces in that program, so that pieces from two different files can be on the same page. DO you have a video on combining patterns/ hacking patterns?
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