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blog:New designs: Ashley, Hannah, Polly, Tina, and Toni

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Heads-up because we have just dropped 4 new FreeSewing designs, plus a fifth one that we had delivered earlier but somehow neglected to tell you about.

Today, we’ve released FreeSewing 4.9.0 wich brings 4 new designs:

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We were going to go alphabetic here, but we bumped the Toni design to the top because both Hannah and Tina are based on it. So it makes more sense to discover them in this order.

This comes of the heels of the 4.8.0 release from last month, which brought us Ashley, but alas we somehow didn’t find the time to write about it.

So, let’s right that wrong by giving you the low-down of all 5 recently added designs.

Ashley A-Line Shorts​

Ashley is a FreeSewing pattern for A-line shorts by Gawain CCBR.

They write in the designer notes:

Ashley extends the Titan block. Much of its code is directly lifted from Percy, for cutting the legs short, drafting the pockets, and automatically setting a curve for the waistband (though Ashley adds a more dramatic curve to the back waistband only instead of curving all the waistband pieces). The fly pieces and belt loops are pilfered from Charlie. The big new thing Ashley does is add a yoke to the back pieces for some extra shaping at your butt. This is a common detail on jeans.

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Polly Plush​

Polly is a FreeSewing pattern for a humanoid plush doll by Gawain CCBR.

They write in the designer notes:

Polly is a base to make simple humanoid or anthropomorphic fabric dolls. It has many options to change the size and proportions of the doll, and a couple of alternate heads and legs to allow for more animal-like characters.

Polly does not come with clothes or a face. Pick your own favorite method for the face and hair. If you want to make clothes, I have excellent news - you’re currently on a website that lets you draft clothes at doll scale. Go wild!

Polly can make a useful test dummy to try out other patterns on a small scale, and make sure you understand their construction before you commit more fabric to them. If you want to use it for this, bear in mind that Polly has narrower shoulders and a wider neck than most humans who have skeletons. Polly’s shoulder slope is around 37 degrees. Its shoulder seams will often be very steep and very small. Play around with the doll’s shoulder width measurement (it’s somewhat arbitrary) and shoulder-to-shoulder ease until you get something that looks physically plausible.

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Toni Top​

Toni – with an i – is a FreeSewing pattern for a fitted top by Jonathan Haas.

There’s a ton of info in the designer notes, too much to replicate here, so we’ll stick to a summary:

Toni is a configurable t-shirt or top design that supports different sleeve styles. > It has basic support for fitting large busts, bellies and bums. These special adjustments are only enabled if you provide the related optional measurements.

Compared to Teagan T-shirt, Toni is by default more fitted, has a more circular neck opening and longer sleeves. > Teagan’s default settings follow a standard menswear t-shirt design (plus the slight boat neck), whereas Toni defaults to a somewhat fitted t-shirt design somewhere in-between a regular womenswear top and a semi-fitted menswear design.

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Hannah Hoodie​

Hannah is a FreeSewing pattern for a hoodie by Jonathan Haas.

They write in the designer notes:

Hannah is a relatively fitted hoodie pattern with optional support for fitting curvy bodies and larger busts, bums and bellies and different sleeve style options.

Hannah is based on Toni Top and the hood from Hugo and Yuri.

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Tina Top​

Tina is a FreeSewing pattern for a fake wrap top by Jonathan Haas.

They write in the designer notes:

Tina is a simple overlap/faux wrap top based on the Toni top.

It’s easy to sew and looks nice. I hope you like it.

Jonathan

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Everything else​

Big shout-out to Jonathan Haas and Gawain CCBR who have contributed all these new designs.

While these take the spotlight, that does not mean no other work was done. For the full list of changes, as always, refer to our changelog.