Garment making and production can be daunting and a complicated process especially placement or engineered printing. A lot of time and effort goes into research and understanding where to start. We have put together tutorials on how to design, work with and prepare legging pattern for digital placement fabric printing. For this tutorial you need to be proficient in Illustrator or at least have basic knowlage. Our tutorial is based on industry standards. This technic can be applied to printing other products such as bikinis, t-shirts, singlets , dresses etc.
How to prepare legging pattern for digital fabric printing in Illustrator
Open the PDF file in Illustrator. You can purchase our digital leggings pattern on our website or use your own.
The top left square will help you determine if the scaling of your patterns are correct, this square should always be 10x10cm.
Select the size you’d like to have printed (we have selected size 10) and while holding shift also select the scale square. Copy selection
You’ll now have to create a new document. Make sure to set up to the width of the fabric (we’ve chosen to proceed with matte Lycra which as a printable width of 147cm) x the length of the print, this size legging will not exceed the 1 metre.
Paste the pattern piece and square scale into new artboard. The left and right hand side is where the selvage of your fabric will be, make sure you always keep the grain line (line within Patten) parallel to the selvage.
You can now double check the square scale which should remain 10x10cm and delete or move off the artboard and position the legging where you’d like.
Rotate your leggings so that they are the right way up, make sure that the centre line (grain line) is always parallel to the selvage (left and right sides of your artboard). Select the pattern including all notches details and grain line and rotate while holding down the shift key to ensure it rotated exactly how you need it.
To make a pair, copy this leg pattern by selecting the shape of the pattern and once selected go to Object>transform>reflect and select vertical Axis and click copy.
You now have a pair.
You can now delete the grain line and text, but keep all notches, you will need them for making. For this tutorial we’ve left the text from one of the legs to print, if you are thinking about printing several sizes it will very helpful to have this information next to each size to avoid confusion. Notches are the little nicks which are around the patterns which will help when constructing the leggings.
Copy all notches and paste into new layer for later use. Make sure you select all notches and if for any reason you are moving the legging pattern make sure you select the notches layer so that they move together.
Open up the design you would like to use, make sure the design has been setup slightly larger than the legging pattern size roughly 110cm long x 65cm wide and copy and paste into the artboard.
Select design >object>arrange>send to back.
With both the artwork/design and legging pattern selected Object>clipping mask>make. Now you can only see your design in a shape of a leg pattern.
Repeat for other leg.
Select all notches in other layer and change the colour so they become visible.
Group all layers including leggings and notches and centre, your file is now ready to submit to have printed.
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Katy Dee from Letter 11 recently printed custom fleece fabric with us to make comfy baby blanket for her little nephew and shared her creative process with us. Get creative, make your own fleece blanket, its super easy!
You will need:
- Custom printed fleece fabric, the beauty of this fabric is that you can make a blanket without using filling or backing fabric. One layer of fabric is enough to get comfy and snuggly. You can order your custom fabric here!
- A sewing machine.
- Bias Binding, you will need enough to go around the entire blanket. For this a 1.5m x 1m fleece blanket used just over 5m.
- Dressmaking pins and scissors.
- Cut your custom fleece fabric to the size and shape you want, in tutorial the blanket is 1.5m by 1m which is big and snuggly! A square would also be cute.
- Find a spot around half way down the longest length of blanket to start pinning the bias. To pin you fold it naturally in half with the flaps on the inside and wrap it around the blanket pinning all 3 layers together like a sandwich. Carry on pinning the binding all the way to the corner.
- Now it’s time to begin sewing…. Using running stitch and the colour thread of your choice, pop the blanket in under the machine foot and do a few back stitches first to secure the bias. Then continue sewing on the inside edge of the binding and down towards the corner following and removing the pins as you sew….
- To wrap the bias binding around that corner nice and neatly, fold the corners down to create a diagonal fold and pin this into place. At this point, also pin the binding along the length towards the next corner. Sew slightly into the diagonal fold, stop to rotate the blanket so you can sew another side of the blanket bias and continue to sew all around the fleece blanket.
- When you are nearly at the point where you began sewing, do a few backstitches and remove the blanket. Cut the binding neatly so there is just a 4-5 cm length left. Fold this in on itself and pin down into place creating a neat hidden pocket. Now you can pop the blanket back in and sew that last little bit up! Don’t forget to finish with a few backstitches for safety!
And there you go, a super cute baby fleece blanket!
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We are introducing our new fabric designer JeliRAD. JeliRAD won our Winter Blooms fabric design competition and her winning design is for sale our fabric shop!
Her Double Exposure print is a beautiful romantic floral design that is great for a dress or swimwear and is easy to wear and implement within various fashion garments.
JeliRAD is a passionate surface designer her work is inspired by surrounds and nature. She lives in beautiful Byron Bay surrounded by pristine beaches, sunshine & rugged wilderness.
She made this design using 35mm double exposure photos. They are of her husband, her daughter, & landscapes that are overlapped with pink & purple flowers from all over the island.
Do you love this design? Support JeliRAD! Pick this design and print on any of our stock fabric, whichever is suitable for your project!
And for a limited time only, we are offering an introductory prices. Don’t miss the chance to buy JeriRADs Double Exposure fabric, use INTRO promo code on checkout and get 10% off. This offer will last till the end of this month only!
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Till the end of this year we will be running creative fabric design workshops and classes. Please check our dates below, spaces are limited so book your workshop now!
Courses and Workshops :
- Fabric Design Course “Ideas to Reality”, Every Tuesday evening from 2nd of August till 30th of August.
- Design Your Own Scarf, 16th July Saturday, full day
- Design Your Own Scarf, 20th July Wednesday, full day
- Design Your Own Cushion, 27th of July Wednesday, full day
- Design Your Own Leggings, 3rd of August Wednesday, full day
- Design Your Own Cushion, 6th of August Saturday, full day
- Design Your Own Leggings, 20th of August Saturday, full day
Spaces are limited! BOOK IT NOW!
Digital Fabrics School is kicking off with DESIGN YOUR OWN SCARF WORKSHOP on July the 16th. Come and join us for fun creative day.
Full day workshop style class will provide you with knowledge of digital textile design for placement printing. You will be photographing floral inspired collage/layout and transferring your photography to a scarf! After the workshop you will receive finished large chiffon scarf printed with your created design!
On the day you will be creating and photographing collages to further manipulate them in Photoshop. This procces is fun creative and there is no wrong or write! This woark shop alose will give you the knowlage to come up with your own designs later and set them up for printing as required by fabric printing industrie. You will learn to understand scale, image size and the template, how print design can be developed, manipulate photographic digital images in different ways, design your own placement prints and change colours!
Interested? Book Design Your Own Scarf workshop now and get your early bird 10% discount. Hurry, spaces in our workshops are limited. Use EARLYBIRD promo code on checkout. Don’t wait too long this offer is limited!
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We have been working on developing a new easy system to design and print custom cushions.
Now you can Design, Create, Print beautiful cushions for your home, business or event.
With our DIY online cushion cover uploader option, its super easy! With a few clicks you can upload the design, preview the results and get your order under way. This is the quickest and most cost-effective way to turn your digital designs into a cushion!
With our online CUSHION COVER UPLOADER you can: 
- Upload your design, front and back
- Choose a plain colour suitable for your design
- Preview your design
- Check your file size and quality
- See how your design will look on a product
- Order and pay in an instant of course
and with all of that NO SET UP or EXTRA COST!
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Have you ever wanted to design your own textile prints but are unsure where to start? Would you like to emerge into the world of textiles, creative processes and digital repeats?
Digital Fabrics has put together a new education program for all textile design enthusiast. With DIGITAL FABRICS SCHOOL industry experts on hand we can teach you fundamental textile design methods and help you to design prints and patterns for fabrics.
Who is our school for?
- Graphic designers who wish to move to textile design market and expand their skills.
- Fashion students and designers who aiming to create point of difference from other labels and stay on trend through fabric design prints.
- And all creatives, sewers, makers, artists and photographers who want to design they own product using their art and ideas, but don’t know where to start!
Hands on experience and knowledge of digital textile design.
Work on your own projects as well as theme structured workshops.
Evening and weekend time is available.
Small size classes, almost private!
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In the old world, customers had to work on specs and order sheets, carefully making sure that all information passed to the print house were correct and the files print-ready. Approving the order, approving the print proof and only then proceeding to print production with fingers crossed there were no mistakes.These may seem to be just small steps, but in reality are a huge burden on efficiency – everything is manual and takes longer than it should. We have removed meaningless and time consuming paperwork and offer our clients the ability to upload their files online, instantly check their work and order.
Digital Fabrics Fabric Uploader was specially developed to simplify and streamline the ordering process for our customers, it is the quickest and most cost-effective way to turn designs into fabric!
So toss your paperwork, just upload your design and we will take care of the rest.
Watch how its done!
Would you like to print your own fabric? Start here!
Would you like to win beautiful fabric and credit towards fabric printing?
We are running a Giveaway on Instagram!
WIN 2 m of beautiful chiffon fabric with our Water Drop design print + $50 printing credit towards your next order. Water Drop design is printed in a small scale and just perfect for dress making and scarves.
Interested? Head over to our Instagram for a chance to win!
Today we are doing a happy dance! Our fabric uploader is here! From now on ordering your fabric is a fun and easy process. With a few clicks you can upload the design, preview the results and get your order under way. This is the quickest and most cost-effective way to turn your digital designs into fabric!
With our online FABRIC UPLOADER you can:
- Upload your design
- Choose a repeat type suitable for your design
- Check your file size and quality
- Check if your design repeats seamlessly
- See how your design will look on a product
- Order and pay in an instant of course
and with all of that NO SET UP or extra fabric cost!
Order your fabric now or just have a little play and please let us know what you think and your experience. Your feedback is always heard and appreciated!
