Every month inside Design Secrets, you unlock a new themed module that builds your skills step by step.Â
📚 Modules all the way up to Module 12… Each month builds your mastery of flat pattern adjustments, fine sewing techniques, and iconic style lines until you’ve reached full designer-level confidence.
Here’s a peek at how your journey unfolds on a monthly drip:
📍 Module 1: Apprentice Starter Kit (The Gatsby Era)
Build your foundation with confidence-boosting projects and essential techniques.
Measurement Mastery + finishing essentials
Flat Pattern Intro: shortening & lengthening trousers
Fine Hemming and Seaming Module: French seams, rolled hems, bias bound seams and more
Style Lines from the Era: Gatsby silhouettes + Diana Vreeland’s perspective
Quizzes and Lessons Unlock 3 Patterns:Â Gatsy Knot Bag, Gatsby Shell Blouse, and Gatsby Luxurious Cuffed Trousers
📍 Module 2: Rookie Designer (Marilyn Era Inspired)
Add playful glamour and neckline drama to your skillset.
 Flat Pattern: neckline drop & depth adjustments
 Fine Sewing: Hong Kong seam finishes
 Style Lines: Marilyn’s iconic silhouettes & neckline evolution
Quizzes and Lessons Unlock 4 Patterns: Marilyn Peplum Top and Iconic Shorts with side seam zip; Retro head scarf patterns
📍 Module 3: The Blender (Audrey Hepburn Era Inspired)
Learn to refine proportions and blend sizing with elegance.
Flat Pattern Lesson Plan: Learn the art of blending patterns the right way. Blend waist & hip sizes (increase/decrease)
 Fine Sewing Lesson: flat-felled seams for durability & beauty
 Style Lines: Audrey’s Parisian elegance & Roman Holiday capsule
 Quizzes and Lessons Unlock 3 Patterns: Roman Holiday Inspired (A line skirt, collared blouse, neck scarf)
🔮 And That’s Just the Beginning…
From here, the journey gets even richer:
📍👑 Module 4: The Adjustor (Grace Kelly & Edith Head) – This module is packed with pattern adjustment lessons most used by the home sewist. You’ll tackle bodice lengthening and shortening, pant rise changes and high/low armholes—giving you the precision to make any garment truly fit. Quizzes and lessons unlock Edith Head-Inspired designs: Beach Skirt Wrap and Bodycon dress from To Catch a Thief.
✂️ Module 5: The Manipulator (Mary Tyler Moore-Inspired) – Transform and manipulate bust darts to princess seams, bust shaping, bust to waist dart, and bust dart to mid-armhole position. Miter a corner hem for vents and kick pleats. Learn the anatomy of a dart and it's opposite, the Tuck Dart. Quizzes and lessons unlock Laura Petri-Inspired designs: Cigarette capri pants and Pointelle Mock Turtle Neck.
👗 Module 6: The Poised & Polished Designer (Camelot · Jackie O–Inspired). This Camelot-inspired module bridges the gap between fine sewing and true couture, guiding you into designer-level construction with intention and restraint. You’ll learn when and why couture techniques are used—not just how to execute them—as you begin incorporating refined hand-sewn finishes into your work.
The focus is Fine Sewing as a pathway to Couture, with lessons that build discernment as much as skill. Through detailed demonstrations, you’ll explore hand-stitched invisible zippers, Hong Kong seams, understitching, catch stitching, and tricot-bound seams—understanding how each technique functions across everyday sewing, fine sewing, and couture contexts.
To reinforce mastery, quizzes throughout the module unlock the Camelot Skirt and Jacket, allowing you to immediately apply these techniques to a cohesive, Jackie O–inspired ensemble. This ensures you’re not just learning couture concepts—but executing them with polish and precision.
✨🪄 Module 7: The Sleeve Wizard (Princess Diana Era– Inspired) – This Windsor module ushers you into one of the most transformative dimensions of garment design: sleeves as architecture. Here, you step beyond “attaching a sleeve” and into understanding the sleeve as a sculptural extension of the silhouette—one that carries balance, proportion, and presence. The focus is Sleeve Engineering, with lessons that train your eye to read cap height, track ease distribution, and manipulate volume so your sleeves move with intention, grace, and precision. Dramatic sleeve evolutions, armscye adjustments, and layering grace. Quizzes and lessons unlock The Windsor Cocktail Dress and Bolero.Â
🌟 👗 Module 8: The Collar Crafter (Twiggy Era I) – This Twiggy-inspired module transports you into the world of necklines as sculpture—where clean edges, intentional curves, and precise finishes define the entire garment’s attitude. Here, you move from simply “finishing a neckline” to crafting it with designer-level control. The focus is Collars, Neckbands, and Bias Techniques, guiding you through the subtle architectural choices that separate homemade from haute. From single-bias necklines to French bias armholes, from reimagining necklines to mastering neckbands and bindings, this module teaches you how to engineer the frame of the garment—the place where proportion, polish, and personality meet. Quizzes and lesson unlock the Swing Shift 66 Dress
👗 Module 9: The Lining Luminary (Part 1) - (Kate Hepburn-Inspired) -  Foundations in Facings and Linings (Kate’s Rebel Trousers) – This module reveals the hidden world of interior architecture—the structural intelligence that transforms a garment from merely wearable into truly refined. Here, you shift from thinking of linings and facings as “finishing touches” to understanding them as the engineering that determines movement, longevity, and couture-level polish. The focus is Internal Structure & Fine Sewing, guiding you through lining strategy, facing drafting, bulk reduction, enclosed burrito techniques, and the hand stitches that give a garment its quiet luxury. This is where you learn to build garments from the inside out—with the same precision designers use to achieve clean interiors, graceful drape, and rebellion-proof durability worthy of Kate herself. Quizzes and lessons unlock Kate-Inspired Rebel Trousers.
Module 10: The Lining Luminary ( Part II) - (Kate’s Rebel Blazer) – This advanced Kate-inspired module takes you deeper into the world of couture interior engineering, where the goal is not simply a clean inside—but a controlled one. Here, you move from understanding lining strategy to executing professional finishes with precision: from bagging out linings for flawless interiors, to choosing between machine, hand-sewn, or hybrid methods with a designer’s discernment. The focus is Refinement & Technical Mastery, guiding you through advanced hem treatments, weighted edges, custom-drafted facings, and the subtle adjustments that prevent twisting, peeking, or bunching. This is the module where you learn to think like a tailor—balancing structure, mobility, and elegance so your vest behaves beautifully from the first wear to the hundredth. Quizzes and lessons unlock Kate-Inspired Rebel Blazer.
Module 11: The ReDesigner: (Twiggy II) - Understand flat pattern design through the lens of a New York Fashion Week designer. Explore garment redesigns through immersive 3D demonstrations. Quiz and lessons unlock the second Twiggy Dress.
Module 12:Â The Mentor:Â As a mentor, you will now have the chance to mentor others in the community with the knowledge and skills you have gained over the past year.
📚  Modules all the way up to Module 12… Each month builds your mastery of flat pattern adjustments, fine sewing techniques, and iconic style lines until you’ve reached full designer-level confidence.
👉 By the end of 12 months, you’ll not only have a library of 22 designer patterns but also the information to build skills to fit, finish, and design like a professional.
👉 For even more detail about each Module click each of the three program options at the bottom of this page.