Every month inside Design Secrets, you unlock a new themed module that builds your skills step by step.
📚 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:
📍 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 Sewing: French seams, rolled hems, bias bound seams
👗 Style Lines: Gatsby silhouettes + Diana Vreeland’s perspective
🎁 Quizzes and Lessons Unlock Patterns: Knot Bag, Shell Blouse, Luxurious Cuffed Trousers
📍 Module 2: Rookie Designer (Marilyn Era)
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 Patterns: Marilyn Peplum Top and Iconic Shorts with side seam zip; Retro head scarf patterns
📍 Module 3: The Blender (Audrey Hepburn Era)
Learn to refine proportions and blend sizing with elegance.
🧵 Flat Pattern Lesson Plan: 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 Patterns: Roman Holiday Inspired (skirt, 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, flat seat and full seat adjustments, and high/low armholes—giving you the precision to make any garment truly fit.
✂️ Module 5: The Manipulator (Mary Tyler Moore) – Transform and manipulate darts into princess seams, bust shaping, and structural design power. Adjust a bust dart to a princess seam for a sleek look.
👗 Module 6: The Poised & Polished Designer (Jackie O) – This Camelot module teaches the difference between fine sewing and true couture, as you begin venturing into hand-sewn techniques. The focus is Fine Sewing, with lessons that lead you toward couture skills such as hand-stitched invisible zippers.
✨🪄 Module 7: The Sleeve Wizard (Princess Di Inspired) – Dramatic sleeve evolutions, armscye adjustments, and layering grace.
🌟 Module 8: Collar Crafter (Twiggy’s Transformations) – Bold, mod transformations and fresh pattern hacks.
👗 Module 9: The Redesigner (More Twiggy for Plus Designs) - 3D demos from the designer.
Module 10: The Lining Luminary (Part 1) - Foundations in Facings and Linings
Module 11: The Lining Luminary (Part 2) - Advanced Linings
📚 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.