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 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.
🌟 👗 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.
👗 Module 9: The Lining Luminary (Part 1) - Foundations in Facings and Linings (Kate’s Rebel Trousers) – This Kate-inspired 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.
Module 10: The Lining Luminary ( Part II) - (Kate’s Rebel Vest) – 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.
Module 11: The ReDesigner: (Twiggy II)
Module 12: The Mentor
📚 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.