You’ve pinned it 📌. You’ve sketched it ✍️. Now it’s time to stop searching for the right pattern and start creating it! Your dream wardrobe starts here.
- £777 or 6 monthly payments of £133
In 12 weeks, you’ll learn how to turn your clothing ideas into patterns you can draft and sew.
- Starts Apr 13
➡️ from tops and trousers to dresses, jumpsuits, and more.
Design Confidence is where sewists become designers!
You sew because you want more than shop-bought.
You want a wardrobe that feels fully you - clothes that suit your life, your style, your personality!
📌 Your Pinterest board is brimming.
✍️ Your sketchbook has scribbles.
🤯 Your head is full of clothing ideas.
But when it comes to creating the patterns to make them real… that's where it ends - dream clothes that never see the light of day!
😔 Maybe you’ve tried drafting before and got stuck halfway.
😔 Maybe you’ve played the YouTube-and-blog puzzle that never gave you the answers you needed for your designs.
😔 Or maybe you’ve not had a go at drafting yet - but you’re tired of settling for “almost right” clothes that don’t feel like you.
✨ Now imagine this instead…
✅ You see something on Pinterest and know exactly how to draft it.
✅ You finally use that fabric you’ve been saving for “someday” -because now, you can turn it into the design you always had in mind for it.
✅ You open your wardrobe and every single piece feels fully you -because you designed it to match your style, and your life.
This is exactly what happens inside Design Confidence - your pins, sketches, and ideas finally become clothes you love to wear!
Imagine your wardrobe looking like your Pinterest board 📌
📌 Imagine being able to create those missing patterns for YOUR clothing ideas, just like past students are doing worldwide!
THIS TRULY IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU TOO!
🎉 Before joining Design Confidence, Lisa had only ever sewn three patterns!
Now she’s got the bug — and she’s turning her passion into a business!
From Pinterest pins to handmade dream clothes (and even custom pieces for her friends).
🎉 From lockdown sewing newbie to confident pattern drafter - Diane now designs and sews the clothes she used to only dream about!
🎉 Hanna had never sewn trousers before… after just 10 weeks, she'd drafted and made her very first pair, designed, drafted and sewn completely by her!
🎉 Before joining Design Confidence, Moonika felt restricted following shop-bought patterns that never quite matched her vision.
Now she’s completely fallen in love with drafting - creating clothes for her whole family, teaching her sister and locals to bring their dream designs to life, and even turning her passion into a brand-new career in clothing creation!
🎉 Fonda now turns idea after idea into real, wearable dream garments - and she’s never looked back!
🎉 Yvonne won’t touch a store-bought pattern again!
Living somewhere with limited fabric options, she’s discovered the freedom to create exactly what she wants through drafting.
✨ You too could be one of these beautiful stories!
These sewists are just like you - some with years of sewing experience, and many who started with very little!
What they all share? The courage to bring their ideas to life through drafting.
💡 In just 12 weeks, you’ll walk away with…
✔️ Two full sewing patterns for designs of your choice – drafted completely from scratch, by you, for you!
✔️ A deep understanding of how pattern cutting actually works – so you can design and draft anything you’ve been dreaming of: trousers, skirts, tops, shirts, dresses, jumpsuits, playsuits, shorts and more.
✔️ A reusable library of techniques that fast-track your drafting and make it feel easy – no memory tests, just helpful, printable blocks and guides you’ll come back to again and again.
✔️ The creative clarity and freedom to keep bringing your clothing ideas to life, FOREVERMORE!
By week 6, you’ll have drafted your first garment.
By week 12, you’ll know how to design and draft whatever you’ve been pinning, sketching, or dreaming about!
Why Design Confidence works!
🧠 You’ll learn the WHY, not just the HOW
When you understand *why* you're doing each step, you don’t just copy steps - you gain the confidence to adapt everything to work for YOUR dream clothing ideas.
✂️ You’ll actually create, not just watch
It’s one thing to know how to pivot a dart or add a button stand.
But turning that idea in your head into a fully sewable pattern? That’s when the real confidence and creativity begins!
That’s why inside Design Confidence, you’ll complete two hands-on projects.
✔ Project 1 - Draft any top design of your choice
✔ Project 2 – Take it further and draft any garment you choose - trousers, a dress, a shirt, a jumpsuit… whatever your wardrobe’s craving.
✅ Lifetime access (no memory tests!)
No cramming required!
You’ll have lifetime access, so you can come back anytime and focus on creating your dream clothes, not memorising the course.
✅ 10 modules - so you have the time to truly master the techniques and build confidence in drafting your own patterns
✅ 70+ video tutorials - short, to the point, and easy to follow (each one is about 5 minutes). Learn at your pace and revisit anytime
✅ 10 weekly illustrated eBooks - perfect for learning in a way that works for you. Many students find these a game-changer when used alongside the videos
✅ 2 Studio Clarity Sessions - gain clarity and confidence in the drafting process as I walk through how I’d approach your design ideas and answer your questions.
✅ 2 implementation projects - design and then draft two complete garments from scratch to put everything you learnt into practice and skyrocket your drafting confidence
PLUS YOU'LL GET THESE EXTRA BONUSES
BONUS #1 - Draft with speed and ease
These are your templates to 10x the speed and simplicity of the drafting process! Plus a sneaky checklist so you can easily create sewable patterns.
Easy to print at home, or send them to your local print shop so you can focus on drafting :).
BONUS #2 - Stretch drafting made simple
Design Confidence focuses on woven garments so you can build a deeper understanding of drafting, but stretch styles deserve love too!
In this bonus module, you’ll master the difference between woven and stretch drafting and get my Ultimate Stretch Block Bundle to 10x your drafting speed and create stretch pieces with ease.
BONUS #3 - No memory tests, just lifetime resources here!
There’s no need to remember everything - DC is a lifetime resource, not a memory test!
Come back anytime to rewatch, download, and refresh your skills. Plus, you’ll get access to all future updates at no extra cost!
BONUS #4 - Design clothes you’re proud to wear
Never designed your own clothes before or want a few tips and tricks?
This step-by-step mini-series shows you exactly how to turn your ideas into real garments with clarity and confidence!
What happens inside Design Confidence
Throughout the programme you’ll build the skills to draft your own garments, starting with tops and shirts, expanding into skirts and trousers, and finishing by drafting complete designs of your choice.
Week 1 — Module 1: Foundations of drafting
Learn how to work confidently with drafting tools, blocks, and pattern drafts — the essentials for creating any pattern.
Week 2 — Module 2: Drafting necklines, armholes and facings
Start applying drafting techniques to create patterns for tops and shirts.
Week 3 — Studio Clarity Session
Submit your questions and design ideas so I can walk through how I’d approach drafting them.
Week 4 — Module 3: Drafting fastenings and set-in sleeves
Continue expanding your drafting skills so more top and shirt designs become possible.
Week 5 — Module 4: Collars, plackets and raglan sleeves
Complete the core drafting techniques you’ll need to create your own top and shirt patterns.
Week 6 — Implementation Week 1
Draft your first top or shirt pattern from a design of your choice.
Week 7 — Module 6: Drafting skirts
Learn how to draft skirts in different styles including A-line, peplums and floor-length designs.
Week 8 — Module 7: Drafting trousers and shorts
Draft trousers, create fly fronts, and adapt patterns to design shorts.
Week 9 — Studio Clarity Session
Submit designs or questions and watch as I walk through how I’d approach drafting them.
Week 10 — Module 8: Pockets and finishing details
Add functional details like pockets, bindings and interfacing to your designs.
Week 11 — Module 9: Drafting dresses
Learn different methods for creating dress designs, including bias-cut styles.
Week 12 — Implementation Week 2
Draft a second pattern for a design of your choice and deepen your confidence in the drafting process.
In case we've not met before... Hey I'm Sarah,
I’m from the UK, but currently live in Bali, and I’m on a mission to help you create clothes that suit your style and lifestyle!
I’ve been sewing for as long as I can remember – starting with cuddly toys, then came my Patchwork and Quilting era during my teens, followed by a desire to draft my own patterns… but that’s when the frustration started.
I’d lie on my bedroom floor, flicking through Vogue, scribbling down ideas, then head to the sewing room (scrap the spare room – we had a sewing room 🤣), and that’s when my enthusiasm started to dwindle.
A few hacked attempts later, I knew I needed to learn more.
So off I went…
✔ Studied at the London College of Fashion
✔ Worked in the fashion industry
✔ Worked as a freelance drafter
✔ Taught sewing & pattern cutting in person
Now, hundreds of students around the world are learning from my online courses, classes, and tutorials – bringing their own dream designs to life!
FAQs
I've tried to learn drafting before but I just didn't quite get it, how will this be different?
This is exactly why you’ll have two implementation projects and the chance to ask questions - so you can apply what you’ve learned, truly understand how to use the techniques, and put the whole process together.
You’ll also have lifetime access to revisit the lessons whenever you need.
So if you get stuck while learning, I’ll be there to help, and if you ever need a refresher, you can come back and rewatch the tutorials - even years from now.
And this isn’t like piecing together random YouTube videos (and I LOVE YT!). Everything here is broken down step by step, then plugged together into a full process. That’s why this works, because playing the YouTube and blog puzzle is the long game.
When does it start?
The live round for 2026 starts on April 13th
I've only just started sewing, will Design Confidence be too advanced for me?
Not at all! If you’ve sewn at least a couple of shop-bought patterns, you’re good to go.
In fact, learning pattern drafting early actually makes sewing so much easier because you’ll understand how patterns work from day one!
Plus, you get bonus sewing tutorials inside the course (sleeves, button stands, plackets, etc.).
Is there a cost benefit to this course?
These are just a few reasons why you'll save money in the long run:
You won't have to keep buying sewing patterns and the patterns you create will be for your own design rather than a compromise = save £5-10 per pattern
You'll be able to turn your stash of fabric (I know you have one!) into the garments it's meant for so you'll use fabric you've already bought = actually make use of what you've already spent your hard earned money on
You'll be able to tweak sewing patterns you already have into an idea you've dreamt of = more value out of your sewing patterns
You won't need to go out and buy new clothes, you can just make the clothes you've dreamt of using the fabric you already have = save money and don't support fast fashion at the same time
Is there a payment plan?
Yes, you can pay in 6 monthly instalments to spread the cost so you don't have to delay your creativity no matter what budget you're on
How much time do you recommend we spend on the course a week?
We recommend spending about 2 hours a week on the course so you can watch and practice everything you'll learn in each module. Even with just a couple of 20 minute slots a week you'll be pattern cutting in no time!
But we totally understand everyone gets busy or takes the odd week off and that's why we give you access for life so that you don't have to feel rushed going through the course and trying to remember everything.
I'm really keen to focus on mastering the perfect fit for my patterns and clothes, will this course cover fitting techniques?
I would love to say yes. But honestly, there's so much that goes into fitting that I have created another in-depth course for this, Fitting Confidence.
However, I know how important fit is, so you'll find a BONUS Fitting Masterclass inside the course with the most common fitting adjustments and key fitting tips to support.
If you're keen to know more about our in-depth Fitting course, check out Fitting Confidence here.
(I have many students who've done both this course and then Fitting Confidence in either order. They're made to work together.)
I want to design clothes for my daughter and husband too, will this help?
Absolutely! The techniques you learn are transferable and can be applied to any sewing pattern design. The only thing you'll need to source are the blocks - you can either find these on Etsy or draft your own using the Metric Pattern Cutting series
I have other questions
Send me an email at hello@thesewingretreat.co.uk or a DM on Instagram @thesewingretreat I'll get back to you shortly
- £777 or 6 monthly payments of £133