I love the whole process of conceiving of the thing I want, and taking it from raw materials to a finished product that looks and functions just the way I want it. I've made a lot of patterns over the years, both for Dill Pickle products and also for custom orders or for items I just wanted for myself. 

So now I'm starting a little line of sewing patterns for purchase. I'm doing this partly because I enjoy it and I think my designs are worth making. But I'm also doing it because the act of physically creating the item you need pushes back against a world where everything comes from an unknowable factory full of robots, and creative work (including music) is replaced by AI slop. 

The world of sewing patterns is overrun by AI-generated junk that no real person has written or tested, and there's no one to ask for help if you have questions. I'm a real human, and if I list a pattern here it means I have personally drafted it on paper, digitized it, printed it, tested it, written instructions, taken photos, and used the finished product out in the real world. 

Sharing creativity and skills brings us together. The act of making something yourself is one of the joys of being human, and it's one that can never be outsourced to a robot. 

I'm calling this line of patterns "Emily's Fabrications", because I like making stuff (not just sewing - I've never met a craft I didn't like!). Although I've posted a bunch of free tutorials over the years (go to www.dillpicklegear.com/projects to find them!), these are intended to be a more polished and complete product.