Burda Style For people who sew

For step-by-step instructions to turn your pattern into a print-at-home PDF file ready to upload to BurdaStyle, see the “Create a Print-at-Home Pattern PDF” Technique.

Log in to your BurdaStyle account.

To upload a pattern you may EITHER select the “Patterns” tab in the home page and then select “Add a Pattern” in the upper right hand corner of this section OR you can go to the “My Studio” tab in your Profile page and select “Add a Pattern” in the Patterns Section.

Note. In order for you to upload a pattern, you must create a new project and add instructions for your new pattern.

Fill in the information about your project in the provided fields and click on “Continue to Instructions.” Once you are done entering the instructions for your project, you can select “Continue to add a pattern.”

Fill out the required information, and in the Pattern PDF section select “Choose a File” to upload a “Technical Drawing”, “Print at Home Pattern PDF”, and/or “Print at Copy Shop Pattern PDF.”

Note: Technical Drawings images will be cropped to fit 283 × 148 pixels.

When you are finished, select “Create new pattern.”

The project will be saved to your studio. To share with the BurdaStyle community select “Publish Project” on the following screen or access your pattern in your “My Studio” section by clicking on the “Publish” link.

Jun 17, 2009, 02.03 PM by burdastyle

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  Jan 15, 2010, 05.23 AMby robynvinessmith

  It would be helpful if these links were clickable. It took me a lot of effort to find the “Create a Print-at-Home Pattern PDF” Technique.

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    Jan 18, 2010, 04.38 PMby alden

    well that is a bug and I will certainly look into this!

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    Mar 2, 2010, 04.55 PMby missnibbles

    I agree, I wish the links were clickable, I still can’t find the Create a print at home pattern pdf technique.

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  Feb 9, 2010, 06.49 PMby jacway

  Comment traduire les explications en français avant de les imprimer,je les ai toujours en anglais
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  Mar 2, 2010, 10.41 PMby sew4my3

  Go here and see if this helps: http://translate.google.com/#en|fr|Go%20here%20and%20see%20if%20this%20helps%3A I am using the translator for this so I am sorry if it is incorrect.

  Cliquez ici et voir si cela aide: http://translate . google.com / # EN | FR | Go 20here%% 20and% 20See% 20if% 20La% 20helps% 3A J’utilise le traducteur de ce que je suis désolée si cela est incorrect.
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  Mar 3, 2010, 12.12 AMby seemane

  This should be the clickable link to the tutorial: Create a Print-at-Home Pattern PDF Regards. Seemane :)
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  Mar 3, 2010, 11.55 AMby ichigogirl

  Hm, an easy way around it: I simply printed an A4 sheet from a burdastye-pattern, copied the margains to a blank piece of paper and made load of photocopies of the new paper-template. When I want to upload a pattern I simply fold the margains to the back of the margained pieces of paper and sticky-tape them into a big sheet where I lay out my pattern-pieces and trace them. Then I make all necessary marks and instructions (ie number the pages and mark up how to place them). When I’m done I remove the sticky-tape, unfold the margains and scan the separate pages. Piece of cake and seems to work just as well as the long re-scaling-excersise that used to be in the BS-instructions!
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  Apr 12, 2010, 09.11 PMby seemane

  BurdaStyle have added another way to turn your patterns into PDF file here:

  Converting your patterns into a digital PDF
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  May 9, 2010, 03.19 AMby lclair

  Well, heck! I’ve been translating old (I mean really old!) patterns from an 1840 Workwoman’s Guide to today’s measurements (ie. nails to inches, etc.) and thought I’d share. The caps, hats, chemises, petticoats, and shirts are actually fun and period authentic. I’ve tried three times to upload a simple Poor Woman’s Night-Cap pattern and it’s a no go—and a headache. The process was extremely unwieldy, especially as I’ve put all the directions in one pdf file and the pattern in another. I followed all the directions above to the letter, but sheesh! I don’t need this aggravation. I’m afraid I’ll be looking for another site that would like these patterns.
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  Jul 22, 2010, 04.20 PMby latjjardbai

  I’m trying to add a pattern but there seems to be ab bug. I always get the information project season can’t be blank, but there is no field to choose the season?