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title: Getting started
order: 100
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Hi there 👋 and welcome to freesewing.org 🙂  
Reading this guide will take about 10 minutes of your time now, 
to save you a bunch of questions later, and make sure you get the most out of our website.

##### What we'll explain

 - We'll tell you [what FreeSewing is][1] and [what freesewing.org is][2]
 - We'll tell you about our [made-to-measure sewing patterns][3]
   and what we mean by [*with breasts* vs *without breasts*][4]
 - We'll cover [why you need an account][5]
 what we mean by [your people][6] or [your patterns][7], and we talk about [measurements][8]
 - We'll go over [how you can configure your patterns][9] with design and pattern options
 - Finally, we'll tell you [where you can get help][10] if you get stuck.

Sounds good? Then let's dive right in:

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<Tip>

##### You don't have to read everything

Feel free to click around to the parts that are most relevant to you. 
This guide is more reference than story.

</Tip>

[1]:/docs/guide/what/
[2]:/docs/guide/website/
[3]:/docs/guide/mtm/
[4]:/docs/guide/breasts/
[5]:/docs/guide/account/
[6]:/docs/guide/people/
[7]:/docs/guide/patterns/
[8]:/docs/guide/measurements/
[9]:/docs/guide/options/
[10]:/docs/guide/help/