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author: "joostdecock"
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caption: "Your new login background for the month of november"
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date: "2017-10-31"
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intro: "This is your monthly roundup of the freesewing news of the last four weeks, and a look at what lies ahead in the next month."
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title: "Monthly roundup - October 2017: Huey, Roy, community building and pattern cover pages"
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---
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This is your monthly roundup of the freesewing news of the last four weeks, and a look at what lies ahead in the next month.
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## Looking back at october
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In retrospect, I should have made the october background image haloween themed.
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I guess I'll try to remember that for next year.
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### Meet Huey
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First up: a new pattern. The Huey Hoodie is [now available](/patterns/huey) in beta.
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Huey is a zip-up hoodie, have a look at [the Huey showcase page](/showcase/pattern/huey) for examples.
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[The announcement blog post](/blog/huey-hoodie-beta/) also explains what it means for a pattern to be in beta.
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### Community building
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Freesewing is slowly evolving into a communal effort. The
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[freesewing chat room](https://chat.freesewing.org/) is turning
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into a rather chatty place, which is really wonderful to see.
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Furthermore, a number of people are taking a stab at designing their own patterns with
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freesewing. I think that's very exciting and I'm looking forward to the day we'll all
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be able to enjoy the fruits of that labour.
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Meanwhile, people are also helping out with the site, suggesting fixes and improvements
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left and right, and [Wouter](/users/xdpug) even added an entire page on
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[Git basics](/docs/git-basics) which should be a great stepping stone for people who like
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him want to get involved, but lack prior experience with Git (and GitHub).
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Needless to say, I am very appreciative of all contributions big and small.
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If you'd like to get involved, [come say hi](https://chat.freesewing.org/).
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### Cover pages for patterns
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This is something I'm
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[kind of excited about](https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba6qVTFDZv_/):
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but I've made
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[some changes](https://github.com/freesewing/tile/commit/9d2b11e7a9f0d08b890a04eced989f0b432d2c53)
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to [freesewing tile](https://github.com/freesewing/tile) to add a cover page to patterns.
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The tile repository holds software that turns your pattern into multiple pages you can
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print on your printer (so called tiling, hence the name).
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You need to sticky-tape those pages together, and even though there are markings on the pages
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to help you with that, it would be nice to have an overview page that shows the entire pattern
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and how it's layed out over the different pages.
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Problem is, because freesewing patterns are drafted on the fly, based on your measurements,
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there's no way to know how big or small your pattern will be. In addition, you can pick a variety
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of paper sizes which will also influence how the pattern gets tiled.
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So for the longest time, I felt it was simply not possible to add an coverpage with an
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overview of how everything needs to be stuck together. But everyday is a school day, and
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I'm glad to announce that starting of today, when you download a tiled PDF, it will come
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with a cover page detailing the layout.
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This is obviously very new code, so if for some reason you run into trouble with the tiler,
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make sure to [let me know about it](https://github.com/freesewing/tile/issues/new).
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### Roy will design cover images for patterns
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I've made some changes to [the patterns page](/patterns/) because I felt that the previous
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layout wasn't doing the patterns justice.
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While the layout is a bit better now (I think) the pictures are still a bit *meh* and they
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don't really say *freesewing*.
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So, I've talked to Dutch illustrator [Roy Van der Hel](https://royvdhel-art.deviantart.com/)
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(who also signed for our measurements illustrations)
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and I'm glad to be able to share with you that he's agreed to do illustrations for the
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different freesewing patterns.
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Roy will be working on these on and off, but I hope you'll start to see more of his work
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here relatively soon.
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## Looking ahead to november
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Last month I said I was working on 5 patterns. One of those (Huey) has been released now
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and these days I'm occupied making a test garment for another pattern on that list: a wintercoat.
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I don't want to give away too much about this yet, because it's kind of exciting, but
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I hope to be able to show more of this during the month of november. If for no other
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reason that it's getting cold and I could really do with a warm coat.
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