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title: Your Sewing Patterns
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sidebar_position: 40
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---
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Our sewing patterns (patterns for short) is why most people end up on
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FreeSewing.org, so they are an important part of the website.
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FreeSewing does not store the pattern itself, instead we store your settings
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you used to draft the design, this includes:
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- Any [design options](/docs/about/site/draft/#design-options) you tweaked
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- Any [core settings](/docs/about/site/draft/#core-settings) you changed
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- The [UI preferences](/docs/about/site/draft/#ui-preferences) you used
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- The measurements you used
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With this, we can regenerate the pattern. So this is all we store.
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This also means that if a pattern goes through significant changes, or a new
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major version with breaking changes is released, we may no longer be able to
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generate the (old) pattern. For this reason, you should download the pattern as
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PDF or SVG and save it locally if you want to archive it.
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:::tip
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Backup your patterns if you intent to keep them for a long time
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:::
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In addition to the settings required to recreate the pattern, patterns are
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stored with the following fields:
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- [Name](#name)
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- [Notes](#notes)
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- [Image](#image)
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- [Public](#public)
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### Name
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Every pattern has a **name** attribute that is mandatory.
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In other words, you must give each of your patterns sets a name, but that name
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can be anything you want.
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### Notes
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Every pattern has a **notes** attribute that is optional.
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The notes field allows you to add your notes to a pattern.
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This field supports markdown, so you can use rich formatting, or even embed
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images.
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:::note
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If you make your pattern public, your notes will also be public.
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:::
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### Image
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If you'd like you can add an **image** to your pattern, for example of the
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finished make.
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This can help you remember exactly what this pattern was, which can be useful
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as you can end up having many patterns saved to your account.
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:::note
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If you make your pattern public, your image will also be public.
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:::
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### Public
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This settings controls whether your pattern will accessible by the **public** or not.
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By default, patterns are private and only you can access your own patterns. If
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you'd like to share your pattern with others -- perhaps because they showed an
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interest or you are looking for input -- you should first make it public.
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