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Ten more patterns now available instantly!
I know many of you are going to be excited about this. It’s certainly been a long time coming!
For the last couple pattern releases, we’ve made our new patterns available as digital downloads as well as in print. The response has been great, and I know this is especially helpful for the great numbers of you who don’t live in the US…or for those of you who just like a bit of instant gratification.
I’m pleased to say that with a little elbow grease and a lot of help from our graphic design fairy, we now have ten (!) more patterns for sale as PDFs: Chantilly, Parfait, Eclair, Beignet, Oolong, Ceylon, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Negroni, and Peony.
Take a look at them in the shop!
Comments
AnnabelVita
October 24, 2012 #
This is great news but can you please please please consider doing a “print at copy shop” full size digital option too? There are many of us for whom this is easier than assembling the PDF ourselves!
Sarai
October 24, 2012 #
We’ll work on figuring this out.
Annabel Vita
October 24, 2012 #
Hooray! Thank you!
kaitui_kiwi
October 28, 2012 #
This is awesome guys! I have been waiting for a few of these to get released as downloads so I can save on postage, all the way over here in NZ it can get really expensive for us.
Thank you so much, I can’t wait until you have them all digitally :)
I also second full sized printable/print at copy shop option as I have access to a large format plotter and it’s just super easy for me to print a big copy off
Clare
October 24, 2012 #
This is good news!
Re Annabel’s comment, I’d also like to add a tip for assembling print at home patterns. Initially I used to stick all pages together into a giant rectangle. It took ages and pieces wouldn’t lie flat which was frustrating. Then I realised it’s really not necessary to do that. Look at the overall layout page and just stick the pages together that connect individual pattern pieces. If a single pattern piece fits onto a page of A4 and doesn’t need to be stuck to another four pages, why do it?! Sorry if this is old news for seasoned pattern downloaders, but discovering that it doesn’t have to be an epic job has made me far more relaxed about downloading and printing patterns at home in future. It’s a lot easier to trace and store them too.
tothepointe
October 24, 2012 #
Oh I love sticking all the pages together while watching TV. Shall I come over with the sticky tape? I too have a method though. I only cut two of the edges clean then overlap them then only tile together pages needed for each piece.
Don’t forget to print the test square first time I ever printed a pattern I didn’t do this 100 pages later I found out I had the scaling setting on and everything was wrong….
Marie
October 24, 2012 #
Oooh lovely! I’ve been itching to try out Nutmeg…and a few others ;o)
lakaribane
October 24, 2012 #
*wild happy dance* THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!!!!
I just posted about this on Pattern Review.
Stephanie
October 24, 2012 #
Yeah!
Fabiana
October 24, 2012 #
Love it! Thank you so much!
Alexandra
October 24, 2012 #
Hurray! This is really exciting news!
Roll on payday!
Tatiana
October 24, 2012 #
These are great news indeed… Any chance that Crepe will be available as a pdf as well? Thanks!
Katie
October 24, 2012 #
Awesome! I’m new at sewing and haven’t had the opportunity to try any of the Collette patterns, but cannot wait until I can. Thank you for creating and providing such a wonderful collection of patterns!
gulsah
October 24, 2012 #
am i going to print them on A4 paper ?
Sarai
October 24, 2012 #
You may need to adjust your print settings, but you should be able to print either on US letter or A4 paper sizes.
Hannah
October 24, 2012 #
This is very exciting for those of us that live far far away, in a country without a Colette patterns supplier (New Zealand). This distance makes shipping quite expensive and thus mostly out of reach……..So, Thank you! Instant gratification AND no postage costs, YAY! Any plans to digitize the rest? I ask as my wardrobe simply must have a Violet blouse (everyday) and a Macaron dress (cake!) and I have been coveting these two quite avidly. I was excited when I saw this post but alas they are not included. Oh well, lots of other beauties to be sewn though…….
Sarai
October 25, 2012 #
I should have mentioned this in the post! We’re working to get ALL patterns available digitally. It just takes a while. :)
Liz
October 24, 2012 #
This is fantastic – I knew I had a printer at work for a reason ;)
I can see a Chantilly in the not too distant horizon. Thanks for making these available.
Hilde
October 25, 2012 #
This is so great! Since I live in Norway facing the same problems as Hannah, this is delightful news! I am so looking forward to making the Ceylon dress, a dress I have coveted for almost a year now.
joy
October 25, 2012 #
I kinda enjoy the little booklet, It always takes me a minute to get around a downloadable pattern – maybe I ought to review your post from Sewing Summit and “perfect” sewing. That’s one of the processes that is my least favorite of sewing. :)
Katie
October 25, 2012 #
It’s awesome there are going to be more print-at-home patterns! I assembled my first print-at-home pattern over the summer for a dress and it wasn’t as much of a pain as I thought it was.
Just wondering, how many pages would Nutmeg be?
jo
October 28, 2012 #
Yaay! thanks!! I can get mail order colette here in the UK, but i’m an instant gratification kind of girl, and hate paying postage costs too! It doesn’t look promising for curbing my impulse buying though!
Jem
October 30, 2012 #
This is great news, but I think I will stick with paper patterns, there is just something so lovely about receiving a colette pattern in the post and then the excitement at opening the envelope and there is the pattern, just screaming MAKE ME MAKE ME MAKE ME !! I never ever ever cut them out, but painstaking trace the pattern, as I just can’t bring myself to cut the pattern, if that makes me sad then so be it ahahahahaha
cathy
October 30, 2012 #
This is great! However, I have an addition question. Is it possible (before one purchases) to know how many pages are in the .pdf files? I live in Benin and it is expensive to print at a copy shop, so I’d like to calculate my cost beforehand. Specifically I am interested in the parfait pattern. Thank you! Cathy
Sarai
October 30, 2012 #
We’re working on this… I agree it would be good to know beforehand, so we’re trying to get it on each page.
I checked Parfait for you, and the pattern pieces are 39 pages (not including the instructions, which you don’t necessarily have to print. With instructions it’s 56 pages).