December 31, 2023
While we plan for 2024, we always reflect on the past year and honor our accomplishments. We did a lot this past year, but mostly we enjoyed connecting with you over sewing and our patterns! We absolutely love seeing what you make with our patterns and hearing about your projects. Thank you for being loyal Folkwear customers! Check out the Customer Gallery here.
NEW PATTERNS
510 Passionflower Lingerie Top
262 Spectator Hats - Turban and Cloche
PATTERNS BROUGHT BACK INTO PRINT
224 Beautiful Dreamer (size up from original)
241 Fifties Fit and Flair (sized up from original)
PATTERNS RELEASED AS PDFS
204 Missouri River Boatman’s Shirt
237 Tango Dress (sized up)
253 Vintage Bathing Costume (sized up - also sized up the paper pattern)
241 Fifties Fit and Flair (sized up)
224 Beautiful Dreamer (sized up)
230 Model T Duster (sized up)
We have had a great year at Folkwear. While the sewing market seems to slow down a little bit each year (since Covid), we are grateful that we have a wonderful customer base and fabulous stockists. This year, we also picked up Joann’s as an online retailer of our patterns. And we loved collaborating with Sarah Pedlow of ThreadWritten for embroidery workshops with our patterns! Next workshop is January 20 on Romanian Blouse embroidery. We are looking forward to 2024! We plan to release a few patterns over the year, but our bigger goal for the past few years has been to continue to digitize all Folkwear patterns. We want to have all our patterns available as PDF patterns, and keep in print as many as we can (bringing back out-of-print patterns whenever we can). We plan to continue to work on these goals throughout 2024. We are also planning to release more tutorials for sewing tricky patterns and to cover techniques used in Folkwear patterns. If you have pattern suggestions or tutorial suggestions, leave them in the comments below!