r/freepatterns↗
Free Sewing Patterns
For sharing free sewing patterns. We love seeing your finished products and hearing your experience in creating it. Only links to completely free patterns or instructions to self draft patterns may be posted. No paid/premium patterns allowed. Pattern requests must go in the weekly thread.
202k subscribers71 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~6% by known bots)61 authors / mosince 2014
r/freepatterns has 202k members (+12% over the last 12 months). It gets about 71 posts a month from 61 people. Top topics: Free Patterns, Dress Patterns and Pattern Requests and Help.
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- Free Patterns16%
- Dress Patterns5.5%
- Pattern Requests and Help4.5%
- Pattern Requests and Similar Tops3.8%
- Circle Skirt Patterns & Issues3.1%
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- Mood Fabrics
- Threadloop
- etsy
- Tiana's Closet
- Ko-fi
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