Are there any tutorials for making clothes patterns in Illustrator?

Recently, I've been messing around with sewing some non-clothes items on the sewing machine mostly by eying and rough measuring. However, I'd like to be able to reproduce these items with more exactness, so am trying to figure out how to make printable patterns.





I have and am somewhat adept at Adobe Illustrator. Has anyone used that for making patterns before or know of a free program that would be better?





Thanks!Are there any tutorials for making clothes patterns in Illustrator?
I have used Illustrator for 20 years and its a great program. You can take your drawing and scan it and save it as a pdf or eps import into illustrator then trace it their then you can re find it. Find a good output house that can make it large call them and find out if you have to work 1.2 scale or what. Illustrator has a max size for the page but will blow up to the side of a building. Then they can output the file for you. You can test it by doing the overlaps on smaller papers and taping the papers together. Since Illustrator creates a vector base file you can do about anything with it. I make banners and sides of cars. With mine.





You can test in a smaller size then out put to the size you want.





Have fun