Fashion Design Online is the very first virtual classroom created to teach the concepts of computerized apparel flat pattern making.  The apparel and home sewing industries have vastly computerized over the last 20 years.  Apparel-related CAD programs are now easily affordable by small businesses, contract pattern makers, and students.  Fashion Design Online has been established to teach the student who has no experience in pattern making and the skilled pattern maker who wants to computerize the process.  Computerized pattern making skills can open up new opportunities for career advancement, new creative outlets, and additional business services.  Fashion Design Online is professional pattern making classes taught by expert pattern makers.

Our mission is...

• To teach flat pattern techniques using CAD software.
• To re-interpret the use of pencil, paper, scissors, and ruler to their corresponding computer tools.
• To provide a foundation to apply flat pattern theory for the creation of any design using CAD.
• To provide the professional pattern maker with tools to speed the process of pattern making and to increase accuracy and efficiency of the finished patterns.
• To provide the new pattern maker with the skills to create any pattern using CAD.
• To provide the sewing and pattern making enthusiast with the skills to edit commercial and custom drafted sewing patterns to new styles

Fashion Design Online is a division of Wild Ginger Software, Inc. Wild Ginger Software, Inc. is the largest publisher of custom apparel pattern drafting software in the world.  Wild Ginger Software has been creating software for the apparel and home sewing industries since 1995. The company specializes in apparel pattern making software for the small to medium-sized apparel manufacturer, the professional pattern maker, the small to medium-sized custom clothing business, the theatrical costumer, and the home sewing enthusiast.