Ottobre Sewing Magazines

Several Christmas’s ago I asked for a subscription to Ottobre Sewing Magazines. I received this great gift and throughout the year got four amazing magazines FILLED with so many sewing patterns. Each magazine has 15+ sewing patterns, and SO many of them are ones I want to make. In this post I’ll share my experience with sewing from Ottobre Sewing Magazines and some tips as well.

Ottobre Sewing Magazines {review}

You can get a subscription to the magazine on their website or individual magazines HERE. Here’s my latest creation from the magazine… A gorgeous jersey dress, with fun top yoke.

I enjoyed sewing this pattern and Rose loves her new dress. It will be perfect with leggings for fall. You can read all about the sewing experience of Ottobre patterns below. {oh and Rose does all her own poses… and doesn’t take direction well, haha}

Here is a new one I sewed recently {fall 2019} These joggers were SO fun! I’m going to try and hack my kids sweatpants pattern to have some of these fun details. You could try it if you don’t have the actual pattern. I think you could cut up the pieces to make it like these. 

Here’s the project I shared last fall.. I’m still working through the patterns in these books from 2015. There are just so many great patterns. I’m writing this post so I have a place to continue to share photos from patterns I make from Ottobre. I sewed up this fabulous t-shirt for Jack recently. He’s not a fan of a lot of clothes, but he likes this shirt, so I’m thrilled and planning to sewing him another.

The shoulder detail on this on makes it so cute and the fit is great.

Ok, so let’s talk about fit… the patterns are written in Europe so the size charts are all in metric… I like to look up conversion charts when I need.

And then I write my conversions on the patterns.

So this is how they fit 15 + patterns in each magazine. Four double sided pages of pattern pieces that look like this Each side has multiple patterns on it, but they are color coded. The shirt Jack is wearing above was the RED pieces on this sheet. I use tissue paper to trace the pieces I need. SEAM ALLOWANCES ARE NOT INCLUDED – so you have to add those when you trace. The instuctions will tell you which sides of the pattern to add it to, and what not too {like the neckline}

I would say you should have a basic understanding of clothing construction before attempting to sew with Ottobre Sewing Magazines as they instructions are very condensed. Here is the shirt I made, and the entire instructions.. if this makes sense to you then you are ready to sew with Ottobre.

The patterns are cute and classic looks with great design and fit. I’ve been working my way through the magazines. I’ll add more photos to this post as I sew more. I’ve sewn several more pieces from these patterns { I can think of more than 5 others, but can’t find decent photos right now} So I will have to keep sewing and adding.

In the below photos Rose is wearing two different shirts made from Ottobre patterns. I don’t know why I never took decent photos. Especially of the top shirt… it was my FAVORITE!! I’m hoping to add more clothing items to this post and then I can take off these not-so-great photos…

And one last model photo.

You can always check out my huge selection of FREE SEWING PATTERNS HERE.