Interaction - Bachelor
Venty is an app that drafts sewing patterns to your own body. You measure yourself once, then describe a garment with words, a photo or a sketch. Venty shows it on a mannequin built from your measurements, then lays the pattern out on A4 paper, ready to print at home and sew.
Venty is live. Open it on your phone, add your measurements and watch a pattern draft itself to your body.
Clothes come in sizes. People don’t. Shop-bought sewing patterns are graded to standard sizes, so home sewists measure, guess and alter by hand, and a garment can still come out not fitting. For a beginner, the jargon on a pattern sheet is a barrier before they even cut.
I interviewed home sewists about how they measure, what goes wrong and what happens once a pattern prints. Three things came up again and again: measuring is confusing without guidance, sizes rarely match a real body, and pattern language assumes you already know how to sew. Their answers became the 24 measurements Venty asks for, in the order sewists actually take them.
How might we help beginner and home sewists make clothes that fit their own body, without needing to know how to draft a pattern?
Venty does the maths of pattern drafting, and the craft stays in your hands. It saves your body once, turns plain words, photos or sketches into a garment you can see on a 3D body built from your measurements, and lays the finished pattern out on A4 paper. Every screen speaks the language of the sewing room.
Buy less, choose well, make it last.
Vivienne Westwood
Natalia Chamon Kovalenko is a Brisbane-based designer studying at QUT, working across interaction design, branding and visual communication. Drawn to fashion and editorial imagery, she creates calm, considered work where every detail has a purpose, from interfaces to identities.
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