Hello, I am Kathleen Fasanella — the author of The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Sewn Product Manufacturing, the hostess of Fashion-Incubator.com, and founder of the Albuquerque Fashion Incubator, a “sewing factory school.”
In the event you reached this site hoping to purchase my book or other products and services related to my professional life, you can find them at Designer-Entrepreneurs.com. My video, Patternmaking for Professionals, has been released on DVD, and you can find it there too. You’ll find many other resources there and at Fashion-Incubator.com to help you with your sewing-related business. If you don’t find what you need, please get in touch.
Although there is a lot of crossover between my work and personal life, I’d prefer to restrict this site to non-commercial and personal interests that don’t belong on my work site. You can learn more about my personal journey here.
Here I can discuss a myriad of topics that aren’t professionally appropriate in other contexts. If you don’t know it already, I’d never be accused of being an apologist for the apparel industry, and my frustration most likely exceeds your own.
I’m an apparel industry pattern maker. As there is no licensing or credentialing of pattern makers in the industry, no one can be described as a “master pattern maker.” Empirically, it’s another story — usually to my boundless dismay. I prefer to be known as a steward. By “steward,” I mean that I’m interested in all things related to pattern making. I collect pattern-making information, create pattern-making information, and do my best to make all that information available to others to help increase professionalism in the trade.
~ Kathleen
Nurture people, not products