http://www.PatternReview.com is a growing online community focused on categorizing, managing and sharing sewing experiences and opinions. The website which was launched in November last year is free for all of its users and boasts a growing number of sewers and reviews.
Deepika Prakash, a sewing enthusiast and a software developer, saw the challenge and difficulty in easily obtaining information from popular sewing message boards for making sewing decisions and created http://www.PatternReview.com to allow sewers to post and read opinions in an easy to navigate and categorized manner. The site initially allowed users to share reviews on their favorite patterns but over the last six months has evolved to allow users to also review and discuss sewing machines and sergers, sewing related websites, sewing books and magazines as well as fabric and sewing stores.
“The user response to http://www.PatternReview.com has been overwhelming and I receive e-mails from sewers almost on a daily basis thanking me for building and maintaining this site”, says Deepika. She has been rolling out new features and has most recently added functionality which allows users to create pattern review requests, maintain their personal pattern catalogs, create pattern wish lists, as well as buy, sell and exchange patterns with other users. This last feature was added to save sewers the added expense incurred in selling patterns via ebay or half.com.
http://www.PatternReview.com also features a weekly celebrity chat on Sunday evening at 9 PM EST and in the past has featured designers such as Peggy Sagers and Christine Jonson. Chat transcripts from previous chats are also available on the website. http://www.PatternReview.com is also running a Stash Contest to help sewers reduce theirs stash. Stash Contest winners receive prizes from contest sponsors.
“I developed http://www.PatternReview.com so that sewers could easily learn and share their knowledge, experience and opinions with each other. As the site grows I hope more and more sewers will benefit from it”, says Deepika. Looking at the user testimonials published at http://www.PatternReview.com it looks like the site is achieving this goal.
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