When you are a home sewer that is making clothes for yourself, you use a home sewing pattern. When you are a fashion brand working with a factory to make clothes to sell to other people, you use a factory-ready production pattern. But what kind of pattern do you need when you are a fashion brand making clothes for others, but you are the one sewing them?
You still want a production pattern, just in a format that you can use to cut and sew. Just because it is factory-ready, doesn’t mean it can only be used by a factory. You can print out your production patterns and sew them yourself or hire or contract individual seamstresses to make your products.
There may be things that you sew a bit differently than a factory with more specialized machinery might, but the pattern should be made with this in mind. What makes it a production pattern is that it is optimized for how your brand will be producing the garments – whether that is you, a seamstress, or a factory.
Using a factory-ready pattern with industry standard seam allowances, markings, and format gives you the flexibility to sew the pieces yourself now, but have what you need to produce with a factory later if you choose.