Sewing clothes for children is one of life’s biggest creative pleasures. Watching kids run around, climbing, crawling, and creating mischief, wearing something you’ve dedicated time and love to is incredibly rewarding. Like many parents, Martyna Pietrzak was drawn back to her long sidelined love of sewing when she was expecting her first child. However, unlike most of us, Martyna decided to make a big leap of faith and say goodbye to her job in the corporate world to concentrate full-time on designing childrenswear patterns, resulting in her fantastic company MadeByMePatterns.
“I’ve always been creative,” explains Martyna, from her home in Ëódz, Poland, “and as a child, I loved to paint. My mum was always sewing clothes for my sister and me, which made me want to knit and sew clothes…
