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There is now a facebook group for Scroop Patterns!

There is now a Facebook Group for Scroop Patterns: the Scroop Patterns Sewing Group! Yay! Hooray! I’m still polishing the group settings, but do come along and join it! Use the group to: Show off your Scroop stuff (yay, pictures!) Ask questions about the patterns – this will make it easier and faster for me to answer, and if I’m offline, hopefully there will be other people who have made the pattern who can answer. Get links to tutorials Hear about new patterns and sales (Oooh!) Hope to see you in it!

The Scroop Ngaio Blouse thedreamstress.com

The Ngaio Blouse – the difference in cup sizes, illustrated

Published by The Dreamstress

When I first planned the Ngaio Blouse as a pattern I intended to offer it in one standard size, and do a tutorial on how to do a full bust adjustment (FBA) on it, since the pattern pieces aren’t standard shapes that most sewers are used to adjusting. Then I thought: why not just do it for you? I thought you might appreciate a bit of insight into the method I used, the calculations behind it, and what affect that has on the final fit. The simplest way to measure cup size is to measure the difference between your full bust measure, and your high bust measure: According to this system, an A cup has a 1″ difference, a B cup has a 2″ difference, a C cup a 3″, etc, etc. This is the measuring system I use for the Ngaio blouse, because it works reasonably well for most bodies, is the same system most other pattern companies use (so I’m not throwing a bunch of weird measures you’re not expecting at you), and …

Introducing the Scroop Ngaio Blouse

Published by The Dreamstress

Meet the newest Scroop Pattern: the Ngaio Blouse, a 1930s inspired blouse, with bodice pieces for three different cup size ranges, from A cup to F+ cup. The Ngaio Blouse, (pronounced Ny-e-0, with the e almost silent – learn how to say it properly here), named for Dame Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand playwright and novelist most famous for being one of the ‘Queens of Crime’ of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction in the 20s & 30s, along with Agatha Christie. The Ngaio blouse was inspired by a vintage 1930s pattern in my collection which looks absolutely gorgeous in the cover illustration, but not much like it made up – once you managed to make it up, as none of the seams matched! The Ngaio captures the look of the vintage pattern illustration, with a modern fit, full instructions (and, very importantly, seams that match up 😉 ). The Ngaio features a V-neck and gathered upper bodice. Back darts provide shaping below the waist so the top skims the waist and sits snugly on the …