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The Scroop Miramar Dress, Top & Tunic on Nina & Hvitr

I had a fantastic group of testers for the Scroop Miramar Dress, Top & Tunic – 6 awesome ladies who were nice enough to tell me every little place in the pattern that they found confusing, all the typos and stylistic oddities that I’d left in because you start missing them after you’ve read it a million times, any places where the printing just didn’t quite work, and any fit issues that they had, so that I could make sure that everyone, everywhere in the world, would be able to print and make up the pattern successfully. Two of my pattern testers were fellow Wellington sewists (and Wellington Sewing Blogger Network members), Nina of SmashtheStash & Hvitr of Historical Living with Hvitr (who you probably recognise from the phenomenal things she makes for the HSF). Having local testers is really helpful, because it means I can see things in person, and get fussy over the fit in ways it’s hard to do from photographs. Also, both Hvitr and Nina are extremely detailed and analytical, and …

Introducing the Scroop Miramar Dress, Top & Tunic!

Published by The Dreamstress

It’s here! Say hello to the newest Scroop pattern: the Miramar Dress, Top & Tunic. The Miramar is one of the most popular patterns that I teach with, and is also one of my favourite wardrobe staples for myself. It is designed to be a super easy introduction to sewing with knits for beginner sewist, and a fun, quick make for those with more experience. Like my first pattern, the Henrietta Maria Dress and Top, the Miramar comes in my full size range: from bust 30″ to bust 50″, and has been tested in every size by my sewing students, and some awesome pattern testers, so you can be confident that it really does work on actual bodies. All three garments feature a V-neck with self-collar, and short or 3/4 length cut-on sleeves. The top sits at mid hip, and the tunic at mid thigh. The dress loosens below the hips to form a softly flared skirt that ends at the knee. In warm knits the dress makes great autumn and winter wear paired with …

A Call for Pattern Testers – would you like to test new Scroop patterns?

Published by The Dreamstress

Things have been quiet on the Scroop Patterns front for the last few months, while I focused on a trip home to my parents in Hawaii, and Costume College, and other work commitments, but I’ve also been working on patterns, and am going to be launching quite a few over the next six months (Yay, yay, yay!). So, I need pattern testers! People to try the patterns to make sure they print properly in all paper formats; that the instructions make sense (and that I haven’t missed any typos – SO easy after you’ve been staring at a set of instructions for weeks on end!), and to give me general feedback. I’ve got a bunch of patterns on the go, ranging from super-easy modern stuff, to slightly more complicated modern and historical (ooh!) stuff, to really complicated historical stuff (OOOooh!!). So I’m going to be wanting a whole range of testers, so when I have something I think you, as a tester, would be interested in, I can ask you if you’d like to test …