The Matinée Dress

Because I know you are all on pins and needles over this, and also since I haven’t been working on much else I can share, I thought I’d give a little update/sneak peek at what I’ve been doing on digitizing The Matinée Dress.
I have the bodice and optional cap sleeves digitized and graded.  At this point I have what should be 6-12M, 12-18M, 18-24M, 2T, 3T, and 4T.  I still need to digitize optional inseam pockets and I’ll have both pieces and dimensions for the bodice band.  For the skirt and optional hem band I’ll give dimensions only as I’ve checked around and nobody seems to like printing rectangles.  Can’t imagine why!

One of the things I really wanted to accomplish was having illustrations for the tutorial steps.  The patterns I have with this feature I’ve found to feel that extra bit professional, and it also has the benefit of remaining timeless even with changes in fabric tastes.  I’ve completed illustrations for four of the tutorial steps.  I think there will be about ten total illustrations, so I’m feeling pretty good about my progress on these.

Next steps are tiling and creating the initial pdf document.  Then pre-testing to make sure the pieces print correctly and align.  Then I’ll sew some sample dresses to ensure they fit together the way they should and seem on-target for sizing.

Then it will be the testers’ turn!  I’m excited and scared about this step – thus far, I’m the only one who’s made this dress.  I’m interested to see everyone else’s versions, but all full of nerves that testers will have problems.  My goal is to have a reasonably stress-free test by having the pattern at the point I would like to see for a pattern I’m purchasing, but that remains to be seen.

If you haven’t already signed up to become a tester, here’s the link to the form: Jennuine Design Pattern Tester Signup.  I’ll be looking for 2 or 3 for each size to try to cover a range of sewing skills.

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6 Responses to The Matinée Dress

  1. Lauren February 24, 2014 at 10:43 PM #

    Looking great!!!

  2. Courtney Davis February 24, 2014 at 11:43 PM #

    I’m so impressed and dying to learn how to do all this! So exciting!!

  3. carin van den berg February 25, 2014 at 4:38 AM #

    How exciting! I am looking forward to the pattern!!

  4. aus_chick February 28, 2014 at 7:11 PM #

    hmm, looks like you published the backend part of your sign up form, rather than the actual form, so someone has changed the text on it and removed some fields!

  5. Pienkel March 4, 2014 at 9:22 PM #

    Looking forward to the pattern, but the form seems to be not working, it looks like it’s your administrator version, where one can change the questions instead of answering…

    • Jenn AJennuineLife March 5, 2014 at 3:03 PM #

      Dang! I thought I fixed that. Oh, looks like I had the sharing set to edit. Should be set now.

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