Size "purple"
Fabric: lightweight merino, probably a blend, from Otara, which is the land of cheap fabrics in south Auckland.
I bought 4 patterns by this new to me company.
I have now made 3 of them: the Avery, Logan, and the Willow.
As far as I can tell this is either a friend, subsidiary, or someone who stole the concept from Patterns 4 Pirates. The designer uses a very similar layout in her instructions, though the patterns are slightly different - using colour coding for sizes. They feel very similar in character as well.
My first large irritation is that I had these printed as A0 patterns and the paper usage was horrible. Pieces were not placed tightly on the paper, and I think there was an entire huge sheet for a single A4 element that could have been put somewhere else. I pay for the luxury of A0 and it's $7 a sheet. When a pattern lazily takes up 3 sheets, that's 21$ I have paid on top of the cost of the pattern!
I have mentioned elsewhere that I passionately hate instructions done as colour photos. This is unchanged. The way I survived these instructions is that basically, I rarely needed them.
This was a fast pattern, as were the Logan and the Avery. Thus far my feeling is that this company puts out easy to make patterns with very lazy drafting, in knits where it doesn't matter. I made the higher crotch romper, and I might have shortened it. The fit is fine, though not at all flattering. The pockets are a bit too low. I don't really like the strap method. You precut the straps and sew the ends together then treat it like a bias strip, sewing it it as a binding for the armhole which is just not sewn to anything at the top. There's instruction on how to put clear elastic in the tops - which I recommend, but my straps are gaping all the way around, suggesting that this method overall doesn't create a very good structural finish for a garment. I do like the bodice fit enough to be semi tempted to make the dress, but not until I have decided how to fix this strap issue.
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