 Hi you guys, welcome back to another first impression video. This is the video series where I take a look at an entire sewing pattern collection and just like chat about it with you guys. I give you guys kind of like what comes to mind whenever I look at the pattern, the overall design, the fabric choice, the fabric recommendations that they give, any fit issues that stand out, all of that kind of stuff. So if you like looking at the pattern books in the stores with a friend, this is the next best thing. Some might even say it's a little bit better. Today we're going to look at the Butterick Spring Collection. Looks like there's 16 patterns and very pastel. So let's jump into it. This first one is a Mrs. Dress and Sash, sizing 6 to 14 and then 16 to 24. That might be, I can't remember if Butterick goes down to a four or not, but this is very close to their entire size range. It's described as, loose fitting, tiered hem dress, have pointed collar, collar band, faced yoke, front band with button closure and set in sleeves with an elastic hem. View A has a matching sash. All right, so kind of like a take on a shirt dress. It's from, you know, the thigh up a shirt dress and then they just added some tiered ruffles to it, button band all the way down, ankle link. This is the long sleeve version with the elastic cuff and this is a short sleeve. Well, half sleeve. This also has elastic in here, which is giving it that bubble hem. And it looks like they made this from kind of like some sheer fabric. Yeah, pretty sheer. Let's see, okay, okay, here's the back. So we have a yoke, we have gathers. Yeah, they put a little slip under here and then just your, yeah. I mean, nothing super special about this. It is pretty. Let's do it fabrics they recommend. Charmous, cotton shirting, linen blends, novelty shears and tap it up. Yeah, I think that if you're into like a clean, polished look, but you want to do something a little bit fun and flirty, this might be a really good option for you. I also think that view A and B are the same length, but if you wanted to remove some tiers or adjust where the tiers start, there is some, some fun hacking potential here, but this one. So all you need for notions are, what is it, elastic and buttons? Yeah, all right. So finished garment measurements, there are eight inches of ease, seven and a half, eight inches of ease in the bust and waist. There is, oh, good grief, 23, 13, 11 and a half. Okay, so oversized for sure. I would make this based on my upper bust measurement size down and then maybe size down again if you're in between sizes. This is very, very loose fitting. Let me look at her version again. The illustration is not showing that much ease. I mean, maybe, because let me see the back of her dress again. Yeah, she's pulling it in quite a bit, but I don't know if it's that much. Don't look at the shoulders. The shoulders is usually the dead giveaway that it's too big, but either they pinned it up in the back where we can't see or they made the right size for her, because the shoulders do look really good. I just, I'm not sure that there's eight, seven, eight inches of ease in this. Maybe five, four or five, maybe will be my guess, but very on brand for buttock. That is, this is buttock's woman right here for sure. And so is she. All right, let's talk about this Mrs. and Women's cape, top and pants. I've never seen a more buttock pattern than this one before. They love this kind of stuff at buttock. So we do have Mrs. and Women's. That is a 10 to 18. Oh, interesting. And then a 20 to 28 women's. Okay, a 20 W is not the same as a Mrs. 20. It has a fuller bust for sure. And then maybe some other, you know, changes that we would not know about. Sometimes they say in here that Mrs. is drafted for this cup size and Women's is drafted for this other cup size, but there might be changes in the length. You'd have to buy both pattern pieces and lay them on top of each other really to see the differences. But if you're a Mrs. 20, 22, 24, 26, it's not going to be the same as buying one of these women's sizes. So this feels a little bit, I don't want to say it's, it feels like they're cheating a little bit. Yes, it's Mrs. and Women's. Yes, that's technically true, but it's a limited Mrs. and a limited Women's. So that feels, I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that. It's better than not having the women's sizes. But gosh, I'm torn. Better than not, but they could still do better is where I'll leave it. Blind capes have stand-up collar, side front pocket, side openings concealed so on snap closure and length variations. Loose fitting top has purchased bias facings, side slits and hem variations. Slim pants have grow grain waist facings. Waist darts and invisible side zipper with hook and eye closure. I kind of love this idea of the grow grain waist facing. You don't see that very often. That feels a little bit more like a Vogue feature. But we've got all these interesting style lines and your little arms peek out of here. This does seem, or watch one of my first impression videos before we talk about a cape. I'm always like, how do people drive? Like these are clearly like standing and walking only garments because you can't raise your arms to hold a steering wheel. So you're not driving anywhere. You're being driven or you're standing and walking alone. That's it. But this one does have a pretty significant arm opening. So she could raise her arm not all the way, but she could raise it a good bit. The pocket is hidden in one of these seams. I like that detail. And then it's a hidden button and placket too, which also gives us just a really polished look. Now this satiny, I think what they did is crate back satin. And I think the pants are the crepe side. And this is the satin side. If you're going to a wedding, if you're going to an event, absolutely, this is gorgeous. But if you're just going to brunch or something, this feels like a lot. Like I don't go to enough events for this to be, like to take up an entire hanger in my closet. So we'll look at some other fabric recommendations that they have, but what I'm dying to see is the top and pants without the cape on. Are they going to give us that photo? Come on. Okay, there's the back. That's also helpful. The back is actually really pretty. Nice shape in the shoulder for sure. Let's go. Let's go. Come on. Come on. You can do it. No. What does the top even look like? It's a tank top. We don't even see one photo of the tank top. That's just, that's just really unfortunate. I get that it's kind of like a throwaway pattern. Like it's just a simple little tank top, but I want to see how that tank top fits. And because I have such trust issues, my assumption is if you're not showing me the tank top, then the tank top doesn't fit well or is ugly or something bad happened and you're just trying to hide it. That's where my mind goes with all the trust issues I have. Either way, I'd also like to see the top of the pants, which we never get to see. I'd like to see the pleating and the waistband and all of that kind of stuff, like not pleating, but darts. It's not enough just to show us, I guess they probably think this is the seller. This is the money maker, but if I'm buying a pattern that has three pieces in it, I'm going to have to love all three pieces because the capes are nothing new. You can buy lots of different cape patterns. All right. So they recommend heavy satin, micado and wool blends for the cape. And then for the top and pants, crepe, satin and twill. Yeah, I think these would be okay for the cape too though. I do want to call out when they do something that I like. I will call that out too, not just the stuff that I don't like, but I do like how they attempted to separate these. Like these are suitable for the cape and these are suitable for the pants and top, but I do think we could have expanded upon the cape. I think these could be included in the cape one as well. Lining fabric and lightweight fusible interfacing. So the cape is also interfaced. Let's see how much interfacing. One and three quarter yards for the cape. And then yeah, okay. So the almost the entire cape is interfaced, I think. Oh, actually maybe not because it could just be the button band cut on grain or like the interfacing has grain too. That would take up a good chunk of interfacing and then the collars probably interfaced as well. So maybe it's not interfaced, which is why in order to get this like billowy kind of look, you need a fabric that has this much body. If you do something super lightweight, it's just going to fall in on you and look like it's not going to stand away from the body like this. That said though, these are not the only fabrics that do that. So yeah, I don't know. This feels like they want it to be like a like a dress up kind of thing, which is fine, but I don't have any place in my life for that. Okay, so snaps, bias tape, invisible zipper, hook and eye, grow grain ribbon, that's it. And then here's our size range. No finished garment measurements on line, but from what I can tell, close fitting pants, close fitting top, when you do get those finished garment measurements, you should be in the two, three inches of ease range on them. And then this one's going to just be very large. So based that on your upper bust measurement, okay. All right, here is a Mrs. and Women's Shirts. Let's check out the sizes on this one. Same thing. All right, I've said what I have to say about that, so I'm not going to jump back on that soapbox. Simifitted shirts have neckband, collar, face yoke, front and back darts, front button closure, long set in sleeves, ending in button cuffs, with placket opening and buttoned sleeve tabs and stitched hems. So just another interesting take on a button down shirt. I do think this is really cool and very interesting and a very like basics with a twist that you know I, that's my personal, like if I could call my style anything, it would be basics with a twist. This is definitely that. I'm not sure about it for me specifically though, because I'm just not a button down kind of girl. But I mean with leggings, I don't know, maybe, maybe it could be some fun way to dress up something that's inherently very dressed down. And that's leggings. Like it's like a tunic though. I think that's what's throwing me is that it's tunic length. And I just don't really wear tunics. This print is just absolutely not good. There's a simple linen, I love that. Very beautiful and simple. It is pretty, I do like this. Like if someone came to me and said I want to make this, I would be gong ho to help them make it pretty design. Let's see the back. Thank you. So just a yoke, I don't think, yeah no gathers back here to add any extra ease. Oh, but we have some seaming right here. A big long dart to give some shape to the waist. I appreciate that. As always with women's patterns, the shoulder length is way too long. You can see this one dropping off her shoulder by about an inch. I just want to pull that up to so it sits right here. They just don't take an account that that plus size women's shoulders are rounder. They don't come out and down like straight size women do. And this has been a, I've seen this as an issue from the beginning. It's never been anywhere, anything different for them. It's always an issue I guess is my point. This pattern is not unique to that. Because look, do you see hers? Hers is not dropping down off her shoulder. Because her body is just shaped differently and they don't take that into account for the women's sizes. I don't really understand the point of doing a women's pattern. If you're not going to pay attention to such a small detail, not even a small detail, it's like obvious, but like shoulder length. If you're not even going to adjust for shoulder length, then I mean, what are we doing? I swear I'm not in a bad mood today. Yeah, these are really beautiful fish eye darts. I really love those. All right. So you're going to be able to see those here. Yeah, I'm a big, big, big fan of fish eye darts for sure. So chambray, that might be what the pink one is actually. Chambray and not linen. Chambray, Charmous, linen blends and poplin. Yeah, obviously if you wanted a crispier look, I could definitely see it in a white shirting to give that structure, crisp, clean vibe. And then fusible interfacing, 13 buttons and ribbon for an inside tie. So this comes over here. Ties on the side, like an actual wrap. I wonder what it would look like if you extended this on these side seams down to make a dress. That could be cool and you wouldn't need that much more fabric, maybe another eight or 10 inches. That could be fun and unique. Okay, finished garment. I mean, yeah, sorry. Pattern E's wise, we have three, six and a half in the bust. That's still so much. And then 10 in the waist, way too much, way, way too much. Even for an oversized, and it's not oversized, it's supposed to fit. Let me see the front. Okay, okay. The waist does have that much ease in it, I think. The bust maybe not, but I wouldn't be scared to size down one, no matter where I fell in the size range. And then maybe even save side seams, be prepared to take them in maybe a little bit more if you want something extra fitted. But yeah, that's a lot of ease. Butteric is like, I think since I've been doing these in the spring, kind of all back-to-back patterns, the last two or three I've reviewed, I felt like I didn't have much to say about Pattern E's. But so far, all of these Butteric ones seem to be airing on the side of oversized. Fitted line jackets, oh sorry, this is a Mrs. Jacket, eight to 16 and 18 to 26. Fitted line jackets have princess seams, concealed front zipper closure, they're really into that. In-scene front pockets, they're into that too. Set-in sleeves and link variations. View A has long sleeves, View B has seven eighths with pleat and button detail. Oh, I see, okay. So, it's a jacket. This is the little pleated detail, which I actually think is really pretty. Yeah, it's a jacket. Okay, it's a springtime jacket for sure. I don't know, it just feels, I don't know. I guess there's just not enough interest to me. This is the only interesting thing about it. And this is reminding me of something. At first, I was going to say lab coat, doctors coat, but that's not it. It's something else that has this covered button band, or I guess it's a zipper band. Yeah, it's reminding me of some profession, but I can't remember, can't put my finger on it. But really pretty, I mean, pretty design. I mean, princess seams. Here's the pocket in here. Like I said, there's a zipper inside of this. It is really pretty. It's just not my style. But I can see, like, it almost looks really, it's kind of like vogue-ish to me. New vogue, not old vogue. Just very clean, like upper east side, very kind of, it's like that simple luxury type of feel, which isn't a bad thing. It's just not my thing. It might be your thing. You might love it. And I hope, if you do, I hope you still love it. After, even if I don't like it, of course, you should absolutely still like what you like. But yeah, just not for me. Brocade, denim, gabardine, linen, and wool blends. Yeah, all of your jacketing, did I say it? Yeah, they said linen. Yeah, anything kind of, like, structured for a jacket. Blining and then mid-weight fusible. Separating zipper is the only notion. And this will be very close-fitting on the model. So yeah, three and a half inches of ease in the bust, that makes sense. The waist has also three and a half. Perfect. And the hip has four and a half. Yes, okay, that actually makes sense. So when they do their fitted garments, the ease seems appropriate. If it's anything remotely loose-fitting, it's like they just go ham. And they're just like, there's only close-fitting and very loose-fitting. They're just like, where's the middle ground? Okay, next, lounge set by Palmer Plesch. Okay, if you're not familiar, Palmer Plesch are the people who do the tissue-fitting method. I've tried it. I think you really need an extra set of hands in order to really master it. Because when I've done it, I've done it on my ditto form, my dress form that looks just like my body. And it's much easier that way. When I try to do it on my own, it was too difficult. But lots of interesting videos. If you want to really nerd out about fitting, check out Patty Palmer and this tissue-fitting method. There's lots of videos that you can find on it. It's really interesting. Pajama set or lounge set, being this hyper-focused on fitting, feels a little bit like, I don't know if it's that necessary. This fits exactly perfectly. But maybe it's one of those things that's like, you experiment on it because it doesn't really matter. You know what I mean? Okay, so straight wrap. Did I do sizing yet? No. Eight to 16. Oh, and then a 14 to 22. They have two sizes that overlap in two different envelopes. Sorry about that. I just muted my laptop so you won't hear the dinging anymore. Anyways, two sizes that overlap. I'd never see that. I almost wonder if that's like a mistake on the internet. But that's really interesting if that's the case because it would make it really easy to grade between sizes, especially if you're making this thing. This is your entire body here, all in one pattern piece. There's not a waist seam to be seen. Straight wrap dress and top have bands, darts, tie closure and can be long sleeve or sleeveless. Straight-legged pants have elastic waist and stitched hems. Okay, so this is the dress. I mean, she hardly looks like she's lounging to me unless she's lounging in a bar lounge. This lady looks a little bit more loungy. This is definitely giving hospital gown vibes. But they put her in a high heel, too. I'm not lounging in high heels, guys. And then these look like actual outfits. So maybe they're calling it a loungewear. That calling it a loungewear set is really not doing this a whole lot of justice. These are outfits. Okay, yep. Here she is again. Here's the back. Yeah, simple straight back. No yoke, no seams that I can see. Oh wait, there's one right here. So maybe there's some kind of something happening here. I'll look at the line drawings in a second. How about right now? Okay, yeah. So there is some sort of fish eye dart situation happening here. Look at the big ones. Yeah, I don't think that means that there's two sets of them. There might be, though. Huh, maybe there are. It's just too hard to tell in this print. Okay, so fabric suggestions. Shally, chambray, crepe, double knits, linen, and soft cottons. Yeah, I mean, I definitely think you could, I mean, you could probably make this out of just about any light to mid-weight woven. But certainly the pants could be its own category of fabric. The top could have its own category. The dress could have its own category. You know what I'm saying? But I mean, there are six options here. That is, that's a lot of pattern in one pattern. A lot of options, a lot of choices in one pattern. Very interesting. Okay, so no finished garments here. Finished garment measurements here on this one. So, okay. Next, this is what I love about butteric, is the kind of wardrobe patterns. Now this is another Palmer plush. So maybe they're just leaning more into that, like multiple patterns in one. But this is a entire wardrobe, jacket, top, dress, and pants. And you can mix and match these as much as you want, and get a ton of different combinations of outfits. It's like a capsule wardrobe all in one pattern. Sizing is 8 to 16, and then 16 to 24. This is probably what the other one is. I've never seen them overlap by two. But maybe it's not, but I'm gonna, I bet money that maybe this is what it's supposed to be, and the other thing is an error. Jacket has front patch pockets, collar and top stitching, slim fit knit top, and dress have raglan sleeves and band. Pants D and E have fly front, back darts, and contoured waistband with hooks and eye. UD is capri length with side slits. Okay. Oh, it's like a boat neck situation. Interesting. And then these are E pants, and these are the capris. A little t-shirt dress, really pretty. The coat, and then here's the whole like business situation. The collar on the coat is really interesting. Probably not my favorite. Drop shoulder, maybe? Yeah, the whole coat itself feels a little slouchy, which I guess could be cool. This is the real winner here. This looks amazing. That's a really nice t-shirt dress. I think it's because it's wide and long. That's what's making it look unproportional, disproportionate, is that the word? I would crop it like a lot. And then you can still have that boxy shape, but you don't lose your entire body. Oh yeah, and here's a... Oh boy, my bad, hold on. Stay back. Here's a great look at the neckline on this top. Raglan sleeve. And then this. I gotta imagine this is not for the faint of heart to execute, because this, see how it's like still sitting on her body? It looks gorgeous. It looks beautiful. It's drafted very well. I just gotta imagine that's a little bit challenging to sew. Yeah, which is maybe why there's this situation. I don't think that's a fit issue. I think it's a construction issue. It is a really pretty design though. I like this one. Yeah, that top is really, really interesting. Yeah, the rest of it, I don't know. Okay, see we get so many pictures, almost too many pictures. Where's the middle ground? Where's the middle ground? Yeah, I don't know. I really like it. Yeah, there might be something funky going on with this sleeve. Too much fabric under the arms eye, but I'm not mad at it. Of all things that could go wrong, that's not that big a deal. Well, I don't know though. I say that, but then this is Palmer Plesch. This is like the fitting people. So it should kind of fit perfectly. If you're going to hang your hat on like an entire fitting method, that's when I can be a little bit grumpy about it, I guess. But I'll let that one slide. So fabrics for A, D, and E, the jacket and the pants are gabardine lightweight poplint linen makes perfect sense. And then for the top and dress, knit fabrics like jersey knit. Yes, all of that is great. Okay, a zipper and hook and eye is all you need and that's just for the pants. Here's our size range and finished garment measurements are not on the internet. I know that they can't fit all the information on the pattern envelope, but for those people that do search or shop exclusively on the internet, can you put like a little extra chart or something? Like maybe down here, there would be line art and then there would be finished garment measurements. I don't know, just thinking out loud. Okay, what am I doing? I need to go back. Unisex shirts, shorts, and pants. So another combo, three patterns in one. Shirts, shorts, and pants, although shorts and pants are probably the same pattern, just cropped. Loose fitting camp collar shirt has forward shoulder seams, patch pockets with buttoned flaps, side slits, stitched hems, and sleeve length variation. Loose fitting pleated shorts or pants, sit below waist, have fly front zipper, side seam pockets, belt loops, back patch pockets, and stitched hems. Okay, forward shoulder, camp collar, button front, patch pocket, pants and hers, long sleeves or short sleeves, actually long sleeve with a cuff or short sleeves, and then this little pleated short or pants. Now, pulling off a unisex pant pattern is interesting because as we know, men need room where women don't need room. So I'm wondering how they're getting around that and if the women's are all gonna look like, you know, there's a lot of extra fabric here in ready to wear. They're calling it like boyfriend style pants where you have all that extra ease. So it's almost like an intentional thing or I wonder if when you get into the pattern, they have different cut lines for women and men's in the crotch line. I don't, I don't really know where, how they're going about this. Either just saying, yep, it's the same for everybody and the women are gonna have extra fabric or no, we've, we've figured out that we're gonna do different cutting lines. Any more, give me the waistband, give me the waistband. Yeah, that's not looking super promising. I can't really tell where it's coming from or where it's going, nor can I really tell how she's standing. I mean, his looks super, super baggy too. Yeah. Again, my trust issues are coming out and I'm not sure how these pants are going to fit, like at all. They're not showing us really anything in the areas that matter. I'm assuming they're just really loose fitting throughout. That's my best guess. And then these sleeve openings, what's going on? His is like, you could tell they had a hard time easing that one in and then same with hers. Hers almost look gathered. So it's like the sleeve is too flat for this opening, which would make sense because all I want to do is pull this up on her shoulder anyways. How was his? Yeah, men similar to plus size women have that rounded quality to their shoulders, whereas straight size women have it a little bit more angled. So this looks okay on him. I just think that there's too much fabric in the sleeve head. Yeah. Okay. And again, no finished garment measurements here, but they are recommending broad cloth chambray, rayon vatisse, that's awfully specific. Okay. And then for the pants and shorts, twill, lightweight denim. But also, I mean, I can think of like Chino, linen, linen blends, even cotton blends, any bottom weight. Okay. So then buttons, buttons, and a zipper. Also alphanumeric sizing. This is so interesting. I'm not quite sure how these are going to fit anybody and no finished garment measurements. So I can't even tell. I mean, if you look at the line drawings, the line drawings actually mimic the pattern pieces it's just very straight, right? Which for men, that makes sense. But for women, I mean, I don't know. I don't know how much work it would be to get this. You'd have to just lean into it being like a boyfriend fit. That's my best advice for you. If you want like a woman's like cool short that's made for a woman, you'd have to just get another pattern. This one might just be, because see, I can even tell they have this belt on her. Who knows how much that's cinching her in to hold it up. You know, they might be doing a lot of cheating here to get this to fit right, which might be where those drag lines are coming from on the back photo. So it could be cute. It could be a disaster. I'm on the fence. Okay. So Catherine Tilton is giving us this top pattern. This is very Catherine Tilton coated. She loves to do asymmetry. She loves to do print mixing, color blocking and all that kind of stuff for to have one brown sleeve and one green sleeve. That's for sure her right up her alley. Sizing is all in one extra small to two X. Tunic tops have sleeveless or three quarter sleep options. Details include a lower front band, back go day, which is this and banded neckline and handkerchief hemline top B has contrast. Okay. So it's from the looks of it, a pretty standard top pattern, knit top pattern, I think, with just some like funky color blocking. But then you get to the back. I'll go back to these photos in a second. Oh, yeah. Then you go to the back and you have this little cool cutout thing. This is up my alley. I'm digging this. And then I wanted to point out to all of this here. She's got her hand on her hip, so it's going to be really hard to tell. But like, I'll show you, I think the line drawing should show the shape of this is actually going to come out and down. So I don't know, just gives a really cool, fun, funky vibe to something that's typically very boring. And I'm pretty sure this is just a stitched extra band. So if you wanted to have it cropped a little bit, you could just leave that off or obviously do cut line and make all this shorter. I think it would also be really cool long. But yeah, I can totally get behind this. They've styled it here with both with like a pencil pant capri type thing. But which I guess that does make the most sense for their kind of woman. But a legging would be cool. I always picture these tunics as dresses. So I'm also picturing it as a really fun dress with maybe like one of those patchwork print patterns. You can kind of see here all of the stuff that's happening. Yeah, okay, so let's look at those line drawings first. See what I mean? How it comes out and then down. Out and then down. Super interesting, right? Yeah, this is cool. Okay, so stretch that's only cotton it jersey knit, right? That's it. You can, you can try with the rayons, but man, with all those stitched hems, you would be probably cursing yourself. So try something a little bit more structured. Um, for sure. Finish garment measurements on the bust. We have roughly seven inches at the bust. That feels like a lot at the waist and hip. I know there's going to be a bunch, but at the bust seven inches. No, I think maybe five again, five, four, some of that based on your upper bust measurement and then maybe size down. Okay, next line. We have a another Palmer Plesch. My gosh, the girls were busy this time. Shirt dress with sleeve variations sizing eight to 16, 16 to 24. Classic shirt dress has bust starts, front waist starts, back darts and sleeve variations. Yeah, cute little this one, like cute little nineties print with the sneaker. So cute. This is a little bit it's just a lot, a lot happening. Long sleeve, long dress, long, long, long, like she just loses her body in there. I think this one with the little short sleeve in the popped collar, little seventies vibe. That's cute. Maybe this one because the fabric choice and because it's kind of like big on her is why it's feeling a little like, like she looks like she's just so tiny in there. Like you can't see any of it. Look at that. Look at all that ease. Like her body probably ends right here. This is probably her, the shape of her body here. And then that her little hip comes out. This is huge on her. She's swimming. I mean, and you know, I'm always going to give them benefit of the doubt and say maybe their usual fit model got sick and couldn't come in and they had to find this woman last minute. But wow, that is really, really big. And it didn't say a classic fit shirt dress. Classic fit to mean means fitted. Oh, and no, even no line drawings on this one. Okay. All right. So we can see from here though. Well, these look, this looks very roomy. I was picturing something a lot more fitted, especially with all of these fit lines, like all the fisheye darts, all the seeming. I guess you can make it however you like. Maybe you like things that are a little bit more loose fitting. This would be perfect for you as is, or you can take it in some. But it just felt like for it to be so big, so long, long sleeves. You're just like hiding cotton and cotton blends, crepe, double knits, gabardine linen, and they're recommending, yeah, all structured fabrics, nothing really lightweight. I think you could definitely broaden your horizons on this and make it out of something like a rayon and make it a little bit more drapey for sure. Eight buttons are all you need. Okay. So they're saying six and a half inches of ease in the bus, and I believe it. I believe that's what they have there. If you want to know what six and a half inches of ease in the bus looks like, it's this. So we'll talk about those other patterns before that had that much, but the model didn't look like it was that big. This is what that actually looks like. That's what six inches of ease looks like. And then, oops, and then in the waist, we have 24 width or without front darts. Interesting. So if you're an apple shape, okay, and that makes this a lot more interesting to me that it would be made with that much thought to body shape. But if you make it with the darts, you've got another five and a half inches of ease in the waist. And then in the hip, you've got seven and no, six and a half, six and a half. And again, all that makes sense. That's exactly what that, that amount of ease looks like. My best guess, anyways, from what I can see. Okay, another Palmer plush pattern, my goodness. These are wide leg trouser and crop pants have contour waistband, fly front zipper, slash pockets, front plate, detail, and back darts. Okay, how, hold on, look at the sizing really quickly. This is eight to 16. And then 18 to 26. So no crossover here. But they do go an extra size bigger. Okay, how many of you who have seen my patterns, my pattern reviews before know what I'm about to say. Say it with me now, hands in pockets. I hate photos with hands in the pockets because I can't see how the pockets are going to lay when you're standing there or lie. But maybe we'll get some other pictures without them. Contour waistband, which is good because this is sitting high up on her body where there are more curves. Actually, that's wrong. It should be a straight waistband if it's high waisted and a curvier waistband if it's low waisted. So it looks like they are doing maybe an inch or so below the natural waist. That's not my favorite way to wear pants. Just because I carry a lot of like my, I get a lot of bloating and it's just like, anyways, I don't need to go into all that detail with you guys. But I have, I have some autoimmune diseases that don't, that don't agree with waistbands cutting right across my belly. So I prefer a high waisted pants. I think it's more flattering on me anyways. So if this is sitting one inch below the waist, you would need a slight curved contoured waistband, nothing crazy. If it gets low waisted, then it gets even more curvy because you have even more curves there. So straight, slight curve, a little bit more curve. I do like the pleats. I love the wide leg. I love the wide leg crop. Yeah, this is fine. Oh, yowza. Well, that's probably the shirt. Okay, I'm going to say this is the shirt for sure. This is, there's a lot of butt eating. Her butt is eating up this fabric. There's too much fabric there, which I know is counterintuitive. You look at it and you think that there's not enough fabric there because it looks go wedgy. But in fact, it's, it means there's too much fabric. So whatever shape of a crotch line they have here isn't correct. And they either need to scoop it out. Don't be mad, non-scoopers. It's an option. Okay, you can either scoop it out or adjust it to make the shape a little flatter. Okay, however you want to look at it. Other than that though, it looks pretty good. And unfortunately that somebody there couldn't just like flatten this out a little bit. Yep, same thing for her. Not so much happening here, but the same fabric eating, butt eating fabric situation. This is like playing tricks on my eyes. Sorry, I got so quiet for so long. I'm just like looking at this where it looks like that's that her butt, the fullness of her butt is down here. But on this one, it's over here. Is that just some, they don't photoshop, do they? I can imagine they spend a lot of time photoshopping. I'm going to say something just, well, I was going to say maybe the way she's standing, but she's not even like really popping a hip or a knee. I don't know, that is freaking me out. Something's not right here. I don't think this is the way her body looks. Something about the angle or maybe if they did do some editing, they went too far. I don't know. Okay, so great. Crate, gabardine, linen, poplin, wool and wool types are the recommendations. Yeah, all your bottom weights, one zipper and a hook and bar. And then your waist. It doesn't say anything about where it sits on the waist. It should in the pattern instructions. You'd have to look for it, but it should be there. Waist would be one and a half inches. That makes perfect sense. And then the hip would be 10 or 11 inches. Again, that makes sense for something with that many pleats. Okay, now we have this Mrs. Dress. Sizing is alphanumeric, all-in-one, extra small to two X can be worn as a dress or a day cover up. What does that mean? Swimsuit cover up? What's a day cover up? Teared hem dress, fitted through bust, have front and back neck facings, bust darts, view A has button front sleeveless with self-bias armhole facings, view B has concealed snap front closure. They do really like that this time. Short flared sleeves and purchased trim. Oh, so you have the square neckline facing. Those are kind of fun to sew. A little bit difficult, but not too bad. Button front or concealed sleeveless with your tears. Now this and this don't look like at all. It's like there's not enough, like this bottom panel wasn't wide enough, like they gathered it too much. And then the little flutter sleeve. Yeah, maybe they weren't in the white fabric. I don't know. Maybe also it's a little too long through here. It should be like if it's at our natural waist is like right here, maybe you see where it's like kind of naturally wanting to maybe. I just feel like proportions with this collection are off almost throughout. Like when things are really wide, they should be shorter. When things are fitted, they can be longer. And this dresses a perfect example of how like it's a simple design, but if you don't have those horizontal lines in a proper place, it can just throw off the look just a little bit. There's nothing wrong with this design at all. We've seen it a thousand times, but something about this version is just not. Yeah, I'm just not loving it. And normally this kind of thing would be something I would like. Like I like the line drawings a lot. I just don't know if it's their execution or something. Fabric choice could be it. They recommend cotton blends, cotton flannel, lightweight, broadcloth, rayon, shally, and satin. I think that's what they use. Satin. It's also a very structured fabric, even a lightweight satin. So you're not really getting that flowy quality of a gather. Like in my mind, satin is more suitable for pleats. Ten buttons, ten sew-on snaps, and then lace trim if you choose. We've got somewhere between four and a half or three and a half inches of ease in the bust. And then the waist has six inches. Six or six or wait, five or six. That's still kind of a lot, but not by a ton. It's not like overwhelming, like whoa. But it is still very roomy. It says fitted through bust. That amount of ease, what did I say, five, six inches is not fitted through bust. So then now I do say it's way too much ease. It needs to be closer. If it's truly fitted through bust, then it's two to three inches. Okay, tunic and jeans. Okay, they might finally redeem themselves. All right, this is eight to 16 and 18 to 26 in the size range. Very loose fitting. See? Very loose fitting. So you're going to expect double digits of ease. Pullover tunic has stand-up collar, neckline gathers, front slit neck opening, raglan sleeves ending in buttoned cuffs with continuous lap opening and stitched hems. Fitted bootcut jeans have contoured waistband, pockets, belt loops, back yoke, fly zipper, contrast, heavy duty thread, top stitching, and length variations. This top is so cool. Again, I'd probably lengthen it to be a dress because I'm just a dress girly. I can't help myself. I'm not going to ever wear a tunic over pants. So I'm either going to crop it to make it a top or I'm going to lengthen it to make it a dress. But yeah, the stand-up collar, the V, the big voluminous sleeve with the pleating. I prefer this shorter sleeve, but the long one's cool too. Now the drawing has the pants being long. I can't remember if they said there were two lengths or not, but hers is definitely cropped. Cute outfit altogether. And look at this. We get a picture of the pants without the top on. Thank you. This is a very low rise. Look how little that zipper is. It's probably like a four or five inch zipper. But you know, the girlies are liking the low rise these days. So this waistband would need to be a lot more contoured than the last one we looked at simply because it's lower on the body. But hands in pockets like I know models know what to do with your hands. There's more than this pose. Cute though. See how much happier she looks to their faces will tell you a lot about what's going on. Yeah, the fit of these are great. I'm never going to wear low rise pants, or I should say ever again. I didn't know any better the first time they came around. Now I do. But if you like a low rise pant, these are good. If you want to make it high rise, it's not that hard. This yoke is like one and a half inches tall. Just make the yoke three inches taller, flatten out the waistband, and then you would have it be a little bit more high waisted. Not difficult at all. But yeah, the fit is really good. Really good. Okay. Oh yeah, and there are two links on the pants. Okay, good. So for the tops, cotton shirting, linen blends, pop it, sorry pop lint, satin. Satin again might be a little too much. Cotton shirting really is the way to go for that structured look. A linen blend, if it's like blended with rayon, would be a little bit draper, fall in a little bit closer to the body. If it's blended with cotton, maybe you'd have a little bit more of that easy, breezy shirting look. I'm surprised they didn't recommend gauze. I'm surprised they didn't recommend what would be some other good choices. I wouldn't go anything too drapey because then you just lose the sleeve altogether. But so that that light, the heavier side of lightweight to that midweight sort of structured woven is going to be your best bet. Then for the pants, denim and stretch wovens. Now you say stretch woven, is it also stretch denim? Because those two things are not really equal. I have to imagine it's a stretch denim. I wish that they would tell you how much stretch the denim needs because there's some that have like a ton of lycra in them will stretch a bunch and then some that won't. So that's going to be a bit of a guessing game that will determine fit. But if you can get it right and get them to look like the samples that they made, I mean, pretty good looking, I think. All right, you need some lining fabric for your pocket bags, lightweight fusible buttons and a zipper. How? Yeah, a five inch zipper and then top stitching thread. Finish garment measurements are going to be in the pattern. Okay, that's that. I love that. That is probably the only one out of all of these. These are dolls and then retro butter it is usually pretty sad. I'll take a quick look extra small to large vintage 70s wrap and go skirt. Yeah, it's this, right? Like, I mean, nothing special. They did make it midi length. I bet it really is easy wrap and go. I don't know if you need a pattern for that, though. You know, can't you just, I don't know, maybe it would be easier to do with the pattern. I say that to myself like I like to sit around here and draft my own patterns. I don't. I like to use patterns, even when they're simple like this. But that would be what like that could be like a really cute actually now that I'm looking at this. This could be really great tried and true. You could use up a lot of different fabrics. It works. What did they suggest? Broadcloth, chile, chambray, double knits, midweight, crepe, muslin. I mean, I can genuinely make this out of anything from the lightweight drapey category all the way up to the midweight structured woven category. You could also do knits, but you'd want to the waistband to be a woven probably or interface the knit to make it not a stretchy. So in that, for those reasons, maybe this is worth picking up just because it's so simple, so easy to sew. You'd knock out a whole bunch of them. This little wrap and go dress. However, I don't know. I it just looks like a grandma's house coat. And maybe that's because that's what my grandma wore. My father's mother. But I don't know about this. 70s wrap and go dress. Here's what the line drawing looks like. Oh, no, they're only showing us the back. So it's got these like wing things that come out. Maybe they'll show us on the other one. Insinity that it's sleeveless wrap dress has scoop neckline purchase fold over braid finish extending into front ties. So kind of like an extended bias binding. Easy. Only three main pattern pieces, no buttons, no zippers, no saps. Just slip it on, wrap and tie in front and you're all set to go. Yeah. Oh man. I don't know. Maybe the floral is not it and the contrast is not it. Maybe I just love box plaid and gingham. This one's not I'm not hating this one. It's what I'm saying. It could go like hospital gown, house coat. It could go all that way very quickly. So just be mindful of colors and prints. But it does have some darting here. This might be a little bit long on her still. Maybe needs to come up here somewhere. Yeah, hers looks really long too. So pretty universally too long in the bodice. Now they're not going to show you the design. It's basically like you slip it over your head and you have these little wing things that come out and then you tie those. Soft or crisp fabrics such as shally gingham jersey, lightweight double knits, polished cotton, polyester double knits, seersucker, sarah, like literally again the lightweight woven drapes all the way up to the midweight sort of stable ones. And then no usable, no helpful finished garment measurements. So okay buttery on the vintage. I can give a behind both of those. But in general my overall thoughts of this are just when it comes to the fit it's like it leaves me in a state of confusion which leads to fear which leads to like I'm not going to buy it. If I feel like I'm going to spend a lot of time forcing something to work. I'd rather not especially with designs like these that aren't that special. But all in all I do like this one lengthen to a dress maybe. This one isn't terrible. I did like this one a lot. I liked the dress version of this a lot and I like this one the most. 10 out of 10 on this one. I can definitely see myself getting that one and making it even in the fall probably. But let me know what you guys think of the buttery collection. I know I was kind of maybe a little more negative than positive on this one but I just the the fit things really get me because you guys don't see that like other people do. Like I do like more seasoned sewage or people in the actual fashion industry would see it. And I hate when people go to make something they think is going to fit like this and then it fits like you know three sizes too big. So I get a little bit about that. But let me know what you guys thought. Maybe you think the designs redeem the fitting issues you might run into. Let me know. Sound off. Which ones were your favorite? Do you agree with me about the fit? Do you like just let me know everything you're thinking. But that's going to do it for me today. I will see you all very soon. Bye.