Cool. Now if they'd just release some decent plus-size patterns for us larger ladies. :(

Yeah, I know how to scale patterns and how to draft some really basic stuff, but it's still kinda irritating to pay that much for a pattern, then do a lot of work to make it fit at all. :<

-grumblegrumble-

Unfortunately the pattern companies don't realize that people larger than pattern size 22 want interesting garb. The only one big at all is Simplicity 2354 which goes up to size 32W, 54" bust. That one's pretty versatile, though. You can start with the dress and change things around, add things, take things off, get creative. But I would also be happy to see larger sizes in a lot of those fancy patterns; some of them only go up to 20 which these days in the store would be like a 14 or 16!

I must say that new pattern has all the parts one could want that were only available in the super spendy pattern brands before. Certainly there's nothing stopping us from mixing and matching bustles, drapes, etc.

Useful? That is amazing! Thank you for sharing all your hard work! :)

Yeah, I can't get into a store size 20, much less a pattern size 20. But this looks fairly upsizeable (is that a word?) and at the least I'll add it to my pattern stash for reference. Thanks for spreading the good word.

I don't know you, but I think I love you.

I know -- I found this pattern and bought it last week, before it was even online! I was at work at WalMart and the new Simplicity catalogue happened to be open to that page and I dived into the pattern drawer. I actually had to wait three days to pay for it because it wasn't in our system yet. It's under $10 at WalMart, btw. I was going to post about it here, but my scanner doesn't work with this laptop I'm using so I'm glad it's now online and that you posted it! I think it's very adaptable and that it can be made up in many different ways.

I need this pattern yesterday. I'll have to order it because I'm yet to find a local store that carries patterns at all, let alone Simplicity. :P

<3 Bolero! With flared sleeves! Oh, I'm in love.

I kind of suck at hot links, but Simplicity's first attempt at Steampunk I think was #2525 - a multi-purpose costume that they made up with four themes on the envelope, one being SP. http://www.simplicity.com/p-3073-misses-costumes.aspx

Also, for just jumping into one piece without too much fuss, #2757 http://www.simplicity.com/p-1702-misses-costumes.aspx#t-0

And OMG the #2172 that you mentioned in an earlier post... It is so ubiquitous at conventions, the greeting "Twenty one seventy two?" is like a secret handshake for a sewing sorority.

I too love the lines on the HIDEOUS skirt - I never would have looked at the line drawings if you hadn't singled it out! Thx.

Thanks for this ^_^ I now have another item to add to the shopping list when I visit the haberdashery department at John Lewis... assuming the UK has received this pattern. We sometimes have to wait a year or three before something in the USA arrives here in Britain.