#pattern updates

[sewlastcentury]

patterns update:

Both 1840s bodices are done, along with the 1870s and 1920s dresses. (on etsy here!)

I anticipate getting in final reports from one or two people for the 1890s skirt & 1910s dressing jacket in the next couple of days, so those should be up soon - they don't seem to have given anyone much trouble.

Meanwhile, the 1880s and 1900s bodices are in purgatory. :) :) Really hoping testers will get back to me sometime soon on those, as they were both due weeks ago.

(the 1870s maternity jacket only has one tester and is hopefully plugging along properly, but I also made a mockup on my own so I'm pretty meh about the testing process for this one.)

Next projects: an early edwardian jacket (40" bust, 36" waist according to seller) and a mid-1870s polonaise bodice (44" bust, 32" waist, again according to seller)

(both images are from sellers; these are on their way to me as we speak! Very excited.)

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also psa, yes I could 'test' all of these patterns myself, but I am not doing so because :

the process of patterning and carefully noting all the ins and outs of a garment is exhausting, and i love the work but what i love more is letting someone else tie up all the ends for me when my eyes have glazed over!! also they get a free pattern out of it.

it really, really helps to have independent eyes reading over the pattern and instructions.

Not only have testers caught errors for me, they also alert me when I've been too obscure about a technique or need to provide more information about a method that was used.

[insert the xkcd comic about experts in their fields]

Tbh even when I was a beginner I rarely bothered to read pattern instructions - not because I was arrogant, but because I was a combination of too lazy + my brain did not work the way they wrote the instructions and it was literally easier to puzzle it out on my own than fight with it.

So it's really good to have people of different levels and skillsets read through the instructions and give feedback. <3 Thanks, testers!!

[shitpostsampler]

One-page-pattern anon here, really glad to hear about your one-page plans! I have just one more question: if/when you guys go through to do that, will we be able to update the patterns we purchased to download the new format, or would we have to make a new purchase for that?

From what we can tell, Gumroad allows you to download the pattern again in the new format. We also have the option to send out alerts to people when we update the patterns, but we’ve only utilized that once. 

That being said, would people want update notifications when we do update a pattern? Or should we keep that to ourselves? We in no way want to clutter someone’s inbox. As someone who has gotten 6 Ravelry updates in an hour because someone kept finding issues with their pattern, I know there’s a line to how much information someone wants in this case. 

[ktarsims]

Updates and things...

Soo... I was incredibly busy for the last four or five days. I managed to queue enough posts that my blog has continued to post while I was running around doing things, but what little time I had on the computer was spent catching up on my dash and reblogging for adfreecc.

Due to this, there were no patterns this week. My life is kind of in a state of flux at the moment. There’s lots of change going on, and trying to change routines and get used to new things, with still more new things to be added in.

What this means for now for y’all is that I’m not sure I’ll be able to post patterns on a regular basis, or on a schedule. They’ll probably come a bit more haphazardly, whenever I have the time and they’re ready.

No worries though, as I always tell everyone when they worry about me with this: I started out converting patterns for myself. Sharing them just means more people get to benefit from the work I put in, so it makes that feel more worthwhile. I still primarily convert patterns for me, y’all just benefit as a side-effect. ^-~

So there will still be patterns. Probably just not on a schedule, and posted chaotically whenever.

[ktarsims]

Updates...

I may be rather busy this weekend, so I’ve just finished queuing things up through Monday morning just in case. There will absolutely be patterns tomorrow. Quite a few of them.

I may have some time tomorrow, but will probably have zero time on Sunday, so... I hope you all have lovely weekends full of positive things. <3

[ktarsims]

And... now... for some patterns...

In a few hours probably. In between dinner and other things.

I got massively distracted going in-game to get the item-names for those orchids... not only with replacing all instances of the tile pattern... but also with deleting nearly all my saved color presets in the wood category. I was tired of it taking a full minute or more to load up the thumbnails for my wood category. I think I had more color presets saved than I have actual wood patterns installed.

This only took so long because EVERY TIME I deleted a single preset, the game would force-reload the ENTIRE category. -_-;; So... with somewhere around 100 or so color presets, an average of a full minute to load... this took forever.

However, my wood category of patterns loads a lot faster now, so I feel it was worth it. The moral of this story is: DO NOT SAVE COLOR PRESETS. Not unless you sweated for hours over a multi-color pattern to get just the right colors or something. And keep your number of saved color presets to a minimum no matter what. I cut mine back to about six, I think.

It’s actually better to just like... save the HEX codes for the colors you like in a text doc or something. Because OYE.

[ktarsims]

Updates and things...

Sooooo!

Sorry y’all for the Secret Santa spam. xD

I’ve also now completed my preparations for creating my own gifts for my secret santa giftee. You might see less posts from me over the next week as I’ll be working on this, and if I were to post screenshots of it or anything, I might give the whole thing away early!

However, it IS Saturday. If I can find the energy for it, there shall be patterns today. I already chose some this morning. Sadly, they probably won’t be holiday themed, but next year I’ll probably have some holiday themed patterns saved up to convert for December.

Some good news is that for the screenshots I needed for my santa, I went into my main save. And I was able to make a few needed changes and then save WITHOUT running into a memory error. So it seems like my efforts to reduce the amount of CC installed have been successful in enabling me to be able to save in my main game again.

HOWEVER, I did promise more shots of Brother and Sister witch, so I may go back and do that before I get back to actually playing much in my main save game.

I think I haven’t posted anything from my main save in... uh... quite a while now, so let me just drop y’all this link to my current cast in my main save: https://ktarsims.tumblr.com/post/157135790668/full-cast-hidden-springs-game (A reminder, and just information for those who’ve followed me in the intervening months.)

Of course, I MIGHT decide to just save brother and sister witch’s household to the bin and then ADD them to my main save as well, but I probably won’t decide that until I’m done doing renovations and makeovers to the already existing households. Do y’all think I should? xD They’d be the 8th custom household in the save.

Households I’ve already revamped and given makeovers to:

- Inariel Household (Joran) - Saffron Household (Griselda, Marnie, Nene, Mori (dog), Twink (kitten from Arieal Household)) - Smith Household (Kyva and Kitlith) - Arieal Household (Ninae, Sebastian, Canyon (cat), and Persimmon (cat) + their live-in Butler. (This is the household I’m currently in.)

Households still awaiting their renovations and makeovers:

- Miranae Household (Candace) - Pixie Household (Sharona, Lucia, Kiara, Liana, Tink (cat), Rubinio (horse), and Miresyn (horse. - MAIN Ktar Household (Adonieair, Christel, Corin (child), Hiram (Imaginary Friend made into a real child), Einstein (cat), and Renzel (Simbot created by Adonieair.)

[ktarsims]

Pattern won’t show in game...

Just in case anyone else ever has this issue... the in-game thumbnails that CAS displays for patterns are typically only a small portion of the actual pattern image. So, sometimes if it’s a pattern that has a lot of ‘space’ in between images (like the rooster on a beige background, or the sequin tiger on a black background, etc.), then the thumbnail CAS displays will appear to be a solid color. If you click on it, the pattern will display on the object as it should.

It can make some patterns a little more difficult to find in-game, but I’ve tested everything before I share it, so if you do a hunt through the appropriate category, it should be there.

[ktarsims]

Pattern Updates - Requests Now Encouraged

With the three pattern batches this week, I am nearing the end of the patterns I’ve already converted. Yet remaining is one more batch of patterns by SanguineWolf and three more batches by SimsplyRuth.

After this, I have probably close to 1k patterns that I’ve already downloaded, but haven’t converted yet... and I will probably slow back down and do one batch per week, as converting and testing in addition to making preview images, etc. will take more time.

I am also very open at this point to taking pattern conversion requests.

Feel free to send me pattern conversion requests for: - Exchange Patterns from inactive creators - Any Patterns with active creators willing to grant consent to sharing - Can you find me patterns like.... X, Y, Z... - Converting your original patterns for you, so you can share them as .package files.

Requirements: - Pattern Creator must be known. - No more than 20 Patterns per request. - No more than 4 different Creators per request. - If I’m going to look for patterns for you, try to give me some specific guidelines so I’m more likely to come up with something that will actually fit the bill. - If I’m converting your patterns for you, I will not require credit, but I will require that the package files not be distributed behind pay-walls or ad-link sites.

I’m also quite willing to help people learn how to do pattern conversions for themselves!