developing 'Poppy'...

I’m delighted with the way my recent design, the ‘Poppy’ dress turned out but developing a pattern requires a fair bit of behind the scenes work. Developing each individual size, doing some test runs & then of course some product testing.

I thought I’d share with you today exactly that, some product testing.

I made up the smallest pattern using just some remnants I had & then let my daughter loose. It’s not just so that I can take whole lot of cute photos of my daughter but it enables me to see that the pattern lives up to what I require of all the clothes I make. They need to be easy to put on (& take off), they need to look good but they also need to allow the freedom to play. 

There was a lot of dribble, a lot of pointing & a lot of playing on her big sister's toys...all in all a successful mission.

Product testing finished!!