8 of 9
Cat Amongst Pigeons
Feather ≥ 5, Quality ≥ 80
- Validated dress available
- Budget 500
Customer Brief
2 requirements
Finish first
Details
- Feather≥ 5
What does this mean?
Craftsmanship
- Quality≥ 80
What does this mean?
Quality at least 80
How Quality is judged
Budget
500
Craft
Quality is scored while you sew
A quality threshold is not something a recipe can prove. The dress below settles every design requirement; this number is decided by your hands on the machine.
Need 80 or more
What decides the final number
- Grain — cutting the fabric on the correct line
- Fit — how closely the garment follows the body
- Sewing accuracy — how cleanly the seams are run
Recommended solution
A Validated Dress That Works
One dress checked against every requirement of this brief, piece by piece, using the game's own score data.
Validated against game data
Patterns
Bodice
Strapless Bodice
Skirt
Pencil Skirt
Sleeve
No Sleeves
Collar
No Collar
Fabrics
Accessories
Met
Why it passes
- Feather5 / 5Feather: 5 reached, 5 required · Feather at least 5
Smallest margin: Feather at 5 / 5
Recipe details
The exact dress this page was built from.
Why This Works
The declared weight behind each style this brief scores, so you can see which piece is carrying it.
This dress clears its style requirements without a published weight breakdown, so the page does not invent one.
These are the weights the game declares for each piece. They explain the dress; the build does not publish how several sources are folded into the final style score, so nothing here is added up into a total.
Cost and fabric usage
What this dress spends, and how much cloth it consumes.
Estimated material cost
25
- Fabric0
- Accessories25
- Budget limit
- 500
- Left over
- 475
Estimated fabric usage
1.48metres
- Burlap100% of the dress
Cutting estimates from the recipe itself, with each fabric's measured share of the dress beside it.
Work out another buildOther Solutions
The same brief, solved a different way. Every dress here clears the design requirements and leaves the craft to you.
6 validated solutions found
- The recommended dress above is also the cheapest solution we found.
- It also asks for less progress than any other dress we found.
Other Dresses That Work
A few more dresses that meet the same brief, if the recommended one does not suit your wardrobe.
No further validated dress was found for this brief.
Find more combinationsCan I Make This Yet?
Everything this dress depends on, and the level that opens it.
Your progress
Enter the levels you have and this page will tell you what is still missing.
No levels saved yet. Enter your Prestige and relationship levels to see which pieces you are short of.
Set my progressWhy isn't my dress passing?
The reasons this particular brief turns a dress down, written for the requirements it actually contains.
Feather count is wrong
This brief asks for 5 Feather. Check that each placed accessory matches the required accessory type, and that all of them were placed on the dress.
Feather
Find Feather for this briefQuality is below 80
Quality is not decided by what you chose, but by how the dress was made. Check the grain line, the fit and how cleanly the seams were sewn.
Quality
Work out my Quality scoreThe dress is right, the finish is not
A dress can match every design requirement and still miss the quality threshold. Re-cut it with an eye on grain and fit before changing the recipe.
Need 80 or more
Estimate the quality of a dressTips for This Commission
The things this particular brief makes easy to get wrong.
Count Feather carefully
The brief needs 5 Feather, and only accessories of the matching type count. Add them one at a time and check the count after each.
Find Feather for this briefLeave room for the finish
This brief needs Quality 80. A dress that only just clears the design requirements leaves you no slack on the machine, so aim a little higher on style.
How Quality is judgedStay under the budget
The customer sets a budget of 500. Substituting cheaper cloth of the same colour and fabric type is usually the easiest place to save.
See the cost breakdown
Questions about this commission
Does Cat Amongst Pigeons have only one solution?
No. The game data yields 6 validated dresses for this brief. This page publishes the recommended one and the reason it passes; the solver is where you walk through the others.
What Quality do I need?
The brief asks for Quality 80. That number comes from how the dress is cut and sewn, not from the recipe, so no outfit can guarantee it for you.
Can I use another fabric?
This brief sets no fabric rule, so any cloth is allowed. Colour, style weight and cost are the only things to weigh up.
Why doesn't my dress pass?
Work through the requirements one by one: a dress fails on the first rule it misses. Style and composition rules are decided by what you chose, Quality by how you sewed it, so the fix is different for each.
What comes after this commission?
The next commission for this customer is Romance Reader. Completing this one may raise their relationship level, which is what unlocks the patterns you will want for it.
Where this commission fits
Every commission for this customer in the order the game gives them.
Commission 8 of 9
- Step 7 of 9Graveside Visit
- You are hereEdithYou are here
- Step 9 of 9Romance Reader
About Edith
9 commissions, relationship up to level 4.
Relationship
What Edith unlocks as you grow closer
A completed commission raises this relationship. Patterns arrive when the level itself goes up, not when a single commission is handed in.
Patterns waiting at each level
Relationship 1
3 patterns
Relationship 2
3 patterns
Relationship 3
3 patterns
Relationship 4
2 patterns
If finishing this commission raises the relationship to the next level, the patterns listed at that level unlock at the same time.
Related styles and items
Where the requirements on this page lead, and what else the game says is worth using.
Used in this recipe
The shopping list behind the recommended dress.
Good alternatives
Strong contributors to the styles this brief scores, ranked by the weight the game itself declares.
The build lists no second dress for this brief. The solver walks through the other combinations it validated.
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