Flounce Sleeve
Flounce Sleeve is a Sleeve pattern that adds Elegant +10, Formal +10, Warm +10, Daywear +5. It uses 4 panels and its fabric use is Medium. It is available from the start of a save.
- Elegant +10
- Formal +10
- One cut
- 4 panels
- Medium fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Flounce Sleeve good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
This pattern comes with the save. There is no relationship level or quest standing between you and cutting it.
How to unlock Flounce Sleeve
Available from the start
This pattern comes with the save. There is no relationship level or quest standing between you and cutting it.
One of 40 patterns available from the first day of a save.
Why is this still locked?Variants
The game ships one way to cut Flounce Sleeve.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 4 pieces
Body position
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
4 pieces means a print, a stripe or a gradient has to be lined up across the seams. Matching a repeating print
Need help with cutting?
Did you cut every Flounce Sleeve piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 4 of 4: Right arm, Left arm, and Left arm and 1 more
What styles does Flounce Sleeve add?
Raises 8 styles and lowers 0.
This pattern adds its own style contribution. The fabric you cut it in changes the final dress score further, and so do the other three patterns.
How style scores workFabric use & construction
Compared with the other Sleeve variants: Medium.
Lower than 35% of Sleeve variants.
- Estimated use
- 0.591
The export's own estimate. The game data names no unit for it, which is why the band and the percentile beside it are the parts to compare.
Calculate fabric use for Flounce Sleeve- Panels
- 4 panels
- Grain directions
- Straight grain
- Grain is read from the direction each panel is laid in the export. Bias cut is the game's own per-panel flag rather than a reading of that vector, and where the two disagree both are shown as published.
Where Flounce Sleeve is useful
What Flounce Sleeve contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Flounce Sleeve helps with
Commissions using Flounce Sleeve
- Poetic MuseUsed in a validated solutionAs the Sleeve+10 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50+5 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 50+5 Professional, against a brief asking at least 50
- Proper LadyUsed in a validated solutionAs the Sleeve+10 Formal, against a brief asking at least 50+10 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50+5 Daywear, against a brief asking at least 50
- Another EncoreUsed in a validated solutionAs the Sleeve+5 Elaborate, against a brief asking at least 75+5 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 30
- Dark EmissaryUsed in a validated solutionAs the Sleeve+5 Elaborate, against a brief asking at least 50+5 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 75
- Detective DorothyUsed in a validated solutionAs the Sleeve+5 Professional, against a brief asking at least 50+5 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 40
- Fierce FuneralUsed in a validated solutionAs the Sleeve+10 Formal, against a brief asking at least 50+5 Gothic, against a brief asking at least 40
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Flounce Sleeve raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Poetic Muse out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverFlounce Sleeve alternatives
Other Sleeve patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Elbow Length Juliet Sleeve4 panelsMedium−5 Daywear−5 ElegantUnlocked laterFlounce Sleeve vs Elbow Length Juliet Sleeve
- Juliette Sleeve4 panelsMedium+5 Cute−5 DaywearUnlocked laterFlounce Sleeve vs Juliette Sleeve
- Arwen Sleeve4 panelsMedium−10 Warm+5 CoolUnlocked laterFlounce Sleeve vs Arwen Sleeve
- Mutton Sleeve4 panelsMedium−10 Elegant−10 FormalFlounce Sleeve vs Mutton Sleeve
Use this pattern
Everything above is about Flounce Sleeve on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Flounce Sleeve in Dress BuilderPut Flounce Sleeve in the Sleeve slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Flounce SleeveTake it into the finder's comparison tray, then pick a second pattern to weigh against it.
- All Sleeve patternsEvery pattern of the same part, with the finder's own filters and sort orders.
Flounce Sleeve questions
How do I unlock Flounce Sleeve?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does Flounce Sleeve raise?
Its strongest contributions are Elegant +10, Formal +10, Warm +10, Daywear +5.
How many pieces does Flounce Sleeve have?
It uses 4 panels.
Does Flounce Sleeve use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Flounce Sleeve fabric-efficient?
It sits in the Medium band — lower than 35% of Sleeve patterns.
What commissions use Flounce Sleeve?
It is cut into 11 validated commission solutions.
Learn the systems behind this pattern
Style scores, cutting, cloth and unlocking each have a page of their own.
How Style Scores Work
What a pattern's tag, a fabric's weight and an accessory's pull each do to the final score.
OpenCutting & Bias
What laying a panel on the bias does to the way a dress falls, and when it is worth the cloth.
OpenFabric Usage
How much cloth each part of a dress takes, and where the fabric-use estimate comes from.
OpenProgression Unlocks
Which relationships and levels hand over which patterns, across the whole catalogue.
Open
Cutting this one in a gradient, a stripe or a print? Panels that sit side by side have to line up. How to match fabric patterns
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