
Katarina Bodice
Katarina Bodice is a Bodice pattern that adds Daywear +15, Eveningwear +15, Casual +10, Cool +10. It uses 5 panels and its fabric use is Low. It unlocks at relationship level 1 with Dorothy.
- Daywear +15
- Eveningwear +15
- 2 variants
- 5 panels
- Low fabric use
- Dorothy Lv. 1
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Katarina Bodice good for?
Four answers, all read from the pattern's own variants.
What is it best for?
How do I unlock it?
Complete Dorothy's commissions and raise the relationship to level 1, and the pattern is yours.
How to unlock Katarina Bodice
Dorothy · Relationship Lv. 1
- Character
- Dorothy
- Relationship level
- 1
Complete Dorothy's commissions and raise the relationship to level 1, and the pattern is yours.
One of 117 patterns a relationship level hands over.
Why is this still locked?Variants
Every way the game cuts Katarina Bodice. The numbers below follow the variant you pick.
- Variant 15 panelsLow fabric use · 0.523No bias cut
- Variant 25 panelsLow fabric use · 0.522No bias cutLess cloth than variant 1
Only the construction numbers change with the variant. The style contribution is declared on the pattern, so every cut brings the same of it.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 5 pieces
Body position
Front
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
5 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 Katarina Bodice piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 5 of 5: Bodice Back, Bodice Back Left, and Bodice Front and 2 more
What styles does Katarina Bodice add?
Raises 11 styles and lowers 1.
Raises
Lowers
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 Bodice variants: Low.
Lower than 77% of Bodice variants.
- Estimated use
- 0.522
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 Katarina Bodice- Panels
- 5 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 Katarina Bodice is useful
What Katarina Bodice contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Katarina Bodice helps with
Commissions using Katarina Bodice
No validated commission solution is cut from Katarina Bodice. The briefs that ask for the styles it raises are the ones it can still contribute to.
Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Katarina Bodice raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Check what a dress costs and whether it passes, before you cut into anything.
Open in the solverKatarina Bodice alternatives
Other Bodice patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Heart Princess Bodice6 panelsLow+15 Elegant+10 Cute1 more panelsKatarina Bodice vs Heart Princess Bodice

- Sweetheart Bodice6 panelsLow+20 Cute+15 Romantic1 more panels1 fewer variantsKatarina Bodice vs Sweetheart Bodice

- Strapless Bodice6 panelsLow+20 Simple+15 Cute1 more panels2 more variantsKatarina Bodice vs Strapless Bodice

- Halter Neck Bodice5 panelsLow−15 Eveningwear+10 Cool2 more variantsUnlocked laterKatarina Bodice vs Halter Neck Bodice

Use this pattern
Everything above is about Katarina Bodice on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Katarina Bodice in Dress BuilderPut Katarina Bodice in the Bodice slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Katarina BodiceTake it into the finder's comparison tray, then pick a second pattern to weigh against it.
- All Bodice patternsEvery pattern of the same part, with the finder's own filters and sort orders.
Katarina Bodice questions
How do I unlock Katarina Bodice?
Dorothy hands it over at relationship level 1.
Which styles does Katarina Bodice raise?
Its strongest contributions are Daywear +15, Eveningwear +15, Casual +10, Cool +10.
How many pieces does Katarina Bodice have?
It uses 5 panels.
Does Katarina Bodice use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Katarina Bodice fabric-efficient?
It sits in the Low band — lower than 77% of Bodice patterns.
What commissions use Katarina Bodice?
No validated solution uses it. The commissions that ask for the styles it raises can still make use of it.
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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