
Short Puffed Sleeve
Short Puffed Sleeve is a Sleeve pattern that adds Cool +10, Cute +10, Daywear +10, Playful +10. It uses 2 panels and its fabric use is Low. It is available from the start of a save.
- Cool +10
- Cute +10
- 2 variants
- 2 panels
- Low fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Short Puffed 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 Short Puffed 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
Every way the game cuts Short Puffed Sleeve. The numbers below follow the variant you pick.
- Variant 14 panelsLow fabric use · 0.3322 on the bias
- Variant 22 panelsLow fabric use · 0.207No bias cut2 fewer panels than variant 1Less 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.
- 2 pieces
Body position
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
Need help with cutting?
Did you cut every Short Puffed Sleeve piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 2 of 2: Left arm and Right arm
What styles does Short Puffed Sleeve add?
Raises 9 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: Low.
Lower than 84% of Sleeve variants.
- Estimated use
- 0.207
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 Short Puffed Sleeve- Panels
- 2 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 Short Puffed Sleeve is useful
What Short Puffed Sleeve contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Short Puffed Sleeve helps with
Commissions using Short Puffed Sleeve
- Beloved OxUsed in a validated solutionAs the Sleeve+5 Professional, against a brief asking at least 60+10 Daywear, against a brief asking at least 25+10 Cute, against a brief asking at least 40

- Vegetable EmpireUsed in a validated solutionAs the Sleeve+10 Cute, against a brief asking at least 50+10 Playful, against a brief asking at least 50+5 Workwear, against a brief asking at least 40

- Carrot PromotionUsed in a validated solutionAs the Sleeve+10 Playful, against a brief asking at least 50+10 Daywear, against a brief asking at least 50

- Cheerful FrogUsed in a validated solutionAs the Sleeve+10 Playful, against a brief asking at least 50+10 Daywear, against a brief asking at least 50

- Good AuntUsed in a validated solutionAs the Sleeve+10 Cute, against a brief asking at least 75+10 Playful, against a brief asking at least 50

- Love LabyrinthUsed in a validated solutionAs the Sleeve+5 Romantic, against a brief asking at least 50+10 Cute, against a brief asking at least 60

Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Short Puffed Sleeve raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Beloved Ox out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverShort Puffed Sleeve alternatives
Other Sleeve patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Fae Sleeve4 panelsLow+10 Eveningwear−5 Casual1 fewer variantsUnlocked laterShort Puffed Sleeve vs Fae Sleeve

- Short Sleeve4 panelsLow−10 Playful−5 CuteUnlocked laterShort Puffed Sleeve vs Short Sleeve

- Petal Sleeve4 panelsLow−5 Cool+5 Cute1 fewer variantsUnlocked laterShort Puffed Sleeve vs Petal Sleeve

- Long Cuffed Sleeve4 panelsLow−10 Cool−10 Cute1 fewer variantsUnlocked laterShort Puffed Sleeve vs Long Cuffed Sleeve

Use this pattern
Everything above is about Short Puffed Sleeve on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Short Puffed Sleeve in Dress BuilderPut Short Puffed Sleeve in the Sleeve slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Short Puffed 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.
Short Puffed Sleeve questions
How do I unlock Short Puffed Sleeve?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does Short Puffed Sleeve raise?
Its strongest contributions are Cool +10, Cute +10, Daywear +10, Playful +10.
How many pieces does Short Puffed Sleeve have?
It uses 2 panels.
Does Short Puffed Sleeve use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Short Puffed Sleeve fabric-efficient?
It sits in the Low band — lower than 84% of Sleeve patterns.
What commissions use Short Puffed 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
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