
Sweetheart Bodice
Sweetheart Bodice is a Bodice pattern that adds Cute +25, Eveningwear +25, Romantic +25, Elegant +20. It uses 6 panels and its fabric use is Low. It is available from the start of a save.
- Cute +25
- Eveningwear +25
- One cut
- 6 panels
- Low fabric use
- Available from the start
Read from game data build 25482629, not written by hand.
What is Sweetheart Bodice 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 Sweetheart Bodice
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 Sweetheart Bodice.
Pattern pieces
Select a piece to see where it sits on the garment and which way its grain runs.
- 6 pieces
Body position
Front
Some pieces do not say where they go. Those are listed without a position.
6 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 Sweetheart Bodice piece?
Tick the pieces you have cut. Whatever is left unticked is what the pattern still owes you.
Missing 6 of 6: Front, Back, and Bodice Left and 3 more
What styles does Sweetheart Bodice add?
Raises 12 styles and lowers 3.
Raises
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 82% of Bodice variants.
- Estimated use
- 0.478
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 Sweetheart Bodice- Panels
- 6 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 Sweetheart Bodice is useful
What Sweetheart Bodice contributes, and the dresses the game itself validates with it.
Styles Sweetheart Bodice helps with
Commissions using Sweetheart Bodice
- Exhibition OpeningUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+25 Eveningwear, against a brief asking at least 60+25 Romantic, against a brief asking at least 50+5 Playful, against a brief asking at least 25+20 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50

- Opera NightUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+25 Romantic, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Cute, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Eveningwear, against a brief asking at least 50

- Selafie's WishUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+25 Cute, against a brief asking at least 60+5 Playful, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Romantic, against a brief asking at least 50

- A gift for AdoraUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+25 Cute, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Romantic, against a brief asking at least 50

- Fainting DressUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+20 Elegant, against a brief asking at least 50+25 Romantic, against a brief asking at least 50

- Floral RomanceUsed in a validated solutionAs the Bodice+25 Eveningwear, against a brief asking at least 40+25 Romantic, against a brief asking at least 60

Other commissions asking for these styles
The commission board indexes the styles Sweetheart Bodice raises, so each of these opens on the briefs asking for one of them.
Lay Exhibition Opening out on the solver's board and see what a dress that passes it is made of.
Open in the solverSweetheart Bodice alternatives
Other Bodice patterns, each compared on its first cut, with the differences already worked out.
- Strapless Bodice6 panelsLow+5 Casual−5 Cute3 more variantsSweetheart Bodice vs Strapless Bodice

- Heart Princess Bodice6 panelsLow−20 Romantic−10 Cute1 more variantsUnlocked laterSweetheart Bodice vs Heart Princess Bodice

- Sweet Maiden Bodice1 panelLow−20 Simple+15 Playful5 fewer panelsUnlocked laterSweetheart Bodice vs Sweet Maiden Bodice

- Gatsby Bodice6 panelsLow−25 Cute+20 RisquéUnlocked laterSweetheart Bodice vs Gatsby Bodice

Use this pattern
Everything above is about Sweetheart Bodice on its own. These are the pages where it becomes a dress.
- Use Sweetheart Bodice in Dress BuilderPut Sweetheart Bodice in the Bodice slot and build the rest of the dress around it.
- Compare Sweetheart 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.
Sweetheart Bodice questions
How do I unlock Sweetheart Bodice?
Available from the start — nothing stands between you and cutting it.
Which styles does Sweetheart Bodice raise?
Its strongest contributions are Cute +25, Eveningwear +25, Romantic +25, Elegant +20.
How many pieces does Sweetheart Bodice have?
It uses 6 panels.
Does Sweetheart Bodice use bias cut?
No. Every panel is laid on the straight grain.
Is Sweetheart Bodice fabric-efficient?
It sits in the Low band — lower than 82% of Bodice patterns.
What commissions use Sweetheart Bodice?
It is cut into 10 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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