It’s no secret that the Tester Round Up is one of our favourite parts of a new pattern release! As we were developing Matilda Curve, we were hanging out so see what our gorgeous testers were going to whip up so we could get to this point…the Matilda Curve Tester Round Up! And as usual…we weren’t disappointed! We had one tester make more than one dress, which is always so wonderful to see! These makes are all so different, it’s so incredible to see how the pattern looks depending on what fabric is chosen. We even noticed a tester after our own heart by making a gorgeous gingham dress (hello Hope!).

If you’d like to take a look at the Tester Round Up from the original Matilda release, be sure to check out the post here. Thanks so much to all of our testers for being so generous with their time, we’re so thrilled to show you some of their makes! Let’s take a look!

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Our Matilda dress pattern is full of so many beautiful details that you can make as is or tweak to create your dream shirt dress! We’ve been so excited to put together this inspiration post to show you some other beautiful ways you can hack and personalise use your Matilda pattern! Let’s take a look at some inspiration & ideas for the Matilda dress!

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If you find yourself in the crossover 14-20 sizes and are struggling to choose between the Matilda and Matilda Curve patterns, I thought it might help to provide a bit of visual comparison between them! Today I’ll be sharing a diagram comparing a size 18 from our 0-20 range shown in outline, to the size 18 in the Curve range as shown in green. As there are a large number of pattern pieces I have only shown the main bodice pattern pieces as I believe these really illustrate the key differences best.

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