a It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Can you believe it’s our 7th annual, 12 Days of Freebies?! It’s one of our favorite things here at Team Mermaid. We love to say “thank you” to all of you in our Mermaid community this month! We hope these freebies (and our freebies from previous years – 2015, 2016, 2017 2018, 2019,…
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Vanessa is here, and we are obsessed! Available in adult (drafted to women’s curvy standard measurements) and youth, Vanessa is drafted for light to medium-weight knits. LOTS of fabrics will work for Vanessa – rayon French Terry, sweater knits, ribbed knits, double brushed polyester, thicker waffle knits, and so much more! Not obsessed with the off-shoulder look? Not to worry!…
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If you’ve never worked with PDF patterns before, get ready to have your mind blown. As a long-time user of printed patterns, I remember exactly how excited I was to learn about using PDF patterns… I was ecstatic to have the ability to print my pattern in multiple sizes, any time I needed to. Here are all of the tips…
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Scarlett is here, and WHEW, our testers are pure fire! We had so much fun seeing all of them rock this dress! The adult Scarlett features multiple square necklines (high front and back, or low front and back), SIX sleeve options (sleeveless, fitted short, 3/4, long, bishop long, and bishop 3/4), several lengths (mini, dress, below knew, maxi), a front…
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Hi beautiful Merpeople! Let me start by introducing myself. My name is Amii and this is my first time blogging for M4M! I started sewing only to alter my daughter’s dance costumes, which led me to open a custom dance costume business. When I entered the pdf pattern world, Made for Mermaids was my first pdf pattern company and I…
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Katy is our newest set of patterns, and we think you’ll love it almost as much as you love the real life Katys in our sewing community! 😉 Did you get a load of the Katy-filled cover on the adult Katy pattern? Katy (drafted to the women’s standard size chart) and Youth Katy are both designed with all of your…
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Welcome, Mer-folks! Jess here, to help tackle one of the more common questions that pops up from time to time in the M4M Facebook group: what in the world is the A0 file option for?! Okay, maybe it’s not super common, but I know that *I* had no idea what an A0 print was before I entered the PDF pattern…
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Thank you for joining Stephanie and me over the last week for our Blythe SAL! If you started but haven’t had a chance to finish, or if you are planning to tackle this project at a later date, the videos and blog posts will always stay up for you to refer back to. Our SAL winners for Blythe are: BRIANA…
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Today is our final sewing day of the Blythe Sew-a-long! Stephanie is hemming her skirt today, but you can also take time to catch up if you’re running a little behind. We know how life gets during the week! If you’re struggling with hemming, visit our 101 series over here. A quick thing to trouble shoot is to check your…
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We’ve made it to Day 6 of our Blythe SAL! The finish line is just around the corner 🙂 Today we’re going to attach our skirt tiers. This is another tedious, though not necessarily difficult, step. It’s so, so important to take your time to make sure your gathers and tiers turn out nice and neat. I use a TON…
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