Wow-wee!!! What a week it’s been over in the Made for Mermaids Patterns Group!  When I pitched this  America’s Next Top Model-inspired challenge to Megan G. I had no idea what a huge turnout we would have!  I actually had more blog posts planned for the week, but was so busy checking off challenges that I didn’t have time to get them all written up!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated.  We had 153 ladies initially sign up.  Over the course of the week, the participants completed several challenges that mimic our pattern testing process:
*Sign up for Tester Call
*Fit Pics and Feedback
*Tutorial Edits
*Final Pictures
*Sharing and spamming on social media

77 ladies completed all 5 challenges… YES! 77!!  We were blown away and so impressed with the quality of work everyone turned in.  They all made it very difficult for #teammermaid to pick a winner and runner up.  So difficult that we decided to add more winners!! Yay!  There were just too many amazing entries!  There will be a Top Tester and Runner Up in a Kids Division and a Womens Division, plus a Random Winner. 🙂

Let’s get to it then… Drumroll please…………………………….

Here are your winners-

Made for Mermaids’ Next Top Tester: Jessica Simmons Vert (Kids Division) and Brittany Reini (Womens Division)!!

Runner Up: Christine Griffin-Grace (Kids Division) and Stephanie Farias (Women’s Division).

Random Winner: Mirna Bailey. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

As soon as Jessica posted her dreamy Isla, we began swooning over how sweet and beautiful her dress and pictures were and we haven’t stopped!

  

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Brittany’s Mama Ella made all three of us want to make one just like her’s!!  And I just love how she styled it! So beautiful!

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Christine’s Hampton Romper is just gorgeous!  Beautiful fabric combination and the photos are just as lovely!

 

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Look how gorgeous Stephanie is in her Megan Romper?!?!  We just love it to pieces!

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We also chose one Random Winner to win one M4M pattern of choice: Mirna Bailey

Congratulations to all of the winners!  You will be contacted about your prize packages!!

There were so many wonderful entries and the Made for Mermaids team wants to thank everyone for their hard work this week!  I hope you all enjoyed sewing and learning more about our testing process.  We have decided to make this an annual competition since it was such a smashing success!  So… keep sewing, styling and photographing, M4M fans! There will be more Made for Mermaids’ Next Top Testers next year!  Do you have what it takes to be on top?