Burda Style For people who sew

Regarding the search options: the expanded variety of search options seems great until you actually try to use it. For example, there is a lot of overlap in the terms shirt, top, blouse, and tanks/Ts, but each patterns is assigned to only one category. In some cases, there’s not a lot of logic: “Lydia” is under shirts, the Lydia hoodie variation is under tops, but I myself would consider the pattern to be a t-shirt. You still have to wade through all the categories, because something you might consider a blouse is considered a top by Burdastyle. It would be more helpful if patterns could reside in multiple categories: e.g. “Idit” may be a blouse and a top. “Tara” could be a tank, top, or lingerie.
In fact, the terms “top” and “shirt” are so vague as to be fairly useless. Perhaps all blouse/tank/tshirt/etc. could come up when you search “shirt” (I consider them all types of shirt or top). Searching “tank” would yield a narrower range of pattens.
Along the same lines, some dresses could also be skirt patterns, and some pants could be shorts, and some coats could be cardigans could be jackets…

Oct 11, 2009, 10.02 PM by emmastaf