It came out pretty good!! As someone who has been sewing for about 20 years, I have a little bit of advice, if you’d like.

Always cut your interfacing (or stabilizer) a bit smaller than the piece it’s going on. This frees up the seam allowances to be sewn much more easily.

Finishing the edges of tight curves (like the neck hole) works a lot better with a facing piece or bias tape. I prefer facing, myself - using the same pattern pieces for the top, trace the neck hole and then only about two inches or so down from it (just a narrow neck hole strip). Once you have your outer pieces assembled at the shoulder seams, sew your neck facing pieces at their shoulder seams, too. Then pin your main piece and the neck facing right sides together and sew them together along the neck hole. Clip the seam allowances, flip the facing to the inside, iron it flat, and then top stitch it down. This will give you a beautifully finished neck edge!

Also, it looks like you did the sleeves backwards - the curved edge would have been the shoulder seam, and the straight edge would have been the hem. They may have sat better. But gathering the edge afterwards was a really cute choice, so it worked out in the end!

Lastly - please don’t be afraid to use the iron! Every time you sew a seam, iron it flat afterwards. I promise it’ll REALLY elevate the look of your sewing. Ironing is especially important for hems! Iron them FIRST and then sew them down, and you’ll get a hem that sits much flatter and behaves while you’re sewing it <3

All in all, for not having any directions, you did absolutely great! You ended up with a wearable finished garment, and it’s cute as hell. Wonderful job! (Also I’m jealous of your printer haha)

I've been hoping someone would make a video like this! It turned out so lovely. And your camera work was fabulous throughout

All in all, a lot of great decisions from a beginner! And the finished result looks great. As someone who remembers trying (and failing) to sew cosplay at 14, buying the cheapest matching colour fabrics and then re-starting sewing at 24 from a historical point of view- my biggest advice to beginners would be to not be so afraid of non-stretchy fabrics. The logic is understandable "if I make a mistake in measurements the fabric will just stretch around them"- but I cannot stress enough how much easier a non-stretchy fabric is to work with for a beginner. And another upside of that is that cottons and linens are a lot nicer when it's hot outside (and nicer to the skin, but that's more of a personal taste).

I love that you play both the commissioner and the dressmaker within this- the recreation of taking the commission was really a highlight for me. The dress turned out impressively well, I think a major reason the measurements of the sleeves and bodice were off is because dressmaker limits itself to 3 measurements (bust/waist/hips). Not everyone has the same torso length, shoulder width, or arm circumference so unlike the skirt which really only needed a waist measurement and desired length, the bodice could have needed some additional measurements/workshopping to be more accurate. However- it's crazy how well it turned out despite this. As many others have said, you have good instincts and the dress ended up looking like it was already a part of your wardrobe.

exactly what i was hoping to see after playing this game ! I'm not an expert sewist but playing it really helped open my mind on the 3D of it and how the pieces can create a specific shape. The game doesn't teaches you the technique but I still think it's a good help with visualization. You did very well !

you did a great job! the pattern is definitely not made for real bodies lol but I did enjoy you figuring out how to put it together. a little tip, when a sleeve pattern curves, that is normally the part that gets sewn to the bodice while the flat part is the part that gets hemmed. the dress turned out well, great job!

I think adjusting the vectors did a lot of the heavy lifting for making the pattern usable. The in-game panels definitely wouldn't have given you a proper garment in the end, but I'm impressed the bodice cut-out basically worked.
For finishing curved edges, bias tape is another option you could look into.

I'm a 40yo old straight man and your video was awesome... I recently gifted dressmaker to someone and being and engineer and also liking solving problems with math and vector graphics (and 3D modeling) I was like... The game is cute and all, but there is no way those patterns fit is it? They are too perfect, don't account for torso length or seam clearence, or use some way of hardening the sleeves... So watching your video and witnessing all the problem solving, all the pivots, compromises and just a great mind working all around I must admit I was enthralled.

Great video and even if you don't continue in this YouTube path, you get a like and a sub... Well freaking done. I hope you have a wonderful day, loved the enthusiasm and as a fellow dad of two cats hahaha I can relate to the hair conundrum 😂

The dress ended up beautiful!

The "one piece of fabric" thing drives me mildly insane in Dressmaker, hah. But I AM so thrilled that the game taught you about putting pattern pieces on the straight of grain! They never really explain what bias is good for in the game, which makes sense, since it isn't exactly meant to be educational, but that's for when you need something to stretch on a non-stretch fabric, or need to be able to "mold" it to take a curve more with your iron! It will conform to the curves better than a straight of grain piece :)

For something based on fiction, the dress turned out wonderfully.
I'd love to see someone make a series based upon making all the dress patterns real.

for the future, you should try to cut interfacing to the pattern without seam allowance so its easier and less bulky to fold over the seams and sew everything together!
Great job, though!! I played this game for 6 hours yesterday instead of working on my actual sewing projects lol.

This actually turned out so good considering you used a pattern that had ever been tested and you claimed to not really know what you were doing. It looks amazing on you!!!

My toxic trait is believing I can pull off whatever other people do online, in this case you and this lovely dress

as a very novice sewing hobbyist, this was so inspiring! you definitely sewed the sleeves backwards but they came out so cute, and I cringed so much when you cut into the neckline 😭 BUT you made it all work and fit together and thats crazy amazing for smth that was never intended to irl!

Can't believe you only have 350ish subscribers.. This video was super well put together, and the dress actually looks really good! Honestly i kinda expected it would look a little bit weird but it just looks like a normal dress that you might see in a clothing store. props to dressmaker for having some semblance of realism i guess.

I have 0 experience sewing (unless you count making a stuffed cube in sewing class at one time 20 years ago as experience) but i love the game, a super cozy creative outlet. It's cool to see a video like this.

This is ambitious for such an early project and you knocked it out of the park.

Now I wish the developers would make it so you can port it into an actual pattern- holy crap that would be amazing 😅

That’s super cool! It turned out amazing! I love when people are able to use a game to make something in real life!

Girl, you did SO GOOD for a beginner! For converting a game pattern into irl piece, I think you actually did fantastic. I think other commenters did mention this but your sleeves were on upside down!! The wide curve is meant to attach to the bodice, into the armhole since the "capped sleeve" is supposed to be very straight and not wavy when attached to the bodice. I'm surprised the piece fit the other way LOL Others have mentioned either a facing or the lining fabric to help with the raw edge at the neckline which I will also echo. 😊

Something I don't think(maybe??) commenters have mentioned is most commercial patterns have notches on bodice & armhole pattern pieces & at the waist on skirt pieces if it's a dress. It's like registration marks that you can match up and pin so that the entire seam and the two pieces are aligned correctly. Since Dressmaker is super simplified, these weren't included in the pattern pieces but you did so well in matching everything up!!

Yes, the machine heats up and it does smell quite toasty sometimes. 😅 And like others mentioned, don't be afraid to iron! I find when I sew clothes, I'm spending more time pinning pieces together & ironing finished seams than actually sewing. It really elevates the finished product. The topstitching on seams was actually a great intuitive move on your part to make everything more neat and polished. Your dress turned out so well, I'm hoping to see so many more cool projects from you!!

It looks so good on you! That's at least a mid-tier expensive dress if you bought it anywhere, and you made it off of a video game. Big props, turned out great.
One thing the game doesn't do is darts and gussets. So that might help with the fit