Dressmaker Wiki

Quality calculator: from grain, sewing and fit to the number on the card

A commission dress scores 30% grain, 20% fit and 50% sewing, rounded. A dress you sell, or the fallback check on a gift, leaves fit out and scores 40% grain and 60% sewing. Put in your numbers to see both, and whether a card’s Quality line passes.

100Quality for a commission (fit 100%)
100Quality for a sale and the gift fallback (no fit)
  • Librarian Workwear: 100 passes 60.
  • Gift fallback: 100 is over 80, so a gift lands even if it misses her gift card. Gift cards
  • 100% achievement: this dress earns it.

Where the three numbers come from

GrainThe average over every piece of the dress: a piece lined up exactly with the grain scores 100 and one exactly across it 75; a slight tilt lowers either, and past a small angle the piece scores nothing. Pieces the game treats as bias cut score 100 lined up either way. How to line pieces up is on grain, gradients and prints.
SewingEach seam’s accuracy, weighted by how many mesh edges it joins, so the seams with more edges count for more. Tips and the Sewing Assist setting are on getting 100% quality.
FitHow close the mannequin is to the client’s true size, not to your tape readings. Each client’s true size and a fit checker are on client measurements.
Paper pattern pieces on strawberry-print cotton, each with a horizontal arrow, several labelled Grain Quality: 100%.
Grain is decided here: each piece shows its Grain Quality as you lay it on the fabric.
Dressmaker tips and tricks I cannot live without!Fleurs · 12:57 · from 0:30Starts at the Sewing Assist tip, the setting that keeps the fabric on the seam line for you.

Why 94.5 is not 95

The game rounds with Unity’s rounding, which sends a number ending in exactly .5 to the even whole number: 94.5 becomes 94, while 95.5 becomes 96. So a dress that seems to sit right on the line can still miss a 95 card by one. The calculator above rounds the same way, and when you are short it tells you the sewing that gets you over.

The lines that matter

  • A card’s Quality line

    Passes at or above its number; Not Haughty’s is a ceiling instead. See Not Haughty.

  • Gifts

    A gift that misses the client’s gift card still lands if its no-fit Quality is over 80, so 81 or more. More on gifts.

  • The 100% achievement

    Uses the no-fit Quality, so measurements do not matter for it. See achievements.