One of my internet friends made a super cute shirt/skirt/sash (I recommended she add a sash), she thought about making it into a pattern, so she did. She drew it up, turned it into a PDF, wrote a tutorial with great pictures and then went looking for pattern testers! I was lucky enough to be chosen from the giant pool of testers that she had asking to help her out.
I'd never pattern tested before and I've only used PDF patterns on a limited basis. I'm stingy and they are more expensive than mass produced patterns, for all the same reasons my costumes cost more than the ones at Target do. Handmade, good quality, personal attention. Using her tutorial was very easy and there were only a couple of hiccups in the process, several of which were due to my inability to read...all of them have been corrected. I made two versions, here is the colorful one I made for my daughter.
