The Tonic Tee Just Got a Makeover

The Tonic Tee is by far the most popular SBCC Pattern. She's a classic. She's Petite, and she's free. But it's been awhile since I created her and let's face it, her roots were showing and it was time for some polishing and primping--we can all understand the need these days. 

New Sizing

It was time to bring her up to speed to the new sizing initiatives for SBCC including the addition of sizes to each size range. The smaller size range now includes XXS-XL (previously it was only XXS-L) and the second size range that originally was XL-3X now has added on L and 4X. The overlapped size may not seem like much, but if you find yourself needing to grade between sizes then this will be helpful. 

Mixing Average and Petite Height Proportions

The Pisco Tank and Dress was the first of its kind offering both mix and match pieces to include average height and petite height proportions for the same garment. In case you missed the full description, read all about it here. This was a hit, so I figured let's give it a try for the Tonic Tee! Now if you have a petite upper body, but a longer torso, the Tonic Tee has you covered. 

Copyshop

As I go through updating older SBCC Patterns, I am *finally* adding a copy shop version. The Tonic Tee now has this as a feature and the same file is formatted for standard copy shop and A4 printing.

Layered Sizes

Now you can select what size you would like to print from the layers toolbar when you open the PDF pattern. Whoa- mind blown, right? Well mine was. I was a bit intimidated to try to figure how to do this out for the longest time, but it turned out to actually be quite easy. I know many pattern companies offer this and I've felt very behind, but now I'm entering the 21st century and ready to do this update across the board. 

A New Sleeve

So you may be wanting something a little more exciting for an update. Well, how about a new puffy sleeve add on piece. Yup, let's be trendy, but not over the top. Puffy sleeves are coming back in a big way. I consider myself a reluctant convert, but now I'm quite happy with what I've done for the Tonic Tee- it's not a crazy voluminous puff that harks back to the 80's. Nope, it's subtle. 

How do you get the update? 

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