Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick. The Big 4.

Hey guys! So let’s talk about patterns. The Big 4. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick. Even though I can drape and draft my own pattern I STILL enjoy buying patterns and sewing from them. As of right now, I think my favorite pattern company is Vogue. Followed closely by McCall’s.

Normally when I go into a store to get patterns I already have a list. I love looking online and going through all the views and adding them to my pattern list on evernote. Evernote is THE BOMB for keeping lists lol.

I look forward to “new pattern time” each season. I love to see what the pattern companies are going to present to us. Sometimes there are some awesome offerings, other times not so much. I’ve seen so many patterns that are just the same as something else. Like they have just taken one pattern number and put it on a different envelope lol.

What is the point of this post? THE WEBSITES!!

McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick have a new website. It is A M A Z I N G. It looks good, it’s organized well, it’s very user friendly. Superb.

Ohhhh but Simplicity. I can not stand the updated website. I do not feel that I am alone in this lol. It is horrible. While it does look nice, it is SO hard to navigate, it doesn’t recognize pattern numbers and it is not organized well. AT ALL. Not to me. I LOVED the old site. I could go to Burda Patterns —> Pants and look at ALL of Burda’s pants. Oh but now? You have to scroll through ALL the skirts/pants for both Simplicity AND Burda. Now that may not be annoying to some, but it IS annoying to me. I don’t know. Maybe I am the only one.

I honestly haven’t been on the Simplicity site since the update (other than today to link it) because it gives me a headache and it makes me want to throw my iMac out of the window. No, seriously. It does. I don’t know if they have made updates or not to make it better but I’m scared to look lol. I don’t want to be annoyed.

So, y’all tell me what do you think of the websites? Would you rather look in a pattern book or look online BEFORE you go to purchase patterns? I don’t often sit down and look at the pattern books. EVERY NOW AND THEN, but it’s not often at all. I would MUCH rather have a list already made (from looking online) and grab what I want other than sitting down in the store. Ok, let’s talk in the comments.

Adrienne