Six weeks of quiet heads-down work. Here is what changed.
The polo, fully parametric
The polo joins the four other garments — drop-shoulder tee, regular tee, crewneck, and tank — as a fully parametric garment in the modeler. It carries the parts a real polo needs: a two-piece collar and stand, a buttoned front placket with the button and buttonhole positions marked on the pattern, set-in sleeves, and an optional sleeve binding. The button count is a slider, and the marks move with it.
Shared garment features
Two construction details are now shared across every garment that supports them. Side slits open the side seam from a marked notch to the hem, with the seam stopping cleanly at the notch on the exported pattern. Hem fold style lets you choose a single- or double-fold hem, and the choice flows through to the construction notes in the tech pack. Editing the M-size column still auto-grades the rest of the run using the garment's own increments.
Pattern export, on real paper
Every garment exports a print-ready pattern. Pieces are packed onto your paper size and only tiled across pages when they are genuinely too large to fit; each page carries a code and neighbour arrows so taping the sheets together is unambiguous. Cut-on-fold body pieces are clipped to a half with the fold edge marked, cutting lines sit outside the sewing line at the seam allowance, and grainlines and notches are drawn on every piece. For large-format printers there is a plotter mode that drops the tiling and the cover sheet for single-sheet output.
Read before you sew
The journal now has a Sewing Instructions section — illustrated, metric-first assembly guides built around the exact pieces each modeler exports, starting with the polo and covering all five garments. If you have exported a pattern and want to know what to do with the pieces, start there.