Mythia Batford Completes Three Commissions in Two-Hour Dressmaker Stream

INDEPENDENT — Mythia Batford finished three client commissions in the sewing game Dressmaker during a two-hour stream, and said at the end that she was very satisfied and wanted to play again. She began by describing the game as relaxing and the first she had played in a while that was this calm, then found that it asked more of her than expected.

The first client was a town librarian named Rose, who needed a professional work dress. Mythia measured her, picked a brown linen and worked through the game’s cutting and sewing steps. She struggled to raise the dress’s quality and professionalism scores, had to be reminded that sewing comes before the scores update, and took about an hour over the first customer, a pace she noted aloud.

“If you’re going to stream a game, you really do have to play it first to know what it’s like.” — Mythia Batford, after reviewing how much fabric she had wasted

The second client, a would-be duchess named Prudence Mortimer, wanted a glamorous dress in a striking color for a funeral, with nothing black. Mythia weighed red, yellow, hot pink and gold before settling on purple and gold, and she joked that purple reminded her of the purple sweet potato. The dress was her most expensive fabric purchase of the night. She repeatedly said the pattern layout bothered her, because the game rewards straight, tightly packed cuts and she kept running out of fabric.

A third client asked for a formal gothic dress. Mythia bought more fabric, briefly considered color and then chose a simple black design. She admitted to wasting material early on and said she would play more carefully next time. The last dress was done at about 1 hour 55 minutes.

Chat spent much of the stream joking about the sewing, with several viewers saying the machine sounds matched the real thing and reminded them of their grandmothers’ houses. Mythia said she planned a free-talk stream the next afternoon, and possibly a morning stream as well.