Tailoring

Tailoring is a way for you to craft clothes for the community, or even craft your own clothes using the objects you can find around Pixie Hollow. To craft clothes, you simply need to visit a crafting nook in the meadows.

Tailoring Types

Community tailoring allows you to practice your skills in tailoring. All materials needed to craft these items are courtesy of the crafting shop, so there is no need to look for them.

Personal tailoring allows you to craft clothes for yourself.

Tailoring Clothes

To begin tailoring a piece of clothing, you need to select a pattern to use. There are 51 patterns to unlock overall, which can be found in the crafting nooks section of the wiki. To begin, you will only have 2 of these patterns, but as you complete previous patters new ones will be unlocked.

Each pattern on the Patterns screen shows you the pattern number (up to 51), an image of the pattern, the name of the clothing, and a progress bar telling you how far you have progressed with this pattern. The small magnifying glass will show you more information about the pattern upon clicking it.

Aside from the information that you get from the pattern page, this will show your the ingredients you need, the amount of this item you have crafted, your highest quality score for the pattern, your average quality score on the pattern, and the steps involved to make it. To return to the list of patterns, simply slick the "x" in top right hand corner.

When you've decided which pattern you want, all you need to do is click on it then click the select button. At that time you will be sent to the "Choose A Color" screen, where you can choose between five different colors for your clothing. When you select one, the pattern image at the top changes to that color to show you what the pattern will look like. When you have found the color you like, click the Next button to begin tailoring.

Steps

There are four steps to tailoring, each being a small mini game that you must complete to continue. In the end, you will be scored with a quality rating judged by certain aspects of each mini-game.

Roly-poly Painting

Roly-poly painting is the first step in tailoring. Using your mouse, move the acorn cap left and right to bounce to roly-poly bug across the cloth. The pins holding the cloth down act as as bumpers, and will make the roly-poly bug roll in different directions and splatter a bit of dye on the cloth. Be careful not to drop the roly-poly bug though, if you do then some of your dye will be taken away! The more dye left over when you finish, the higher your quality score will be at the end.

Image:PH Tailoring Roly-poly Painting Instruction.png|Use the paddle to bounce the roly-poly bug. He'll spread dye as he rolls over your material. Image:PH Tailoring Roly-poly Painting Instruction 2.png|The roly-poly bug will bounce off the pin bumpers. Image:PH Tailoring Roly-poly Painting Instruction 3.png|Color as much of the material as you can before your dye runs out.

You have completed this step when you completely dye the cloth, or you run out of dye.

Caterpillar Cutting

Caterpillar Cutting is the second step in tailoring. Using your mouse, move the cake around the pattern, guiding the caterpillar over the dots. Along the pattern there will be stars that take place of the dots, eat these to gain a small time bonus! Keeping on the dotted line and finishing with time left will give you a higher quality rating at the end.

Image:PH Tailoring Caterpillar Cutting Instruction.png|Use the cake to lead the caterpillar around the pattern. Image:PH Tailoring Caterpillar Cutting Instruction 2.png|The caterpillar is cutting your fabric pieces, so keep him nibbling carefully along the dotted line. Image:PH Tailoring Caterpillar Cutting Instruction 3.png|Collect stars before they disappear to earn bonus points in some recipes!

You have completed this step when you have followed the dotted line to the finish line marked at the end of the pattern.

Pattern Placing

Pattern Placing is the third step in tailoring. To place the pieces of material in the correct spots, simply left click them and drag them to where you believe they belong. When you have placed the pattern in the correct spot, it will lock into place. If you need a hint, click the hint button below the pattern template and a piece will light up along with the place that it goes! Finish with time left to recieve a time bonus and gain a higher accuracy rating.

Image:PH Tailoring Pattern Placing Instruction.png|Place Pieces into the shape. Image:PH Tailoring Pattern Placing Instruction 2.png|Complete the puzzle using both shape and pattern. Image:PH Tailoring Pattern Placing Instruction 3.png|The quicker you do this, the better.

You have completed this step when all the pattern pieces have been placed in the right position.

Spider Stitching

Spider stitching is the fourth and final step in tailoring. Help the spider stitch the pieces of material together by left clicking the screen when she is over the leaves. When the spider swings towards a leaf, a circle will appear around it. Be careful not to miss this circle, you only get once chance for each stitch! By releasing the mouse button when the spider is closer to the center to the circle, you increase your quality rating.

On 19 December 2008 this game was updated so that stitches are sewn when the mouse button is released. Prior to this date stitches were sewn when the mouse was clicked.

Image:PH Tailoring Spider Stitching Instruction.png|When the spider is over the target, click to tell her to make a stitch. Image:PH Tailoring Spider Stitching Instruction 2.png|Be careful - you only have a single chance! Image:PH Tailoring Spider Stitching Instruction 3.png|''Click when she's over the center of the target to earn more points.

You have completed this step when you have finished the last stitch in the pattern.

Final Results

After completing the pattern you selected, you will be shown your results for that pattern. This screen will show your quality score, which is calculated by taking your scores from each mini game and putting them into a percentage, and an updated progress bar. To see more info about your results, you can click the Details button at the bottom.

The game details page gives you more information about your overall quality score. This page shows you the quality score you received for each step in the pattern, the number of times you have created the pattern, your average quality score, and the best quality score you have had on the pattern. When you are done viewing this info, you can click "Summary" to return to the Congratulations screen or "Done" to return to the Patterns screen.

Badges

Players can earn these special badges for tailoring.

Name	Type	Image	Description	Notes
Autumn Tailoring Helping Hand	Autumn 2008 Challenges Click here for other Pixie Hollow Badges	Click here for larger image	This badge is awarded to all Fairies that community craft at least 5 featured tailoring items during Autumn 2008. Later changed to: This badge is awarded to all Fairies that community tailor at least 5 featured items.	Released: 22 September 2008 Retired: 21 December 2008 Originally named Tailoring Helping Hand, this badge was renamed 22 October 2008
Autumn Tailoring Big Help	Autumn 2008 Challenges Click here for other Pixie Hollow Badges	Click here for larger image	This badge is rewarded to all Fairies that community craft at least 25 featured tailoring items during Autumn 2008. Later changed to: This badge is rewarded to all Fairies that community tailor at least 25 featured items.	Released: 22 September 2008 Retired: 21 December 2008 Originally named Tailoring Big Help, this badge was renamed 22 October 2008 {{:Autumn Tailoring Super Star}}
Tailoring Helping Hand (Winter 2008)	Winter 2008 Challenges Click here for other Pixie Hollow Badges	Click here for larger image	This badge is awarded to all Fairies that community tailor at least 5 featured items.	Released: 21 December 2008 Retired: 26 March 2009
Tailoring Big Help (Winter 2008)	Winter 2008 Challenges Click here for other Pixie Hollow Badges	Click here for larger image	This badge is awarded to all Fairies that community tailor at least 25 featured items.	Released: 21 December 2008 Retired: 26 March 2009
Tailoring Super Star (Winter 2008)	Winter 2008 Challenges Click here for other Pixie Hollow Badges	Click here for larger image	This badge is awarded to all Fairies that community tailor at least 100 featured items.	Released: 21 December 2008 Retired: 26 March 2009