Controls, all in one place
Dressmaker is mouse-first but hides several quality-of-life keys. These come from community testing, including the sketchbook trick most players find by accident.
Cutting
- A / D
- Move across the fabric
- Left drag
- Pick up a cut pattern
- Right click
- Put a cut pattern into inventory
- Hold right click
- Sweep over several patterns to collect them all
- Mouse wheel
- Rotate patterns (slightly faster than the arrows)
Sewing
- Spacebar (hold)
- Sew; release to stop
- A / D
- Turn the fabric
- W / S
- Change sewing speed
- Options menu
- Sewing assist moves the fabric for you, with no score penalty
Mannequin
- A / D or drag
- Turn the mannequin
- Z
- Zoom in; click empty space to zoom back out
- W A S D (zoomed)
- Move around while zoomed
- Scroll wheel hold
- Orbit the camera freely
Accessories and sketchbook
- Q / E
- Rotate accessories
- Shift (hold)
- Keep placing the same accessory
- Shift + click a placed piece
- Copy it
- Settings
- Accessory Rotation Gizmo adds full X, Y, Z rotation
- Sketchbook
- Click a pattern's name instead of the arrows: the full list pops up with a filter
If rotation locks up
The mannequin camera occasionally stops rotating. Step back to the shop view and return to the mannequin; it resets.