Just want to add some musings on the quality of independent patterns.
Positive experiences include:
Merchant and Mills - sparse instructions but they work and everything fits. Beautiful aesthetic, of course. I've worked my way through a lot of their catalogue!
Tilly and the buttons - every pattern is a tutorial. It's not all my style but I would recommend to anyone needing hand holding.
Sew house seven. Recently made the tea house top and, while there are things I would adjust again when I make it again, it was such a precise, satisfying sew and the instructions and online sewalong are exemplary.
Megan nielsen - have the opal pants pattern and so far use it twice. Well drafted, well written, lots of options.
Not so positive.
Liesl & Co. Classic shirt. Lacking online support. I've made shirts before but, as a returner, still needed some refreshing. There is a sewalong and it adds nothing to the booklet. My project has been in the sin bin for almost a year because the collar wasn't fitting and I got annoyed with it.
Grainline studio - how much for a simple sweatshirt with no variations? I only bought it because printer is knackered and various suitable pdf options wouldn't save me anything. Even then, the neckband was far too big, so if I hadn't worked my way through Tilly's stretch book, I would have been frustrated and disappointed.
Fancy tiger crafts. Currently making a Brome top. Nothing fits. The drafting is terrible and the instructions are all over the place.