In sum: make this dress for yourself! If wrap necklines are your thing, please go make yourselves this perfect knit happy dress right now. It has a great flexible fit system and fun details: raglan sleeves! a self-fabric belt! cool waist pleating!
Note the jacket and tunic use many of the same pattern pieces, so one can’t be worn over the other. But they have very generous ease, so you might make the tunic a size smaller – and perhaps without box pleat or sleeve cuffs (taper sleeves). ...
This pattern works well to sew the garment as flat as possible by changing the order of construction – before putting in the sleeves construct the placket, yoke, collar stand and collar. Jalie Karine in sweater knit I used the shorter version and still needed to shorten length 1 inch in b...
I spent the Monday sewing and made some nice Ponte pants and an a-line shirt plus a grey raglan shirt from a grey knit fabric. They all turned out great and fit really well. I think there will be more of these in the future. TanjaIn the Kitchen/Eating out,Knitting,Perfume,Sewing2 C...
I mean, there are a few pros here: it has raglan sleeves, it's an adjustable wrap style, and it's made from a stretchy (but not too stretchy) chartreuse RPL doubleknit. Plus: a peplum! But... there is a big con here, and that is the poor fit. It's just way too huge all ...
The enthusiasm waned after knitting the sleeves which have ended up too long. But I have knitted the back to the stop of the stripes. In fact I had knitted up to the beginning of the shoulder decrease when I decided the body was too long so I ripped it back and took away 5cm from ...
Guest post – Abigail @absewlutely.abigail As soon as I saw The Day Dress pattern at a Knitting and Stitching Show a few years ago, I knew that it would become one of my favourites. It is exactly the style of dress that I had already been wearing in ready to wear and was looking ...
I used the shorter version and still needed to shorten length 1 inch in body and 2 inches from sleeves. I needed to do lots of basting to determine the length I wanted due to the method of constructing the band before adding the back sleeve. ...