This dress turned out far better than January's dress. It only took me about 3 days to make it, a couple of hours of effort each day. I spent most of the month experimenting and unfortunately failing. My first design idea was a little too ambitious. I had envisioned making the neckline and sleeves of the dress out of sheer fabric, and the rest out of the pink jersey material. As I cut everything out and sewed it together, it was clear that the sheer fabric could not hold up the rest of the dress; it would tear if used as support, so I took it apart and tried other things. In the end, I got out the second pattern from my book, and used that.
After all, I only used the jersey material to make the dress. The sheer fabric made a great circle scarf.
What I liked:
The jersey material is great. It isn't as light as t-shirt material, so it has a weighty feel. The pattern was loose fitting, which made the dress more comfortable than the January dress. Also, I love the sleeves. This might become my "uniform dress," the one I make over and over in different colored fabric.
What I didn't like:
Unfortunately, I don't have a serger. The serger allows the jersey material to stretch without having the stitches pop out. Since I couldn't sew it like that, I used a zig-zag stitch to let the material expand where I needed it to move, in other words to keep me from "hulking out" of the dress. The dress was loose enough that I only had to do that stitch on the back. I would like to use this fabric again but I'm going to wait until I have a serger.
What I learned:
I learned that sheer fabric is tricky and I should practice more before using it. I also learned that thick jersey material is really comfortable.
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