Finally, in the knit dress closet restock, there is McCalls 7122, a pattern that I have made up before in a long sleeve version. Raglan sleeves have always fitted my shoulders well. Besides that, they are easy to construct. The first version was cut from 3 yards of Prussian Blue Poly/Lycra brushed sweater knit. The fabric is exceptionally soft, but pills after washing. At least, the pants I made from it a couple of years ago have pilled. There was ample fabric at 58" wide. It was another Fabric Mart bargain at a mere $3/yard.
Pilled or not, it will be an easy one to wear and will look good with an overshirt.
This photo is more true to color--a navy blue that will coordinate with a lot of my shirts.
After finishing this dress, the black shirt I used to practice coverstitching began looking much better to me. Washing made it look so much better that I finished coverstitching the neckline and put it back in my closet. After washing, the coverstitched hem on the ruffle did not warp or bias. However, the turned under edge of the sleeve ruffles shows a little biasing. It may just be that the sleeve ruffles were cut off grain.
There was enough of the 100% cotton black tissue jersey left to make a black version of this dress. The neckband is still a bit loose, but it will fill that knit dress gap in my closet.
One problem with the neckline is that for me this pattern should be smaller on top. I don't have the medium size block, just the large. There's a gap in my pattern collection!
Coverstitching the neckline did not help with the fit. It just taught me that I unable to trim a neckline edge after coverstitching without cutting the stitching--need to trim before coverstitching! Although serging the neckband on and coverstitching over the serged seam would be the best approach. However, the coverstitched hems on this dress look good and were very easy to construct.
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