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I used a walking foot because this fabric wanted to crawl and there are a lot of long seams.
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On this Telio pique knit, I pressed open all the seams and topstitched with my coverstitch machine. The seams came out nice and flat like here on the yoke.
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This is why I love my Janome Coverpro! All that room to the right when you want to topstitch seams.
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The princess seams pressed so flat that I didn't notch or clip the curves. I was hoping not to have to, since that would look ugly inside. I am used to nice looking serged seams like in RTW, but on certain fabrics serging can be quite bulky.
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The neck binding length from the pattern just happened to be right for the stretch of my knit. I usually don't even use that pattern piece and do my own thing. Here is the inside of the finished band.
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Here on my dress form the back armscye gaped. If I keep this dress long enough to lose weight and wear it, I will bind the arm holes and that will bring them in somewhat, anyway.
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This is what happens when a dress has a 16.5 back waist length and you have a 14.5 in. waist length. The other Big 4 dresses didn't do this to me, but of course they weren't too tight either! Lol.
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Whoa, back wrinkles! For the long sleeved version I shortened the bodice 2 in. and that pretty much took care of it.
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No good! This body doesn't do negative ease and it won't be worn unless I lose the spare tire!
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The pattern says to turn under the SA on the armscyes for finishing, and I did. But if I ever make this again I'll use binding to make a neater look.