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I have finally finished it! It looks great and was reasonably easy too! Though I must confess that I’d much rather be quilting!!!Thanks to those Liesl for a great pattern

Hi Lightning,
Thank you very much for your comment and suggestions. I will try it and hopefully all turns out ok! 😊

Lining up the raw edges flat like that doesn’t represent what happens when you stitch. What you need to look at is the stitching lines.
With a 1/2″ seam allowance you should overlap those pattern pieces so there’s 1″ of double pattern.
Does that make the edges meet properly?
It’s a slightly curved seam, so there’ll be a little bit of angle change…[Read more]

Thanks and I am attaching another pic to give overall view. Thanks!

Update that I did the first method. Looks fine!

I am going to try again to post my picture of the dress using the smallest setting.

Thanks. I love your philosophy!

Thank you, seems like both methods are valid. I guess I don’t know how to decide. How should a dart rightfully look? If I do the first, then my dart will be more horizontal.

There’s a tutorial on the site! https://oliverands.com/community/blog/2018/08/how-to-raise-or-lower-a-dart.html

I followed this when making a classic shirt, and it went smoothly. I went with the second method, which is shifting the whole dart down, but the tutorial covers both methods.

Thanks for the input. Some sale fabric in a navy floral may have made its way home with me for a first go at this pattern. I’ll see how that goes and keep anything matching on the back burner for now.

Oh, I agree with Lightning! Checks would be darling:

It would be a challenge, sure. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth a go!
Options to make it easier for yourself might include cutting the waist/belt section on the bias (windowpane check) or cross grain (stripe)
That gives you a bit of a visual break between the bodice and the skirt so your pattern matching across those sections doesn’t have to…[Read more]

The Saint-Germain has waist pleats, not waist darts. So you don’t really need to extend anything. If you don’t think that will work for your shape, you could try rotating the fullness of the pleat into a side bust dart. I added a dart for mine since I have a large bust.