Another knit dress . . .

I have had a few days with more time to sew so I made another knit dress, this time from a pattern from an old issue of Burda World of Fashion (February 2005), before the magazine became BurdaStyle. The original pattern called for a stripe to be cut on the bias for the skirt panels so there would be a chevron effect. This is what I first planned for this dress: solid black bodice with a gray and black striped skirt. But my striped knit was a bit too sheer and I didn’t want to line it and weight down the dress so I ended up switching to a print. I didn’t need the skirt panels to be on the bias anymore, so I redrew the grainline to the center of the panel. Worked out great. I did slightly raise the v-neck as well.