anotheranon | defeating Donna Karan

I'm still plugging along on the 1990s Donna Karan pattern. It is deceptively labeled "easy/facile" which it might well have been had I been capable of turning off my mind and blindly following the directions.

As it is, I made a misstep somewhere, likely caused by a combination of my ignoring the directions in favor of what usually works and the difficulty of keeping track of where I was in a self-lined dress when the directions call for turning it inside out, right side out, over and over again.

I hit the final snag in one vaguely illustrated step that I think was meant to ensure that all seams are finished, but involved some strange pinning of back to front, right sides together, while including one side of the overlay and looping around to the lining.....that 3 times out of 3 resulted in a "mobius dress" that kept turning in on itself infinitely. Which is pretty cool but unfortunately unwearable.

So, I'm going to cheat.

The best way I can think of to finish outside and lining side seam while limiting the bulk of ~4 layers of jersey is to finish them using an ersatz Elizabethan seam (turn it under, baste it, whipstitch the finished edges together) leaving enough of the side open to put in the zipper. A lot of hand sewing but should emulate the look (if not the construction) of the pattern and still be wearable.

Wish me luck!