July MAGAM - Floral Shift Dress

Hello,
I have finished my floral dress and I will be wearing this dress on a very special occasion next month :) So, I decided to just show you the dress in the dress form for now. Then I will post pictures of me wearing it on that day.

Well, I started work on this dress in the end of May but I was stuck with the neckline. I didn't know exactly what I wanted the neckline to be and then after the dress hanging for so long in the dress form, I just decided to make the neckline exactly same as my previous dress. Problem solved!

Pattern and materials:
For the pattern, I used Burdastyle Vintage Modern Jamie Shift Dress size 34 with some modifications. You can check the detail here in my previous dress
For the materials - I used 2 yards of floral cotton, fusible interfacing, ready-made bias tape in orange color, invisible zipper, hook n eye and same color thread.

Sewing process:
Most of the sewing process is exactly like my previous dress but this time the neckline finishes much cleaner and look smoother.
On my previous dress, I sew the bias tape on the neck facing and sew it again to the dress and the result is a little bit bulky. It's fine but I didn't like it so much. So, I tried another method - I basted the neck facing, pinned the bias tape on the outer neck facing and the dress at the same time. Then I sew it. The result is very good and I am happy with it :) I will show you what I did in the below post,
1).

I cut all the facings pieces and fused it with fusible interfacing. As shown on the picture, above are front armhole facings and front neck facing - below are back armhole facings and back neck facings.

2).

I sew the armhole facings, front and back right sides together. Then sew the neck facings front and back right sides together. As shown in the picture.

3).

 I place the neck facing on the dress - with right side facing the wrong side of the dress. Pin it and sew it around.

4).

I clipped around the neckline, especially in the corner area I clipped three times just like W as shown in the picture. This method is very important to make the corner neckline done nicely. I hope you understand what I mean.

5).

After that, I turned the facing to the outside. You can see result... it's done nicely :)

6).

Then I basted around the neckline, as shown in the picture.

7).

I pinned the bias tape around the outer neck facing and the dress at the same time, then carefully sew it. And then I removed the baste.

After that, I sew the armhole facing on the dress right sides together and turn it inside - sorry that I forgot to take a picture.

And the last part is sew the hook n eye, I pinned the back facing as shown in the picture below - hand sewn around it and stitch the hook n eye. Done!

Here is the picture of the wrong side of the dress after I sew the hook n eye,

And the last three pictures of the upper dress front, back and side views

A little note: as I didn't plan anything for July MAGAM Challenge, I decided to put this dress as my finished July garment :)
Happy sewing and have a wonderful Thursday!