Ok…continuing my thought yesterday. The dress pattern is McCall’s 2213. It’s dress F. And here’s where I said it was awkward.

The armhole bindings are the ties. So it’s folded in half and sewed on the armhole. It then continues up and you tie it. But it’s weird because the tie part is not folded in half. So the transition from the folded part to the not folded part is odd. Am I making any sense at all? It just looks funky. My crappy hand sewing didn’t help. But I guess it mostly looks fine from the outside.

Can anyone recommend a good sewing book? I have one that shows basic stuff like hemming and different seams. But I was thinking of something that had more. Like armholes and ties and smocking and if I want to alter patterns or how to make my own clothes.