I pleated the extra into the cuff as would be on any shirt. One more look at the shirt, I'm not sure what the pattern said to do with the sleeve, I think it was elastic at the bottom but I just put in a bias strip cuff slit opening and then button cuffs. I always like a pattern more when I see that it's not the red lines which I find the most difficult to trace. And a 💖 for the fact that it was the black pattern lines to trace. This shirt has a cut-on facing which made it really quick to sew. Here's the tech drawing so you can see the rounded yoke and raglan sleeve.
I cut the whole thing out on the crossgrain both to use the border and for consistency of the print, which accidentally sort-of matches or at least flows across the front. You can just see the white stripes on each sleeve near the cuff. There's a border print along one selvedge, which I didn't really know what to do with, not suitable for this pattern so I used it on the sleeves.
The colors in this print were enough to sell me even thought it's not as bright as things I usually like. It's an ideal fabric for dresses although I guess the wash and wear-ness of ponte knits has surpassed wool crepe. But I love wool in all forms, particularly wool crepe. And then if you are not sure if it's going to turn out as a wearable, well-fitting item.I can see the hesitation. I suppose people don't as often wear the type of clothes that are usually made of wool and they are quite expensive so if you are making a coat or jacket in a nice wool the investment is pretty high.
Slight editorial comment/rant here - the selection of wools at all stores other than Britex or Mood is really diminished. A fabric I've not sewn with in ages, it's not something you come across in stores very often (ever). I washed and dried the shirt fabric and decided that it might be a wool challis. If you look very closely at the shoulders you can see that it's a raglan shirt, with a dart at the top of the shoulder for shaping, and the raglan creates a yoke across the back. More photos below on the dress form so you can see the seaming. While this pattern doesn't have many details the ones that are there are obscured by the print. I had a pattern in a recent Burda in mind and it seemed a good option. The best skirt pattern ever! Perhaps some exaggeration but it is a really good pattern that looks good in almost any fabric. The minute I touched it I could envision some type of slim fit skirt, and Vogue 1247 leapt to mind. I bought these at a sewing guild sale for about $ 8 total and figured they went together so well that I had to give them a try, despite being a bit out of my usual color choices. It's not often I find fabrics at one of my rummage sale treasure troves which are so well coordinated as these two.
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