SHE SAID. "I feel like to be completely honest, I should start all my pattern reviews with the acronym, IMHO.
As in, IMHO this pattern gave me so much trouble to decipher or the fabric was so hard to manipulate, or for the love of all things good, it just won't fit right and I'm about to tell you how it didn't work until it finally worked... out for me.
I should note, that this is just my experience and a lot of it can be due to inexperience or maybe stress and other external factors,,,, this may not be your experience and if you are ready to except that and forgive me, read on.....but what I do instead is just write about my experience,,,,, and then take as much photos displaying, what you can have, if you are willing to try, to take the good and leave the bad and prevail, just as I did, and just as more will do."
Something about this neckline reminds me of medieval clothing, maybe the neckline and the gathers,,, something.
Anyway....
It was an easy sew,, up to the part of putting on the neck facing.
I made View B
Mods:
I went up a size (14 bust 36) actual bust size is 37.5. I cut out a size 12 for the muslin, I usually cut out that size because butterick patterns measurements are not true to size on me. But this was to small, not at the shoulder and neckline but the bust area.
Using the french curve, I scooped in to give the waistline shaping and back out to meet the hips, I also added a few inches for the hip line. with the extra fabric added, I didn't have to lower the armsyc after all, it just needed more ease to lay where it needed too.
I cut the muslin back pieces in half and used it as my pattern to make the sway back and center back adjustments. As you can see, I use light color fabric for my muslins so I can use the marker to write instructions on it, just in case I want to come back to the muslin much later I can see all the adjustments right on the pattern.
The neckline was a little challenging, I already knew it would be so, I had already thought about how it would protrude away from the body if I didn't figure out a way to do it right.
So even though the pattern said to gather the neckline all the away from the bottom to the last point at the top, I smooth out the gathers of the lower portion always to non existence,, very loose so the bulk will not be focus on there, and I made the gathers at the upper area more intense,,, does that makes sense.
I wished the pattern had recommended that,, because it would have saved me some time trying to figure out what to do with it, the back facing I had to hand stitched down at the back of the peak.
Oh,, almost forgot
The major mod. was to change the back neckline from a V and to round neck. I love a V neck for the front but I really didn't like it for both, so I used my back pattern from my S3775 dress and just tweaked it a little so it will match up with the front neckline. I used a bias strip to finish the neckline of the back piece in the same color of the main dress so the contrast color of the neckline will stand out more.

I should have added another inch of length to the dress overall.
I also made to bands to spice it up a bit, they will not be pulled tight for shaping but just loosely hanging on the side with a knot to secure it.
I think it came out great
back view
Conclusion: Love it, but the pattern is in the trash, no need to make another one,, well...except for the sleeve, i always keep my sleeves.
be well!