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The answer depends on the dress style, but whatever style you select, cut the fabrics separately. If the netting fabric is slippery, pin the fabric layers together to secure or place between two layers of tissue paper, then pin and cut the pattern through all the layers.
If the dress has a simple shape with little fitting, treat the layers as two separate garments, joining them at the neck and armhole edges.
If the dress is more fitted, baste the layers of each garment piece together just outside the seamlines and treat the layers as one when sewing the darts and completing the garment. Turn up both skirt layers together and hem. Netting can irritate the skin--either line the garment or finish the seams.
For a neat seam, straight stitch the seam and then stitch a narrow, short zigzag next to the straight stitching. Neatly trim the seam allowance close to the zigzag stitching (3).
From the March 2004 issue of Sew News magazine.
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