I like the shapes of 6505 - but it's a stretch fabric, and I've never worked with stretch.
Are there any hints somewhere on the forum?
@LeilaMay I like 6505 too, I especially like the piecing on the back. It seems longer in the pattern drawing than on the model. I love the shape on the line drawing as it looks like it would flow down past the hips, which would be my preferred length were I making it for myself.
I've not seen any individual threads here on sewing with stretch, **** but for sewing stretch fabric without an overlocker then I would use a ballpoint or a stretch needle, set the machine to a narrow zigzag (to allow for any stretching along the seams during wear) to sew the seams, and then sew an overlock or zigzag stitch to bind the edges of the sewn seams.
It would be best to use a synthetic rather than cotton thread as cotton may snap as the fabric stretches during normal wear.
You'll need to sew in a length of tape in each shoulder seam to stop the seam from stretching, but I daresay this would be covered in the pattern instructions.
I have seen posts here about doing the hems/necklines, and I wish I'd bookmarked them now, esp. those mentioning using various tapes to stabilise the hems for sewing. A quick search should turn them up though.
Some people use a double needle to do the topstitching on the hems but I found that a mega faff and soon gave up on that. I just used to do two lines of straight stitching instead. I have heard of people using woolly nylon thread (-normally used with overlockers or coverstitch machines) in the bobbin, as it is a thread which has some give in it, but I have never done that myself.
A good idea would be to practice practice practice on scraps first too
**** because clearly I wasn't looking, lol... there's this very recent one:
http://thesewingplace.org.uk/index.php/topic,3307.msg48001.html