Sew Different Mahal Dress

I bought this pattern for the unusual neckline and the fact that you could nicely mix fabrics. Nothing but headaches. The weird marsupial pocket. The strange sleeve finish. The neckline was a nightmare. The facing and the front just never came together properly. The company is no help. I emailed, asked for guidance on their social media ... crickets. I did finish the dress but it hangs in the closet, unworn. I have another of their patterns and I am reticent to try it.

I used a 3m remnant of a striking lady Mcelroy fabric. The pattern allows the print to shine, and you can squeeze a swishy dress from 3m. (though one cuff had to be upside. I did add 7cm to length as well, so had to go without the kangaroo pocket. It's a loose dress but shoulders and bust are more standard so I used my bust measurement. I like the neck and shoulder fit.
I love the sleeve design and the side panels.
Everything went together very well and I found instructions easy to follow. I will make this again and use liberty remnants to make a two colour version.

I really loved the look of this dress and spent more than I usually would on some lovely cotton lawn to make it in.

I found the instructions to be really confusing and if I hadn't spotted it would have ended up with a lot of raw edges (had to hand hem some of them as they were already sewn in to seams when I realised.) The instructions only starts to tell you to finish edges off properly half way through.

I have no idea why the pocket is like it is - really fiddly and makes me feel like some kind of marsupial.

I've not quite finished it yet - still the hem to do and the sleeve facings which I think are very strange and are just tucked up in to the sleeve and stitched in the ditch along one edge so I think I might just cut them short and hem or use as a cuff or they are just going to be flapping about loose inside the sleeve.

The pattern has 'pivot points' which you have to mark, I did this with tailor tacks but would have had little idea of how to mark them if I hadn't used those before.

I am a confident sewist but I  have not enjoyed this make at all.