Slow going

I've been working on another dress from Butterick 5314. I wanted to make view A. I really did. I cut it out of the same white cotton jacquard used for the previous dress. I cut the draped collar from a beautiful shades-of-blue poly left over from another project.
It should have been perfect.
It wasn't.

The collar didn't drape enough at all. I cut a new one after measuring very carefully but it had too much fabric to ease into the neckline. I re-cut, re-pinned, and re-basted that sucker a million four or five times. No go.

Finally, I'd had it. I had another view B collar cut out of the white cotton (I don't know why I cut two but now I'm glad I did) so I cut one from the blue fabric and basted the two together so they could be handled as one layer. The blue poly by itself didn't have enough body for a stand-up collar but with the cotton inside, it's perfect. Now I just need to make a matching ribbon belt and the dress will be ready to wear.