Second Caftan Cut

I cut out the second caftan last night.  This cotton print is heavier than the first and much busier.  I am having grave doubts and am wondering what I was thinking.  I knew I loved the print (why oh why??) and could not imagine wearing it as an actual garment.  If I could not picture this fabric as a top or sweater set in my mind’s eye, why did I think I would like it as an even bigger garment like a caftan.  I know that I like caftans out of large, gaudy even, prints that I might not otherwise wear, but this, this may have been a serious miscalculation.

Well, since I started, I am going to go ahead and finish.  Who knows, it might be nice. 

Once again I ran out of fabric and did not have quite enough for the sleeve.  Since I purchased the two caftan fabrics together and they both have Lycra, this was anticipated, although I was naively hoping that the first knit was an exception.

Two points here:  First the sleeve will have to be cut on the cross-grain even though the garment was cut on the lengthwise grain.  I wonder how that will affect the drape of the sleeve and the join of the sleeve to the garment.  Secondly, as you can note in the photo, there is a little piece missing about mid sleeve, roughly in the elbow region.  I decided to piece the fabric so I would have enough to cut the sleeve:

There will be a little pieced in area under the arm.  I am hoping it will not be particularly noticeable. I may be acting on totally blind faith.  It would have been better had there been a way to piece the fabric at one end or the other, but I see no possibilities there.  I briefly wondered if I should have but the entire garment on the cross-grain; it may have been tricky as the garment is 58" long: with shoulders and hem it probably would not have fit.  Too late now anyway.  I suppose if I had not started this process at 9:30 in the evening I might have thought of these things before I cut.