It's okay, but not spectacular on the fit, which led me to correctly assume that shirring a waistband for Miss Tiny-Hiney would be tricky. In fact, given that she requires a smaller elastic measurement than many patterns call for, I decided to use elastic at the waist and zig-zagged three rows of half-inch wide knit elastic onto the skirt's waistband. That worked quite well.
I still wanted to do the shirring for the blouse/jacket part of the outfit. I steamed that elastic thread as tight as I could, but the neckline still presented a problem (although the waist and sleeves of the top are okay).
To solve the neckline problem, I pinned up the excess neckline fabric:
Then I stitched over the lines of shirring where the fabric had been pinned:
The final result fits much better (and the alteration is not obvious on such a busy print):
And here is the final outfit on my girl with her Daddy (the guy who is actually very supportive of my obsessive sewing):
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