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The false seam is one of the better knitting tricks.  It’s going to keep the dress from fitting like a tube, and it gives some definition to the garmet. I knitted a skirt in the round several years ago and didn’t do a false seam (I didn’t know about it them), and when I walked in the skirt it swirled (I’m  not sure if that the right word) around and would get bunched up between my legs.  Not a pretty sight and rather difficult.  The false seam is rather daunting because you are basically ripping a stitch all the way to the bottom and picking it up.  I don’t know about you, but I have spent the last 20 years trying not to drop stitches and it’s never easy to go and pick them up - it never seems to look quite right too.  Anyway, I pulled down the first stitch on the side for 35 inches.  Yes, it was tedious and took a long time and I was trying not to freak out.  Once  I started picking the stitches up, one stitch, then two stitches (see the pattern for “Blu” for great directions) it wasn’t so bad. I got the first side done,  knitted around the other and got it done.   Now it’s time to start on the last 4 1/2 inches!  The goal is to have this project completed by Valentins day.