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Sleeves
I am in the process of making a coat after about 5 shirts as my total
sewing experience. After cutting the two pieces for one sleeve and stitching them together, everything seemed to be a mirror image in subsequent steps. When I basted the sleeve into an armhole, it was obviously backwards. I removed it and basted it into the other armhole and it fit like a glove. There is not a word in the instructions about a right or left side sleeve and luckily I only made one of them to try. I have to now figure out how I made the first one and do something different on the other one. What am I missing? js PHOTO OF THE WEEK: http://schmidling.com/pow.htm Astronomy, Beer, Cheese, Fiber,Gems, Sausage,Silver http://schmidling.com |
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The front AND back of the shirt have either 1 or 2 notches on the pieces in
the arm hole area. Just match them up with the 1 or 2 notches on the sleeve. HTH Barbara in FL .. Usually the front of the sleeve cap is marked with one notch, and the back is marked with two notches. Doreen |
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Thanks. Would be nice if the instructions mentioned this detail.
Happens that I ended up with a left sleeve with the patterns rightside up but I could be confused. js |
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I don't usually respond to my own postings but it just dawned on my why
this has never been problem before. My shirts have one piece sleeves which are symetrical and are fabrics with both right sides. So it didn't matter how I cut them or which side I sewed them into. js |
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I've had this happen when I accidentally made the joining seam on the
wrong side. if it doesn't fit right in the other sleeve opening, unstitch the sleeve seam and restitch it with the seam allowance to the inside. Ever made a two piece sleeve with one seam inside and one outside? I have done this to a princess seamed bodice before. |
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When in doubt about which sleeve is which, you can balance it by
holding at the dot at the top of the sleeve. The sleeve will "hang" towards the front. In a two-piece sleeve, the higher part of the undersleeve goes to the back. You should also mark the (usually) square symbol at the underarm on both the garment and the sleeve to make sure it sews in the right place. Teri |
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of http://groups.google.com uttered I am in the process of making a coat after about 5 shirts as my total sewing experience. After cutting the two pieces for one sleeve and stitching them together, everything seemed to be a mirror image in subsequent steps. When I basted the sleeve into an armhole, it was obviously backwards. I removed it and basted it into the other armhole and it fit like a glove. There is not a word in the instructions about a right or left side sleeve and luckily I only made one of them to try. I have to now figure out how I made the first one and do something different on the other one. What am I missing? A decent commercial pattern should have notches marked on both the armhole and the sleeve head. The double notch is to the garment back, the single to the front. -- AJH alpha dot hotel echo yankee whisky oscar oscar delta at tango echo sierra charlie oscar dot november echo tango |
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Mar 27, 4:03 pm show options
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles.sewing, alt.sewing From: " Date: 27 Mar 2005 16:03:06 -0800 Subject: Sleeves I am in the process of making a coat after about 5 shirts as my total sewing experience. After cutting the two pieces for one sleeve and stitching them together, everything seemed to be a mirror image in subsequent steps. When I basted the sleeve into an armhole, it was obviously backwards. I removed it and basted it into the other armhole and it fit like a glove. snip --- Congrats for sewing a coat! I think more folks would try constructing a coat if they realized that it is fairly easy to do, requires little fitting, and saves a ton of money for the clothing budget. Have you lined the coat yet? If not, consider 'bagging it', as is done in the garment industry : sew your lining pieces together, then pin them to the finished coat, inside facings and along neck edge, and machine-sew the lining in place. (You'll find, because of the bulk of most coating, that you can't actually do this step by placing the right side of the lining to the right side of the coat, but you can manuuver the lining to complete the machine stitching, if you pin it in carefully.) After stitching, turn raw edges of lining to the inside raw side of coat. Slip stitch sleeve ends and hem to proper length. Remember to leave a small extra bit of sleeve length to allow for ease of wearing. The extra length will fall into a small fold above the slip-stitched sleeve hem. (Sleeve lining should be set into place anywhere from an inch to an inch-and-a-half above the turned under coat sleeve hem, and the small lining fold which you add will fall in above that, so no worry about it dropping into view.) Eventually, you'll discover that the sleeve ends can also be machine-set. I always hand set the coat hem, though, and I usually add a small thread chain at bottom of side seams, from coat to lining hem, to control the lining. Keeps lining from swinging out into view, a nice touch. Cea |
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I just wanted to thankyou for posting this, I am about to start on a coat
having only made shirts and had no idea this was the case! Will defnitely remember the part about the sleeves! -Kat wrote in message oups.com... I am in the process of making a coat after about 5 shirts as my total sewing experience. After cutting the two pieces for one sleeve and stitching them together, everything seemed to be a mirror image in subsequent steps. When I basted the sleeve into an armhole, it was obviously backwards. I removed it and basted it into the other armhole and it fit like a glove. There is not a word in the instructions about a right or left side sleeve and luckily I only made one of them to try. I have to now figure out how I made the first one and do something different on the other one. What am I missing? js PHOTO OF THE WEEK: http://schmidling.com/pow.htm Astronomy, Beer, Cheese, Fiber,Gems, Sausage,Silver http://schmidling.com |
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