An Easy Way to Sew Sleeves

January 11, 2010 3:01 pm Belinda sewing

Today is the day we are finally going to warm up!  I don’t like winter at all anyway, and it’s been far too cold for my taste for waaayyy too long.  I’m really ready for summer and 90 degree temps with lots and lots of sunshine. ;)   Of course, there is one good thing about winter—those cold icky days make great sewing days. ;)

I have really enjoyed sewing this flannel nightgown.  It is a very easy pattern and because it is a pull over style, there are no buttons or buttoholes to sew, plus the hem is machine sewn, so this is a fairly quick project.   I sewed the shoulder seams together, interfaced the neckline facings and sewed them together, then sewed the facings to the garment neckline, and then understitched.  That was the hardest part of the whole garment.  The next step was to sew the sleeves in and that was quite easy.

These sleeves are sewn to the garment before the side seams are sewn.  This is one time when it is important to mark the dot on the sleeve cap; it should be placed at the shoulder seam of the garment. 

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The picture above shows the sleeve cap that will be sewn to the garment.  I found that I needed to run an ease line on the sleeve caps to make sure that they fit correctly.  I also slightly clipped the curve on the garment to help it spread out to fit the sleeve cap, so that the notches would match.  (The single notch indicates the front of the sleeve, and the double notch indicates the back of the sleeve.)  then I pinned the sleeve cap to the garment.

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I don’t think you can really see much from the above picture, but I was pinning the sleeve to the garment.  I have more pictures to show you, but I’ll have to see if my camera, card reader, and computer are speaking to each other again. ;) Uploading pictures has been a real challenge recently.  Hopefully, I’ll have some more, and better, pictures to show you in my next post.

Sewing sleeves (the easy way): www.sewseamless.com/Page28.html , www.sewseamless.com/Page29.html and www.sewseamless.com/Page30.html

Happy Sewing!

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