Lots of practice, and a combination of Kenneth King, Claire Shaeffer, and Fashion Incubator! Oh, and whoever taught me about sleeves all those millions of years ago forgot to tell me they were difficult, so I never had any hang-ups about them. Like zips... Me mum forgot to say they could be awkward, so the first went in perfectly when I was seven, and I never looked back!
There is something to be said for no emotional baggage regarding projects. I was very happy with my first corset, because I missed the 'hard' memo. I was also pleased with my first pattern for the same reason. Those. Sleeves. Rock. Reminds me of this book with instructions.
Well, where did you think I got the method from? ;) When Marla said what she wanted, I knew I'd seen something similar somewhere, and there it was. We just exaggerated it a bit and made it out of that silk mix denim look stuff and laminated it to some tailor's canvas to stiffen it up and give it a bit more structural integrity.
Drafting them is okay, I can get a sleeve that fits the arm and the hole, after a fashion. But it needs some underarm correction to prevent the point at the underarm seam making the sleeve stick out in awkward t- shirt angles minus any of the comfort! LOL
Yes precisely. When that seam is joined under the sleeve, it's not a perfectly smooth curve as the bodice is. Makes the sleeve stick out while everything else fits beautifully. Or at least tolerably in my case.
Well, yes and no. When the sleeve is drafted it's as if the biceps line is perfectly horizontal. Theoretical it's a slightly curved object, with no way to acount for how much dip there is. Or I was holding my underarm seam lines crooked. Mmm. Hadn't thought about that til just now. But then again I'm not coming up with stellar ideas on how to correct that in the above method either.
"But then again I'm not coming up with stellar ideas on how to correct that in the above method either"
You mean in either of the two tutorials to which you had linked? (Sorry: I'm multi-tasking under a deadline, here, and probably oughtn't be playing in anything else---such as LJ---so my concentration's a bit, erm, ragged.) Small words, short sentences, I can comprehend.
How about these for sleeves?
http://assets.burdastyle.com/project_images/assets/000/011/253/4590bce4cafbd9763eff13c72826bdbea510a907_large.jpg?1243061152
http://assets.burdastyle.com/project_images/assets/000/011/255/d7ef0fb69201765c6cd34200411d59e890ee2fa1_large.jpg?1243061155
They were fun to design and construct! The designer knew what she wanted, but not how to achieve it, so they are a sort of joint effort.
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http://vintagesewing.info/1940s/42-mpd/mpd-04.html
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I'm having a hard time, though, getting my mind around the idea that drafting sleeve patterns would give you a hard time.
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Do you mean at the top of the sleeve's seam when it's directly opposing the bodice underarm side seam?
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You mean in either of the two tutorials to which you had linked?
(Sorry: I'm multi-tasking under a deadline, here, and probably oughtn't be playing in anything else---such as LJ---so my concentration's a bit, erm, ragged.) Small words, short sentences, I can comprehend.
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