Two piece sleeves

[chargirlgenius]

I have lots of pictures to eventually post about putting together the upper and lower sleeves of Jeff's arming doublet. But I'm pinning the upper and lower sleeves together tonight, and realized something about the order I did it in.

I cut and sewed the upper sleeve, plus all of it's requisite pieces. I quilted it all in one, and sewed it into the tube/funnel.

After finishing that (to the 90% point) I cut, sewed, and quilted the lower sleeve.

If you hate setting in sleeves, don't do it this way! Now, I have to set the lower sleeves into the upper sleeve, and then the whole sleeve into the garment. It took me forEVer to pin.

Instead, I should have not sewn it into the tube first. But rather, attached the top to the bottom, and THEN sewed the whole thing into a tube.

So there you go. Because I'm sure that everybody is going to run out and sew CdB style sleeves next week. :-D

Comments

[thatpotteryguy.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that this garment should be dyed red, with a little Starfleet insignia on the left breast. Because it is, after all, going to be worn by John the Goner.

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

GROAN.

;-)

[petranella.livejournal.com]

It is useful becaus there's one on my short list, probably not quilted though.

I can sympathize. I'm making a zupan for V (polish coat) that is embellished w/ metal plaque in eight rows down the front. I went through and put all the metal plaques on. Then I went back and couched around each group of them. It would have been much easier to do a row, couch a row... rather than fight with the plaques on either side.