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Lower sleeve:
I laid out all of the layers of the lower sleeve on a flat surface, and pinned up the center.
You can see how the hemp is a bit bigger than the lining. This is so when it goes around the arm, the hemp can curve around all of the layers.
I then draped the sleeve over a bottle of Amaretto. I managed to not drink the Amaretto.
The bottle gave the curve similar to the lower arm (close enough, anyway) and also a smooth surface to pin against. I tried the first sleeve just on my lower arm, and ended up poking myself a bit. Oops. What a maroon.
With it draped over the bottle, I pinned it up the wazoo.
Notice all of the bumpiness when this is laid flat. That’s why it’s important to pin so much. You could pre quilt it on the curve, but this worked well enough.
Notice also that the hemp peeks out from under the lining, instead of the other way around.
The curve has been naturally pinned into the arm piece. It doesn’t lay quite flat anymore.
I did the same thing on the lower arm as the upper. I marked the quilting lines, sewed the tube shut, then quilted it.
After the upper and lower sleeves were finished, I attached the two together. There are a lot of seam allowances left to be tacked down, but the less that were finished when I sewed it together, the easier it was.
NOTE: I will NOT be doing it this way again. After all of the quilting is marked, I will sew the bottom to the top, and THEN sew it into a tube, all at once. The way I did it, I essentially had to set the lower sleeve into the upper sleeve. If you hate setting in sleeves, don’t set in each sleeve twice! I don’t hate it, really, but I don’t love it. Not enough to do it when I don’t need to.
I left the lower sleeve open past the wrist. That’s easier to do with a flat open seam, butterflied out, instead of flattening the S/A all to one side. However, I still wanted to do the same treatment on the lining that I did all over the rest of it. I just pinned the split point well, folded the S/As into each other around the opening, and did a stab stitch to hold them down. The finished version was posted earlier.
Lower sleeve:
I laid out all of the layers of the lower sleeve on a flat surface, and pinned up the center.
You can see how the hemp is a bit bigger than the lining. This is so when it goes around the arm, the hemp can curve around all of the layers.
I then draped the sleeve over a bottle of Amaretto. I managed to not drink the Amaretto.
The bottle gave the curve similar to the lower arm (close enough, anyway) and also a smooth surface to pin against. I tried the first sleeve just on my lower arm, and ended up poking myself a bit. Oops. What a maroon.
With it draped over the bottle, I pinned it up the wazoo.
Notice all of the bumpiness when this is laid flat. That’s why it’s important to pin so much. You could pre quilt it on the curve, but this worked well enough.
Notice also that the hemp peeks out from under the lining, instead of the other way around.
The curve has been naturally pinned into the arm piece. It doesn’t lay quite flat anymore.
I did the same thing on the lower arm as the upper. I marked the quilting lines, sewed the tube shut, then quilted it.
After the upper and lower sleeves were finished, I attached the two together. There are a lot of seam allowances left to be tacked down, but the less that were finished when I sewed it together, the easier it was.
NOTE: I will NOT be doing it this way again. After all of the quilting is marked, I will sew the bottom to the top, and THEN sew it into a tube, all at once. The way I did it, I essentially had to set the lower sleeve into the upper sleeve. If you hate setting in sleeves, don’t set in each sleeve twice! I don’t hate it, really, but I don’t love it. Not enough to do it when I don’t need to.
I left the lower sleeve open past the wrist. That’s easier to do with a flat open seam, butterflied out, instead of flattening the S/A all to one side. However, I still wanted to do the same treatment on the lining that I did all over the rest of it. I just pinned the split point well, folded the S/As into each other around the opening, and did a stab stitch to hold them down. The finished version was posted earlier.