Motoring duster: Sleeves and Cuffs
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madamemodisteSleeves and cuff:
Last night I made the sleeves. They are unlined, but the directions do not have you flat-fell the seams, but only tell you to press them to one side and stitch the seam allowance down 1/4" from the seam. Leaves the edges all raw (since I forgot to serge the sleeves). Another thing I don't like about the sleeves is the cuff. The cuffs do not meet edge to edge like they are supposed to, but are an inch too short to do so. In addition, the way they have you attach the cuffs leaves the raw edge of the cuff showing just inside the sleeve! They say you can hand stitch it down "if you want". Yeah, I want.
Here's a pic of the sleeve with the raw edges of the cuff waiting to be stitched down so they don't flip back up and wave at everyone. You can also see the top stitched sleeve seam allowance.
Last night I made the sleeves. They are unlined, but the directions do not have you flat-fell the seams, but only tell you to press them to one side and stitch the seam allowance down 1/4" from the seam. Leaves the edges all raw (since I forgot to serge the sleeves). Another thing I don't like about the sleeves is the cuff. The cuffs do not meet edge to edge like they are supposed to, but are an inch too short to do so. In addition, the way they have you attach the cuffs leaves the raw edge of the cuff showing just inside the sleeve! They say you can hand stitch it down "if you want". Yeah, I want.
Here's a pic of the sleeve with the raw edges of the cuff waiting to be stitched down so they don't flip back up and wave at everyone. You can also see the top stitched sleeve seam allowance.
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Date: 2009-06-04 02:07 pm (UTC)I have liked the tidbits that I found with Past Patterns (Sandra Ros Altman) the best... recently I enjoyed historically raping^H^H^H adapting her 1880s tea dress (here: http://mr-cutiepants.livejournal.com/137423.html) -- it was a great pattern and came with a lot of historical stuff including details about the original dress that Altman copied. I actually kind of fell in love with that pattern company after that. :)
My goal now is to make an historically accurate version of that dress, and try to do the weird whipstitched seams thing on the inside of the bodice, and gauge the skirt in the back, etc.