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About sleeves...
Jun. 15th, 2013 08:25 pmSo, I have some nice hemmed sleeves to put into my shirt.
The instructions say to match up the dots on the side and to gather the ease (which I can do, even if it is a pain - I assume all this gets easier and faster with practice??). In addition, I'm supposed to match the center dot with the shoulder seam (easy) and to match the bottom seam of the sleeve with the side seam of the shirt.
The thing is, if I match the bottom seam with the side seam and the side dots with their mates, there's a good 5/8" or so extra material on each side in the sleeve fabric. I've double-checked the original pattern, and if you check the length of the perimeter from the dot to the edge with the bottom/side seam, there's a greater distance on the sleeve than there is on the shirt. If I work to match the dots exactly, there's going to be a large-ish excess of fabric between the dots and the bottom/side seam that will need to be settled somehow. If I work to keep the edges aligned from the seams outward, the dots aren't going to match.
Is this a common problem? What should one do? I'm assuming that making sure the edges between the dots and the seam don't get out of whack is more important because I don't want a big nasty tuck in the sleeve fabric...
(I will also go looking elsewhere on the Internet.)
ETA: I'm supposed to be easestitching just between the outermost dots on the cap, right? Problem would certainly be solved if I lengthened the easestitching down to the notches, as at least one person does it.
The instructions say to match up the dots on the side and to gather the ease (which I can do, even if it is a pain - I assume all this gets easier and faster with practice??). In addition, I'm supposed to match the center dot with the shoulder seam (easy) and to match the bottom seam of the sleeve with the side seam of the shirt.
The thing is, if I match the bottom seam with the side seam and the side dots with their mates, there's a good 5/8" or so extra material on each side in the sleeve fabric. I've double-checked the original pattern, and if you check the length of the perimeter from the dot to the edge with the bottom/side seam, there's a greater distance on the sleeve than there is on the shirt. If I work to match the dots exactly, there's going to be a large-ish excess of fabric between the dots and the bottom/side seam that will need to be settled somehow. If I work to keep the edges aligned from the seams outward, the dots aren't going to match.
Is this a common problem? What should one do? I'm assuming that making sure the edges between the dots and the seam don't get out of whack is more important because I don't want a big nasty tuck in the sleeve fabric...
(I will also go looking elsewhere on the Internet.)
ETA: I'm supposed to be easestitching just between the outermost dots on the cap, right? Problem would certainly be solved if I lengthened the easestitching down to the notches, as at least one person does it.
