How to cut out the sleeve to the dress and sew it to the sleeveless dress?

Not often, but a situation arises when a beloved dress or sleeveless dress in a closet wants to give a new life by sewing a fashionable lace or leather sleeve now. Perhaps you liked the same dress as yours, only with the original sleeve. Or maybe you need to hide the skin defects on the shoulder, and the bolero and the tippet cannot completely solve this problem. Immediately there are questions: what should be the sleeve, how to cut it out and how to stitch it into the finished dress. Let's figure it out.

1. If you are lost in the variety of sleeves and have not decided which one is best for your dress, decide on its purpose: hand correction, decorative element, etc.
2. Decide for yourself what image you want to create: classic, romantic, extravagant. Consider that nobody forbids experimenting with sleeves and combining fabrics.
3. When choosing a fabric for future sleeves, consider the color gamut and features of materials, their quality, how easy it is to work with them. It will be a shame if the fabric sheds or shrinks. In this case, before opening, be sure to do the decoding.

When we take any pattern of a dress with a single-sleeve sleeve from a magazine, then in it the ratio of the length and depth of the armhole and the neck of the sleeve is adjusted to the millimeter. After all, the quality of tailoring depends on an important condition - a set-in sleeve is sewn in without wrinkles, if it does not require seating, the sleeve should ideally lie in the armhole.

In our case, you can search for patterns of similar models of dresses in magazines for sewing and, putting the shelf, choose the most suitable size of the armhole. Next, cut out the sleeve of the draft fabric, sweep it into the armhole, correct the shortcomings and only then cut out the right sleeve of the selected fabric.

You can build a pattern of the selected sleeve yourself, if you have nowhere to take it, and make changes by substituting your measurements, for example, shoulder girth, chest and wrist half-grip, sleeve length and armholes along the line of stitching.

To extend the existing pattern by a few centimeters, circle its outlines on one side, then move the pattern and circle the second side. Be sure to add seam allowances along the stroke line.

A curve is constructed according to a new blueprint, if you need to increase it by more than 4 cm.

If you have a blouse or a T-shirt with the same armhole in your wardrobe, then you can circle the sleeves and then model the desired shape and length.

Circled in this way:

• put a T-shirt on paper exactly, put pins along the line of the sleeves;
• traces on paper, circle with a pencil, just do not forget about seam allowances.

Having a base-pattern sleeve, you can simulate any sleeve.

The modeling of the flashlight sleeve consists in drawing out the base pattern in parallel lines.

In order to make the assembly uniform, the lines of the divorce are placed evenly, if you dilute the central part of the sleeve, it will be lush only on the outer part. The top is not necessary to pick, you can lay the folds.

This sleeve is modeled simply - cut the pattern in the center, move it apart and draw a new line.

Here you need to draw a curved line of the bottom of the sleeve, cut the part, then draw the same in the mirror form.

Glue both halves together.

Process the cuts and sweep at the top.

1. Draw a horizontal line along the bottom of the sleeve if it is above the elbow. If the sleeve is lower, draw a curved line.
2. Divide the part into the desired number of parts.
3. Cut the pattern on the drawn lines, leaving 0.3 cm undercutted.
4. Spread the pieces evenly 3-6cm.

And a few more options for modeling sleeves.

In addition to the form, the sleeves are different ways of stitching. Some require planting, because the length of the neck is done by 3 - 7 cm more armhole. Others do not require landing, while others are modeled with assemblies or folds.

With a sleeve without a fit, there is practically no difficulty in stitching, but with a sleeve with a fit, mistakes are made. Often the landing is distributed incorrectly or the sleeves are connected to the armhole.

1. You can distribute the fit by aligning the seam on the shoulder with the center of the neck and distributing the fit.
2. Further laid the notched line.
3. If you are satisfied with the result, lay another line, closing the shortcomings of the first, so that the fit does not shift when stitching.
4. When stitching a sleeve, lay a stitch, only move 1-2 mm back from the notched stitches. The seam should be stretched slightly so that it does not crack while wearing the dress.

A simpler option is a circular assembly:

• Having laid out the detail so that the line of the middle of the sleeve is exactly in the middle, mark the point of intersection with the allowance of the lower one at the stock of the upper part of the neck.
• Lay the two notched lines all over.
• Pull off the top, sute the folds, while the sleeve does not iron.
• Sweep the sleeve, starting from the center in a circle.

At the last stage fitting is done. Errors are corrected and the sleeve is attached to the dress. The seams are slurred.

There is also a third option, in which the lower line occurs after inserting the sleeve into the armhole, aligning the seams and securing the armhole in the lower sections. When the dam is exactly entered in the armhole, the excess width is evenly distributed.

Be sure to do the fitting while putting in the sleeves, the peculiarity of posture sometimes requires adjusting the most accurate patterns.