Fitting Set-In Sleeves: Skill Building Session #1
A Set-In Sleeve and a proper fitting armhole are the key to a great fitting top, shirt, bodice, or dress. Once your shoulders, armhole and sleeve are fitting well, all other issues get easier to fix. The Set-In Sleeve is the foundation pattern for ALL sleeve patterns.
It's also the trickiest to fit!
This guide with mini-tutorials will help you diagnose and fix almost every fit issue of your set-in sleeve.
This Skill Building Session is available to purchase as a stand-alone unit HERE. Or you get access to it plus 8 other Skill Building Sessions when you become a Sew Sew Guildie in my community: Sew Sew Guild.
What Is Included
In this Skill Building Session you will have access to a 17 page document that outlines:
- What a Set-in Sleeve Is
- When, Why and Where to Use one
- How to Sew one and get all that ease in to the armhole seam
- All about a Set-In Sleeve pattern
- Working with Stretch Fabrics
- Mini tutorials to adjust the fit of nine different issues
- Shoulders Too Broad or Too Narrow
- Cap Has Too Much or Not Enough Ease
- Front Cap Strain
- Above Chest Strain
- Cap Height Too Tall or Too Short
- Bicep Circumference is too small or too large (and I do not use the Full Bicep Adjustment method since it doesn't work in many cases). Adjusting Armhole size.
- Armhole is Too Low
- Adding a Lift (to improve range of motion in a good fitting sleeve so the garment doesn't raise up when you raise your arm)
- Sleeve is Too Long or Too Short
- Wrist is Too Small or Too Large
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Bonuses on how to:
- Add a lift (one of my not-so-secret essential fit tips)
- Making an armhole sleeveless
- Adding a sleeve to a sleeveless armhole
- Over two hours of video with tutorials for all the Fit Issues broken up in to chapters
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Bonus Video: Seeing existing garments with set-in sleeves on the body and identifying their fit issues.
