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Marion mcnealy shares with us her secrets of drafting stress free fitted sleeves that set into the armscye easily every time. How to draft a basic sleeve patern.

How To Draft A Sleeve Pattern For Knit Fabrics Sewing For A Living

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Drafting sleeve pattern. Fold the piece of draft paper in half. Take your ruler and line the 0 mark up at the top of the vertical line. Step 4 draw the sleeve width.

Subscribe like leave a comment and don t forget to share my videos. Sleeves can be one of the most daunting challenges for old and new pattern makers. Draw a parallel line to a c 1 4 inches outside.

To finish cut over that line and you ll have your cap sleeve sewing pattern ready to go. Step 2 obtain a rectangular piece of drafting paper. Place it over the sleeve pattern and copy the shape with a pencil.

Cut it out and insert the lace along the cut line. Next measure your bicep length centered over the vertical line. If you want a curve like in the above diagram when drafting mark 1 inch inside diagonally to k.

How to draft a sleeve pattern step 1 measure the arm openings from the basic bodice pattern. At the top of the paper starting from the. Step 3 fold the draft paper in half.

To start draw a vertical line the same length as your sleeve measurement. Draft a new copy of the original regular sleeve pattern and take the part you just cut out of the t shirt sleeve alteration. Divide each of the lines you made in the previous step into quarters and mark them.

For drafting this sleeve first make the pattern on paper. However as long as you keep one simple principle in mind you can draft sleeves that fit easily. Draw a curved line along d k i.