In this final installment of the Setting Sleeves course, Cinnamon shares a few tips for success! She is joined by Melinda, the designer of Melody Valerie Couture, as she shares how to create ease in a sleeve cap, set the sleeve in a round, and add a beautiful finishing detail to the armscye.

Interested in practicing this technique? You can find Melody Valerie Couture patterns exclusively at larougetdelisle:
https://larougetdelisle.com/collections/melody-valerie-couture

Her Bluebelle Dress pattern also shows another variation to create a tulip sleeve. It's constructed from an entirely different shaped pattern piece, but finishes with the same result!

You can also practice the armscye binding technique in a sleeve that is set in flat as show in the Liberty Jane Abbey Road dress pattern.
For 18-inch dolls:
https://larougetdelisle.com/products/abbey-road-a-line-dress-18-doll-clothes

For 14.5 Inch Dolls: https://larougetdelisle.com/products/abbey-road-a-line-dress-14-5-15-doll-clothes-pattern

Hi Everyone! Welcome back. For our discussion on setting in sleeves this week, Donna will be focusing on The Tulip Sleeve, or petal sleeve. It’s easy to see where the name comes from. The sleeve looks like a tulip or petals of a flower, so it’s known by both names.

A tulip style sleeve, with its curved edges, gives a garment a lovely feminine detail that is just right for a more tailored design.

This style of sleeve can be a little confusing when you just look at the pattern pieces because this kind of sleeve usually has two pattern pieces for each sleeve. It is important to mark any symbols and notches, so it will be easier to see how to match the sleeve sections together. You will see that it looks like a normal sleeve shape once the two pieces are overlapped at the sleeve cap.

The sleeves featured in the video are from dKinley designs’ pattern, Two Tulips Dress, but the general instructions would apply to most tulip sleeve patterns. Because the sleeves on this pattern are lined, rather than hemmed, it works best to use a lightweight fabric because of the number of layers at the sleeve cap. If a thicker fabric, such as quilting weight cotton, is to be used for a tulip style sleeve, you would probably get better results by using a single layer of fabric and hemming the lower edges.

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Follow along as Donna demonstrates how to construct the sleeve sections, both lined and unlined, and then put them together to form the sleeve. She goes on to discuss applying the sleeve to the garment, correcting potential problems, and cleanly finishing a lined garment at the sleeves.

Join us in giving Tulip sleeves a try!

Hi Everyone, in the previous video, Cinnamon demonstrated how set a
plain sleeve into an armscye. It is amazing how beautiful this simple sleeve can look when it is properly set. In this video, Shari is going to show you how to properly set in a gathered sleeve.

Gathered sleeves come in all shapes and sizes that range from a simple puff to a voluminous Gigot. The trick is how to neatly gather in all the extra fabric to fit in the armscye. The concept of gathering fabric is rather simple, sew one or more rows of long stitches inside the seam allowance where you want the fabric gathered and then draw up the stitching threads to make the gathers. For the best results, however, you need to understand how to control your fabric so that the gathers behave the way you want them to.

Looking for the patterns featured this week? Find them here:

Keepers Dolly Duds Bibbed Playsuit, available in three sizes!

  

Keepers Dolly Duds Regency Dress

Thimbles and Acorns Gigot Sleeve Dress and Beret Sleeve Dress patterns

  

Hi Everyone! Welcome to the Setting Sleeves course. Setting sleeves can be a challenge and cause some hesitation in choosing a pattern to sew. In this course Cinnamon, Shari, and Donna will each share with you their tips, tricks, and techniques for setting sleeves. The hope is that after completing this course you will have the confidence to tackle any doll-clothes sewing project and set those sleeves perfectly every time!

The course will be divided into four installments.

• Part One: In this section, Cinnamon will demonstrate setting a basic sleeve using the method that is commonly known as the "Shirt Sleeve". This method is setting a sleeve flat, attaching it to the bodice section first before sewing the side seam and underarm seam. 
• Part Two: In this section, Shari will demonstrate how to set a gathered sleeve. Common issues are uneven gathers at the cap, unwanted tucks in the seamline, and overall shaping of the gathered design. Shari will tackle these topics!
• Part Three: In this section, Donna will demonstrate how to set a "Tulip Sleeve" using her latest pattern design, Two Tulips, in the demonstration. Follow along to see how this technique is done perfectly every time!
• Part Four: In this section, we will wrap up the topic with a few general sleeve setting tips plus show the difference of setting a sleeve in the round and finishing the armscye seam allowance with binding - a haute couture touch!

Let's get started with Part One: Setting A Basic Sleeve.

In this video Cinnamon will demonstrate how to set three basic sleeves. The first example, using the Free T-shirt pattern, will show a basic knit fabric sleeve. The second example, featuring the Button-Up Shirt pattern, will show a woven fabric sleeve with a shallow cap height. The final example,  using the All Occasion Dress pattern, will show the contrast between the Button-up Shirt sleeve and the higher cap height of the one in the All Occasion Dress design.

Looking for the patterns featured this week? Find them here: