I really love happy accidents. I wanted to make a Briar with elbow-length sleeves (I happen to love elbow sleeves) – and as I started measuring out the perfect length, I realised that the cut line for elbow sleeves was perfectly halfway between the cutlines for the short sleeves and 3/4 sleeves on the Briar sleeve pattern. Yeah, I know, how cool is that?!
So if you want to make elbow-length sleeves for your Briar – here’s what you do – Cut halfway between the short sleeve and 3/4 sleeve lines. DONE!
I found an easy way to do this was to just fold the pattern so that the two lines matched up, then cut.
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- How to sew a neckline band
- How to sew a neckline binding (the Megan Nielsen way)
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- The easiest knit neckline around
- Inserting the sleeves & sewing up the side seams
- Hemming
- Variation: How to draft elbow length sleeves
- Variation: A Valentine Briar sweater
- Variation: Centre front seam
- Variation: Side pocket Briar (by MadMim)
- Variation: the easy way to go sleeveless
- Variation: leather elbow patches + FREE pattern piece
- Variation: the dress (my favourite!)
- Variation: leather shoulder patches
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