Reflecting space softshell (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Nooodel@lemmy.world to c/sewing@lemmy.world

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My nieces' birthday is coming up and I stumbled over this beautiful softshell with reflective print at a wandering market.

Lesson learned 1: children's cloths are so much smaller, making them is a lot faster.

Lesson learned 2: they are in fact so small that the arm holes don't fit around the sewing machine anymore and I had to finish the arms by hand

One jacket done, 2 more to go

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[-] pizzaislife@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Looks great! Your nieces gonna love them!

[-] Ladylullabunk@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Suggestion for fitting arm holes is to keep side seam open, fit the sleeve shoulder seam, then sew the side seam and under arm seam in one action. A lot easier than fitting the sleeve into the arm sythe. 😘

[-] Nooodel@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ah my bad, lost in translation. I do the shoulders exactly like you suggest. The problem was the lower end of the arm where the hand sticks out. I now do them also like you suggested, with the side+underarm seam being the last one I close on the feature

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