Sleeves - Italian Style Green Gown for a Young Woman

These are the sleeves that I made to go with the green Italian style gown that I did an earlier progress post on. 

The sleeve pattern is not in the traditional 16th Century style (with the seam running down the outside back seam), but rather a modern style sleeve with the seam underneath. This is because the patterns for  the bodice and sleeves were 'guess-timations' as the wearer was not available to be fitted.

The plain pair is self -lined, and the pair with hand-sewn trim have a light calico lining because the trim adds quite a lot of stiffness. The sleeves tie on with ribbons through hand-sewn eyelets. I fell my seams by hand to keep everything nice and flat, and I prefer to sew the sleeve hem and lining hem separately so that I can offset the lining to prevent it rolling out if the sleeve stretches a bit with wear.

 

Green Linen Tie-On Sleeves In The Italian Style

 Are you getting bored with sleeves yet?!

I recently finished another pair, this time in a pretty green linen.

They are constructed in the same way as the rest. I cut out my favourite roomy sleeve pattern in the lining and fashion fabrics and edged them with zigzag stitch on the  machine. The seams were sewn on machine with straight stitch and opened out and stitched down. 

I sewed the green linen fashion fabric and lining together at the sleeve head (wrong sides out), and clipped the curves to reduce bulk before turning the right way out. 

I hand stitched around the top of the sleeve to stop the lining rolling out. 

I sewed the wrist hem by hand and then whipped the lining in with another row of stitching. This seems like extra work,  but if the lining ever stretches, it means I can re-hem it without affecting the hem on the green fashion fabric.

I worked eyelets around the top of the sleeve for tying on and then put my trusty 'L' on the inside of the left sleeve.