Declaimer: I did this lesson EXACTLY as shown/written in The Book. The Book’s illustrations here are pretty lacking in my opinion, and I honestly just cannot visualize how you take what this lesson shows and make a usable sleeve/sleeve placket out of it. If anyone can take a picture of a shirt that uses this type of placket and send it to me, I’d very much appreciate it. In the mean time, here is what I did. Make of it what you will.
The Book says, “The Rolled Hem Placket is an extremely simplified method of creating a sleeve opening.”
For this placket, all you need is a sleeve piece.
Cut a sleeve opening, however big you want, up to the stitchline
Fold it over to the wrong side once
Twice
And stitch in place
Cut a sleeve opening, however big you want, up to the stitchline
Fold it over to the wrong side once
Twice
And stitch in place
And somehow that’s it.
Yeah, I don’t get it either. Pretty sure I’m missing something totally, completely obvious. Any help?
Yeah, I don’t get it either. Pretty sure I’m missing something totally, completely obvious. Any help?
**ETA: I had an epiphany while eating my children's melting ice cream and watching them play on the Arctic Circle playground. I *think* I get it now, but will have to try it out in a little bit after my chores are done. But basically, I'm pretty sure that if you add the cuff to it, that will take care of the raw edges on the inside snipped part, and then the actual placket just folds up on itself. If that makes any sense at all.**
2 comments:
Uh, that's exactly how it looks in my edition of the book, too.
I think I may have used something similar to this one time, but it was then pleated across the rolled hem and then attached to the cuff at the bottom edge. I can't figure out how the remaining cut edges are supposed to get finished, though. Weird.
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