New Look 6831 Faux Cuff Tutorial

Wanted to share how I made the faux cuffs for the New Look 6831 tie blouse.  I felt the blouse deserved a nicer sleeve finish and created cuffs.

The fabric for my second NL6831 is a black/white cot-poly gingham and the fabric for the contrasting cuff is from a twin size sheet. (Whenever I can and if they are on sale, I purchase cotton/poly flat sheets, they are sew handy. Perfect for muslins (which I rarely do), interlining, blouses and more.

 

To determine the full length of the sleeve and cuff, I started with the sleeve basted together, sliding the sleeve up to the edge of my shoulder and taped it... yes I taped the sleeve to the edge of my shoulder and fold the hemline of the sleeve to desired length. Removing the sleeve, I take one of the cuffs and baste stitch it to the fold line of the sleeve, and then place a pin where I want the cuff to end, preferrably a little below my wrist.

To create the cuff, I used swedish tracing paper and created a cuff measuring 12" x 4"

I cut 2 burgundy cuffs & a set of the b/w gingham fashion fabric, and interfaced the gingham fabric on the wrong side using Pellon fusible interfacing.

Next, I placed the burgundy & interfaced cuffs wrong sides together and positioned along the fold line of the sleeve edge.  Making sure to place the contrasting cuffs to the rightside of the fashion fabric.

Centered the cuffs and cut off the excess

pinned the cuff to the fashion fabric rightside and serged.

With the sleeve on the wrong side, I stitched down the seam allowance.

Now that one end of the cuff has been stitched to the sleeve edge, I then press a fold hem for each layer at the other end.  I wanted a smidgeon of the gingham fabric to show below the top cuff, and pressed it so that it was longer than the top cuff.

Used my all time favorite steam-a-seam and pressed both layers together to temporarily hold the fabrics together.

Using burgundy thread in the top spool holder and white thread in the bobbin, I edge stitched the cuff on the right side.  The cuffs are basically completed.... just a matter

 of serging the seam of the sleeves.  Once the sleeves' seams are serged, I baste stitch the sleeve to the  armhole of the blouse and try on the blouse to taper the cuffs around my wrist (make sure you do not taper the cuffs too much in that you will not be able to pull your hands out.... ummm yeah.... ask me how I know.

Well there you have it... faux cuffs.

Thank You SewOm

for being inspired by my pattern and wanted to Spotlight You to Say it means so much to me. 

 SewOm emailed me this dear message....

" I made a sweater inspired by the pattern you sent me. The pattern was easy to understand, but at the time, I wasn't comfortable using slip stitches to make a whole garment. So I improvised. (I probably would've improvised anyway - patterns are "suggestions" for me!) I used herringbone half double crochet for the yoke and borders, and then single crochet-chain for the body."   I made it using a wool, silk, angora blend (sheffield) from yarn.com.

My Response:

"You totally Rock! The sweater looks Awesome and love the color and great stitch definition. I so understand using patterns to improvise, I do it often. I am super happy and your email has me happily emotional, yes I get emotional over creativity.. lol.

Thanks for trying the pattern. 

SewOm:

"Thanks for the compliment! I wear the sweater often, and with pride. And I do understand getting emotional about creativity - it warms my heart to make things and to see things that other people make."


SewOm's Beautiful Sweater

Inspired by my Oowee Sweater Pattern

Click here for the Pattern



I've been crocheting for the last 23 years and continue to enjoy it immensely.  When I started crocheting my projects were mainly afghans, lap blankets & baby blankets and honestly didn't think much more about doing anything else.  However, over the last 4 years, I have ventured into  crocheting accessories & garments and love it.  Last year, I created a simple garment that I felt represented my style and  decided to share my pattern that requires basic crocheting skills. 

When I thought about writing a pattern, I was totally baffled in that I was clueless on how to begin.  However, being that I am a creative freestyle person, I decided, despite my drawbacks in designing to go full throttle and made notes as I worked up the pattern.  Wrote some more.... tore up what I wrote and started all over again and  after writing the last row and another sweater, that it will be what it is.   Hence the Oowee Sweater. 

I'm looking forward to creating more basic crochet garments down the road, but wanted to share SewOm's beautiful garment. I give a big shout-out to the designers out there that have and continue to design beautiful garments and hope to reach their status one day.

Again, Thanks SewOm and to Others that have inspired me and continue.