KNITorious Sew A Long Day 2

Well Congratulations! You made it past Day One!! Success! I hope you all posted in the comments section of the facebook post so show me your progess!

Day Two is going to be Sleeve day!
I'm only doing sleeves today because this was tough for me! There are a couple options here. I did  the short sleeve version so that's what I'm going to show here.  The recommend doing a rolled hem to create a wavy little fluttery sleeve. I'm going to be honest and tell you that I had Never done a rolled hem before! So I did some trial and error on scrap pieces before I was comfortable on my real sleeve piece. I definitely recommend doing this, because all machines are finicky and sometimes even something you've done before gets wonky.

Everyones machines are different but this is what I used on my Brother 1034D. I ended up actually using the left needle instead of the right. Honestly I had to play around with it quite a bit to get it to a point I was okay with.

Once you're happy with your scraps, get out your sleeve pieces! We're going to be doing the rolled hem along the bottom large rounded piece. You need to stretch as you sew, stretching it is what gives it the wavy "lettuce" edge. This was hard to do evenly for me so some advice I have: don't start and stop, try to go smoothly. There were gaps when I started and stopped. Also I went a little slower that normal so I could stretch it at the same time. My stretching is un even, but the nature of the sleeve is to be wavy, it's very forgiving.

 I watched a couple videos on rolling hems, some good ones are THIS ONE and THIS ONE.
You'll need to do both sleeves, just remember to do the bottom large rounded part and not the tops.

That is all for today! Tomorrow we will be attaching the sleeves and seaming up the sides. I hope your sleeves look fluttery and amazing!