KNITorious Sew A Long Day 3

Welcome back!
Did you all enjoy the rolled hem? Was I the only one that had NO idea what I was doing? Well, it was a learning moment for sure!

Today should be a relatively straight forward day. We're going to attach the sleeves and sides as well as add the neck. Tomorrow we will be hemming the bottom. I'm making that a separate day because I'm going to be a rebel and not do the rolled hem it calls for. I'm going to show you another way to do a hem, it's my fave way. I'm sure many of you will know it :-)

But first things first......

SLEEVES

One thing to remember is that there is a front and a back! To the pattern and to the sleeves. I actually used my handy dandy chalk pen to mark a little X on the front park so I didn't sew them on backwards. If they're laying flat, the front is the slightly higher side. It's a bit narrower and shorter. I doubt it would be much of a big deal if you sewed them on backwards though, it's a forgiving pattern!

 

I use Wonder clips to pin my fabrics, I don't like to put holes in things with pin unless I have to. I'm not the most precise cutter, so I did have to stretch a bit to get my pieces to match.

Place the sleeve and the main body piece right side together and serge them together. Then you'll do the other sleeve. You'll have one main body piece with two sleeves attached.

 Get your other main body piece and sew the opposite side of the sleeves to that piece. You'll end up with this:

 The picture in the pattern on this part confused the hell out of me. For some reason I couldn't see what the picture wanted me to see! But that above is what it should look like!
Now flip it inside out and seam the sides. Don't serge the armholes shut! Start at the bottom of the arm holes and seam all the way down the dress.

 For the neck band, fold it in half and sew the edge so you have a loop. Then you can fold it in half long ways, so it's a skinnier loop

Pin it to the neck. This part is trickier because of the stretching to fit. I just use a lot of pins or clips and sew slowly.

The top stitching part I took pics but they don't show it super well so I'll try to explain how I did it too. Once it's serge on and it's all right side out, I take the collar piece and fold it on itself, so a little of it goes in on the front and a little goes on the back.

  I'm taking the height of the collar fabric and splitting it between the front and the back. Then I use my double needle and top stitch it down.

 To be honest, the fabric I used for the collar was too thick, I accidently used some like yoga pant type material but rather than waste it, I just pushed forward.

I like how this type of collar looks. It's covering all raw edges so none of the serged edge is poking out and just looks very neat and clean.

Thats all for today! Tomorrow will be hemming the bottom, either with a rolled hem or my alternative hem! Also, clean up trimming and such. Friday will be a congratulations post your finished piece day so I look forward to seeing all your creations! I can't wait to give this to my daughter! :-)