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| JP Ryan Jacket in progress |
Today my lovely Lady Mother came over for help fitting sleevils into two of her Colonial Williamsburg pieces – both swallow-tailed jackets, in different materials, using the JP Ryan pattern, but also referencing the same jacket in the Colonial Williamsburg collection.
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| The sleeve before alterations – massively too big and too long, both |
Mom’s issue was with the sleeves, but we were also able to work out some fitment issues with the armcyes, shoulder straps, and center back seam, before setting the sleeves in using the 18th century method.
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| The little cuff turned up, to shorten the sleeve. |
Of course, this was after some major sleevil alterations – we took at least and inch out of the sleeve at the seam, more in one place, and also shortened the sleeve entirely by nipping up a rather nice cuff at the elbow. So far so good! All the same fixes need to be done on her brown linen jacket, but that is for another day.
4 Comments
Mistress of Disguise
September 11, 2012 at 10:06 PMI love the term "sleevil", it's so appropriate. I absolutely hate putting in sleeves, it's my least favourite part of any project. "Sleevil" is so entering my lexicon.
Lauren R
September 12, 2012 at 1:21 AMEntirely appropriate! Do they *ever* just go on nicely? NO! true evil.
Rowenna
September 13, 2012 at 3:12 PMHad troubles with the sleeves–especially the length–when I did this pattern for my mom last year! I ended up nipping up the sleeve and trimming them.
Unknown
October 3, 2019 at 12:45 AMVery little instruction from jp Ryan on this garment's sleeves. I am grateful you posted such good pictures.