Learn how to draft a sleeve pattern to fit an armhole

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Learn how to draft a sleeve pattern to fit an armhole of any bodice pattern with this step by step pattern drafting tutorial.
This is the easiest method for drafting sleeve patterns. In this tutorial, I'm showing you the method of creative a sleeve pattern for a bodice pattern I created for myself, which will become a lovely winter tweed top.
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@TheCreativeCurator 2 месяца назад

I recently launched a Patreon, so if you'd like more personalized help with sewing, pattern making and fashion design, do check it out here: www.patreon.com/thecreativecurator/posts 😘

@user-mt6ld5ym1g 6 месяцев назад

This is the best tutorial on RU-vid for drafting sleeves! I have been through countless tutorials. Please try this drafting it's 100% accurate. Thank you Curator.

@TheCreativeCurator 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback! ❤️

@suephlipot7236 9 дней назад

Thanks so much for this video - it is excellent! I think what did it for me was the last segment when you tried on the well fitting sleeve and suggested how to add in more ease for the upper cap portion ti improve the fit. This is exactly the type of help I needed! Bless you!

@gabriellawisdom 3 месяца назад

Every time I need to draft a sleeve for a pattern I’ve created I refer back to this video!

@TheCreativeCurator 3 месяца назад

Gabriella, your comment has made my day. Thank you so much for sharing it with me and appreciating the work in creating the video. 😘

@sewfun211 3 месяца назад

Thank you for your excellent explanation. It's exactly what I needed!

@TheCreativeCurator 3 месяца назад

Lovely to hear - any questions, ask away! 😘

@sbaumgartner9848 6 месяцев назад

You're the first explanation I've found on how to do this. Thank you. You have very good control of a pencil/pen in drafting.

@TheCreativeCurator 3 месяца назад

Thank you - years of practice! 😉And I am so glad to know that you found this pattern drafting video helpful. 😍

@jeffstamand 3 месяца назад

Great video. Well done. Thanks for the education.

@TheCreativeCurator 3 месяца назад

Glad to hear you found it helpful Jeff, thanks for watching!

@susanyamamoto7705 Год назад

Thank you! This is such a helpful tutorial for me, and right when I need to do a sleeve ❤

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

Oh, I'm so chuffed that I uploaded it at the right time for you Susan! Let me know how it turns out, and of course, if you have any questions, do let me know! ❤️

@carolyneatugonza8504 Год назад

This was a very well explained video my sleeves were perfect...thanks

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

Yay, I'm so chuffed that it was able to help you draft a sleeve pattern! Thank you for letting me know! 😍

@Cre8tiveGenius 7 месяцев назад

Thank you. I was having a huge problem drafting a sleeve for my pattern I made with Winifred Aldrich pattern book. This helped with the ease in the sleeve cap. Thank you

@TheCreativeCurator 6 месяцев назад

You're very welcome, happy to have been able to help! 😍

@LucyPinda-sg7df 8 месяцев назад

Eve, this is what I have not attempted, thanks for that

@TheCreativeCurator 7 месяцев назад

Hi Linda! You're very welcome - hope it works as well for you s it has for me and others! 😘

@helenmoyes5700 5 месяцев назад

This was SO HELPFUL! Thank you so much!

@TheCreativeCurator 3 месяца назад

Really chuffed it helped you Helen! 😘

@kimnguyen1227 9 месяцев назад

this is the most helpful tutorial! i love to see the connection between the sleeve and the bodice pattern. will review it in depth to try it out. thank you!

@TheCreativeCurator 9 месяцев назад

Ah Kim, you’re very welcome! Have fun! 😍

@paraboo8994 Год назад

Thank you so much for this tutorial!

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

You're welcome, I'm glad that you found helpful!

@geordiehandbag1562 10 месяцев назад

Just what I needed - many thanks!

@TheCreativeCurator 10 месяцев назад

You're very welcome!

@corirodriquez2889 6 месяцев назад

Thank you! ❤ wonderful tutorial !

@TheCreativeCurator 3 месяца назад

Thank you so much! 😘

@eileenmackin5382 Год назад

Thank you. Very helpful x

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

You're welcome Eileen, glad it was helpful! X :)

@Pat-Van-Canada Год назад

super helpful !

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

Thanks for the feedback Pat! :)

@Tonie-Carol 2 месяца назад

Ooh I really understand thank you .

@TheCreativeCurator 2 месяца назад

Glad that this helped!

@lizanddennisvaldez3963 4 месяца назад

Brilliant!

@TheCreativeCurator 3 месяца назад

Thanks Liz! 😍

@gracedeman4884 Год назад

Wow! Thank you very much for this. You've really explained very many questions I've had that I couldn't find the answers to. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

You’re very welcome Grace! If there are other pattern making tutorials you need help with, let me know! 😘

@gracedeman4884 Год назад

@@TheCreativeCurator Thank you. I love your news letters and tutorials 😍

@luthfiyyakhan9738 10 месяцев назад

You explaination is on point. I really diidnt understand the sleeves and now i do. THANKS

@TheCreativeCurator 10 месяцев назад

Oh, reading this has made my day! Thanks so much for such a lovely comment - I am so happy to know that it now makes sense for you!

@justhypekid1897 3 месяца назад

thank u I got it !!!

@TheCreativeCurator 2 месяца назад

Glad it helped!

@marielouiseagius5256 Год назад

Thanks to this tutorial I constructed a well fitting sleeve.

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

Oh I'm so chuffed this worked well for you Marie! 🥰

@marielouiseagius5256 Год назад

@@TheCreativeCurator Sure did! I've always had a big problem since I lost the slim body of younger age! I love your tutorials. Am getting back to sewing, something which I really love. And I am doing my own patterns now - I would need only slight modifications, if any, on trying them on.

@johnbailey7239 11 месяцев назад

I followed the process and it came out perfectly!I wish I could share a picture.

@reshmaamadhu2898 8 месяцев назад

Did you get any wrinkles in it?

@please_useless_plastic8128 5 месяцев назад

Hi Eve, Thank you for this video and also your written blog. I'm not sure if it's in the video, but if it is, I missed any reference to adding ease for the sleeve block (bicep) width. This resulted in my first draft being too narrow, with the top curve measuring about 5cm less than desired total of armscye + 2.5cm - eek! I wondered if anyone else had this issue, (or did I miss it ?) Fortunately I saw in your blog to "grab your top arm amount ... and add 5 cm to it" to determine the sleeve block width. I also notice the method for crown depth calculation is different in the video and blog, but I decided to keep the calculation from the video since I had already done it, then using the new block width (with 5cm ease), I recalculated the quarter markings, and re-drew the curves accordingly. When I re-drafted the width line with the 5cm ease included, the finished measurement of the top curve now perfectly matches the desired length (ie armscye +2.5cm). It's looking good, so I really hope it fits when I make the toile. Thanks again.

@karyn_is_the_name 2 месяца назад

💪

@penelopeathenaalexandrescu5583 Месяц назад

Hi! May I please request a tutorial on how to transform puff sleeves to just normal sleeves such as this one on your tutorial?

@nataliabirchall9093 Год назад

Thank you!!!! Iv been searching for this everywhere but couldn’t find a tutorial! I’m drafting my first dress I have the bodice done the skirt done, but was really struggling with the arm! At one point I lay out the bodice patter together and drew then arm hole measured my arm drew it out cut it tried the paper over my arm an it wouldn’t fit past my bicep lol 😂😂

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

Ah, you're very welcome Natalia! Let me know how you get on and if you have any questions!

@nataliabirchall9093 Год назад

@@TheCreativeCurator aww thank you 😊😊

@MsCjmaxi 4 месяца назад

Will this technique work if my back armscye is much longer than my front?

@sister83 5 месяцев назад

Hi, a question before I attempt this, I am trying to replicate a shirt that I like cause of the fit and design, I have traced out the back and front bodice pattern but am having trouble tracing the pattern of the sleeves. Would this tutorial help me to draft a pattern to fit the bodice pattern that I have drafted out? I have the measurements taken for the sleeves of the shirt..

@Cre8tiveGenius 7 месяцев назад

Can you do one with a two piece sleeve?

@TheCreativeCurator 6 месяцев назад

Oh, that's a great idea! I'll add it to the list - expecting to post more videos in 2024, this year has been crazy with another project! 😎

@ishwarypious6922 Год назад

That was a good one, but the measures are not clear ... hope to solve by repeatedly playing the video

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

I did run through the measurements, perhaps put the video on a slower speed setting? I have a habit of speaking too fast when I'm excited about things, and pattern making gets me very excited!😎

@jennyheron4945 9 месяцев назад

hi, great vid. but, all of a sudden there is an additional line at the center top. this appears after you do the measuring around thing. what is that all about. thanks.

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

This is such an easy way to make a sleeve pattern - will you be giving it a go?

@gracedeman4884 Год назад

I'm most certainly going to give it a go, but in Seamly2D 😂

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

@@gracedeman4884 ha ha, enjoy it! 😆

@gracedeman4884 Год назад

@@TheCreativeCurator Done & dusted. It works beautifully. Thank you very much!

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

@@gracedeman4884 yay, you’re very welcome! Enjoy!

@marielouiseagius5256 Год назад

I drafted this sleeve. It looks very good. Should ease allowance be added to the upper arm measurement before constructing the bicep line? If so, how much? Thanks

@thebloomingleopold 7 месяцев назад

This is so helpful, thank you! I've always shied away from drafting my own sleeve pattern, it was too intimidating a project for me - and your tutorial has made it more approachable. Question - why can't you just copy the armholes of an existing bodice pattern to create a matching sleeve? I know it doesn't work, but I don't quite understand why.

@sbaumgartner9848 6 месяцев назад

I think if you look at more than one pattern, particularly from different pattern companies or even a sample garment, you will find the position of the shoulder seam and underarm seams and the shapes of both the back and front armholes all different. They wouldn't fit the pattern you're drafting and making adjustments to the bodice and/or sleeve may be frustrating. Better to use a pattern drafter's suggestion by using your drafted bodice pattern and your arm girth. This is the first time I've found someone to explain how to create a sleeve pattern that matches to a drafted bodice armhole.

@asma10shoot45 Месяц назад

Please how much ease have you added to the bicep

@marcuswiles-shortall9986 Год назад

Hey thanks for the helpful video, I'm coming across a problem and simply can not figure out why I'm getting so much ease. I have a feeling its because of my bicep measurement being quite wide that it's creating to much ease in the sleeve pattern. my armhole measurement is 51cm but my sleeve came up originally 59.5cm, I have since managed to get this down to 54.3cm. My question is when the centre of the quarters are halved and turned into the curve of the sleeve head by measuring out/in, can the depth of those 0.5cm / 1.5cm / 2cm / 1cm be altered to create less ease or will this throw the balance out? I hope this makes sense haha, I've made 3 to 4 sleeves now so I'm all confused. thanks again, marcus

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

Hi Marcus, sorry I just saw this comment when replying to someone else's! You can absolutely play around with the measurements to get closer to your bodice armsyce measurement - just be mindful not to make the line straight, there should be curves similar to the body. And you can always create a 'cap sleeve' style sleeve toile to check the fit too. Depending on your fabric you could have between 0.5cm and 4cm of ease, so it's all modifiable. :)

@idarand904 Год назад

Trying so hard to understand this, as I’m trying to draft a sleeve fitting a sewingpattern I’ve adjusted. I have narrowed the shoulderseam so the sleeve wont come to far out on my shoulder. This video was so helpfull, but trying to understand. When you divided the total lenght by 3 and added 1,5 ease, why do you divide it by 3? And if the back armhole is different lenght then the front armhole, you still do it this way?

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

Hi Ida. So, first up, an ease amount is added to the total armhole measurement because otherwise your sleeve will fit in exactly and will look flat and shapeless. 1.5cm is a standard baseline amount of ease that is added to give a nice shape, but you could add more or a little less. As an example, shirt sleeves which are sewn on the flat and not in the round have much less ease. The back and front armholes often measure differently - as did mine in this video - so yes, you still do it this way. Finally, the only division of 3 that I made in this tutorial was to find the underarm line, so no ease was added to that measurement, but one third of the total armhole generally works out to be about the same amount as the shoulder point down to where the underarm line would be on the outer arm. Hope that makes sense! :)

@odenjohannesebastianbach1463 Год назад

Would this work for a drop shoulder pattern?

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

I haven't tested this on a drop shoulder pattern. But, I would say yes, just make sure that the sleeve clap is 'flatter / less rounded' as that is already taken up by the dropped shoulder part of the bodice. If you happy to wait, I can probably knock up a tutorial later on in June?

@wfokiwis Месяц назад

Idk what I get wrong but the curved part of my sleeve keeps being 2,5cm shorter 😅

@justhypekid1897 3 месяца назад

Im at bout 10 cm more i think im doing sum wrong:/ i take the bicep length of a piece im copyn the pattern please help🙏 sittin there since 2 days not gettin How 2 do it

@TheCreativeCurator 2 месяца назад

Sorry, I see that you got it though!

@laurenbeck3134 9 месяцев назад

How do I make the curve match the curve fit into the curve of an existing armhole? I followed everything you did, but the sleeve still doesn't fit.

@TheCreativeCurator 9 месяцев назад

Hi Lauren, how odd that it isn't working! Feel free to take a photo of your pattern and email it to me, I'll take a look over the next week!

@abirzakaria4579 10 месяцев назад

Sometimes the widest part of the biceps is much bigger than armhole. How to solve this problems????

@TheCreativeCurator 10 месяцев назад

You have two options. The first would be to make the armhole bigger so that the sleeve head is bigger, which would naturally add width to the sleeve. The success of this method would depend on the garment type you're making, it would work for a jacket or coat, but may be too much volume on a shirt or dress. The second would be to make the sleeve pattern as shown here and then do a bicep fullness adjustment - think of it as an FBA for your arm! - to get the extra fabric in.

@barbaraferron7994 7 месяцев назад

Q: could you give us a written version of the directions? I couldn't hear you clearly on some of the measurements. For example, I think you said the horizontal line at the base of the underarm was a third of something but I couldn't hear what.

@TheCreativeCurator 6 месяцев назад

Hi Barbara - there are written instructions over on my blog actually - www.thecreativecurator.com/drafting-a-sleeve-block/

@tp3138 Год назад

I’ve put in my measurements four times now and followed your instructions (making notes, going back and forth on the video to triple check that I was doing the math and measuring correctly) and I never, never come out with an armscye measurement at the end that is anywhere near (like it’s 10cm or thereabouts LESS) my armscye measurement. Sorry, but I didn’t find this useful. If you know why this happens (I even got my math genius hubby to check I was doing it right) then please let me know!!

@TheCreativeCurator Год назад

I'm sorry, your comment doesn't make the following clear: Are you referring to the armscye on the drafted sleeve pattern being less that the armscye of the bodice pattern *or* do you mean the armscye of the bodice pattern is less than the armscye of the drafted sleeve? If you let me know, I can give you my thoughts.