My nieces’ birthday is coming up and I stumbled over this beautiful softshell with reflective print at a wandering market.

Lesson learned 1: children’s cloths are so much smaller, making them is a lot faster.

Lesson learned 2: they are in fact so small that the arm holes don’t fit around the sewing machine anymore and I had to finish the arms by hand

One jacket done, 2 more to go

  • Ladylullabunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Suggestion for fitting arm holes is to keep side seam open, fit the sleeve shoulder seam, then sew the side seam and under arm seam in one action. A lot easier than fitting the sleeve into the arm sythe. 😘

    • Nooodel@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Ah my bad, lost in translation. I do the shoulders exactly like you suggest. The problem was the lower end of the arm where the hand sticks out. I now do them also like you suggested, with the side+underarm seam being the last one I close on the feature