How to make Snow White sleeves tutorial

Step 1

Start off by making the sleeves. If you’re finding my description too fast be sure to check out my tutorial on how to make princess sleeves.

Step 2

I started by making myself a sleeve pattern. Take a sleeve pattern for a poofy sleeve (or just add some space in the middle to make it poofy) .

Step 3

Slit the sleeve 3 times to make room for the red pleats.

Step 4

Cut about 2 inch slits for each gap out of red.

Step 5

Sew the sleeve pieces together.

Step 6

Pleat the red part back folding each side of the blue on top of the red and pin.

Step 7

Sew basting stitches along both edges and gather. Fit to the arm hole of the tank and leave a few inches of extra space on each side since the armhole will stretch when you sew it on. Sew or serge finishing the edges of the sleeve.

Step 8

Iron a strip of yellow fabric long enough to go around your flexed bicep plus a few inches in half and sew/serge the raw edge of the strip to the bottom edge of your sleeve.

Step 9

Set aside

Step 10

Lay a piece of paper on top of your tank top and sketch a collar. I added 1/2 inch seam allowance but I wish I had made my collar a lot bigger.

Step 11

cut 4 collar pieces out of white fabric.

Step 12

Sew two pieces together leaving a small hole along the top edge to turn it right side out. Snip up to the sewing line and then turn the piece right side out and iron. Repeat with the other two pieces

Step 13

Position your collar pieces on the shirt and sew along the top edge.

Step 14

Sew the ribbon down the middle of the shirt (I stitched a line on both edges of the ribbon).

Step 15

Set in your sleeves.

Step 16

So this part is a tiny bit tricky you can fit the sleeve to the tank and sew the sleeve closed but know that it will stretch so I’d make the sleeve circle a few inches bigger than the tank armhole. I did not do this so my tank had extra space at the arm pit. I just folded it and called it a cooling area.

Step 17

If I were to do it again I would stay stitch the tank armhole first allowing it to stretch a little since I don’t like cramped armholes. Then I’d fit the sleeve to the armhole and then you won’t have to worry about the sizes not matching and set in the sleeve how you would on any garment.