I finally have sleevils

[pinkdiamond]

Okay, stop right there.

If you have been part of the historical costuming crowd you will know exactly what this is.

If you do any sewing of upper body garments, you can hazard a really good guess what this is.

If you have no clue, and look it up, I am not talking urban-dictionary definition.

No.

Sleevils are sleeves that are evil. or rather; fiendishly difficult.

 

Sleeves are tough in general. Well me me not the sleeves but how they attach, but how they attach. Modern sleeves are designed to look really pretty on a stand with no arms, historic lseeves look really odd and wrinkle under the arm because they put fabric in places where arms lengthen when we reach out or up.

I like sleeves as they challenge 2D to 3D thinking.

Armcyes are a different matter, that compound curve at the front of the armpit….

 

However I finally have sleevils!!! The actual making up of the sleeve part has been a nightmare and I have made so many mistakes. but they will be worth it. So pretty.

 

But sleevils!

And they shouldn’t be. they are not convoluted dog leg shaped, they in theory should hide a multitude of patterning sins but they don’t!

 

I will use that again so as to boost the ranking of the term and so boost other historic costumers in google searches.

 

Sleevil. sleeves and evil.

 

Sleevil.

Comments

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

From my experience nearly all sleeves are sleevils

If anythign is goign to go wrong with somethign I'm making, it's the sleeves, more often than not.

Insideout, upside-down, back-to-front, joined-together-at-the-heel (well, not that last one, yet but I wouldn't put it past them if they can manage it!) and that's not even touching on the issues of fitting them properly into the armhole with enough ease over the shoulder and no puckers and wrinkles where they shoouldn't have them...

Sleevils

Teddy

[pinkdiamond.livejournal.com]

I love sleeves! Well historic ones. Managed to love modern ones only, only with real tailoring. triple rows of stitches to ease the sleeve head and pressing it out? love.

This? This has done my head in and made me doubt every moment, every stitch.

Also I apologise, I have a new keyboard (well two) and the first delete key didn't work so editing was a bit interesting ;)

But yay, apple keyboard for quiet typing also nice low profile.

Still need to see if it helps with gaming or not.

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the new keyboards!

Teddy

[mrs_maupin]

"I will use that again so as to boost the ranking of the term and so boost other historic costumers in google searches."
I love you reasoning. Love love love ! And good luck taming the sleevils !

[pinkdiamond.livejournal.com]

Well I think it's important to remember our roots and I know what it means to disappear from my own history so.. heck yeah, if I can use algorithms to make a change then why not ;)

I am just saving the reveal of the actual sleevils for when the photoshoot happens. It'll be worth it. Well, it's possibly hyping because I have a different aesthetic and get giddy over different things to what most of my peers are doing ;)

[coyoterose.livejournal.com]

[pinkdiamond.livejournal.com]

And I love them normally! But this.. I don't know how I messed them up so badly. It is hilarious in context but when I had planned to debut this frock a week back.. well.. it's not just because I want all the hand stitching I can mange.