{"id":973,"date":"2009-09-22T23:46:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T06:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trystancraft.com\/costume\/?p=973"},"modified":"2014-12-12T10:44:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T18:44:18","slug":"no-sleevil-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/2009\/09\/22\/no-sleevil-here\/","title":{"rendered":"No sleevil here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not the I&#8217;m bragging, but I don&#8217;t see what the fuss is about sleeves. They&#8217;re pretty easy. My sleeves probably don&#8217;t look that good to anyone else, but I like them. They go together fine, no big stress, not like the strum und drang I hear from so many other costumers when it comes time to make and insert sleeves.<\/p>\n<p>9 times out of 10, I scale up a sleeve diagram from Hunnisett. I&#8217;ve even scaled up sleeves from Arnold (the only thing I&#8217;ve successfully scaled from that crazy wack-a-doodle!). But Hunnisett&#8217;s sleeves just work, and they&#8217;re usually the right size too. Or close enough to it that I can make a couple mocks and get it right.<\/p>\n<p>Then someone (probably <a href=\"http:\/\/demodecouture.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kendra<\/a>) pointed me towards a great article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadsmagazine.com\/item\/4368\/making-sense-of-pattern-grading\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a> (and its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadsmagazine.com\/item\/4424\/quick-reference-for-cut-and-spread-pattern-grading\" target=\"_blank\">part 2<\/a>) about pattern grading so I could scale up the diagram and then easily adjust the size and get the first mock to fit me with less trial and error. Another article from Threads about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threadsmagazine.com\/item\/5052\/on-fitting-sleeves\" target=\"_blank\">fitting sleeves<\/a> helped refine the method. Yeah, they&#8217;re all for modern patterns but the tips work for any era that has, oh, arms.<\/p>\n<p>I usually make one-piece sleeves, as opposed to the two-piece \/ top and bottom sleeves, which works well for 90% of what I&#8217;m doing. And when I&#8217;m making some fussy little style with crazy poufs and designs, well, that all sits on top of a one-piece sleeve anyway.<\/p>\n<p>(This ramble brought to you by the fact that, yes, I finished up the sleeves for the 1580s\/1610s doublet last night. Laced them in, they look spiffy. Now the thing needs a metric fuckton of trim to be truly done!)<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"640\" data-carousel-extra='null' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 307px;\" data-original-width=\"640\" data-original-height=\"307\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 408px; height: 307px;\" data-original-width=\"408\" data-original-height=\"307\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/doublet-trimpin2.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"404\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"303\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"975\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/doublet-trimpin2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"doublet-trimpin2\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Close up of trim &amp;#038; 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fabric colors <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 232px; height: 307px;\" data-original-width=\"232\" data-original-height=\"307\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-small\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/doublet-trimpin1.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"228\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"303\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"974\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/doublet-trimpin1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"doublet-trimpin1\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sleeves done, playing with trim&lt;\/p&gt; 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They go together fine, no big stress, not like the strum und drang I hear from so many other costumers when it comes time<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/2009\/09\/22\/no-sleevil-here\/\">Read the Rest of this Post&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,147,166,213,184],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16th-century","tag-16th-century-doublet","tag-pattern-drafting","tag-sca-garb","tag-sleevils","tag-trim-trim-trim"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No sleevil here | Trystan&#039;s Costume Closet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trystancraft.com\/costume\/2009\/09\/22\/no-sleevil-here\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No sleevil here | Trystan&#039;s Costume Closet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Not the I&#8217;m bragging, but I don&#8217;t see what the fuss is about sleeves. 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