Sewing Sleeves

This is going to be a post about shirts in general, or tank tops, but sewing sleeves sounded nicer.

I can make tank top straps pretty easily, it’s not hard. You can even do it with ribbon if you wanted to make everything even easier! I know I have done that before. However, I find this is one of the hardest parts of clothes. This is where the weight lies on your shoulders. With this weight, seams can rip, and with ripping means all that hard work you put in has to be redone.

This dress based off the superhero costume from Miraculous Ladybug was very fun and simple to make, however, the straps constantly need to be fixed! Time and time again they break and I still haven’t figured out the best way- but this is something to always expect when making your own clothes! Sometimes tings break! Heck! This happens even when you didn’t make the clothes!

I have to admit though, I’m sure a lot of my downfall comes to when I don’t end up looking for tutorials. Most of the time I can make something look correct, but may not feel correct. I tend to just eyeball how other jackets or shirts look and go along with it or eyeball a pattern I see on Google

One thing I would like to mention before throwing some tutorials your way is that there are many different items of clothing that you can make. There are so many different types of styles out there that you can look up, but for this blog for now they will mainly be simple things!

Here is an easy T-Shirt tutorial by WithWendy, every tutorial will basically be the same as this when it comes to t-shirts so this is the only video I will link for t-shirts. WithWendy also has a lot of other nice tutorials so I recommend checking them out!

Happily Dressed shows how to make a jacket, which is very similar to making a shirt! They also show how they added lining into their jacket as well.

I’m also just going to share this sleeve tutorial by Professor Pincushion where they just give a tutorial on how to simply make a sleeve! I like this tutorial because they use two different colors to show you the difference between the sleeve and the shirt so it’s easier to see what’s going on.

I would also like to add how to make a hoodie in here by Melly Sews, it’s a bit longer than these other videos but she goes over the steps very well.

One of the things I often make when it comes to sewing is making tubes. A tube is just when you sew one piece of fabric to itself. CandTPublishing shows how to turn those tubes right side out considering sometimes this isn’t the easiest task.

Zune’s Sewing Therapy I found funny because it’s a tank top tutorial but it’s for toddlers and the first thing they tell you is to go subscribe to them so you can get the pattern for free. However, it is a good tank top tutorial. Here is the cutout that they have posted on their Pinterest though! I personally would just grab my own tanktop and trace it though so you can get your size.

Again, there are so many different styles of tank tops or jackets to make. I will probably make another blog to post about my personal preferences and how to make them like a sweetheart neckline or some that I haven’t made but would like to!