A tight sleeve is annoyingly uncomfortable, but when you enlarge a sleeve pattern to fit, it often doesn't ease into the armscye properly. Sleeve fitting has always been tricky business. And I wonder, why bother when it's so easy to create a custom sleeve from scratch. In "Try Plus-Size Draping—For the Best Bodice Ever" (Threads no. 130), I showed how to drape a bodice and turn it into a sloper, sometimes called a block pattern, for future pattern fitting and design. Although I draped the bodice sloper by molding the fabric directly onto a three-dimensional body, it is faster and more accurate to draft a sleeve using measurements from the arm and the armhole that it will fit into.
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