OT help needed with fixing kids coat

Friend bought 3 expensive coats and the kids can't get their arms through the holes. I will have to cut off the cuff plus the same into the arm. But what do you suggest to use to fix. I was thinking just use knit, as in cuff stuff and it will be twice as long as a regular cuff. Just wondering if anyone has better ideas. I will never find the same color or material. Black cuffs will match the rest of the coat. Thanx Again Joanna

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Need details, please. Do you mean that they can not get their arms into the armholes? or the cuffs? Polly

"Joanna" Friend bought 3 expensive coats and the kids can't get their arms

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Only a wild idea for you Joanna. Before wonderful notions were available, I needed to replace cuffs on DH and DS's favorite jackets. Finally I realized that the tops of nice heavy socks would do just fine. (Acrylic, wool, nylon - lots of great color choices - and lots of lengths in the ladies, men's and children's departments.) Took some serious thinking to keep them from raveling when I cut the feet of the socks off but doable. Polly

"Joanna" Sorry it's the cuffs. They can get their arms into the arm holes, just

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In that case...

Yeah, you can buy cuff stuff, or even premade cuffs to sew on.

You can use cuffs off other things. I always have an abundance of the cuffs from the bottom of leggings because I have to whack them off and hem the leggings. One of the perils of being short. However for coat cuffs I would buy new, or if I had to whack cuffs off something else to use I would study on mittens and gloves.

Make sure you need to replace the cuffs. Is it that the cuffs themselves are too narrow, or is it that the seam that attaches them to the sleeve is too tight?

NightMist rel>Can't return them. The store burned down. And they are a very popular

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An excellent question, NM. It just could be that the seam that attaches the cuffs is stitched so tightly that there isn't any stretch. Joanna might be able to redo that seam. Wouldn't that be lovely? Polly

"NightMist" In that case...

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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:54:41 -0500, Polly Esther wrote (in article ):

I bought a coat once that had the lining of the sleeve twisted completely around and that sealed the sleeve. I cut the threads at the shoulder/sleeve lining seam, untwisted the sleeve lining and resewed the sleeve lining to the shoulder lining.

This is hard to explain and improbable that it happened to three coats but who knows?

Good luck with those coats.

Lee

rarebirdyatverizondotnet

Park Ridge, NJ

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Lee, I tried on a jacket at a store a couple years ago with the same problem you describe below! Decided I didn't need the jacket since I couldn't even get it on to see how it fit.

Donna in SW Idaho

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