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Ping Teri: Sleeve head adjustment

I tried a slightly modified version of the way you described a few weeks back: rather than a single slit, I made two: the sleeve head was very narrow already, and a single slit down the middle would have resulted in a pointy church window effect! So I slit in at an angle from the 'corners' of the sleeve head - more or less where the two dots for ease stitching are - and took half the reduction from each. This worked perfectly! Just enough ease (1") to get the sleeve into the armscye without any ease stitching or puckers! Yay!

This should make tailoring this bit of silk dupion a great deal easier than the last lot! :) And, like you, I shall measure all sleeve head and armscye seams on set-in sleeves to check for that 1"-1.5" ease allowance.

THANK YOU! :) :) :)

Reply to
Kate Dicey
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Dear Kate,

I'm glad it worked for you. Nothing worse than an ill-fitting sleeve.

Best regards, Teri

Reply to
gjones2938

It has worked so beautifully that I have passed the tip on on another forum - fully credited, of course. I'm also hunting up any more tips from Kenneth King that have escaped onto the web!

Reply to
Kate Dicey

Just looked at his web site.

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WOW!!!

Bookmarked for inspiration!

Reply to
Kate Dicey

Dear Kate,

There was a very short-lived (I don't know why) PBS series with Kenneth King and Vogue Patterns. It was so good that I ordered the videos. I can't get at them right now, but you might contact him on his website and see if they're still available. It's been a number of years. He is a master at the types of commissions that you take, and I think the tapes would be well worth your consideration. In fact, I'll see if I can find the ones that I have, and I'll send them to you. If you want them, please e-mail me privately, and give me an address where I can ship them.

Teri

Reply to
gjones2938

Answered off list! :)

Reply to
Kate Dicey

But for everyone else, please note that U.S. tapes will not play on Brit VCRs. When dd's dh was transferred to the U.K, they took along an American tv/vcr just so the kids could still watch their favorite tapes. For watching tv, they had to buy new sets, and new vcr on which to play Brit tapes.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwyn Mary

We have two VCR's. I know we've played USA tapes in one of them, but cannot remember which! The older one is 20+ years old...

Reply to
Kate Dicey

The newer one, the Aiwa FX8200, will play back NTSC tapes (US standard) on a PAL (UK standard) TV. Most modern VCR's will do that.

Reply to
Alan Dicey

Aha! Not over here, they won't. But then, this country is EXTREMELY insular in that kind of thing (just as Britain used to be when I was a little girl). I know dd had to buy a bunch of stuff on base right after they got there, including lots of "dual" this'n'that. Of course, it wasn't quite so hard for her, because on every base there is constant buying and selling of household stuff as people are transferred in and out. She sold a lot of her appliances over here to people just arriving back stateside, which gave her funds to buy local stuff from others moving out when she got there.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Olwyn Mary

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