raglan sleeve construction sequence

  1. Reading through the instructions on some patterns, I note that one (a Burda guide in a magazine) has one sew the sleeve front to the coat front, the sleeve backs to the coat backs, then the sleeve top seam, and the underarm seam last.

A Burda "regular" (in an envelope, but multi-size) has one stitch the underarm seam first, the sleeve-to-garment seam next, and the top sleeve seam last.

Any comments?

I suppose when I find a kiddie coat with raglan sleeve patterns, I could try out various sequences. But I haven't found one yet.

I cannot imagine topstitching the sleeve top seam in the second sequence. It is topstitched on a coat I own, and it's mentioned in the pattern instructions.

  1. The Burda magazine says that a "quilting attachment" will produce better topstitching lines. The one show is a sort of angled rod running through a foot. Any experience with these?
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cycjec
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I sew the front to the back at the shoulders, then attach the sleeves, leaving for last the one long seam from the hem up through the underarm and out to the end of the sleeve. Any stitching that needs to be done is easier to do with most of the garment "flat" as it is before that seam.

The quilting attachment is a guide you can set for any distance from the first line of stitching. It is handy for parallel lines, which is what double-topstitching would be.

Neither the instructions you quote would be the way I would put the garment together. Unless there is some special reason for that.

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Pogonip

Right! (Of course in some patterns there aren't any shoulder seams, the sleeve seams go right up to the neckline.

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cycjec

That's how I've always done them. I can't see the use of reversing that and doing the top seam last. I will read through pattern directions. But then if what they say to do doesn't make a lot of sense to me, I just fall back on construction methods I know will work. Sometimes I think the commercial pattern directions are written so that you have to go the longest, most difficult route to make the project. I ignore them a lot of the time. ;)

Sharon

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