Design 17 Seesaw jersey top

[amberr]

I love this shirt - I am trying to sew it for my daughter...but I am stuck on the sleeve construction and although many of you mentioned also having trouble, no one explained how they did it. Would anyone have a minute to do so?

I don't understand why there are three sleeve ruffles in the pattern when the finished shirt has only two ruffles?

Before I can even CUT my fabric (i wanted to different fabrics for the ruffles) I need to know how they go together. Do the inner and outer frills get sewn together? but why? that would just cause a seam down the middle? That is all I can figure out though. I hate it when Ottobre makes what appears to be a simple shirt sound so confusing!!

Any help would be VERY much appreciated!!
Thank You!
Amber

[nickb]

Hi amber

you have a top frill, piece 5 and a bottom frill piece 4, piece 3 is the actual sleeve, so the bottom frill gets sewn on to the lower edge of piece 3 and the top frill is laid on the top of piece 3 (so when you sew the binding on you are sewing through the piece 3 and the top frill)

If i get a minute I'll try to take a photo of one that I've done
You are right, I struggled with the directions for a biut too-one of those that would have worked better with diagrams!

[amberr]

Thank you! I actually figured it out in a huge AHA!!!! Moment somewhere around the 10th read-through. dur! Have the sleeves all sew up and on and am now trying to decide how to do the neckline binding (color...) and should be finished up soon. yay! took way too long though, considering how simple this shirt is! I might make a tangerine next time instead. raglan style, short sleeves and much quicker. :P

Amber