Making a Custom Sleeve | Size 6 (Part 1 - Draft)

This video covers the basics on making your own custom sleeve, using techniques from the fashion industry. After going through Parts 1, 2 & 3 to learn this basic sleeve, you will be able to make all kinds of your own custom sleeve designs.

If you want to learn how to draft sleeve variations, I highly recommend "Patternmaking Made Easy" by Connie Amaden-Crawford. There's more information about drafting all types of sleeves & styling. You will love that this book is made with the hard-cover spiral-bound spine, so it's easy to lay flat on a table! It contains everything you can imagine for making custom apparel with the fashion industry methods and techniques. Enjoy.

[NadoCrowFriend]

I hope you’ll continue making your exceptional YouTube videos ~ I have been impressed with every one of your thorough, concise, precise and educational drafting videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[clairewang]

I watched so many patten cutting videos, yours are the best! thank you!

[etiennereimund]

Hi professor james, Thank you for all your amazing content, i've been able to greatly improve - thanks to you. I still nevertheless encounter issues with the cap of my sleeves with personal mesurent. My issue here is that i have mesured a cap height of about 10'' (tall men) on my slopper so i use this mesure to draft the sleeve - but it ends up to induce a long "cap distance" iwhen walking my pattern on the slopper so cannot slash and spread to fix it. what should i do? if i reduce the cap height my sleeve will not fall well along the body ? Can i reduce the bicep mesurment ? how much ease would you recomand ? Have a nice day. Best Regards.

[glitzyeyezz]

Hi, a very clear and precise video ❤️ I have bigger bicep. So my underarm line is not smooth like yours, meaning, my bicep line goes up in an angle. So when I fold from the folded edge, the lines don’t match up. What should I do?

[cleanqueen]

When you took her measurements down on the paper at the beginning, you didn’t allow any ease especially at the bicep.