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Subject: Help with lace dress Sleeves

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Jenn

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Date Posted: 18:46:13 05/06/10 Thu
Author Host/IP: ool-4352e5c8.dyn.optonline.net/67.82.229.200

I had a glitz dress made for my daughter that I now would like to add elbow length lace sleeves on to. Can someone give me a hint on how to do this, how they are attached to the dress so they can be removable or point me in the right direction?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

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[> Subject: here is how you do it : )

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valerie
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Date Posted: 05:24:05 05/07/10 Fri
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put the dress on her and measure from her elbow up to where the shoulder strap for the dress is. decide how large you want the ruffle to be....for example if her arm length for the sleeve is 7 inches, then you could do a 4 inch sleeve with a 3 inch ruffle. then measure her bicep to see how wide you need the sleeve to be. take the lace and cut a rectangle for the sleeve portion, the length plus 2 inches (for seams) and the width of her arm plus an inch (for seams), and cut a long strip of material the length of the ruffle plus an inch (for seams). gather the ruffle and attach it to the rectangle that you are going to use for the sleeve, then turn the sleeve inside out and stitch it closed. flip it back to the right side and attach snaps to the outside of the sleeve at the top and then sew in snaps to the inside of the shoulder strap. hope this helps!

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Author: Jenn C. [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:58:57 05/08/10 Sat Author Host/IP: ool-4352e5c8.dyn.optonline.net/67.82.229.200 Yes, thank you, I'll try it! Doesn't sound too hard. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]