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Okay, so now I'm ready to show you how to mark the inside of the sleeve, and this mark
is going to show you where you want the edge of this, the lining where we ironed it to
meet. So, this is what we're going to do is find out exactly where we want this to meet,
and hand tack it. Okay, so this, right here where these threads are hanging out, you can
see a few holes also, this is where it was sewn to this. It was where this met this.
But, I'm going to measure up exactly three-quarters of an inch, all the way around, from those
perforated holes. Here we go, and we don't want to measure from the end where we re-pressed
our new length. We just want to do it right from those perforated holes, and I'll explain
this to you in just a minute. We'll work around that. See, there's a hole, some of the holes
are a little bit hard to see, especially working on this black, like this tuxedo jacket is.
Okay, I think I pretty much have all that. Okay, let me flip it back over, and this is
the area where the placket is. If you'll look, see where this is, my chalk mark is going
to barely hit it right there. So, if I tack it right there, I'm going to have a little
hole showing. But, if you'll remember in the previous clip, when I showed you to mark three-quarters
of an inch away from the original perforated edge and not where it was actually folder
over, that's because we gave ourselves a little extra room. And, when I tack it on here, I
know there's going to be an extra piece of fabric that's going to fold over, and that's
where we're going to be - where it's going to be - pressed. So, knowing that I have that
little bit of extra, I can just jump over and cover that. That's maybe a quarter, less
than a quarter of an inch. So, I know that I can cover that, and I'm going to have plenty
of room. But, before I even hand sew, I want to pin it in the next clip, and we're going
to go work up from the shoulder, and pull it down just to make sure that this lining
isn't going to be too short. But, anyways, what I did in preparation for it, that's how
I did it. I measured from perforated holes in the lining, and the perforated holes on
the jacket, and then we'll worry about the press that lays over later on. So, in the
next clip, I'm going to show you how to pin, and make sure that the lining fits correctly.