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Shirt Self-Education: Cuffs
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Are you ready for it? (Say 'Yes!')
YES!
After I took the collar apart on Mr H's old shirt, I decided to check his cuff and sleeve placket to see if it was the same as the one that KF took apart in her treatise on the subject (pt1 pt2 pt3 pt4 pt5 pt6 pt7 pt8 and there is now a pt 9, which I don't have a link for.) The cuff was exactly the same as Kathleen's, so I proceeded to the placket.
To my surprise, the sample sleeve placket was completely unlike KF's or the one on my Kwik Sew 2777 pattern, or the DPC placket I had been using up to now. I admit that the fact of the underlap being exactly the same width as the overlap should have given me a hint that it might be different.
The overlap side appears to be your common "house-top" placket that you see on RTW shirts. I usually make these by cutting a shaped, one-piece placket then folding, stitching, clipping, turning, pressing, stitching, folding, pressing, and stitching.
Ughh.
When I unfolded the "house-top" on this placket, was I ever shocked:
The placket was one long strip. I'll let you puzzle over that until tomorrow, when I'll show you how I finally sewed it.