Tutorial 5 - Sew White Vintage Style Top - Part 2

Tutorial 5

White Vintage Style Top - Part 2

Vintage Style white top - Application of frill to puffed sleeve

Part 1 took us to this stage of the Vintage Style top and Part 2 will show us how to apply some georgeous scalloped frills onto the sleeves

1. With the remaining part of the scalloped hem that we cut off the UNI QLO top in Part one, lay out onto an ironing board, lining up the scallops.

Stretch the elastic of the sleeve to see how long the frill should be.

2. Then fold over and press with an iron. Cut off the excess and this gives you the full length of the frill making sure you cut two to this size.

3. Once you have decided how wide you want your frill to be lay the lace on and cut half an inch above for the seam allowannce. Then using a thin strip of Bond-a-Web along top of lace edge press into place. Then using a ZigZag stitch sew along the edge.

Put right sides together and stitch half an inch from the edge, then Zig Zag seam to finish off.

Zig Zag edges to finish off

You should end up with two pieces like this.

4. Put the tube of the frill over the arm of the machine right sides up then line up the seam with the seam on the puffed sleeve.

Once in place, using a Zig Zag stitch go backwards and forwards to hold in the place, then whilst holding the fabric behind the foot with your left hand, stretch the elastic with your right hand to fit the frill and carefully and slowly stitch together.

Really it isn't as difficult as it sounds and it's such a small circumferance that you have to sew, you can really handle it, just take it slowly and always be aware of how much of the frill is left to fit the elastic.

Look how these scalloped frills have transformed the sleeves.
We used a UNI QLO top for this project, but you could 'Upcycle' an old top.