adding lace and ruffles

Free Tutorial How To Add Ruffles To Sleeves

This is an easy and fun way to add length to outgrown sleeves or to add a special touch to an outfit and make it match.
I chose to make a matching tee to go with my STRAPPY DRESS
(pattern available here).

Here is my tee:

This is what I did:

I measured the sleeve width……..

….then cut a piece of fabric 3″ long (measured from top to bottom) and twice the width of my sleeve (front and back), serged the bottom edge and folded it 0.5″ up, press it and sewed it down:

I ruffled this strip with my machine…..

Folded it in half with right sides together, then pinned and sewed it along pink dashes:

This is now my sewn together sleeve ruffle with the edges serged/hemmed:

I trimmed off my sleeve’s bottom hem…..

I positioned the ruffle underneath the sleeve like this:

and pinned the ruffle to the sleeve with right sides together, then sewed it on:

This is now my sewn on ruffle with the edges serged/.hemmed:

The finishing touch is to tuck in all threads and top stitch to make it look nice and neat…..

…..like this:

Repeat with second ruffle and other sleeve.

Ta-Da! Done!

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Free Tutorial – Embellish A Tee With Lace & Ruffles

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I bought this tee a while ago but never wore it because it had a huge V-neck. I never thought of putting a tank underneath LOL

I took a piece of lace (it happened to be the same color!) and cut it off so it would reach a bit over each side:

…….I turned my tee inside out, pinned the lace and sewed it down with a straight stitch:

Then I trimmed off the access:

This was my tee from the inside:

………and this from the outside:

I took it a step further and cut some black cotton fabric on the bias (so it wouldn’t fray). I cut 2 strips about as long as my tee was wide:

…….ruffled it with my machine,

……made 2 ruffles, pinned them onto the tee ………

………and sew each one on separately:

Then I added a pretty button……….

Done!