Lengthen sleeves diy

It has happened to everyone. You have a favorite shirt or dress and inexplicably after a few washes the sleeves on the shirt no longer fit. Either they shrink and fit too tightly around your arm or just do not lay quite right anymore. Save your fave shirt by learning How to Lengthen Sleeves with this great little tutorial. You will be altering a shirt to fit in no time and maybe even making that shirt even more stylish than before!

It's great to learn simple ways to alter clothes to get a beautiful fit. A custom fit is the best way to make your clothing look well-made and expensive.

Step-by-step tutorial, with pictures, on how to lengthen too-short sleeves.

Annie, at 13, is at that in between age. She is in between the girl sizes and the junior sizes. Sometimes she prefers the styles found in the “Girls” section, but with her height, siz…

This idea has been floating around in my head for a while, as I mentioned in my post before, I seem to have longer than average arms and have a hard time finding long sleeve shirts in the correct length. I fear that I may have passed this along to my daughter. She's kind of thin and her little wrists (and tummy) tend to stick out of her sleeves WAY before the shirt is too tight. I just had to buy her all new socks because her feet are growing and I've procrastinated far too long. Now I have…

Our second Tuesday's tute is about how to make a short sleeve tee into a long sleeve tee. It's quite easy and a great way to make a well love short sleeve short go into the next season. Or a great way to make a thrift find useful in the winter, as in our case. Our handsome dude was in need of long sleeve shirts, so off to the thrift store we went. No good options in his size until we came to the tee shirts. He loved this one. At .99, I did too. The only problem...it was short sleeved. He…

Annie, at 13, is at that in between age. She is in between the girl sizes and the junior sizes. Sometimes she prefers the styles found in the “Girls” section, but with her height, siz…

If you’re new to sewing, it can be daunting to know how to shorten sleeves with a ribbed cuff, like on a sweatshirt. Here’s a quick and easy hack that doesn’t involve removing the cuff and re-attaching it.