Cuffs have both men's shirts and female blouses. You can sew cuffs and to trousers, shorts, if you want to decorate the pants, or there was a need to lengthen them, which often happens when clothes sits down after washing. The cuff is a detail that everyone pay attention to sew it right, you should do everything according to the instructions.
How to sew cuffs to the sleeve
To connect the cuff with a sleeve, you need to perform the following steps:
- On a sleeve that will end with a cuff, you need to make a cut from below in order to subsequently looked freely. If the cut was not made, leave a few centimeters at the bottom of the sleeves, and in the future you suffer this free distance of the secret seam.
- Then the sleeve is cut to the assembly. For this, two threads launch the seams in the width of the sleeve: the first thread must retreat from the edge of the floor centimeter, and the second one is one centimeter. Shump padded threads. It is important that the sleeve width from the bottom was equal to the width of the cuff.
- Attach the finished cuff to the sleeve and stick to the pins. Then carefully enter it with the corresponding seam, and then set, retreating 3 millimeters from the edge. If you sew the cuffs to the men's shirt, you can pre-strengthen the special thermotalkan for collar.
- Cuffs fold twice in width and push. After that, remove the cuff and process from the wrong side. Find the cuff iron. Ready!
How to sew cuffs to trousers
At the very beginning you need to decide on its size. If there is a need to increase the length of the product, the pattern is doubled longer, because in the final result the cuff will be double. In order to lengthen the product, you can use the tissue of the same color for cuffs or on the contradiction. Pants can be decorated with knitted or fur cuff. It all depends on your imagination and the desired result.
So, sew a cuff:
- Attach the cuff to the trousers so that they come into contact with the front side and pinch the pins. The lower edges of the trousers and the cuff must be connected.
- Seam cuffs attach to the pantic sputure and launch the line.
- Now remove the cuffs inside out and well join the iron.
- The top and bottom edge of the cuff is shot and unscrew the cuff on the front side.
How to make a false cuff
On shorts, trousers or on a short sleeve shirt, you can make a beautiful false cuff. It is not cut out separately, it is enough to add five to six centimeters to the desired length of the sleeve, to the length of the pants - at least ten centimeters. The false cuff sew is very simple:
- At the bottom of the sleeves or the trousers, make a dissection at a distance of two centimeters.
- Explore the fabric of the sleeves or pants twice on the wrong side. If the cuff is done on shorts or trousers? The width of the cuff must be at least five centimeters, if there will be enough two or three centimeters on the shirt.
- Stretch the cuff so that the line sticks out and closed the unprocessed slice on the sleeve or a pant.
- Then remove the cuff on the front side and endure the iron.
Now you know how to decorate the blouse, shirt or pants cuffs. If you do everything correctly, the final result will be the original beautiful product.