Question about puffed paned sleeves

[Rowan MacD]

  Now you've got me skittering around looking for more pics 


Long paned sleeves are very easy to make, and switching them between gowns changes up the look. You can take them off when it gets hot, leaving the cap sleeves in place.
  I used the MA pattern, which I had to shorten by about 5".
Note: If you shorten them,  you will need to redraft the tapered ends to be small enough to fit your wrists, it's not hard, and once you have your altered pattern you don't have to do it again.
   You can knock out a pair in one afternoon.   Most of the time is spent sewing the 'connector' buttons (I used beads).   
  Add faux poufs by sewing 2-3" wide,  long tubes of white linen, or whatever material your partlet/ chemise is made from.  Tack them on inside the shoulder cap binding then weave them down the sleeve between the buttons.

[gem]

You are SO NOT KIDDING about the length on the paned sleeves! And I have short arms to begin with. When I made mine, I used a size 8 or 10 for the circumference, and whatever the smallest size in the package is (2 or 0?) for the length... and they're STILL monstrously too big! They look like they've eaten my arms. 
...So last year I slipped some sleeve garters over them, PUFFED OUT the panes between them, and wore them German-style! LOL

[Rowan MacD]

  These are the paned sleeves-shortened by about 5".  I measured from the top of the shoulder to the wrist, to get the proper length. This pic shows the faux poufing.  This is also the bodice that will eventually have cap sleeves, which I will wear over these.

[gem]

Those look great! How did you do the faux chemise poufs? Narrow tube... then?

[Rowan MacD]

  Exactly. 
   I use pieces of linen about 1-1/2 the length of the finished sleeve-; about 5"-6" wide,  than sewn in half lengthwise to make a 2.5"-3" tube. 
  To prep the paned sleeve for the poufs:
   In addition to the connector buttons or beads that I use to connect the panes, I make another stitch 1/2 way between each of the buttons on the sleeve panels themselves to hold the pouf to the outside of the sleeve.
  I baste one end of the tube to the upper, inside of the sleeve even with the bias that edges the upper sleeve where the points go.
   I weave the tube over the stitches and under the buttons till I get to the end, cut off the excess  (if any)and baste the end to the inside of the wrist end.  Repeat.
   I have also made a special linen chemise with fitted sleeves specifically to wear under the pouf-ed sleeves, so there is less bulk.

   From what I have seen and been told-faux poufs were common in period, and I can see why.  Who wants to spend ages pulling linen through slashes, just to have the darn things randomly pull back into the inside of the sleeves/doublet, or whatever you have them on?

[Rowan MacD]

  New question:
   Can Elizabethan cap sleeves be made to tie or pin on?
   I would prefer not to partly disassemble my dress bodice to attach them.