Poufs for paned sleeves

[RowenD]

 I need some help brainstorming.  I have ideas for a number of different approaches for putting faux poufs in the slashes of my paned sleeves as an alternative to having to pull smock material out of every slash and then hoping it stays in place.

  I have a flowey, white semi opaque material, like a soft organza or silk to work with.  I even have some white, transparent organza, and white bias tape.

Ideas thus far-

~Make full, 'sleeve liners' out of the white material, then pull poufs through slashes and  tack in place somehow.  They would be attached to the sleeves more or less permanently.

~ Make thick strips of material, maybe a bit of fiberfill, then tack to inside of slashes in sleeves, pull poufs through, and tack in place somehow.

~ Attatch the poufs to the outside of the sleeve.  This approach is what is on the inner sleeves of my Tudor gown.  The poufs are just a long tube of material sewn down with buttons over the top of the dec fabric.

If you have pictures of any similar project, please share!




 

[isabelladangelo]

Make a tube out of the "pouf"  material.  Create sleeves a bit bigger than normal. Make eyelets down the sleeves.  With an awl or crochet hook, pull the pouffy material through the eyelets so that they go in and out.  Stitch down on the sides of the pouf material to keep them in place. 

[Margaret]

I don't have the gown any longer, so I cannot help with pictures.  However, what I did was this:

1. Construct the fashion fabric out of standard sleeve pattern into 4 seperate panes.

2.  Stitched them together, leaving gaps for the puffs to show through.

3.  Made individual squares of fabric, finished the edges and pulled it through the gap.

4.  Played around a bit to decide how "poofy" I wanted the fabric to be.

5.  Stitched the poof fabric to the fashion fabric.

6.  Lined the sleeve.

I used individual "poofs" due to the distance between my slashes.  I have also used the 'tube of fabric' method with great success.

Check out this link to Bess Chivler's gown at The Italian Showcase.  http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/yourgarb/2007/Bess.htm 
I wanna sew like her when I grow up!

[RowenD]

  I used the 'tube method'  kind of a hybrid between what I was thinking about and isabella's suggestion.  The sleeves were already made, so I didn't want to do another set to incorporate the poufs...I think it looks decent. 

~I sewed 6 ea-6"x36"strips of white shirting into tubes about 2.5" wide, turned them right side out, then folded one end 1/4" over and sewed it shut,  making sure the seam of the tube was on one side of the tube instead of the edge.
~I tacked the slashes on the paned sleeves together with a couple of stitches 1/2 way between the button/beads on the panes.
~working from the shoulder band, I sewed the top (sewn end) of the tube to the inside top of the sleeve, then wove the tube down the sleeve; under the buttons and over the tack stitches.  After adjusting the puofs for desired fullness, I cut the end of the fabric off about 1" longer than the end of the sleeve.
~I gathered the cut end into a point and tacked it down inside the cuff. 

The entire project took about 3 hours.

[mollymishap]

Oh, I think it looks better than decent, RowenD.  Well done!

[Kate XXXXXX]

We let the puffy shirt sleeve show through...