Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This is an excerpt of my most popular video ever, so you can quickly hop to it when you are making a shirt. It shows how to add the placket and sleeve cuff and how to fit a set in sleeve perfectly.


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Frocks & Frolics:
frocksandfrolics.com/products/cool-shirt


VIDEO CHAPTERS:

00:00 Pressing the placket edges
01:52 Pinning the plackets to the sleeve slit
03:20 Topstitching the placket
05:19 Sewing gathering stitches into the sleeve cap
05:52 Inserting the sleeves
07:30 Sewing the sleeves in
08:40 Neatening the edges
08:54 Pressing the seam allowances toward the shoulder
09:02 Edge‑stitching the seam
10:10 Closing the side seams
11:04 Forming the pleats
11:58 Pinning the outer cuff to the sleeve
12:44 Sewing the cuff to the sleeve
13:15 Pinning and sewing the inner cuff to the outer cuff
13:44 Trimming back the seam allowances
14:16 Turning, pressing, and pinning the inner cuff
14:46 Topstitching the cuff


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ABOUT MARINA:

Marina Brumpton is a trained dressmaker and textile teacher. Since 2012, she has inspired her community with lovingly designed PDF sewing patterns and shows, step by step, how beautiful, perfectly fitting garments come to life.

Today, frocksandfrolics.com is your creative home for professional sewing patterns, inspiring tutorials, and plenty of sewing joy.


MORE FROM MARINA'S PATTERNS:

Patterns for Babies:
frocksandfrolics.com/collections/sewing-pattern-baby

Patterns for Girls:
frocksandfrolics.com/collections/sewing-patterns-girls

Patterns for Boys:
frocksandfrolics.com/collections/sewing-pattern-boys

Patterns for Dolls:
frocksandfrolics.com/collections/sewing-pattern-dolls

Patterns for Teens:
frocksandfrolics.com/collections/sewing-pattern-teen


VIDEO LIBRARY - ACADEMY:

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JUST A FEW EXAMPLES:

Sewing 101:
frocksandfrolics.com/pages/youtube-videos

How to Sew Pockets:
frocksandfrolics.com/pages/pockets

Bias Binding Techniques:
frocksandfrolics.com/pages/binding-piping

How to Install a Zipper:
frocksandfrolics.com/pages/zips

Presser Feet Introduction:
frocksandfrolics.com/pages/sewing-machine-feet


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