Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Part of the “How to Sew a Shirt” series. In this tutorial, I show you how to sew a shirt sleeve placket step by step, slowly and in detail. Once you understand the technique, it’s much easier than it looks—so give it a try.


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VIDEO CHAPTERS:

00:00 Cutting the sleeve out
00:51 The shirt placket sewing pattern explained
01:17 Cutting a placket on the bias
02:20 Iron on interfacing for the placket
02:49 Ironing the edges of the placket over
04:10 Ironing the edges of the bias strip over
04:41 Pinning the bias strip to the slit side which is the shorter side of the sleeve hem
05:07 Topstitching the bias strip
05:22 Pinning the placket to the wider side of the sleeve hem
06:00 Topstitching the placket


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Sewing 101:
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How to Sew Pockets:
frocksandfrolics.com/pages/pockets

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

How to Install a Zipper:
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Presser Feet Introduction:
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