DRAFTING THE PERFECT RAGLAN SLEEVE

A step-by-step guide to turning your own sleeve and bodice patterns into a raglan sleeve. Six figures take you from the first guide lines on the sleeve to the finished raglan line, with a diagram at each stage.

• Your sleeve pattern, with its centre line and the back and front notches on the cap
• Your front and back bodice patterns
• Paper for tracing
• A ruler and a French curve or Vary Form curve

Part 1 marks two guide lines on the sleeve and carries the back and front lengths over to the bodice. Part 2 draws the new raglan line on the bodice, moves it onto the sleeve and adds the curve where the neck sits.

• Drafting the Perfect Raglan Sleeve, a 3-page PDF
• Part 1, sleeve and bodice: figures 1 to 3
• Part 2, the raglan line: figures 4 to 6
• A reference page explaining every point and measurement

Measurements are in inches. The diagrams are not to scale.