Jacket & Coat Alteration: Plain Sleeve Shortening Online Video Lesson

Learn how to shorten sleeves on jackets and coats.

Learn how to do a first fitting, mark the new hemline, separating the lining from the shell at the sleeve hem, why we use interfacing at the sleeve hem for jackets and coats, removing the interfacing from the sleeves, basting the new sleeve hemline for second fitting, do a second fitting, adjusting the sleeve hem allowances at the seam lines and sewing the hem allowance seam lines by machine.

You will also learn how to sew the original interfacing to the sleeve hem, cutting new interfacing for the sleeve hem, sewing the new interfacing to the sleeve hem, basting the hem, joining the lining to the sleeve hem, and sewing the lining to the shell by machine from the inside of the Jacket.