These can be tricky to visualise! Here are simple, step-by-step instructions on how to sew up this vital starting point of mens shirts and women's shifts etc.
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| With right sides facing, and matching raw seam allowances of sleeve end and underarm, pin Gusset end of sleeve. |
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| Close-up |
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| Sew using a running stitch, and stop and secure your stitching before the lower seam allowance. |
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| Fold the gusset in half diagonally, wrong side together. |
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| Fold the sleeve in half, right sides together, over the diagonally folded gusset. |
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| Pin, marking where first seam ended at seam allowance. |
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| Unfold the diagonally folded Gusset, sew using a running stitch, stopping at the marked seam end point. |
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| The two Gusset seams. |
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| Pin the remainder of under arm seam on sleeve. |
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| Sew this using a running stitch. |
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| Sleeve opened out, inside out. |
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| Sleeve opened out, right side out. |
Following this, it's time to Flat Fell this seam to make it last and last and last and last...
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