Skill Builder Exercises

Customizing Sleeve Lengths: A Guide to Modifying Any Pattern

Hi ,

The Goal of this Challenge

Long arms? Short Arms? Prefer short sleeves? 3/4 length sleeves?

You are the designer.

No matter what patterns you use, make the sleeves of your sweaters the length YOU want.

This challenge focuses primarily on planning. Follow the exercises to solidify your understanding, enabling you to confidently adjust sleeve lengths when designing your patterns

  • Shorten a sleeve

  • Magic formula

  • Add sleeves to a sleeveless design.

There is no reason to search for a short sleeve sweater or to avoid using sleeveless sweater pattern.
You can be the designer!