sarah in nyc

Cathie is a longtime friend from my long-time sewing list. Yesterday, she asked about how to construct a shrug. So this post is the answer to her question. 1. Super Easy Tube  Shrug Fold a 45 inch wide fabric in 1/2.  The finished height should be wider than your upper arm. So let's pretend that you start with a rectangle that is  45 inches x 14 inches and you folded it in half  Stitch  the open end from the selvedge most of the way to the center of the fabric. Do the same from the other selvedge. Turn the fabric right side out. Then slip your arms into the shrug from the center unstitched section. The unstitched section will comfortably slip up around the back of your neck and down to about bra-strap height on your back.  If the shrug falls off your shoulders stitch a few more inches into the center of the fabric. If it is uncomfortably small unpick a few inches on each side.  Once you like the fit you can hem that open center section. If you wish you...

I was asked to write up a tutorial for a shrug. It took much longer to write this than to make the shrug. The hardest part of  doing this was taking the terrible pictures of me in the shrug.  I found the directions for this shrug a few years ago in  this book  . 1 – Fold a piece of fabric in 1/4. This lace  reached from wrist to wrist ( about 50 inches and was about 40 inches long. 2- Cut an easy curve from  the fold to the wrist…if you are making your shrug out of a non stretchy woven make it much larger than you think you need it to be. A stretch fabric does not need to be cut so generously. 3-  I have opened the shrug. sew where the pink lines are. If you think it looks like a dolman sleeved shirt with no head opening you are right. After you sew up the seams you can try on your nearly completed shrug. open the bottom edge and put one arm into each sleeve..the top raw edge becomes the neckline and the bottom becomes the bottom hem. I kno...