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Show Convert Vest Into A Jacket lining and sleeve together all around armhole edge. Run a row of ease stitching around sleeve cap. Draw up ease stitching until sleeve is 1 inch larger than armhole of vest. Bind raw edges of sleeve with double fold bias tape. SLIP SLEEVE cap into armhole of vest, adjust and position, pin. Topstitch vest armhole to bias-bound edge of sleeve. This stitching does not have to be right at the edge of the vest armhole. Because you are stitching through a thick .vest and the sleeve, you will ' need to use a large needle and a long machine stitch. By BETTY W. KINSER We would be wealthy if we could just buy into the vest concession in the Midwest! Everywhere you look, there is a vest, down-filled, wool, p'aid. knitted, sherpa, all geared to one purpose, keeping keep-ing the body warm. BUT, NOT everyone is happy hap-py with no sleeves. Dear Betty: You have helped so many readers with their sewing problems (and are we ever grateful!). Maybe you can solve mine. IS THERE any way of converting con-verting a down vest into a jacket? jack-et? Our daughter made a down vest for her dad a year ago and he refuses to wear it. considering consider-ing it useless without sleeves. The sleeves would not have to be down-filled. I'd like to line the sleeves. Could you suggest how to cut and fit sleeves to the vest? Would it look too patched? Dorothea Thompson, Creighton, Neb. I DON'T think it will look "patched" at all, Dorothea. Contrasting sleeves in a jacket are very common. How successful putting sleeves into the vest will be depends de-pends on what we are working with. Are the shoulders of the vest narrow, wide dropped? Is the armhold tight-fitting, large, low? If the shoulders and armholes of the vest are Ihe right size, shape, and depth, you can easily slip in a sleeve. USING A jacket pattern the same size as the vest, cut out the sleeves and linings. Stitch underarm seams of both sleeves and lining, press open. Hem sleeves. Press under hem edge of linings. Slip lining into sleeve, wrong sides together. Blind-stitch pressed edge of lining to sleeve hem allowance, allo-wance, being sure you have left "slack" in the lining. Baste |