Apart from making a mock up of the trousers which seem to go together very well and very quickly. I've been spending my time making up examples of different ways to making arm cuffs and top sleeve ruffles. There's definitely 100 ways to skin a cat and probably 100 times more on different ways to make up a ruffle depending on how you want it to look and lie. We found the gathering making the top layer lie too flat but makes it stick out right. However if you cut the net to the same shape as the ruffle it lies in lovely waves. (See in the second picture. This experiment has thought me a lot about how making different circles in different ways can change the lie of the ruffle. The third pictures circle was made up of a section of a whole circle so that most of its outer mass is converted into making the waves and not covering the sleeve area. if you just add fullness to a cuff sleeve you get the fourth pictures result. It adds fullness and width but it doesn't lie in waves like picture 3. The first picture shows my first try which is just an extended cap with a net ruffle underneath.
This shows the progression in the sleeve from my first one on the left to my latest one of the right. This has really helped my realise the importance of just trying things out before committing to a way of doing something because it can turn out better than you think its going to. I also spoke to Robin who said the sleeve cuff is actually scalloped.
Nice tip for fittings is to make up one side as it should
look and use the other to make up the length or alterations you need during the
fitting. This allow changes to be made without completely taking the garment
to bits.
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