Reply To: pivot and slide question

[the_professors_assistantKeymaster]

Sorry for the delay in response. I’ve been giving your situation some thought and I understand what you’re trying to do. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with not doing the maximum 2″ increase in the sleeve before doing a slide extension instead of just pivoting the whole 2″. I think some just find it easier to do it in one step instead of 2 but I can’t think of any logical reason for you to not go ahead and pivot 1/2″ and then slide 1/2″. The only issue is that your armhole may still be too big for your sleeve. To each side, you’re still increasing the armhole by 3″ so there may still be a 1″ difference that you may have to tweak. So in the end, you may have to increase your sleeve width by a little more just to fit in the armhole. Let me know how your dress turns out! 🙂