Rosa Shirt Long Sleeve + Cuff

Nice to have an alternative to the sleeve that came with the Rosa pattern - saved me from having to work out how to put cuffs on by myself! My Rosa is definitely a 'cold weather' shirt so I wanted sleeves that would cover the full length of my arms and do up around the wrist. It all worked well. (photos on the Rosa page!)

I have made 3, hacked Lyra dress pattern as shirt/blouses. The first was made in linen, and I found the elasticated wrist didn't drape due to the nature of the fabric. I used a wider elastic, and found this gave a better finish, but am not a fan of the elastic cuff. I had a look at alternatives and came across the free Rosa cuff pattern. I printed it off and created a new sleeve for the Lyra by drawing the head of the Lyra sleeve onto the Rosa paper pattern and drew a straight line from the underarm to the cuff. This gave me enough ease for the tops of my arms. I much prefer the cuff finish to the elastic version. The pink shirt was my second attempt, with the overlapped cuff. I had some fabric left over from a Lyra dress experiment (inexpensive fabric as I never wear dresses, but wanted to see what it would look like on me and I quite like it) and used the extra for another Lyra shirt/blouse, with a Rosa sleeve, but without the overlap on the cuff. I much prefer this version. I love it when I can expand the scope of patterns to create new stuff. Think I am all 'Lyra'd out' for now, but have carefully labelled and stored my extra pattern pieces away.

A vey useful pattern hat an be applied to lits of pattens