the Hanging Sleeves

It took me a little while to figure out how to make lined hanging sleeves with the lace edges still showing at the front.
I didn't have much of the sequinned pink lace left, and had to figure out how to make two hanging sleeves out of it in order to make the over sleeves as long as possible. I tried stitching the two smaller pieces together, but decided it wasn't going to work.

I ended up cutting some off of the larger piece of lace and stitching it to the wider section of scrap, to make a pair...

I wanted the scalloped edge on the outside of the sleeve front, so that required a different method than a usual lined sleeve. I cut the sleeve lining from the same flimsy fabric as the underskirt. I cut it considerably bigger, then overlapped the lace edge onto the straight grain edge of the lining and stitched it down...

Then I folded the sleeve right sides together along the stitch line, and pinned it. Now you can see why I cut the lining so much bigger. With the fabric being so flimsy it would have been impossible to line up the edges if I'd cut it the same size as the lace sleeve. Then I stitched along the bottom and up the back edges of the sleeve, trimmed the excess fabric, zig-zagged the edges, and turned the sleeve right side out. Repeat for second one.

 For the mauve gown I'd cut the ends off of the triangular scarf, and positioned the dangly lace along the side that had straight of grain, and attached the lace on an angle tapering down towards the bottom point....

Then I used the same technique as for the pink lace over-sleeves, and after turning them right side out, I top-stitched the edges.

And because I never consider anything complete without some beading, I beaded the front edges to add a bit of sparkle...