Arm sleeves are going green?! 4

Next thread your elastic thru the casing and sew elastic ends together. Place elastic back in the casing and sew up casing closed (the inch opening you left for the elastic). And there you have it. Your very own custom arm sleeves.

Arm sleeves are going green?! part 3

Make sure both sleeves are the same length.

Next, measure some 1/4 in wide elastic to fit around the upper part of your arm. This is where the top of the arm sleeve will be.

Next, with sleeve turned inside out fold down 1/2 inch from top edge once and press.

Next, fold down 1/2 inch again and press.

Next, sew down edge using a wide zig zag stitch,and leave a 1 inch opening so you can thread the elastic thru.   The zig zag stitch will give the fabric some stretch when you put on your arm sleeve and keep the threads from popping.

1 inch opening.

Zig zag stitch.

Arm sleeves are going green?! part 2

Next you measure how long you want your arm sleeve to be. As you can see you only have to hem the top part of the sleeve. You are going to use the original hem of the sleeve for the bottom.

Arm sleeves are going green?!

Here is an arm sleeves that I made, recycling and old shirt that belonged to my daughter.  Here is a fun and unique way to reuse an old shirt. This shirt I used was made of a very thin knit fabric. Also because it was my daughters old shirt the sleeves made excellent undersleeves for an adult because the fit so snug.  First you find a shirt that you no longer want or need. Here is the shirt I used above.

Next I removed the ribbon trim from around the waist.

Here I cut of the arms of the shirt.