I started assembling the panes for the mockup of the sleeves. Turned out that I had some purple and green fleece in the basement from a past project for my kids. I wasn’t sure how I would manage the assembly. At first I ran a hand stitched seam holding the panes together at the gather point. I found that to be much too tedious. For the remaining seams I chose to use some painters tape to hold the pieces together. I laid all the pieces out on the floor and then placed a strip of masking tape along the seam line. I rather like that approach. It held well enough while I used a sewing machine to run the stitch and hold the panes together.
The blue masking tape was easily removed without damage to the material as well. I will test this on the wool before I do the final version, but I don’t see any reason why it would work differently for the wool. I’m still considering hand sewing this doublet. Until I decide for sure I think I’ll keep this tape approach in my back pocket.
You can see the stitched panes with and without the foundation layer of the sleeve lying upon it.
