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I was asked the other day about how to make Morticia Addams’s sleeve cuffs, and the shapes around the bottom of her dress. Well, I’ve never done it, but here’s what I came up with As always, right click to see the full-view.

For the cuffs, measure around your wrist and draw that line out on a piece of paper. Then kinda go wild drawing tendrils hanging off that. Make sure they’re very different lengths, shapes and sizes. You can use that as a general idea for a pattern. After you cut it out of fabric, turn the dress inside out and sew the wrist-sized piece around the edge of the sleeve. You can sew it with the tendrils facing the opening or the sleeve, each one would have a slightly different look when you turn it right-side out. If you sew it with the tendrils toward the sleeve, you might have to iron it a little bit to keep the fabric from poofing around the cuff

As for the bottom of the dress, it looks almost like individual pieces that have been stuffed So you could do it that way, or you could take a similar route as mentioned up above, but using the measure of the bottom of the dress instead of your wrist.

If you try this method, please let me know how it works! I’d love to get feedback on my sewing theories

Happy Stitching!

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