A false cuff can look good on short sleeves of a shirt or a false cuff on the bottom of your trousers.

I put a 3 cm (1 ¼ in) hem allowance on my false cuffs.  On top of this I need another 1 cm (½ in).  So lets say you are converting a long sleeve shirt into shirt sleeves.  Mark up the amount you are taking the sleeves up, lets say 30 cm (12 in) then come down 5 cm (1 ¾) and mark at this point.  Mark three places in this way on the front and three places on the back.  Cut on the bottom line.  Turn the sleeve inside out and iron up the 5 cm (1 ¾ in). Check to see if the sleeve will sit into the new hem allowance.  It more than likely will not, because of the tapering of the sleeve.  Open out the seam, and if it’s a French seam, undo the hem allowance ONLY and refold it opening out the seam.  Stitch down the opened section doing a top stitch.  You should have the first section ironed up at the new fold line.  Turn this hem allowance over again, and iron up another hem allowance.  MAKE SURE THAT THE RAW EDGE (CUT EDGE) IS UP AGAINST THE NEW FOLD LINE.  Stitch around this fold line about 1/2 cm ( ¼ in) in from the fold.  You must ensure that you have caught all of the raw edge of the fabric within the 1/2 cm ( ¼ in) fold.

Voila…….. false cuff

Happy sewing

Judith aka genie