Absolutely a genius idea from a genius sewer! Louise Cutting has the most fabulous, useful and brilliant sewing techniques.

I must try this sometime, and of course this opens up all kinds of possibilities!!

Very neat idea! Does the piece of fabric remain in or removed just before setting in the sleeve? Wouldn't adding an extra piece of fabric create a bulky seam?

This is not how I like to set in sleeves and in my opinion as bad method!! It's too tedious. Also, there is way too much ease in that sleeve cap. I prefer using hand basting just inside the seamline, smoothing the gathers evenly as I go. If look closely towards the end of the video, there is puckering along the seam, it's not nice and smooth. Just my two cents.

I would love to be "irradiated" ahem, scanned for measurements, but don't know of a company who will do this for me without buying the patterns. I use computer drafting software and so just need the set of measurements. Anyone know?

Great tutorial! I have always been lucky and have never had problems sewing princess seams, but then again I mostly sew wool fabrics, and wool is so forgiving, it can be shaped without all the clipping, of course if the curves are very deep (as in the examples above), the clipping and notching works wonders. I also never sew such seams with just pins, I also ways baste; much more control this way and no worry of about pins getting in the way. Just my two cents :).

I have been using pattern software for a long time now. I have Pattern Master Boutique, and CADTERNS. PMB boutique is very well supported and the help you get from the company is some of the BEST around! I love the Pattern Editor, it is fantastic. But sadly, I am not too pleased with the Boutique section, I have never got a good fit from it. I have even had a Boutique rep take my measurements, and they were all off, she had my shoulder seam at 6", which is not what my shoulder seam is!! However, I know lots of people who have made wonderful, well fitting garments with this program.

CADTERNS is a sloper generating program, and that is all it does, generates pattern slopers which then have to be manipulated into your desired pattern, so the person has to be have some pattern drafting experience and a CAD software to do the drafting. It's based on 4 measurements (height, bust, waist and hip), and can be refined further by 7 or 8 measurements. This software has been bang on for my body type with just the 4 measurements, and I get a great fit! I have used it for others as well, and it has worked really well.

Just my thoughts on this subject.