Monday Morning Inspiration

I had the most interesting evening last night. My husband and I were attending the theater. Just as the production broke for intermission, the theater manager came on stage and said that the tornado sirens were sounding and we needed to evacuate to the basement. I was especially impressed by how well the situation was handled, but sitting in the theater basement was a very surreal experience. We were there for 45 minutes. The tornadoes rolled past without ever touching down, so all is well that ends well. The room where we were was where they built the stage sets. It was a lot of fun to see the miniature sets lining the walls. Always a silver lining ;)
Now on to a little inspiration to start off the week.
It's no secret that I love an interesting sleeve, and to be honest, the quirkier the sleeve, the more I like it. Not that I would necessarily wear it, but I love to look! The sleeves that I've found aren't all that quirky, a little, but still quite interesting.
I love how the back detail of this jacket flows into the shoulders and forms a sleeve. Great design!

The sleeve on this jacket, and actually, the entire collection is very reminiscent of armor. If you would like to take a look at the collection, you can see it HERE. There's a hood that's an especially interesting design. I don't care for the name of the company, but the designs are interesting.

I love the drape over the sleeve. We'll visit this again.

Now this is a lot of bows! What I found interesting is how it was done. Each is a separate strip tied into a bow.They are then held together with the cord that runs through the knots.

I saw this sleeve and I had to see more.

Here it is with the jacket. That's a lot of sleeve! A toned down version, very toned down, might be fun though.

This is such a beautiful sleeve, graceful and fluid. Take note that the drape is actually brought around and then hand stitched to the main body of the sleeve.

This sleeve is really quite simple, but I like how the hem is edged so that it blends with the pocket detail. I also like the simple detail of the elastic which gives the sleeve a bell shape.

The blouse is a raglan sleeve design, but the back forms a cape that is then brought around and buttoned to the front raglan seam.

I thought that this sleeve was very interesting, not very practical, but interesting nonetheless.

Now, this is practical and interesting. I love how the collar flows into the sleeve. Beautiful.

Fortuny, the master of the pleated design. Just simple little pleats on the underneath section of the sleeve and held together with buttons and loops.

Here's the gown, simple yet so beautiful.

From the book, Pattern Magic. This sleeve is similar to the sleeve I did HERE for Sleeves On Saturdays.

I found this rather interesting. I think I would tweak the design just a bit, but I do like how the side panel is pulled into the elastic gathers around the arm.

That concludes our little trip down Quirky street!
Have a lovely week!!
Rhonda