1 00:00:03,139 --> 00:00:04,139 Hey! 2 00:00:04,139 --> 00:00:07,509 Welcome to Make Thrift Buy, the show where YOU send in clothes that you’ve seen online 3 00:00:07,509 --> 00:00:12,080 – clothes that are either expensive, mass-produced, or the brand just doesn’t make efforts to 4 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,660 pay their workers a living wage – and then I do my best to recreate them. 5 00:00:15,660 --> 00:00:19,710 So today I’m doing an item that’s been suggested by … oh… about a BILLION of 6 00:00:19,710 --> 00:00:20,710 you. 7 00:00:20,710 --> 00:00:25,019 Coming in at a cool $95 are these pair of mom jeans from Topshop, that feature little 8 00:00:25,019 --> 00:00:26,019 windows for your knees. 9 00:00:26,019 --> 00:00:31,199 Assumedly the windows are there so that your knees can gaze out upon the world, no longer 10 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:33,650 constricted by cruel, opaque fabrics. 11 00:00:33,650 --> 00:00:34,650 #freetheknee 12 00:00:34,650 --> 00:00:39,370 Anyway – the internet has been divided by these jeans and my social media has been flooded 13 00:00:39,370 --> 00:00:44,410 with requests asking me to try and recreate them, so I’m basically just doing them so 14 00:00:44,410 --> 00:00:49,379 I can go back on my twitter account without having to scroll through pages and pages of 15 00:00:49,379 --> 00:00:50,520 these damn jeans. 16 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,040 So let’s get started. 17 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:53,040 *** 18 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,640 So I took myself to the thrift store – I went to a warehouse sized-one that I know 19 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:01,090 has a lot of pairs of jeans – and the quest for a suitable pair of mom jeans commenced. 20 00:01:01,090 --> 00:01:06,190 After trying on like 30 different pairs of jeans – I finally found my perfect pair 21 00:01:06,190 --> 00:01:07,420 of mom jeans. 22 00:01:07,420 --> 00:01:10,920 They fit snugly on the waist but they are nice and loose on the legs. 23 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,869 The main thing you want to look for in any pair of jeans you’re using for this project, 24 00:01:14,869 --> 00:01:18,000 is that it should have lots of loose fabric around the knee. 25 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,960 This project won’t really work with tight-fitting jeans. 26 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:25,220 So while wearing the jeans, I grabbed some chalk and I roughly measured out where I wanted 27 00:01:25,220 --> 00:01:27,550 the top and the bottom of the cutouts to be. 28 00:01:27,550 --> 00:01:31,189 As you can see, I’m bending my leg a lot in this process, that’s because I wanted 29 00:01:31,189 --> 00:01:34,369 to make sure my knees would be around the middle of the cutout. 30 00:01:34,369 --> 00:01:37,829 If you measure only while your legs are straight you’ll probably make the cutouts a little 31 00:01:37,829 --> 00:01:39,090 bit too high. 32 00:01:39,090 --> 00:01:43,479 These jeans also had a really cute pocket on the side down here, but unfortunately it’s 33 00:01:43,479 --> 00:01:47,259 in the way of the cutouts, so I had to remove the top part of the pocket just to make life 34 00:01:47,259 --> 00:01:48,259 easier. 35 00:01:48,259 --> 00:01:51,930 Then, I laid the jeans out flat on my table, and I made the chalk lines thicker and I also 36 00:01:51,930 --> 00:01:56,770 made sure they were even on both legs and the same height as each other by using a ruler. 37 00:01:56,770 --> 00:02:00,970 I then made small chalk marks exactly in the centre of the pant legs, by measuring the 38 00:02:00,970 --> 00:02:05,850 width of the pant leg and dividing this by 2, and then I drew on rectangles that were 39 00:02:05,850 --> 00:02:07,930 4 and a half by 7 inches. 40 00:02:07,930 --> 00:02:12,090 Of course, the length of your rectangles might differ slightly depending on where you drew 41 00:02:12,090 --> 00:02:16,290 your first chalk marks but this is a good ball-park measurement of the size that your 42 00:02:16,290 --> 00:02:17,430 cutouts should be. 43 00:02:17,430 --> 00:02:21,879 Then using a pair of fabric scissors I chopped out the fabric inside the rectangles. 44 00:02:21,879 --> 00:02:27,010 Then at the corner of each rectangle, I made small slits like this at 45 degrees, each 45 00:02:27,010 --> 00:02:28,200 about half an inch long. 46 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:35,120 Then, I turned my jeans INSIDE OUT, make sure you turn them inside out before this next 47 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,860 step, and I folded the edges of the cutouts back like this. 48 00:02:37,860 --> 00:02:42,209 Now, we’re going to sew these pieces down, using some thread in a matching colour to 49 00:02:42,209 --> 00:02:43,340 the jeans. 50 00:02:43,340 --> 00:02:46,901 Now you can hand-stitch this, but if you’re doing this on a sewing machine, you’ll need 51 00:02:46,901 --> 00:02:51,000 to do some clever folding so that you don’t sew through the back of the jeans as well. 52 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,910 So, I manipulated my jeans like this, to make sure that I’d only be sewing through the 53 00:02:54,910 --> 00:02:58,520 FRONT fabric of the jeans, and then I sewed down this edge using a straight stitch and 54 00:02:58,580 --> 00:03:00,460 a normal sewing needle. 55 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,180 And I repeated this for all of the raw edges around the cutouts. 56 00:03:06,180 --> 00:03:11,280 Annnnd don’t goof up and sew one of these flaps on the wrong way like I did here – I 57 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:15,150 accidentally sewed this flap to the right side of the jeans, and didn’t notice that 58 00:03:15,150 --> 00:03:19,760 I'd done this until after I’d sewn on the plastic – and I spent a lot of time unpicking 59 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:20,760 my stitches. 60 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:21,790 Don't do this! 61 00:03:21,790 --> 00:03:24,310 ANYWAY, next I grabbed my plastic material. 62 00:03:24,310 --> 00:03:29,390 This is flexible PVC plastic that I had remaining from this plastic skirt that you guys got 63 00:03:29,390 --> 00:03:34,579 me to make back in episode #33 – I think it was originally meant to be a table protector? 64 00:03:34,579 --> 00:03:39,189 – and I laid it on top of one of my cutouts, and then I drew out a rectangle shape directly 65 00:03:39,189 --> 00:03:43,000 onto the plastic, making the rectangle slightly larger than the cutout. 66 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 And… 67 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,790 damn, I accidentally drew onto my fabric here, luckily the jeans are still inside out so 68 00:03:47,790 --> 00:03:49,110 it doesn’t really matter! 69 00:03:49,110 --> 00:03:53,080 Anyway I finished drawing on that rectangle and then I cut it out. 70 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,530 Now actually sewing the plastic onto the inside of the cutouts is a little bit tricky and 71 00:03:57,530 --> 00:04:02,000 took me a while to work out, because there’s a lot of fabric that you DON’T want to sew 72 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,260 through in the way! 73 00:04:03,260 --> 00:04:07,160 If you just put this straight on your sewing machine now you will have a lot of difficultly. 74 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,830 So what I’m going to do next is to open up one of the side seams on this pant leg, 75 00:04:11,830 --> 00:04:16,459 just from here to here, because this will give me easy access to the cutout and make 76 00:04:16,459 --> 00:04:19,290 it about 100 times easier to sew the plastic on. 77 00:04:19,290 --> 00:04:24,000 When I’d done that, I made sure that the plastic was in place over the cutout, and 78 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,420 then I pinned it on around the edges, making sure that I’d only pinned it to the front 79 00:04:28,420 --> 00:04:32,650 layer of the jeans, not the back, and then I sewed the plastic on using a straight stitch 80 00:04:32,650 --> 00:04:33,650 like this. 81 00:04:33,650 --> 00:04:37,440 Now, sewing with PVC plastic is a little bit difficult – it kept getting a little bit 82 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:41,860 stuck on my sewing machine’s feeding mechanism – but I didn’t need to use any special 83 00:04:41,860 --> 00:04:46,390 sewing tools or sewing feet, I simply helped feed the fabrics through by pulling on it 84 00:04:46,390 --> 00:04:49,020 a little bit, using my hands as I sewed. 85 00:04:49,020 --> 00:04:53,380 Now once that plastic was sewn on around all 4 edges of the cutout, I sewed the side-seams 86 00:04:53,380 --> 00:04:58,520 of the jeans back up and then I cut off the excess edges around the plastic, leaving about 87 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:00,970 half an inch next to the stitches that I just made. 88 00:05:00,970 --> 00:05:04,890 Finally, I wanted to cover up the edges of the plastic so they wouldn’t dig into my 89 00:05:04,890 --> 00:05:09,560 legs, so using those denim scraps that I cut out from the knees of these jeans earlier, 90 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:14,101 I cut these into strips, brushed some fabric glue on the edges of the plastic, and then 91 00:05:14,101 --> 00:05:18,870 I placed the strip of fabric down over the plastic edge, covering it entirely. 92 00:05:18,870 --> 00:05:22,700 And I did this at both the top and the bottom of the cutouts; I didn’t worry about the 93 00:05:22,700 --> 00:05:26,271 sides because they weren’t ever going to touch my legs, but you could do this if you 94 00:05:26,271 --> 00:05:27,271 wanted to. 95 00:05:27,271 --> 00:05:30,360 Finally, remember that cute leg pocket that I cut off before? 96 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,410 I sewed the top of the pocket back in place – which would have been a lot easier if 97 00:05:34,410 --> 00:05:39,140 I’d done this before I sewed the side seams back up, but I still managed to sew it on 98 00:05:39,140 --> 00:05:41,440 using a needle and some thread – and then I was done! 99 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,180 So, how did it turn out? 100 00:05:44,180 --> 00:05:45,360 How did I go? 101 00:05:45,420 --> 00:05:47,720 [Electronic dance music plays] 102 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,780 Look, I did try really hard to film this seriously for you guys, but… 103 00:06:02,790 --> 00:06:03,790 [singing]: Boop! 104 00:06:03,790 --> 00:06:06,780 Boop boop boop boop boop boop boop! [laughs] 105 00:06:06,780 --> 00:06:09,860 It's so hard to be serious filming these! 106 00:06:09,860 --> 00:06:12,590 I mean, knees are really weird! 107 00:06:12,590 --> 00:06:17,400 And they're just - they're just so THERE, like, WHAT ARE THEY DOING THERE?! 108 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:19,760 [Whispering]: What are knees? 109 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:22,040 Yeah, I think this episode has broken me. 110 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:23,040 A little bit. 111 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,740 It definitely initiated an existential crisis about the meaning of knees. 112 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:28,480 [Sound of knees slapping up against the plastic] 113 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:33,170 Seriously I’ve looked at my knees so much now, both filming and editing this video, 114 00:06:33,170 --> 00:06:36,250 that I don’t really feel like they’re a normal body part anymore. 115 00:06:36,250 --> 00:06:38,660 Alright so – it worked! 116 00:06:38,660 --> 00:06:39,660 And… 117 00:06:39,660 --> 00:06:40,830 I have to admit… 118 00:06:40,830 --> 00:06:43,160 I actually quite like them. 119 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:49,430 Sure, there’s some definite cons – the main one being that they’re… really not 120 00:06:49,430 --> 00:06:50,430 comfortable. 121 00:06:50,430 --> 00:06:55,560 Whenever I bend my knees – like, every second while I'm walking – my knees bump up against 122 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:57,310 and stick to the rigid plastic. 123 00:06:57,310 --> 00:07:02,530 I am literally sitting like this right now because I don't want the plastic to touch 124 00:07:02,530 --> 00:07:06,480 my knees! [laughs] Also, on a hot day, your sweaty knees will 125 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:10,820 produce a lot of condensation that'll be very visible and show up on these windows. 126 00:07:10,820 --> 00:07:14,080 I just thought of another one if you're someone who occasionally shaves their legs like I 127 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,080 do, you can't just forgo shaving in the winter if you're going to wear these! 128 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:21,130 Oh, I just thought of another one, if you're pale, like I am, you're going to have to put 129 00:07:21,130 --> 00:07:24,970 sunscreen on your knees before you go out because this is not UV protective - unless 130 00:07:24,970 --> 00:07:27,250 you want rectangle burn lines on your legs. 131 00:07:27,250 --> 00:07:30,650 Man, so many of the clothes I make on Make Thrift Buy give you weird tan lines. 132 00:07:30,650 --> 00:07:33,860 But there’s some pros, as well, like... 133 00:07:33,860 --> 00:07:35,140 You can put stickers on them! 134 00:07:35,140 --> 00:07:36,640 And change the stickers up! 135 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,120 You can also grab a whiteboard marker and write down things that you have to remember! 136 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,220 Your knees won't get wet in the rain... 137 00:07:42,220 --> 00:07:44,230 They're certainly a conversation starter. 138 00:07:44,230 --> 00:07:46,620 As if someone isn't going to mention these weird-ass jeans. 139 00:07:46,620 --> 00:07:47,670 Also - fashion. 140 00:07:47,670 --> 00:07:48,970 I guess that's a pro. 141 00:07:48,970 --> 00:07:50,080 For some people. 142 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:52,140 Anyway, in conclusion, these jeans are a: 143 00:07:52,140 --> 00:07:53,980 [scissor snipping, zipper sound effect] 144 00:07:54,020 --> 00:07:56,020 Thrift a pair of jeans, and make these for yourself. 145 00:07:56,020 --> 00:08:01,330 Mine came in at about $5 total if you include the plastic material and thread I used. 146 00:08:01,330 --> 00:08:04,830 So I hope this video either helps, or amuses you, and I’ll see you all in my next video. 147 00:08:04,830 --> 00:08:05,830 Bye! 148 00:08:05,830 --> 00:08:06,830 Hey! 149 00:08:06,830 --> 00:08:07,830 Youtube family! 150 00:08:07,830 --> 00:08:10,310 This is a call-to-action to sign up and donate to my Patreon page! 151 00:08:10,310 --> 00:08:13,540 If you have ever used one of my sewing tutorials and you’ve made something awesome, consider 152 00:08:13,540 --> 00:08:18,860 all the money you’ve saved on taking sewing lessons, and on clothing, and consider throwing 153 00:08:18,860 --> 00:08:20,900 a couple of dollars my way. 154 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:25,570 Currently only 0.03% of my Youtube subscribers donate to my Patreon page. 155 00:08:25,570 --> 00:08:30,840 If just 0.1% of you pledged a dollar per month, it’d really really really help me out! 156 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,510 I spend like 20-30 hours on each of these videos, so it's something that I put a lot 157 00:08:34,510 --> 00:08:35,680 of time and effort into. 158 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:39,610 So consider signing up – it’s Youtube communites coming together and supporter their 159 00:08:39,610 --> 00:08:41,820 favourite content creator that keeps us going. 160 00:08:41,820 --> 00:08:45,370 If you can’t commit to a dollar a month, that’s okay, you can also support me by 161 00:08:45,370 --> 00:08:50,160 making a one-off purchase on my merchandise page, or, if you absolutely can’t spare 162 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:54,230 a dollar a month, then at the very least force all your friends to watch my videos as well. 163 00:08:54,230 --> 00:08:55,560 Alright, thanks again, I'm going now. 164 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:56,160 Bye!