1 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:07,890 Hello! Welcome back to a brand new episode of Make Thrift Buy! And I am SO happy to be 2 00:00:07,890 --> 00:00:12,420 sitting right here making a video again, because I’ve been really sick for the past month 3 00:00:12,420 --> 00:00:16,800 thanks to my chronic illness, and it's just been so good for the past few days to have 4 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,400 a bit more energy to sew again. I don’t know how long it’s going to last, hopefully 5 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,679 I'm on the mend but – I’m back for this video at least! And I just want to thank all 6 00:00:23,679 --> 00:00:26,769 of the people who have been giving me love and support on instagram - it’s really helped 7 00:00:26,769 --> 00:00:29,839 me get through some tough days. Anyway, ONTO THE PROJECT FOR TODAY! 8 00:00:29,839 --> 00:00:33,260 Oh yeah – and just in case you’re new here, Make Thrift Buy is a series where you 9 00:00:33,260 --> 00:00:38,550 guys send in clothes that you’ve found online, from chain stores and wholesalers and expensive 10 00:00:38,550 --> 00:00:43,250 designers, and then I try and recreate them and show you all how to do it in the process. 11 00:00:43,250 --> 00:00:47,600 Now, Jaelyne Grace, Chloe Underwood wanted me to try and recreate this ringer-style t-shirt 12 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:52,090 with an alien patch on it from Brandy Melville – which now appears to be gone forever from 13 00:00:52,090 --> 00:00:55,880 their website – and copied throughout the cheap fast-fashion world – but never fear! 14 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,380 Because today we’re going to try and make this for ourselves. So, let’s go! 15 00:00:59,380 --> 00:01:03,180 First I’m going to show you how to make a t-shirt from scratch, but if you just want 16 00:01:03,180 --> 00:01:06,600 to learn how to make a patch then skip forward through the video to part 2. 17 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,609 Okay so, first I grabbed myself a top that I like the fit and style of. 18 00:01:10,609 --> 00:01:12,770 And you guys know me - I love my crop tops! 19 00:01:12,770 --> 00:01:17,219 SO, to make the t-shirt, first I layed down some stretchy grey jersey, folded over like 20 00:01:17,219 --> 00:01:19,850 this, with the stretch running in this direction. 21 00:01:19,850 --> 00:01:23,579 Next, I grabbed the t-shirt that I’m going to copy, and I folded it in half so that the 22 00:01:23,579 --> 00:01:27,240 front neckline was on the outside, and then I matched up the folded edge of the shirt 23 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,850 with the folded edge of the fabric. Now it doesn’t matter if the sleeve is running 24 00:01:30,850 --> 00:01:34,880 off the edge of the fabric here, because I wasn’t tracing around that part yet – First, 25 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,479 I was just going to be tracing around THIS bodice section. 26 00:01:37,479 --> 00:01:41,219 I started out trying to trace around the shirt with chalk, but that didn’t work out so 27 00:01:41,219 --> 00:01:45,329 well because I couldn’t see the chalk lines on the grey fabric – so I switched to a 28 00:01:45,329 --> 00:01:49,850 permanent marker. Now this isn’t the best idea for tracing onto fabric because you can’t 29 00:01:49,850 --> 00:01:53,689 exactly rub out a permanent marker’s lines if you make a mistake. So - just be careful 30 00:01:53,689 --> 00:01:55,229 if you also go down this route. 31 00:01:55,229 --> 00:01:58,869 So, I traced around the bottom of the shirt – making the line straight because it was 32 00:01:58,869 --> 00:02:03,549 curved for some reason – and added a little bit for hemming allowance. I also traced down 33 00:02:03,549 --> 00:02:08,009 the side from the armhole, and the shoulder, which is from the neckline to where the sleeve 34 00:02:08,009 --> 00:02:13,159 begins. Which gave me these three lines. Now I just needed to connect them with a neckline 35 00:02:13,159 --> 00:02:16,879 and armhole line. This is a little bit trickier to trace. To 36 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:21,110 trace out the front neckline, I put my finger on top of the neckline, folded the fabric 37 00:02:21,110 --> 00:02:25,650 back to where my finger is, and then I made a mark with my pen. I did this at both edges 38 00:02:25,650 --> 00:02:29,909 of the neckline first, and then I worked my way in. And then when I had a few marks like 39 00:02:29,909 --> 00:02:34,110 this, I basically just connected the dots and joined this curve up. And there we go, 40 00:02:34,110 --> 00:02:37,640 there’s the neckline! Then I did the exact same thing for the armhole curve, putting 41 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:42,170 my finger on top of the sleeve seam, and making little marks with my pen, and then joining 42 00:02:42,170 --> 00:02:44,769 these marks up. 43 00:02:44,769 --> 00:02:48,890 And there we have it, the front bodice-piece for the t-shirt! Then I simply had to cut 44 00:02:48,890 --> 00:02:53,810 this out, cutting through both layers of fabric, which unfolded looks like this. 45 00:02:53,810 --> 00:02:58,540 Then, I did the exact same thing to copy the back of the t-shirt, except that I folded 46 00:02:58,540 --> 00:03:02,900 it the other way so that the back neckline is on the outside, and I traced out the back 47 00:03:02,900 --> 00:03:04,420 neckline instead. 48 00:03:12,620 --> 00:03:14,540 So, these are my front and back pieces. 49 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:18,579 Now I needed to make sleeves. 50 00:03:18,579 --> 00:03:23,439 To copy the sleeves of my original t-shirt, I folded the fabric over once with the stretch 51 00:03:23,439 --> 00:03:27,849 running in this direction, and I placed the top of the sleeve down onto the fold like 52 00:03:27,849 --> 00:03:32,840 this. Next, making sure that the sleeve was laying totally flat on the fabric, I traced 53 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,400 around the sleeve like this. Similar to tracing around the shirt, the bottom 54 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:40,810 and sides of the sleeve are easy to trace around, and I also added a small seam-allowance 55 00:03:40,810 --> 00:03:44,370 at the bottom of the sleeve. Then, to trace around the more difficult armhole 56 00:03:44,370 --> 00:03:48,959 seam, I again used this method where I placed a finger on top of the seam that joins the 57 00:03:48,959 --> 00:03:54,400 sleeve, folded back the t-shirt, made small marks with my pen, and then joined these marks 58 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,540 up into a nice curve. So, this is my sleeve, which I then cut out 59 00:03:59,540 --> 00:04:03,480 and then copied directly onto some more fabric in order to give me TWO sleeves. 60 00:04:05,980 --> 00:04:10,739 And now it’s time to sew everything together! First I placed the front and back pieces together 61 00:04:10,739 --> 00:04:13,090 and I sewed them together at the shoulders like this. 62 00:04:13,090 --> 00:04:16,920 Then, I lay the shirt out like this with the right sides facing up, and I am going to attach 63 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:17,890 one of the sleeves. 64 00:04:17,890 --> 00:04:23,090 Okay now watch carefully because this is a little confusing – I put the sleeve on top 65 00:04:23,090 --> 00:04:27,970 of the shirt, with the middle of the sleeve matched up with the shoulder seam. Now I need 66 00:04:27,970 --> 00:04:32,740 to sew these two pieces together, but as you can see, the curve of the armhole and the 67 00:04:32,740 --> 00:04:36,050 curve of the sleeve go in two VERY different directions. 68 00:04:36,050 --> 00:04:40,500 But, because I am working with very stretchy fabric, I can use pins to solve this! 69 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:45,699 So, first I put a pin in the middle, matching up the middle of the sleeve to the shoulder 70 00:04:45,699 --> 00:04:47,930 seam. Then I pinned the sleeve on all the way down 71 00:04:47,930 --> 00:04:52,580 ONE side only. It’s easiest to do one side of each sleeve at a time, because otherwise 72 00:04:52,580 --> 00:04:56,690 things will get very bunched up. So with half the sleeve pinned on, I sewed 73 00:04:56,690 --> 00:04:59,970 it on to the bodice like this, using a zig-zag stitch. 74 00:05:02,650 --> 00:05:06,229 And once that side is sewn on, I pinned the other half of the sleeve to the bodice and 75 00:05:06,229 --> 00:05:08,289 sewed it on in the same way. 76 00:05:15,740 --> 00:05:19,199 I repeated this for the other sleeve, and now I had something resembling a t-shirt. 77 00:05:19,199 --> 00:05:23,910 Next, with the fabrics facing right-sides together, I’m going to sew the arms and 78 00:05:23,910 --> 00:05:25,830 the sides together like this. 79 00:05:25,830 --> 00:05:30,270 Things will work out best if you first sew from the underarm to the end of the sleeve, 80 00:05:30,270 --> 00:05:33,370 and then from the underarm down the side of the shirt. 81 00:05:33,370 --> 00:05:37,880 Now I have a t-shirt with raw edges, and I’m going to finish it off by adding the contrasting 82 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:39,910 neckline and armhole bindings. 83 00:05:39,910 --> 00:05:43,740 So to figure out how much material I would need for the neckline binding, I measured 84 00:05:43,740 --> 00:05:48,580 the circumference of the neckhole which came out at 24 inches. I then took 4 inches off 85 00:05:48,580 --> 00:05:49,460 this measurement. 86 00:05:49,460 --> 00:05:53,590 Next, I cut out a strip of black jersey fabric which is what I'm going to be using for my 87 00:05:53,590 --> 00:05:58,639 contrasting binding. This strip is 20 inches long. I was able to take away 4 inches from 88 00:05:58,639 --> 00:06:02,330 the neckhole measurement because this fabric was extremely stretchy, but you will have 89 00:06:02,330 --> 00:06:04,910 to adjust this depending on the stretch of your fabrics. 90 00:06:04,910 --> 00:06:08,930 A good test to make sure that you have cut a long-enough strip of fabric is to fold this 91 00:06:08,930 --> 00:06:12,990 strip in half, place it on the front of your neckline, and, with your fingers holding it 92 00:06:12,990 --> 00:06:17,030 in place, stretching the fabric and kind of "walking” it along the neckline like this. 93 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,980 Next, with this strip folded in half (right sides together), I sewed down the edges. 94 00:06:25,140 --> 00:06:27,180 Then, I turned it the right way around, 95 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:30,640 folded it in half length-ways, 96 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:35,700 then, I quartered it with pins. 97 00:06:36,540 --> 00:06:40,660 I did the same thing with the neckline, quartering it with pins, so two 98 00:06:40,669 --> 00:06:44,470 pins at each of the shoulder seams, and one in the centre back, and one in the centre 99 00:06:44,470 --> 00:06:46,919 front. Now I’m going to sew these two together! 100 00:06:46,919 --> 00:06:51,629 To do this, I placed the neck binding onto the machine first with the raw edges facing 101 00:06:51,629 --> 00:06:56,949 THIS way. The shirt goes on next, and the binding then goes on top of the neckline, 102 00:06:56,949 --> 00:07:01,369 with the raw edges matching up, and at the same time I also matched up two of the pins. 103 00:07:03,420 --> 00:07:07,540 Removing these pins so I don’t sew over them, I’m going to then sew the two pieces 104 00:07:07,550 --> 00:07:11,889 together, stretching the binding so that the next set of pins match up. 105 00:07:11,889 --> 00:07:15,340 I’m sewing the two together with about an eight of an inch seam allowance. 106 00:07:15,340 --> 00:07:19,509 I’m also using a straight stitch to sew the neckline on, because next I am going to 107 00:07:19,509 --> 00:07:24,330 overlock (or, serge) the stitches, but if you don’t have an overlocker then you should 108 00:07:24,330 --> 00:07:26,690 be using a zig-zag stitch at this point. 109 00:07:26,690 --> 00:07:31,009 So, with the neck binding sewn on and flipped around the right way it looks like this, and 110 00:07:31,009 --> 00:07:34,680 I'm also give everything a good iron to ensure that it lays flat. 111 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,979 Now, going to make contrasting bindings for the sleeves and I'm going to use a very similar 112 00:07:38,979 --> 00:07:43,099 method. So I cut out a strip of black fabric that’s shorter than the armhole by about 113 00:07:43,099 --> 00:07:47,110 2 inches, so, with the strip folded over in two it looks like this. 114 00:07:47,110 --> 00:07:54,270 I then sew the strip into a loop by stitching down here, cutting off the excess fabric, 115 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:59,940 turning it around so that the seam is on the inside, folding this in half lengthways, 116 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:07,500 and then placing it over the top of the armhole, with the raw edges of both fabrics up, matching 117 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,520 and then I sew it on all the way around the armhole like this. 118 00:08:14,530 --> 00:08:18,520 Now I’m not bothering with pins this time, I’m just stretching the black binding fabric 119 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:22,280 slightly as I sew, but if you want to be a bit more accurate then you should quarter 120 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,000 everything with pins just like you did for the neckline. 121 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:31,480 Then, to hem the bottom of the shirt, I folded the raw edge up inside the shirt about one 122 00:08:31,490 --> 00:08:35,599 inch, pinned everything in place, and then I went over the top of the fabric with my 123 00:08:35,599 --> 00:08:40,510 twin-needle, and I also used my walking foot. Hemming stretch fabrics can be difficult, 124 00:08:40,510 --> 00:08:44,380 but I find that this combination with the walking foot and the twin needle stops the 125 00:08:44,380 --> 00:08:48,250 fabric from ruffling. If you don’t have these attachments then you can always place 126 00:08:48,250 --> 00:08:52,550 a piece of paper underneath while you sew and zig-zag stitch your way along the hem, 127 00:08:52,550 --> 00:08:56,480 tearing off the paper when you’re done. AND, that’s how I make a t-shirt! And now 128 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,130 I can move onto part 2. 129 00:08:58,130 --> 00:09:03,579 Sooo I’ve never made a patch before, and I also don’t really have any proper patch-making 130 00:09:03,579 --> 00:09:07,990 materials on me, so I'm going to be honest - I’m kind of making this up as I go along. 131 00:09:07,990 --> 00:09:12,190 I grabbed myself this scrap piece of plain white cotton, which I pre-ironed to make it 132 00:09:12,190 --> 00:09:16,980 nice and flat. And then I drew an alien’s face onto it with a pencil, using the original 133 00:09:16,980 --> 00:09:18,700 t-shirt image to help guide me. 134 00:09:18,700 --> 00:09:23,589 I figured that I needed something to stabalize the patch so I grabbed some interfacing that 135 00:09:23,589 --> 00:09:28,000 I already owned, and I cut out a small square of this and ironed it onto the back of the 136 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,320 alien drawing. 137 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:37,000 Next, with a very narrow zig-zag stitch, I went carefully around the outsides of the 138 00:09:37,010 --> 00:09:41,560 alien’s head, following the pencil line as closely as possible. 139 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:45,839 And, I ended up with this! In order to stop the patch from fraying when 140 00:09:45,839 --> 00:09:50,899 I eventually cut it, I’m going to add fabric glue all around the edges. So I brushed the 141 00:09:50,899 --> 00:09:54,930 fabric glue on in a thin layer, both around the edges of the stitches and also a little 142 00:09:54,930 --> 00:09:59,550 bit on top of the stitches, just in case I accidentally cut through any later, to stop 143 00:09:59,550 --> 00:10:02,750 them unraveling. Next, I put the fabric into an embroidery 144 00:10:02,750 --> 00:10:07,860 hoop and I used an embroidery needle and thread and a satin stitch to fill in the eyes. 145 00:10:07,860 --> 00:10:11,360 I’ve talked about how to make a satin stitch in many other videos which I’ll link in 146 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,920 the description, but really quickly, you do a satin stitch by going UP at one edge of 147 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:20,940 your shape, the bringing your needle down at the OTHER edge of the shape, and then pulling 148 00:10:20,940 --> 00:10:26,170 the thread through. Then, you simply push your needle up right NEXT to the spot where 149 00:10:26,170 --> 00:10:30,120 your needle just went down, bring your needle over to the other side of the shape, and back 150 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:34,139 down again, and repeat this until your shape is filled in with these long stitches! 151 00:10:34,139 --> 00:10:37,579 And always make sure when you’re done to flip it over to the back and tie a couple 152 00:10:37,579 --> 00:10:40,010 of knots to stop the threads from coming loose. 153 00:10:40,010 --> 00:10:44,240 So once I’d embroidered both the eyes, I grabbed these iron-on patches, which you should 154 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:46,200 be able to find at most craft stores. 155 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:50,870 I roughly cut out the alien’s face, and then I sewed the alien onto the iron-on patch 156 00:10:50,870 --> 00:10:53,540 like this. Basically, I just used a straight stitch to 157 00:10:53,540 --> 00:10:56,610 go over the top of the already-exisiting zig-zag stitch. 158 00:10:56,610 --> 00:11:00,440 Then, using some sharp fabric scissors, I cut out the alien’s face by going as close 159 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:04,320 to the zig-zag stitches as possible. And, the fabric shouldn’t fray now because of 160 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:08,300 all the fabric glue that I used earlier (which, by the way, I allowed to dry before cutting 161 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:09,040 this out). 162 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,290 So, here’s my patch! And I’m so happy with how it turned out! 163 00:11:12,290 --> 00:11:16,250 Now in order to attach it to the shirt, all I'm going to have to do is to iron it on because 164 00:11:16,250 --> 00:11:18,880 the back of the patch has this heat-activated glue. 165 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:23,250 So, I layed the patch down on the appropriate spot on the shirt, covered it with some cotton 166 00:11:23,250 --> 00:11:27,970 to protect it, and then following the instructions on the iron-on patch I held my iron down on 167 00:11:27,970 --> 00:11:29,760 top of it for 20 seconds. 168 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:33,320 And now I'm finally done! SO, after all of that, how did the shirt turn out? 169 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:34,340 How did I go? 170 00:11:34,340 --> 00:11:35,800 [music plays] 171 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:55,140 So my conclusion is: [scissor snipping sound effect]. 172 00:11:55,149 --> 00:12:00,269 I love how this turned out! And this was a project that had surprisingly few hiccups 173 00:12:00,269 --> 00:12:03,980 for a project of mine. But if you didn't want to make an entire t-shirt from scratch, then 174 00:12:03,980 --> 00:12:08,320 you could always just get a t-shirt that you liked and make your own patch and stick it 175 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:12,660 on the front. You can really make this project as easy or as difficult as you want to! And 176 00:12:12,660 --> 00:12:17,420 I really want to make a bunch of other patches now and put them on cute, different-coloured, 177 00:12:17,420 --> 00:12:21,880 ringer-style t-shirts. What kind of simple embroidered patches could I make? If you have 178 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:23,010 any ideas, let me know in the comments down below! 179 00:12:23,010 --> 00:12:26,930 As always, thank so much for watching, thanks for sharing, liking, supporting my videos, 180 00:12:26,930 --> 00:12:31,070 all of that, the kind words you leave on instagram and in the comments - anyway, I’ll see you 181 00:12:31,070 --> 00:12:32,480 all in my next video, bye! 182 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:36,800 Thank you to all of my supporters on Patreon who helped to make this video possible. To 183 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,450 become my patreon supporter, go to patreon.com/annikavictoria.