WEBVTT 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 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 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 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 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 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 00:00:26.769 --> 00:00:29.839 me get through some tough days. Anyway, ONTO THE PROJECT FOR TODAY! 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 00:00:33.260 --> 00:00:38.550 guys send in clothes that you’ve found online, from chain stores and wholesalers and expensive 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. 00:00:43.250 --> 00:00:47.600 Now, Jaelyne Grace, Chloe Underwood wanted me to try and recreate this ringer-style t-shirt 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 00:00:52.090 --> 00:00:55.880 their website – and copied throughout the cheap fast-fashion world – but never fear! 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:59.380 Because today we’re going to try and make this for ourselves. So, let’s go! 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 00:01:03.180 --> 00:01:06.600 to learn how to make a patch then skip forward through the video to part 2. 00:01:06.600 --> 00:01:10.609 Okay so, first I grabbed myself a top that I like the fit and style of. 00:01:10.609 --> 00:01:12.770 And you guys know me - I love my crop tops! 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 00:01:17.219 --> 00:01:19.850 this, with the stretch running in this direction. 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 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 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 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, 00:01:34.880 --> 00:01:37.479 I was just going to be tracing around THIS bodice section. 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 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 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 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 00:01:53.689 --> 00:01:55.229 if you also go down this route. 00:01:55.229 --> 00:01:58.869 So, I traced around the bottom of the shirt – making the line straight because it was 00:01:58.869 --> 00:02:03.549 curved for some reason – and added a little bit for hemming allowance. I also traced down 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 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 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:16.879 and armhole line. This is a little bit trickier to trace. To 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 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 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 00:02:29.909 --> 00:02:34.110 this, I basically just connected the dots and joined this curve up. And there we go, 00:02:34.110 --> 00:02:37.640 there’s the neckline! Then I did the exact same thing for the armhole curve, putting 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 00:02:42.170 --> 00:02:44.769 these marks up. 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 00:02:48.890 --> 00:02:53.810 this out, cutting through both layers of fabric, which unfolded looks like this. 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 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 00:03:02.900 --> 00:03:04.420 neckline instead. 00:03:12.620 --> 00:03:14.540 So, these are my front and back pieces. 00:03:16.500 --> 00:03:18.579 Now I needed to make sleeves. 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 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 00:03:27.849 --> 00:03:32.840 this. Next, making sure that the sleeve was laying totally flat on the fabric, I traced 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:36.400 around the sleeve like this. Similar to tracing around the shirt, the bottom 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 00:03:40.810 --> 00:03:44.370 at the bottom of the sleeve. Then, to trace around the more difficult armhole 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 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 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:59.540 up into a nice curve. So, this is my sleeve, which I then cut out 00:03:59.540 --> 00:04:03.480 and then copied directly onto some more fabric in order to give me TWO sleeves. 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 00:04:10.739 --> 00:04:13.090 and I sewed them together at the shoulders like this. 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 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:17.890 one of the sleeves. 00:04:17.890 --> 00:04:23.090 Okay now watch carefully because this is a little confusing – I put the sleeve on top 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 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 00:04:32.740 --> 00:04:36.050 curve of the sleeve go in two VERY different directions. 00:04:36.050 --> 00:04:40.500 But, because I am working with very stretchy fabric, I can use pins to solve this! 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 00:04:45.699 --> 00:04:47.930 seam. Then I pinned the sleeve on all the way down 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 00:04:52.580 --> 00:04:56.690 things will get very bunched up. So with half the sleeve pinned on, I sewed 00:04:56.690 --> 00:04:59.970 it on to the bodice like this, using a zig-zag stitch. 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 00:05:06.229 --> 00:05:08.289 sewed it on in the same way. 00:05:15.740 --> 00:05:19.199 I repeated this for the other sleeve, and now I had something resembling a t-shirt. 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:23.910 Next, with the fabrics facing right-sides together, I’m going to sew the arms and 00:05:23.910 --> 00:05:25.830 the sides together like this. 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, 00:05:30.270 --> 00:05:33.370 and then from the underarm down the side of the shirt. 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 00:05:37.880 --> 00:05:39.910 neckline and armhole bindings. 00:05:39.910 --> 00:05:43.740 So to figure out how much material I would need for the neckline binding, I measured 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 00:05:48.580 --> 00:05:49.460 this measurement. 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 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 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:02.330 the neckhole measurement because this fabric was extremely stretchy, but you will have 00:06:02.330 --> 00:06:04.910 to adjust this depending on the stretch of your fabrics. 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 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 00:06:12.990 --> 00:06:17.030 in place, stretching the fabric and kind of "walking” it along the neckline like this. 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:23.980 Next, with this strip folded in half (right sides together), I sewed down the edges. 00:06:25.140 --> 00:06:27.180 Then, I turned it the right way around, 00:06:28.640 --> 00:06:30.640 folded it in half length-ways, 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:35.700 then, I quartered it with pins. 00:06:36.540 --> 00:06:40.660 I did the same thing with the neckline, quartering it with pins, so two 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 00:06:44.470 --> 00:06:46.919 front. Now I’m going to sew these two together! 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 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, 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. 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 00:07:07.550 --> 00:07:11.889 together, stretching the binding so that the next set of pins match up. 00:07:11.889 --> 00:07:15.340 I’m sewing the two together with about an eight of an inch seam allowance. 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 00:07:19.509 --> 00:07:24.330 overlock (or, serge) the stitches, but if you don’t have an overlocker then you should 00:07:24.330 --> 00:07:26.690 be using a zig-zag stitch at this point. 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 00:07:31.009 --> 00:07:34.680 I'm also give everything a good iron to ensure that it lays flat. 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 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 00:07:43.099 --> 00:07:47.110 2 inches, so, with the strip folded over in two it looks like this. 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, 00:07:54.280 --> 00:07:59.940 turning it around so that the seam is on the inside, folding this in half lengthways, 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 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:14.520 and then I sew it on all the way around the armhole like this. 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 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 00:08:22.280 --> 00:08:25.000 everything with pins just like you did for the neckline. 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 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 00:08:35.599 --> 00:08:40.510 twin-needle, and I also used my walking foot. Hemming stretch fabrics can be difficult, 00:08:40.510 --> 00:08:44.380 but I find that this combination with the walking foot and the twin needle stops the 00:08:44.380 --> 00:08:48.250 fabric from ruffling. If you don’t have these attachments then you can always place 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, 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 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.130 I can move onto part 2. 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 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. 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 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 00:09:16.980 --> 00:09:18.700 t-shirt image to help guide me. 00:09:18.700 --> 00:09:23.589 I figured that I needed something to stabalize the patch so I grabbed some interfacing that 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 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:29.320 alien drawing. 00:09:32.520 --> 00:09:37.000 Next, with a very narrow zig-zag stitch, I went carefully around the outsides of the 00:09:37.010 --> 00:09:41.560 alien’s head, following the pencil line as closely as possible. 00:09:41.560 --> 00:09:45.839 And, I ended up with this! In order to stop the patch from fraying when 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 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 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 00:09:59.550 --> 00:10:02.750 them unraveling. Next, I put the fabric into an embroidery 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. 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 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 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 00:10:20.940 --> 00:10:26.170 the thread through. Then, you simply push your needle up right NEXT to the spot where 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 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:34.139 down again, and repeat this until your shape is filled in with these long stitches! 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 00:10:37.579 --> 00:10:40.010 of knots to stop the threads from coming loose. 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 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:46.200 be able to find at most craft stores. 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 00:10:50.870 --> 00:10:53.540 like this. Basically, I just used a straight stitch to 00:10:53.540 --> 00:10:56.610 go over the top of the already-exisiting zig-zag stitch. 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 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:04.320 to the zig-zag stitches as possible. And, the fabric shouldn’t fray now because of 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 00:11:08.300 --> 00:11:09.040 this out). 00:11:09.040 --> 00:11:12.290 So, here’s my patch! And I’m so happy with how it turned out! 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 00:11:16.250 --> 00:11:18.880 the back of the patch has this heat-activated glue. 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 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 00:11:27.970 --> 00:11:29.760 top of it for 20 seconds. 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? 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:34.340 How did I go? 00:11:34.340 --> 00:11:35.800 [music plays] 00:11:51.900 --> 00:11:55.140 So my conclusion is: [scissor snipping sound effect]. 00:11:55.149 --> 00:12:00.269 I love how this turned out! And this was a project that had surprisingly few hiccups 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 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 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 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, 00:12:17.420 --> 00:12:21.880 ringer-style t-shirts. What kind of simple embroidered patches could I make? If you have 00:12:21.880 --> 00:12:23.010 any ideas, let me know in the comments down below! 00:12:23.010 --> 00:12:26.930 As always, thank so much for watching, thanks for sharing, liking, supporting my videos, 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 00:12:31.070 --> 00:12:32.480 all in my next video, bye! 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 00:12:36.800 --> 00:12:39.450 become my patreon supporter, go to patreon.com/annikavictoria.