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Today I’m going to share with you the coolest
things that I sewed in 2016 and some… not

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so cool things.

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So this year I decided that I wanted to get
really serious with sewing, and learn lots

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of new skills and techniques.

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I wanted to learn how to sew more difficult
things like lingerie and pants and to master

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stretchy fabrics, and because of that I’ve
ended up making some REALLY cool stuff things

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year that I am really proud of, that I haven’t
yet shown you guys on my channel.

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But of course, trying out new techniques,
I've also made a lot of mistakes, and I'll

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show those to you as well.

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But, let's start with the wins first!

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So because I wanted to master using stretchy
and knit fabrics, I've made some really cute

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t-shirts this year, basically because I made
a pattern that I really liked and then I discovered

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that I could whip up a t-shirt in just a couple
of hours.

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Like this floral one, and this robot one,
and this kinda... emo one - "you're planet

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sucks, man".

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And this pink one with candy hearts all over
it - you've probably seen me wearing this

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a couple of times in my videos but I never
actually said how I made it - basically I

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made the t-shirt in the exact same way as
in my alien ringer T-shirt, and THEN I used

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my t-shirt transfer tutorial to do the hearts!

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Something I made just 2 days ago was this
really cute pink bodysuit.

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The bodysuit is based on a pattern that I
made myself, using a singlet top and a pair

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of boyshort underwear.

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I've been practising for a future tutorial
for you guys.

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But I love how it turned out and it was also
my first time using fold-over elastic around

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the neckline and it turned out so well and
I'm going to be using fold-over elastic all

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the time in the future now.

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So the bodysuit looks really good when I'm
wearing it ON my body, but when it’s just

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hanging there… – uhhm I accidentally made
the legholes on the fabric a little bit too

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small, so I wasn't able to then stretch the
elastic as I was sewing around the leg holes

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which made them look all like - weirdly ruffled
- that look perfectly fine and lay flat when

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they're actually stretched over my legs, but
if you saw something like this hanging up

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like on a rack in a shop you'd probably think
twice about buying it.

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And while I thought that the boyshorts would
add this cute 40s, retro detail, in the end

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they actually actually kinda made it look
like this weird... wrestler’s outfit.

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It still looks really cute and is totally
wearable as long as I am wearing it underneath

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something like shorts or a skirt or pants.

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So, I still count this as a sewing win.

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So my number one favourite thing that I have
made this year is this halter-neck holographic

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swimsuit.

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I had a bit of leftover fabric from when I
did my holographic sleeves tutorial, and because

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the material is a waterproof stretchy lycra
I thought, "hmm this could be made into a

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really cool swimsuit!"

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It is the COOLEST thing, like I light up like
a rainbow when I go into the sun!

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For this I actually used a free pattern which
I'll link in the description, it's by Madalynne.

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The pattern doesn't cover a large range of
sizes but you probably could hack the pattern

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to upsize it if you needed to.

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But, it's free and taught me how to make this
cute halter neck top, and it also came with

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high-waisted bottoms as well.

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The pattern was a little bit difficult to
understand because I wasn't sure how to attach

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the swimsuit fabric to the lining so what
I ended up doing was just basting the pieces

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together and then sewing it like in the instructions.

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Oh, and recognise the ring on the back?

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It's that weird ring that I took out of the
dress on episode number 1 of the Style Pile!

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Something I've really wanted to learn this
year was how to make pants and leggings, so

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I started first with leggings because they
seemed easier, and this was the first pair

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of leggings that I made.

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And then I hacked the pattern to add bellbottoms,
much in the same way as I did with my bell-sleeve

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top except I added the bells to the bottom
of the legs instead of the sleeves, and they

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turned out SO cool and I love them so much.

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I definitely have to be feeling very confident
to wear them because they're a pretty out-there

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thing to wear, but when I am they're just
the coolest, most eye-catching thing.

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And then I made an actual pair of pants!

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Like, how frickken professional do these look!

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Look at the pockets!

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So these pants were actually made with a commercial
pattern from Colette and they're the "Moji"

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pants.

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And can I just say that Colette patterns are
amazing, they actually make SENSE which was

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a revelation to me as I've only used really
confusing patterns in the past where you just

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had to kind of figure everything out for yourself
- *Burdastyle* - they have a couple of free

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patterns as well that you can check out, so
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Go Colette!

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Hashtag-not-spon - I just really like Colette.

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I've also made some really cute things this
year which aren't clothes, the first was this

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necklace and brooch set that I actually made
on a Patreon live-stream.

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I love this so much because I wear them together
with the brooch here and the necklace here

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and then I can pretend to pour people a cup
of tea and I'm a massive dork, so that's like

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the best thing ever.

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Okay so not everything that I have made this
year has exactly worked out.

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The next things that I'll show you I consider
to be "semi-wins" meaning that they were still

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wearble in particular contexts - you'll see
what I mean.

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Okay so this is the first one-piece swimsuit
that I tried to make - and when I made it

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I was really proud of it and I thought it
looked awesome and so I immediately took it

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to the swimming pool to test out - and I jumped
in the water and I discovered that the material

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goes totally see-through when wet.

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And had I lined the swimsuit - no, absolutely
not!

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So there I was, stuck in the pool with a totally
see-through swimsuit on, kinda just hiding

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down in the water so nobody would see me and
I was miles away from my towel.

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Luckily Luciano had also come to the pool
with me and was able to grab my towel for

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me so that I didn't flash the entire populace
of the pool.

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However, just like the pink bodysuit I'm still
able to wear it like as a singlet top when

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I wear it under pants or shorts, with a bra
underneath just in case it rains.

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So that's why it's still a "semi-win".

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It's just not functional as an actual swimsuit,
which is kinda what it's supposed to be.

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And finally, the part that you've all been
waiting for - some of the stuff that I've

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made this year has just flat-out failed.

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I'm actually a bit sad because I have cut
up or recycled or donated most of the failed

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things that I've made this year without recording
any evidence of their existence.

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Like I have on my list here to talk about:
accidentally pornographic swimsuit top and

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the boob-squish crop top from hell - but I
couldn't actually find these pieces anywhere

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and I think I must have gotten rid of any
evidence of their existence.

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But I CAN show you the couple of fails that
I did hold on to.

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So remember a couple of videos ago I showed
you all how to turn dresses into rompers?

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Well, this one was actually the first attempt
I made at that.

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I accidentally made the crotch way too high
up and - I'll let the video here speak for

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itself.

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Yeah.

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I know.

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I think I'm going to try and salvage the top
part of it though by just cutting the skirt/shorts

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part off and then just having it as a cute
crop top.

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So when I first decided that I would try and
be less scared of using commercial patterns

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I made this.

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It's sooooo unflattering!

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Just so unflattering.

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It was made from a commercial pattern - a
Simplicity Quicksew pattern - but I don't

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know what I did wrong or IF I did anything
wrong, or if the pattern's just really, really

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ugly.

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I kept it because I want to salvage the fabric
and make like, you know, a pillow or something

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out of it, 'coz it's really pretty fabric.

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Oh yeah, okay.

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This makes me sad.

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So when I made my tutorial with Print All
Over Me, on making patterned clothing, a really

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cool artist contacted me and said they made
a store and I checked it out, and they had

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the COOLEST designs and I asked if they could
make some of their designs into fabric for

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me so that I could make clothes out of it,
and they did, which was awesome, and then

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I just totally butchered the whole thing *laughs*.

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I tried to make this high-necked sleeveless
shift dress type-of-thing, but it just really

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didn't work out and it's really really unflattering
and it doesn't fit properly and kinda looks

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like - a bit like a nightie, but it isn't
even good enough to be a nightie, but obviously

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I've kept the fabric because it's amazing
and after making that pink bodysuit a couple

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of days ago I've decided that I'm going to
turn this into a bodysuit - and I think that

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will actually suit the fabric really perfectly.

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And hopefully I can show you guys how it turns
out on my social media channels in the next

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couple of weeks or so!

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So I'm embarrassed that I still make pieces
that look this bad, but um - this is something

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that I also made this year.

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It's meant to be um, a crop top with actually
like a criss-crossed neckline, like this or

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something, and I actually made it on a sewing
machine which isn't really suited for stretchy

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fabrics, um so that's my excuse for why this
exists.

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God damn it, it actually doesn't look as bad
on camera as it does in real life - but trust

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me, it looks really atrocious in real life.

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But I would like to still try and make something
like this properly sometime soon.

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Okay, this is the last and most embarrassing
fail that I have had.

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Soooo um this was actually meant to be a Make
Thrift Buy episode, and I was trying to recreate

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these pencil case earrings - I think they're
from Shop Inu Inu - and this was my version.

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I was too embarrassed to even make a Make
Thrift Buy episode out of these because they

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were just SO, so bad.

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I made the items inside the pencil case out
of polymer clay, which snapped immediately

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as you can see here.

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I then painted them with acrylic paint which
came off when it came into contact with the

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glue, and the glue is what I used to seal
the edges of the pencil case together, because

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I used PVC and I was a bit worried about using
heat to seal the edges, because I actually

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think that's kind of toxic, so I used glue
instead.

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And the whole thing is just such a trainwreck.

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I'm very embarrassed that I made these.

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But hey, you can't have wins all the time!

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So I hope this video can provide you all with
some encouragement if you have ever had a

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sewing fail or even if you frequently have
sewing fails!

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I've been sewing since the beginning of 2012,
so, almost 5 years, and I still completely

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screw up things which should be pretty basic.

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But if you don't try, you also won't end up
making anything cool, either.

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So don't be afraid of making mistakes - or
slicing your thumb with a rotary cutter which

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is why my thumb is bandaged up here if you
were wondering - thanks for watching, check

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out my beginner's sewing resource on my new
website if you haven't already and I'll see

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you all in my next video.

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Bye!

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Thank you to all of my supporters on Patreon
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