1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,340 [singing the opening song] 2 00:00:01,340 --> 00:00:03,240 Ba dom dom chika chika dom dom chika chika bleoeoeop! 3 00:00:03,250 --> 00:00:04,250 Hello! 4 00:00:04,250 --> 00:00:08,309 Welcome to another episode of Make Thrift Buy, the show where you guys send in suggestions 5 00:00:08,309 --> 00:00:12,690 of clothing or accessories that you’ve seen online or on the high street, and then I do 6 00:00:12,690 --> 00:00:14,190 my best to recreate them. 7 00:00:14,190 --> 00:00:19,690 A bunch of you have been suggesting to make bell sleeve shirts and what with the 70s revival 8 00:00:19,690 --> 00:00:22,810 that’s going on in fashion at the moment, they can be found everywhere. 9 00:00:22,810 --> 00:00:27,880 However, I didn’t think this would be too difficult to make for ourselves, so lets give 10 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:29,090 it a go! 11 00:00:29,090 --> 00:00:33,760 Now I showed you all how to make t-shirts back in episode #37 of Make Thrift Buy. 12 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:38,710 We are basically going to be following the exact same process as in that tutorial - the 13 00:00:38,710 --> 00:00:42,690 construction of the shirt is basically exactly the same as the construction of the t-shirt 14 00:00:42,690 --> 00:00:46,890 in that video - and the only thing that I'm really doing differently is altering the sleeves 15 00:00:46,890 --> 00:00:49,649 to make them longer and bell-shaped. 16 00:00:49,649 --> 00:00:54,520 So if you want to know how to make this top from start to finish, follow the tutorial 17 00:00:54,520 --> 00:01:00,300 for making a t-shirt in Make Thrift Buy #37, and then come back here to see how to make 18 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:01,820 and attach the sleeves. 19 00:01:01,820 --> 00:01:06,140 So the shirt that I’m going to use to copy my pattern from is this slightly oversized 20 00:01:06,140 --> 00:01:10,970 red top – which I am now just realising looks stolen from Where’s Waldo closet. 21 00:01:10,970 --> 00:01:14,960 Anyway I traced around the back and front of the bodice, and I traced it down onto pattern 22 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:18,040 paper this time so that I could reuse my pattern again and again. 23 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,470 Then, I traced around the sleeve, and this is where this tutorial is going to differ 24 00:01:21,470 --> 00:01:22,860 a little from the other one. 25 00:01:22,860 --> 00:01:26,290 I used a slightly different method of copying out the sleeves for the top. 26 00:01:26,290 --> 00:01:30,020 The front and the back of the sleeve are actually slightly different shapes, because as you 27 00:01:30,020 --> 00:01:33,670 will notice here, the front bodice piece and back bodice pieces are slightly different 28 00:01:33,670 --> 00:01:38,040 – so the front and back of the sleeve actually need to differ a little bit to compensate 29 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:39,040 for this. 30 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:42,600 So first I folded the bottom part of the sleeve out of the way, because I wasn’t worried 31 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:44,740 about making the sleeve pattern long yet. 32 00:01:44,740 --> 00:01:49,790 Then I traced around the sleeve, like this, and to trace out the armhole curve here, I 33 00:01:49,790 --> 00:01:54,470 placed my finger on the seam that connects the sleeve to the bodice, and I basically 34 00:01:54,470 --> 00:01:59,689 just folded the fabric back, making dashed marks where the two fabrics join up, which 35 00:01:59,689 --> 00:02:01,450 I then connected with my pen. 36 00:02:01,450 --> 00:02:05,460 Then I flipped the sleeve over like this, lining up the top of the sleeve with this 37 00:02:05,460 --> 00:02:10,260 middle line there, and then I traced around the back of the sleeve in the same way. 38 00:02:13,460 --> 00:02:15,540 All up, that gave me this. 39 00:02:15,540 --> 00:02:18,540 Notice how the slope for the back of the sleeve is slighhhtly straighter and flatter than 40 00:02:18,540 --> 00:02:19,540 the front? 41 00:02:19,540 --> 00:02:22,760 Now the method I gave you for copying sleeves in THIS other tutorial, where the front and 42 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:26,760 the back are the same, is still valid – I’m just showing you another way to do this! 43 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,540 Both methods will give you perfectly fine sleeves for your t-shirt, but this method 44 00:02:30,540 --> 00:02:34,260 is just “slightly” more correct, because it allows for the natural shape and movement 45 00:02:34,260 --> 00:02:35,260 of the body. 46 00:02:35,260 --> 00:02:38,590 Although, when you’re using stretchy t-shirt fabric, it doesn’t really matter – because 47 00:02:38,590 --> 00:02:40,310 stretchy fabric is very forgiving. 48 00:02:40,310 --> 00:02:44,910 So right now we’ve ended up with a pattern for a short t-shirt sleeve, but obviously, 49 00:02:44,910 --> 00:02:46,060 we need to make it longer! 50 00:02:46,060 --> 00:02:50,769 So, I placed this short-sleeve pattern piece on top of a much larger piece of paper, and 51 00:02:50,769 --> 00:02:53,580 then I traced around this part of the sleeve. 52 00:02:53,580 --> 00:02:58,650 Then I took one of my favourite long-sleeve shirts and I measured how long the sleeve 53 00:02:58,650 --> 00:02:59,650 was on that. 54 00:02:59,650 --> 00:03:03,489 I added a couple of inches, one for hemming allowance and another to make the sleeve just 55 00:03:03,489 --> 00:03:04,489 a little bit longer. 56 00:03:04,489 --> 00:03:09,590 All up that gave me a measurement that was 24 inches, so I drew a mark 24 inches away 57 00:03:09,590 --> 00:03:11,950 from the very top part of the sleeve. 58 00:03:11,950 --> 00:03:16,510 Now, to make a long sleeve all I need to do is to extend the arm 24 inches down from the 59 00:03:16,510 --> 00:03:18,560 top of the sleeve, like this. 60 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:23,560 The length of this line here is just the circumference of my wrist, plus 1 inch, and these straight 61 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,320 lines here simply join up everything. 62 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:34,159 So that’s how you make a long sleeve, but to make bell sleeves, what I am going to do 63 00:03:34,159 --> 00:03:37,470 is to make the end of the sleeves looks like… a bell! 64 00:03:37,470 --> 00:03:42,580 So to make a bell, I made a mark 10 inches up from the end of the sleeve, on both sides 65 00:03:42,580 --> 00:03:44,010 of the sleeve. 66 00:03:44,010 --> 00:03:48,130 And then, I extended the sleeve out evenly on both sides like this. 67 00:03:56,420 --> 00:04:01,739 I drew a curved line in this angle here to smooth out the sides of the sleeves, where 68 00:04:01,739 --> 00:04:03,150 the bell begins. 69 00:04:03,150 --> 00:04:09,340 I’m going to curve the end like this, so that the angle at each corner here is 90 degrees. 70 00:04:09,340 --> 00:04:13,470 I just eyeballed this – if you wanted to do the specific maths to get this perfect 71 00:04:13,470 --> 00:04:16,130 then you can – but it’s fine to just eyeball it. 72 00:04:17,870 --> 00:04:22,270 For a more dramatic bell-sleeve, you would extend it even further, and for a more subtle 73 00:04:22,270 --> 00:04:23,479 one, you would bring this in. 74 00:04:23,479 --> 00:04:29,020 I also drew a little F and a B on the front and back parts of the sleeve pattern, so I 75 00:04:29,020 --> 00:04:31,030 would remember which was which. 76 00:04:31,030 --> 00:04:33,240 And that is my sleeve pattern done! 77 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:38,120 Next I cut out 2 sleeves from my fabric, using the new pattern, with the stretch of the fabric 78 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:39,540 running in THIS direction. 79 00:04:39,540 --> 00:04:43,370 Then, after I sewed the front and the back of the bodice pieces together at the shoulders 80 00:04:43,370 --> 00:04:46,680 like this, the next step is to attach the sleeves to the bodice. 81 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,509 I lined the sleeve up with the armhole like this, with the back of the sleeve matching 82 00:04:50,509 --> 00:04:53,880 up with the back of the bodice, and the front of the sleeve matching with with the front 83 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:54,880 of the bodice. 84 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:58,970 And then, I sew the sleeve on in the exact same way as I did in Make Thrift Buy #37. 85 00:04:58,970 --> 00:05:03,120 In fact, the remainder of the construction of the t-shirt is basically the exact same 86 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:07,630 as in Make Thrift Buy #37 – the only exception is that I used a different finishing for the 87 00:05:07,630 --> 00:05:10,650 raw edges of the fabric at the ends of the sleeves. 88 00:05:10,650 --> 00:05:15,260 I hemmed the end of the sleeves, which I did by first turning the shirt inside out, and 89 00:05:15,260 --> 00:05:19,600 then folding the top of the sleeve down 1 inch, and then I sewed all the way around 90 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,250 the opening of the sleeve. 91 00:05:21,250 --> 00:05:22,479 And that’s the shirt done! 92 00:05:22,479 --> 00:05:23,479 So – how did I go? 93 00:05:23,479 --> 00:05:24,479 [music plays] 94 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,620 I ended up making two shirts from stretchy, thrifted jersey fabric – this black one 95 00:05:50,620 --> 00:05:54,680 was the first one that I made, but the material was… really sheer, it was really thin and 96 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,210 it was pretty weird to work with – it kinda twisted in this annoying way and it made the 97 00:05:58,210 --> 00:05:59,810 seams look a little bit bunched up. 98 00:05:59,810 --> 00:06:04,020 The second one is a thicker blue jersey, and this worked out a lot better – the seams 99 00:06:04,020 --> 00:06:06,370 and the bells look really nice and smooth. 100 00:06:06,370 --> 00:06:09,930 But I’m still going to wear both because I think the black one is definitely still 101 00:06:09,930 --> 00:06:12,580 wearable, and I already love it! 102 00:06:12,580 --> 00:06:13,580 And that’s it! 103 00:06:13,580 --> 00:06:16,259 It's pretty easy to make, if you’re familiar with working with stretchy fabric, and if 104 00:06:16,259 --> 00:06:20,150 not, I've got some tips in this video here to help you out! 105 00:06:20,150 --> 00:06:23,130 And the finished product is really damn cute and also on trend. 106 00:06:23,130 --> 00:06:28,259 I'm going to try making this with a more tightly-fitted t-shirt - I quite like the dropped-shoulder 107 00:06:28,259 --> 00:06:32,930 version that I made here but I want to try it with a couple of different styles of shirt. 108 00:06:32,930 --> 00:06:36,259 So anyway, the conclusion is! 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