WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.340 [singing the opening song] 00:00:01.340 --> 00:00:03.240 Ba dom dom chika chika dom dom chika chika bleoeoeop! 00:00:03.250 --> 00:00:04.250 Hello! 00:00:04.250 --> 00:00:08.309 Welcome to another episode of Make Thrift Buy, the show where you guys send in suggestions 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 00:00:12.690 --> 00:00:14.190 my best to recreate them. 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 00:00:19.690 --> 00:00:22.810 that’s going on in fashion at the moment, they can be found everywhere. 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 00:00:27.880 --> 00:00:29.090 it a go! 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. 00:00:33.760 --> 00:00:38.710 We are basically going to be following the exact same process as in that tutorial - the 00:00:38.710 --> 00:00:42.690 construction of the shirt is basically exactly the same as the construction of the t-shirt 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 00:00:46.890 --> 00:00:49.649 to make them longer and bell-shaped. 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 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 00:01:00.300 --> 00:01:01.820 and attach the sleeves. 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 00:01:06.140 --> 00:01:10.970 red top – which I am now just realising looks stolen from Where’s Waldo closet. 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 00:01:14.960 --> 00:01:18.040 paper this time so that I could reuse my pattern again and again. 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:21.470 Then, I traced around the sleeve, and this is where this tutorial is going to differ 00:01:21.470 --> 00:01:22.860 a little from the other one. 00:01:22.860 --> 00:01:26.290 I used a slightly different method of copying out the sleeves for the top. 00:01:26.290 --> 00:01:30.020 The front and the back of the sleeve are actually slightly different shapes, because as you 00:01:30.020 --> 00:01:33.670 will notice here, the front bodice piece and back bodice pieces are slightly different 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 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:39.040 for this. 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 00:01:42.600 --> 00:01:44.740 about making the sleeve pattern long yet. 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 00:01:49.790 --> 00:01:54.470 placed my finger on the seam that connects the sleeve to the bodice, and I basically 00:01:54.470 --> 00:01:59.689 just folded the fabric back, making dashed marks where the two fabrics join up, which 00:01:59.689 --> 00:02:01.450 I then connected with my pen. 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 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. 00:02:13.460 --> 00:02:15.540 All up, that gave me this. 00:02:15.540 --> 00:02:18.540 Notice how the slope for the back of the sleeve is slighhhtly straighter and flatter than 00:02:18.540 --> 00:02:19.540 the front? 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 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! 00:02:26.760 --> 00:02:30.540 Both methods will give you perfectly fine sleeves for your t-shirt, but this method 00:02:30.540 --> 00:02:34.260 is just “slightly” more correct, because it allows for the natural shape and movement 00:02:34.260 --> 00:02:35.260 of the body. 00:02:35.260 --> 00:02:38.590 Although, when you’re using stretchy t-shirt fabric, it doesn’t really matter – because 00:02:38.590 --> 00:02:40.310 stretchy fabric is very forgiving. 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, 00:02:44.910 --> 00:02:46.060 we need to make it longer! 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 00:02:50.769 --> 00:02:53.580 then I traced around this part of the sleeve. 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 00:02:58.650 --> 00:02:59.650 was on that. 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 00:03:03.489 --> 00:03:04.489 a little bit longer. 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 00:03:09.590 --> 00:03:11.950 from the very top part of the sleeve. 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 00:03:16.510 --> 00:03:18.560 top of the sleeve, like this. 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 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:26.320 lines here simply join up everything. 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 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:37.470 is to make the end of the sleeves looks like… a bell! 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 00:03:42.580 --> 00:03:44.010 of the sleeve. 00:03:44.010 --> 00:03:48.130 And then, I extended the sleeve out evenly on both sides like this. 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 00:04:01.739 --> 00:04:03.150 the bell begins. 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. 00:04:09.340 --> 00:04:13.470 I just eyeballed this – if you wanted to do the specific maths to get this perfect 00:04:13.470 --> 00:04:16.130 then you can – but it’s fine to just eyeball it. 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 00:04:22.270 --> 00:04:23.479 one, you would bring this in. 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 00:04:29.020 --> 00:04:31.030 would remember which was which. 00:04:31.030 --> 00:04:33.240 And that is my sleeve pattern done! 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 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:39.540 running in THIS direction. 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 00:04:43.370 --> 00:04:46.680 like this, the next step is to attach the sleeves to the bodice. 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 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 00:04:53.880 --> 00:04:54.880 of the bodice. 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. 00:04:58.970 --> 00:05:03.120 In fact, the remainder of the construction of the t-shirt is basically the exact same 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 00:05:07.630 --> 00:05:10.650 raw edges of the fabric at the ends of the sleeves. 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 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 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.250 the opening of the sleeve. 00:05:21.250 --> 00:05:22.479 And that’s the shirt done! 00:05:22.479 --> 00:05:23.479 So – how did I go? 00:05:23.479 --> 00:05:24.479 [music plays] 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:50.620 I ended up making two shirts from stretchy, thrifted jersey fabric – this black one 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 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 00:05:58.210 --> 00:05:59.810 seams look a little bit bunched up. 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 00:06:04.020 --> 00:06:06.370 and the bells look really nice and smooth. 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 00:06:09.930 --> 00:06:12.580 wearable, and I already love it! 00:06:12.580 --> 00:06:13.580 And that’s it! 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 00:06:16.259 --> 00:06:20.150 not, I've got some tips in this video here to help you out! 00:06:20.150 --> 00:06:23.130 And the finished product is really damn cute and also on trend. 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 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. 00:06:32.930 --> 00:06:36.259 So anyway, the conclusion is! 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