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There is a box, in the corner of my sewing
room.

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It is a box whose contents have not seen the
light of day for many a month.

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Many crafters will be familiar with this box,
in all of its forms:

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There’s the ever-growing amorphous lump
that lies underneath your desk…

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The monster underneath your bed…
The stuff you vacuum-packed in a fit of organization

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and stuffed into your garage in the hopes
that you’d never have to deal with it again…

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This, my friends, is the UNFINISHED SEWING
PILE!

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The item that I pulled out of the box today…
well, I actually did a bit of digging through

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the box because I wanted to find a particular
item that was right at the bottom – is this!

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A plain, beige cardigan. It’s not a particularly
interesting – or flattering – item, and

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it’s also missing a button down the bottom.
But, I really like the colour and I think

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that it could definitely be turned into something
cuter.

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SO the first thing I wanted to do was to change
the length. As you may have noticed by now,

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I really like cropped stuff.
So first, to crop the cardigan, I sliced off

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the bottom with my rotary cutter.

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Then, on this bit that I sliced off, you’ll
notice how the knits are a bit different – it’s

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all ribbed along the bottom here, and I want
to keep that ribbing for my new cardigan.

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So, with this sliced off bit unfolded, I cut
the ribbing off.

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And now I’m going to attach this to the
bottom of my cardigan as a quick way to deal

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with the raw edges.

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So, I place the ribbing onto the cardigan,
right sides together, with this original BOTTOM

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of the cardigan pointing UP.
And then, I pin it on, making sure to match

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up the side seams on both the pieces.

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And then, once it’s all pinned on, I sew
the new bottom of the cardigan on like this.

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To sew the two pieces together, I’m using
my overlocker – also called a serger – mainly

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because I’m working with a knitted fabric
and I don’t want the knit to unravel!

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Zigzag stitches on a regular machine would
work okay, but it would be wise to use a very

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short zig zag stitch over each raw edge first
to prevent any unraveling of the knitted material.

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Also – to finish off my serger seams, I
usually just use a zig zag stitch over the

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ends and this stops them from unraveling.
However there are other methods to finish

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off serger seams, and I want to know – what
method do you guys use when overlocking?

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Anyway – now cropped, the cardigan looks
like this! Which is much more to my style.

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Now it’s time for some granncy chic embroidery!
I recently learned a really quick and easy

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way to embroider roses thanks to this blog,
Kmac-DIY – an embroidery goddess whose technique

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I am reproducing here with her permission!
And just by the way, her blog is also full

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of other really cool embroidery techniques
and DIYs for beginners, and I highly recommend

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checking it out!

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So, to embroider these roses, the first thing
that I did was pick out my colours – 3 reds

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and a green for leaves!

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Then, using this washable fabric marker, I
drew 3 small circles on each side arranged

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around the neckline. It’s hard to see the
lines with the camera – but they’re there!

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The three circles that I drew onto the cardigan
look like this!

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Then, I put my embroidery hoop onto one side
of the cardigan, with the 3 circles in the

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middle of hoop – or, about as close to the
middle as I could get them!

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Now, I’m going to draw 5 lines radiating
out from the middle of the circle like this.

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Next, with my embroidery thread and needle,
I brought it up through the back like this,

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and back down at the centre of the circle,
creating a straight line.

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And then I repeated this for the other 4 lines!

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Next, I brought my needle up HERE, in between
two of these radiating lines.

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The next step is really easy. I’m going
to simply bring my needle over the top of

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the adjacent stitch, and then under the next
stitch, in an anti-clockwise way.

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Then I'm going to repeat this. I’m going to go over
this stitch, and under this stitch.

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Then over this stitch, under this stitch...

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Basically, I’m going to keep repeating this, in an anticlockwise manner, with the threads moving
outwards from the centre, until I’ve gone

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around enough times to create a rose!

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To finish it off, I simply brought the thread
to the back again, and then tied a knot – or,

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a couple of knots, because the knitted material
is quite gapey and I don't want the knot to

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go back through to the front, and then I cut
off the excess thread.

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Then I repeated this for the other two circles I drew onto the cardigan, in my two different colours!

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Next, to embroider the leaves, I drew on a
leaf shape with my fabric marker, and then

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I used a satin stitch to fill the shapes in,
from the edge to the halfway mark. Now I explained

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how to do a satin stitch in this video here,
but basically I brought my needle up at the

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edge of the shape, then back down at the other
side, and then I brought it up again next

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to that straight line stitch I just made,
then I continued this, up one side of the

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leaf and down the other, until the entire
leaf shape was filled in like this.

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Then, I repeated this whole design onto the
other side of the cardigan’s neckline, and

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I’m done!

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This cardigan has been totally transformed
– from a simple, unflattering beige cardigan

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to a cute, vintage-inspired, cropped and embroidered
number!

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It’s very what I like to call "Granny Chic",
a style I am very fond of, and I think that

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it goes really well with high waisted skirts
and shorts and dresses, buttoned up like this,

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or left open like this!

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Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this video, that
you maybe learned something, and like always

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if you try out this or any of my other tutorials
then tag it with #diyannika on instagram so

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I can see your creations!

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And I will see you all for my next video.
Thanks for watching! Bye!

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Thank you to all my supporters on Patreon
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my Patreon supporter, go to patreon.com/annikavictoria
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