WEBVTT 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:13.180 Hi, welcome to "Get Sewing With Me", 00:00:13.180 --> 00:00:16.700 The show where I do a little bit of sewing, and I take you with me for the ride. 00:00:16.700 --> 00:00:19.660 Hopefully, teaching you some tips and tricks along the way. 00:00:19.660 --> 00:00:25.381 So I have a real problem with buying shirts - like blouses, like ones with collars and buttons down the 00:00:25.381 --> 00:00:28.321 front - and the problem 00:00:28.321 --> 00:00:32.400 with this is, is that I don't actually wear blouses - like, ever. 00:00:32.400 --> 00:00:34.400 But for some reason I can't stop buying them 00:00:34.400 --> 00:00:37.460 So I have a closet full of blouses that I don't wear! 00:00:37.460 --> 00:00:40.801 So I thought I might wear all my blouses a bit more if I made them a little bit more interesting 00:00:40.801 --> 00:00:42.097 And it has definitely worked! 00:00:42.100 --> 00:00:44.640 So without further ado, let's begin! 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:49.140 So the first shirt I’m going to try and upcycle is this boring black blouse. 00:00:49.150 --> 00:00:53.500 Now I found these cute buttons a couple of months ago, and I think that now is the perfect 00:00:53.500 --> 00:00:57.199 time to put them to use. I’m first going to sew two matching heart 00:00:57.199 --> 00:01:01.170 buttons onto the collar. So, using some needle and thread, I bring 00:01:01.170 --> 00:01:05.119 my needle up through my collar right in the middle like this, and then I thread my button 00:01:05.119 --> 00:01:07.640 on. For the first few stitches it’s going to 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:13.030 be all wobbly and move around a lot, but if I sew it on tightly – and this is about 00:01:13.030 --> 00:01:17.640 after 15 times going up and down – the button will stay in place. 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:21.080 I tied a knot in the thread after bringing it through to the back of the collar, and 00:01:21.080 --> 00:01:24.920 there we go! And I simply repeated this on the other side. 00:01:24.920 --> 00:01:31.280 The buttons on this blouse were also very ugly, so I chopped them all off, and replaced 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:33.990 them one-by-one with these cute bow buttons. 00:01:33.990 --> 00:01:39.440 And I’m really pleased with the final result. This shirt is now WAY cuter than it was before. 00:01:39.440 --> 00:01:42.630 So this is another method for upcycling a standard old-shirt. 00:01:42.630 --> 00:01:47.720 I layed my shirt down flat, right side up, making sure that the collar is totally flat 00:01:47.720 --> 00:01:51.860 like this. Then, I grabbed a piece of lace and measured it to the width of my collar. 00:01:51.860 --> 00:01:56.170 Then, with some fabric glue – and just as a side not, you can’t use craft glue or 00:01:56.170 --> 00:02:00.360 a hot glue gun here because it will make the collar fabric all stiff – it’s got to 00:02:00.360 --> 00:02:05.800 be fabric glue – I put a thin line all along the back of the collar and then stuck the 00:02:05.800 --> 00:02:12.030 lace down onto it. 00:02:12.030 --> 00:02:16.300 Then I realized that I probably needed to cover the entire collar in glue, so I did 00:02:16.300 --> 00:02:20.209 that, pressed the lace down, flipped it over to make sure that the front side of the collar 00:02:20.209 --> 00:02:30.030 was totally flat, and then I let the whole thing dry for about 30 minutes. 00:02:30.030 --> 00:02:33.660 Now this is actually something that I’ve wanted to do a shirt for quite a while. Drawing 00:02:33.660 --> 00:02:38.680 inspiration from fashion designers like Vivetta and Coco Fennell, I’m going to make a shirt 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:43.760 with a statement collar! For this, I’m using iron-on patches. You can find these basically 00:02:43.760 --> 00:02:49.250 anywhere – but ebay and etsy are great places to find specific designs! 00:02:49.250 --> 00:02:53.940 And, as the name implies, all you’ve got to do here is iron the patches on. 00:02:53.940 --> 00:03:02.790 So to do that, you cover your shirt with some cloth, like a sheet or pillow case, and with 00:03:02.790 --> 00:03:07.880 your iron on its highest cotton setting you place pressure onto the patch and the shirt 00:03:07.880 --> 00:03:10.950 for about 30 seconds. Try not to move the iron back and forth too 00:03:10.950 --> 00:03:15.720 much, because you might move the patch. And – the patch is now bonded onto the shirt. 00:03:15.720 --> 00:03:19.050 And I repeat this with the other side. 00:03:19.050 --> 00:03:26.870 The last one was inspired by a shirt that I saw in Dangerfield, which I thought that 00:03:26.870 --> 00:03:32.540 I could probably recreate for a lot cheaper. Now this one does require a specialized stitch 00:03:32.540 --> 00:03:36.850 on a sewing machine. This stitch will probably only be found on mid-range sewing machines 00:03:36.850 --> 00:03:41.319 and above, but, if you’ve got this stitch, you can give this one a go! 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:45.960 So this is the shirt that I’m going to transform. Before I begin sewing, I round off the edges 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:51.300 of the collar with a pencil, so that I’ll have a rounder collar. This is the line I’m 00:03:51.300 --> 00:03:53.950 going to follow with my needle when I’m sewing. 00:03:53.950 --> 00:03:58.180 Then, I set my machine to that stitch, and, starting at the inside of the collar, I sew 00:03:58.180 --> 00:04:01.770 all the way around the edges, and follow the pencil line around the pointy-bits of the 00:04:01.770 --> 00:04:02.319 collar. 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:11.060 I end up with this, and then I simply cut away all the excess fabric. 00:04:11.060 --> 00:04:14.890 And with the scissors, you’ve got to get right into those grooves, but making sure 00:04:14.890 --> 00:04:21.069 not to cut the stitches – and, hopefully you’ll end up with something like this! 00:04:21.069 --> 00:04:32.000 Of course, there is also embroidery! I’ve already covered this a couple of times in 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:36.819 previous videos, so I will link to them here, on you can find the links in the description 00:04:36.819 --> 00:04:38.560 box if you’re on a mobile device. 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:42.419 So, hopefully this video gives you lots of inspiration on upcycling your own shirts, 00:04:42.419 --> 00:04:47.680 both if you have a problem and can’t stop buying them like me, or if you’ve got some 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:49.410 spare time, and want to make a couple a cute blouses! 00:04:49.410 --> 00:04:55.310 Share photos of your up-cycled blouses with me on instagram using the hashtag #diyannika 00:04:55.310 --> 00:04:59.390 (and just a reminder that your profile has to be on public for me to actually see 00:04:59.390 --> 00:05:00.650 the photo). 00:05:00.650 --> 00:05:03.530 I hope you all enjoyed this video, and I'll see you all next time. Bye!