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

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

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Many crafters will be familiar with this box,[br]in all of its forms: There’s the ever-growing

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amorphous lump[br]that lies underneath your desk…

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The monster underneath your bed…

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The stuff you vacuum-packed in a fit of organization[br]and stuffed into your garage in the hopes

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that you’d never have to deal with it again…

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This, my friends, is the UNFINISHED SEWING[br]PILE.

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Welcome back!

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Today’s video is a sequel, of sorts, to[br]my previous video where I turned this dress

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here into a romper!

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Now, the method that I showed you in episode[br]12 works well for any dress that has a zipper,

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buttons, ties-up at the front or has some[br]other method that allows you to pull the dress

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up over your hips and waist, however, what[br]about dresses that you pull on over your head?

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The dress that I pulled out of the style pile(s)[br]for this video was THIS dress here.

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Notice how it doesn’t have a zipper up the[br]back?

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YEAH.

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The reason why that’s important will be[br]obvious very soon.

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So, excited as I was by my previous "romper-fication",[br]I also started turning this dress into a romper,

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in the exact same way that I did in episode[br]#12.

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But then I hit a pretty obvious snag when[br]I got up to the stage where I... had to put

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the romper on my body.

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Because there was now a couple of leg holes[br]in the way.

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Whoops.

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SO, I decided that I would open up the back[br]of the dress, to allow me to get it on, and

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to make it pretty, I’d also turn this opening[br]into a lace-up, corset back.

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So next, I placed the romper front-side down[br]like this and I sliced straight down the centre

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back, using some scissors, ending at my lower[br]back.

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Then I folded each raw edge in about half[br]an inch, tapering the fold at the bottom of

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the slit, and then I sewed a straight stitch[br]down each of these raw edges, effectively

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“hemming” the sides, like this.

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Next, I turned the romper inside-out, and[br]with a fabric marker I drew small dots on

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evenly up either side of the slit.

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Now, I shouldn’t have made marks all the[br]way up to the TOP of the romper, I should

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have only done them up to here… we’ll[br]see why in just a bit.

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Anyway, for each of the dots that I had marked[br]out, I poked a small hole through each one,

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and then I inserted an eyelet through that[br]hole, smooth-side on the right-side of the

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fabric, rough side of the eyelet on the wrong[br]side of the fabric.

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Once all the eyelets were inserted, it looked[br]like this!

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And again, I shouldn’t have added these[br]top few and, I promise, you’ll soon see

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why.

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Anyway, I then started lacing up the eyelets[br]using a piece of ribbon, lacing them up how

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you would lace up a pair of shoes.

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Annnnnd…

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I slowly came to the realisation that once[br]the romper was laced up all the way, I would

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still have my original problem of not being[br]able to get it on – not unless I had help

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from somebody else who was always going to[br]lace me up into the romper each time I wanted

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to wear it - which would present a little[br]bit of a problem everytime I wanted to take

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the romper off to use the bathroom.

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Yeah.

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So I had to re-think this whole lace-up corset[br]situation.

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Sooooo while I was lacing it up, when I got[br]up to about the 5th or the 6th eyelet pair

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from the top, I kept trying the romper on[br]my body to see if I could still pull it on.

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When I got to the 4th eyelet pair from the[br]top, I realised that this was the furthest

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that I could lace it up and still put it on.

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So, I then gave the romper an open v-back[br]by folding the top edges of the romper in,

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underneath the inside of the romper’s back,[br]like this, and then stitching over the top.

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You can see that I've pinned the on the right-hand[br]side already.

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Now, because I’d already inserted eyelets,[br]I had to hand-stitch this so that I wouldn’t

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run over the eyelets with my sewing machine,[br]which is why I wish that I hadn't inserted

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eyelets all the way up to the top!

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If the eyelets weren't in here, I'd be able[br]to go over it with my sewing machine.

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Anyway, we learn from our mistakes, and in[br]the end I still had this super cute romper

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with a lace-up corset back, that I think is[br]much more interesting than the original dress

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that I upcycled it from!

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I hope that you enjoyed these two episodes[br]on turning dresses into rompers - if you haven't

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seen the first one already, then make sure[br]you watch it and as always if you try this

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OR any of my other tutorials then please tag[br]them with #diyannika on Instagram, because

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I love seeing what you guys come up with!

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Thank you so much for watching, and I’ll[br]see you all next time.

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Bye!

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