1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,890 There is a box, in the corner of my sewing room. 2 00:00:02,890 --> 00:00:07,410 It is a box whose contents have not seen the light of day for many a month. 3 00:00:07,410 --> 00:00:11,909 Many crafters will be familiar with this box, in all of its forms: There’s the ever-growing 4 00:00:11,909 --> 00:00:14,309 amorphous lump that lies underneath your desk… 5 00:00:14,309 --> 00:00:16,690 The monster underneath your bed… 6 00:00:16,690 --> 00:00:20,240 The stuff you vacuum-packed in a fit of organization and stuffed into your garage in the hopes 7 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:22,110 that you’d never have to deal with it again… 8 00:00:22,110 --> 00:00:27,480 This, my friends, is the UNFINISHED SEWING PILE. 9 00:00:32,820 --> 00:00:34,660 Welcome back! 10 00:00:34,660 --> 00:00:38,880 Today’s video is a sequel, of sorts, to my previous video where I turned this dress 11 00:00:38,890 --> 00:00:40,409 here into a romper! 12 00:00:40,409 --> 00:00:44,510 Now, the method that I showed you in episode 12 works well for any dress that has a zipper, 13 00:00:44,510 --> 00:00:48,199 buttons, ties-up at the front or has some other method that allows you to pull the dress 14 00:00:48,199 --> 00:00:52,629 up over your hips and waist, however, what about dresses that you pull on over your head? 15 00:00:52,629 --> 00:00:56,829 The dress that I pulled out of the style pile(s) for this video was THIS dress here. 16 00:00:56,829 --> 00:00:58,960 Notice how it doesn’t have a zipper up the back? 17 00:00:58,960 --> 00:00:59,960 YEAH. 18 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:02,460 The reason why that’s important will be obvious very soon. 19 00:01:02,460 --> 00:01:08,470 So, excited as I was by my previous "romper-fication", I also started turning this dress into a romper, 20 00:01:08,470 --> 00:01:10,960 in the exact same way that I did in episode #12. 21 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:16,250 But then I hit a pretty obvious snag when I got up to the stage where I... had to put 22 00:01:16,250 --> 00:01:17,970 the romper on my body. 23 00:01:17,970 --> 00:01:20,680 Because there was now a couple of leg holes in the way. 24 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:21,680 Whoops. 25 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:26,111 SO, I decided that I would open up the back of the dress, to allow me to get it on, and 26 00:01:26,111 --> 00:01:30,120 to make it pretty, I’d also turn this opening into a lace-up, corset back. 27 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,980 So next, I placed the romper front-side down like this and I sliced straight down the centre 28 00:01:34,980 --> 00:01:37,950 back, using some scissors, ending at my lower back. 29 00:01:37,950 --> 00:01:41,800 Then I folded each raw edge in about half an inch, tapering the fold at the bottom of 30 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,330 the slit, and then I sewed a straight stitch down each of these raw edges, effectively 31 00:01:45,330 --> 00:01:47,260 “hemming” the sides, like this. 32 00:01:47,260 --> 00:01:51,200 Next, I turned the romper inside-out, and with a fabric marker I drew small dots on 33 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,220 evenly up either side of the slit. 34 00:01:53,220 --> 00:01:57,700 Now, I shouldn’t have made marks all the way up to the TOP of the romper, I should 35 00:01:57,700 --> 00:02:01,130 have only done them up to here… we’ll see why in just a bit. 36 00:02:01,130 --> 00:02:05,409 Anyway, for each of the dots that I had marked out, I poked a small hole through each one, 37 00:02:05,409 --> 00:02:08,890 and then I inserted an eyelet through that hole, smooth-side on the right-side of the 38 00:02:08,890 --> 00:02:15,290 fabric, rough side of the eyelet on the wrong side of the fabric. 39 00:02:15,290 --> 00:02:17,890 Once all the eyelets were inserted, it looked like this! 40 00:02:17,890 --> 00:02:21,850 And again, I shouldn’t have added these top few and, I promise, you’ll soon see 41 00:02:21,850 --> 00:02:22,850 why. 42 00:02:22,850 --> 00:02:27,180 Anyway, I then started lacing up the eyelets using a piece of ribbon, lacing them up how 43 00:02:27,180 --> 00:02:29,290 you would lace up a pair of shoes. 44 00:02:29,290 --> 00:02:30,290 Annnnnd… 45 00:02:30,290 --> 00:02:35,060 I slowly came to the realisation that once the romper was laced up all the way, I would 46 00:02:35,060 --> 00:02:40,750 still have my original problem of not being able to get it on – not unless I had help 47 00:02:40,750 --> 00:02:44,630 from somebody else who was always going to lace me up into the romper each time I wanted 48 00:02:44,630 --> 00:02:49,920 to wear it - which would present a little bit of a problem everytime I wanted to take 49 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:51,840 the romper off to use the bathroom. 50 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:52,840 Yeah. 51 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:57,350 So I had to re-think this whole lace-up corset situation. 52 00:02:57,350 --> 00:03:02,000 Sooooo while I was lacing it up, when I got up to about the 5th or the 6th eyelet pair 53 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,800 from the top, I kept trying the romper on my body to see if I could still pull it on. 54 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,990 When I got to the 4th eyelet pair from the top, I realised that this was the furthest 55 00:03:10,990 --> 00:03:12,810 that I could lace it up and still put it on. 56 00:03:12,810 --> 00:03:18,620 So, I then gave the romper an open v-back by folding the top edges of the romper in, 57 00:03:18,620 --> 00:03:23,280 underneath the inside of the romper’s back, like this, and then stitching over the top. 58 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,450 You can see that I've pinned the on the right-hand side already. 59 00:03:26,450 --> 00:03:30,950 Now, because I’d already inserted eyelets, I had to hand-stitch this so that I wouldn’t 60 00:03:30,950 --> 00:03:36,120 run over the eyelets with my sewing machine, which is why I wish that I hadn't inserted 61 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,220 eyelets all the way up to the top! 62 00:03:38,220 --> 00:03:42,060 If the eyelets weren't in here, I'd be able to go over it with my sewing machine. 63 00:03:42,060 --> 00:03:46,150 Anyway, we learn from our mistakes, and in the end I still had this super cute romper 64 00:03:46,150 --> 00:03:50,610 with a lace-up corset back, that I think is much more interesting than the original dress 65 00:03:50,610 --> 00:03:52,830 that I upcycled it from! 66 00:03:55,980 --> 00:04:00,380 I hope that you enjoyed these two episodes on turning dresses into rompers - if you haven't 67 00:04:00,390 --> 00:04:04,470 seen the first one already, then make sure you watch it and as always if you try this 68 00:04:04,470 --> 00:04:09,610 OR any of my other tutorials then please tag them with #diyannika on Instagram, because 69 00:04:09,610 --> 00:04:11,569 I love seeing what you guys come up with! 70 00:04:11,569 --> 00:04:14,551 Thank you so much for watching, and I’ll see you all next time. 71 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:15,560 Bye! 72 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,970 Thank you to all of my supporters on Patreon for making these videos possible. 73 00:04:19,970 --> 00:04:23,970 To become my patreon supporter, go to patreon.com/annikavictoria!