WEBVTT 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:02.890 There is a box, in the corner of my sewing room. 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. 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 00:00:11.909 --> 00:00:14.309 amorphous lump that lies underneath your desk… 00:00:14.309 --> 00:00:16.690 The monster underneath your bed… 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 00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:22.110 that you’d never have to deal with it again… 00:00:22.110 --> 00:00:27.480 This, my friends, is the UNFINISHED SEWING PILE. 00:00:32.820 --> 00:00:34.660 Welcome back! 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 00:00:38.890 --> 00:00:40.409 here into a romper! 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, 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 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? 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. 00:00:56.829 --> 00:00:58.960 Notice how it doesn’t have a zipper up the back? 00:00:58.960 --> 00:00:59.960 YEAH. 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:02.460 The reason why that’s important will be obvious very soon. 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, 00:01:08.470 --> 00:01:10.960 in the exact same way that I did in episode #12. 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 00:01:16.250 --> 00:01:17.970 the romper on my body. 00:01:17.970 --> 00:01:20.680 Because there was now a couple of leg holes in the way. 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:21.680 Whoops. 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 00:01:26.111 --> 00:01:30.120 to make it pretty, I’d also turn this opening into a lace-up, corset back. 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 00:01:34.980 --> 00:01:37.950 back, using some scissors, ending at my lower back. 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 00:01:41.800 --> 00:01:45.330 the slit, and then I sewed a straight stitch down each of these raw edges, effectively 00:01:45.330 --> 00:01:47.260 “hemming” the sides, like this. 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 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:53.220 evenly up either side of the slit. 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 00:01:57.700 --> 00:02:01.130 have only done them up to here… we’ll see why in just a bit. 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, 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 00:02:08.890 --> 00:02:15.290 fabric, rough side of the eyelet on the wrong side of the fabric. 00:02:15.290 --> 00:02:17.890 Once all the eyelets were inserted, it looked like this! 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 00:02:21.850 --> 00:02:22.850 why. 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 00:02:27.180 --> 00:02:29.290 you would lace up a pair of shoes. 00:02:29.290 --> 00:02:30.290 Annnnnd… 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 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 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 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 00:02:49.920 --> 00:02:51.840 the romper off to use the bathroom. 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:52.840 Yeah. 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:57.350 So I had to re-think this whole lace-up corset situation. 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 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. 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 00:03:10.990 --> 00:03:12.810 that I could lace it up and still put it on. 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, 00:03:18.620 --> 00:03:23.280 underneath the inside of the romper’s back, like this, and then stitching over the top. 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:26.450 You can see that I've pinned the on the right-hand side already. 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 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 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:38.220 eyelets all the way up to the top! 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. 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 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 00:03:50.610 --> 00:03:52.830 that I upcycled it from! 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 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 00:04:04.470 --> 00:04:09.610 OR any of my other tutorials then please tag them with #diyannika on Instagram, because 00:04:09.610 --> 00:04:11.569 I love seeing what you guys come up with! 00:04:11.569 --> 00:04:14.551 Thank you so much for watching, and I’ll see you all next time. 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:15.560 Bye! 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:19.970 Thank you to all of my supporters on Patreon for making these videos possible. 00:04:19.970 --> 00:04:23.970 To become my patreon supporter, go to patreon.com/annikavictoria!