Hi! Welcome to Get Sewing With Me episode
#5 - and today's episode is inspired by one

of my favourite Youtubers, April, who runs
the Youtube channel Coolirpa. Now April does

this amazing series called "Thrifted Transformations",
where she takes a number of items of thrifted

clothing, that are usually... not super fashionable,
and turns them into something really cute

and modern and trendy!

Anyway, I've been inspired by this series
since the day that she started it. And so

today, I'm going to do my own little take
on April's series by doing my own Thrifted

Transformation.

So these are the two items that I have thrifted
and that I am going to try and upcycle into

something cuter.

The first thing that I thrifted was this dress.
Now it's a circle-skirt style dress and it's

made from a ribbed fabric, so it is actually
pretty cute - but it's still a little bit

boring. I love to wear things with prints
and patterns and colours all over them, so

a plain blue navy dress is just... isn't really
my style.

And I just have to show you all the tag on
this dress, because it's... kinda really weird.

Apparently the brand is "God is Girl" - "Welcome
to God is girl. Tomorrow, tomorrow, we walked

together. thank you hand in hand."

The second is this blue top. Now I don't like
the cut, colour or material used in this top,

but what I do really like - and what I think
will be useful - are these daisies all along

the sides. So, let's see what we can do with
them!

So the first thing that I did was to chop
the flowers off the top.

They came off in a string, so then I simply
cut the connections between them.

Then, I placed the daisies onto the dress
where I thought they’d look then best, evenly

spaced from each other, to make sure that
I had enough flowers, and to preview what

it would look like.

Then, one by one, I sewed them on. Now it
would be totally possible to use fabric glue

here instead, if you don’t have the patience
to sew, but I thought that sewing the flowers

on would make them stay on a little bit more
strongly.

Now for those of you who are totally new to
sewing, this is what I did to sew the flowers

on: I threaded a needle with a piece of thread,
doubled up the thread, and tied a knot in

the end.
Then I cut off the excess thread.

I brought the needle up through the back of
the dress, through the middle of the flower,

and then back down. I repeated this 3 times,
and then tied a knot in the thread, then cut

the excess thread off.
Then I repeated this for all 40 or so flowers

on the dress, until it was completely covered.

Now I don’t like wasting clothes or fabric,
so with the blue top that’s had its daisies

removed, I’m going to use the remaining
fabric to make a headscarf!

I cut a strip of fabric off the top, and cut
the circle of fabric open, then folded it

in half lengthways and sewed down this length
like this, using a straight stitch.

I turned the resulting tube inside out, folded
the raw edges down inside the tube, and sewed

over the top like this.

So, these are the final transformations! Now,
the two don't really go together in an outfit,

so I'm showing them off here separately.

So I hope you enjoyed this video, give it
a thumbs up if you do want to see more Get

Sewing With Me videos in the future, so that
I know whether or not this series is something

you want to keep seeing!

And make sure to go check out April's channel
- I guarantee that if you like my videos,

then you will LOVE hers.
And don't forget - I have my very own clothing

line out now! So don't forget that you can
go and buy that if you're interested.

Thank you all so much for watching and I'll
see you all for my next video. Bye!