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!