There is a box, in the corner of my sewing room.
It is a box whose contents have not seen the light of day for many a month.
Many crafters will be familiar with this box, in all of its forms:
There’s the ever-growing amorphous lump that lies underneath your desk…
The monster underneath your bed… The stuff you vacuum-packed in a fit of organization
and stuffed into your garage in the hopes that you’d never have to deal with it again…
This, my friends, is the UNFINISHED SEWING PILE.
Hi! So I’m starting this new series on my channel. I have this box here, sitting in
the my bottom of craft room, that’s filled with half-finished projects and a bunch of
thrifted clothes that I bought... some... years ago, that I had all the intentions of
fixing and upcycling and making cuter, but then kind of just threw them in here and forgot
about them and have been ignoring them for a long time. But, as you can see – it’s
turning into a little bit of a problem. So, in each episode of this new series I’m
going to be taking one item out of this box and finally fixing it, until the box is empty.
This series is mostly going to be focused on simple fixes, so the videos are going to
be quite short little episodes, but hopefully they will teach you some more simple sewing
techniques and cover a lot of the basics, and at the same time help you to make your
clothes… cuter! Anyway, I’m really excited about this new series and I hope that you
enjoy it too. Alright, let’s get started on the first project!
So this is the first item that I pulled out of the box. Now, I’m sure that some people
would be able to pull off a dress like this with a big ring right in the centre, but I
am not one of them. It's… definitely not my style.
So, first thing that I did was to get a small, sharp pair of scissors and carefully cut the
ring out. Then, I also cut off the loops that held the
ring in place.
Now, I’m going to sew the remaining bits
back together, like this. I thread a regular sewing needle with some
black thread to match the colour of the dress. To do this, I push the thread through the
needle’s eye, pull it through, double the thread over and tie a knot in the end.
This, in my opinion, is the easiest way to hand sew because you don’t run the risk of losing
the thread’s tail! Then, I push the needle up through the back
of one side, and then down through the front of the other side. Then I repeat this, literally
about 50 times, to secure the two pieces to eachother very firmly. Then, with the thread
on the inside of the dress, I tie a knot in it and I cut off the excess.
When I’m done, it looks like this. And you can’t notice the threads at all unless your
face is inappropriately close to my boobs, so… success! I really like how this turned
out, and now I have the cutest little black dress, with an interesting cutout feature,
to wear out at night.
And a super BIG thanks to Julia Elms for doing the amazing artwork in the opening title - didn't
it look amazing??