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There is a box in every crafter’s home,
that is filled with old unfinished projects,

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and stuff you thrifted in the hopes of upcycling.

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That becomes abandoned, that becomes forgotten.

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Well this is the series that tackles that
forgotten box.

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This is the Style Pile!

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This video is supported in part by Storyblocks.

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Hello!

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Welcome back to the Style Pile, and we’re
up to episode 18… and somehow my style pile

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has only grown bigger… which means I definitely
need to start making these videos more frequently

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and STOP buying new stuff to add to the pile.

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ANYWAY, I’d like to introduce you all to
a NEW component of my “style pile” (let’s

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be real, style pile is just a euphemistic
term for “hoarding problem” at this point).

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Yes, it's a third box.

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So this third box is entirely scraps, old
worn-out clothes and unwanted projects.

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So for the last 6 months or so I’ve been
saving every single bit of fabric scrap from

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other projects, either from when I’m upcycling
things – like, this is the bottom of the

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t-shirt that I cut off in episode 16 – or
when I’m making clothes from scratch, and

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there’s curvy bits in the pattern… like
this fabric here is some scraps leftover from

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making a pair of pants!

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I also throw things in here when I make something
ridiculous for make thrift buy that I’m

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never going to wear… does anybody recognize
this particular one?

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Now a huge reason that I’ve been doing this
is that I recently watched this program, that

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aired in Australia, called “The War On Waste”
and this is how many clothes Australians throw

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out every ten minutes!

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So after seeing this, I was like, WELP, I’m
never throwing out any tiny piece of fabric

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or tiny piece of thread ever again, because
I don’t want to contribute to this huge

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waste of fabric and resources.

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And so I have ended up with this quickly growing
scrap pile.

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So let’s see what we can do with these!

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Can we turn them into something new?

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Project number 1!

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The first thing that I’m going to try and
make with my scrap fabrics is a Plushie Toy!

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Now it’s my niece’s 5th birthday this
week, and I wanted to make her something cute!

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So, I’m going to use THIS piece of fabric,
which is also a cut off from this cotton t-shirt

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that I also upcycled in the episode 16, and
I’m going to iron an image onto it.

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So first, I needed to find an image.

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Now, I wanted to make a cute cartoon animal
plushie.

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But I also didn’t want to infringe on any
copyrights.

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So I headed over to my favourite royalty free
graphics website – formerly known as Graphic

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Stock – you guys know that I’m a huge
fan, and I've used them before, I've told

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you about them before – Storyblocks!

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And full disclosure, they are also sponsoring
this video!

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Anyway first I did a search for some owls,
coz I think owls are really cute, they'd make

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a cute plushie – but [laughing] why are
you so sad?!

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And then I looked up unicorns and I actually
found some super cute narwhals, which would

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also make a pretty great plushie.

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Then I typed in hedgehog, and I ended up finding
this super cute image, but I also ended up

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deciding to use this fox from the image instead!

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So next I opened up the image in photoshop,
removed the background colours, and I did

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this little trick to add SEAM ALLOWANCE around
the fox image, which is important for making

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the plushie.

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To add the seam allowance, in photoshop, with
the fox layer selected, I went to Layer > Layer

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Style, and I clicked on Stroke.

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This opened up this box, which puts an outline
around the fox image.

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So I played around with outline colours and
widths, and I also cleaned up the edges using

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the eraser tool.

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This toggle here changes the width of the
outline, I bumped mine up to 20 to get an

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approximately half an inch seam allowance
around the fox once it was printed out.

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Now I printed it out onto plain paper first
to check that the size was right, before I

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printed it out properly in full colour onto
my photo transfer paper.

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And… then, this happened.

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"Nooooo!"

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Sighhhh.

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PRINTERS.

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I swear it;s the one technology that’s never
really improved since I was a kid.

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Anyway, this slightly-damaged the very expensive
photo transfer paper that I was trying to

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print on, but I didn't want it to go to waste
so I put the paper through for a second attempt

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AND - we finally got there!

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Now for the transfer paper, I’m using Lesley
Riley’s TAP, which is honestly the best

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transfer paper I’ve ever used, especially
if you’re making something like a plushie.

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That’s because when you iron it onto the
fabric, the image actually sets itself INTO

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the fabric instead of just being stuck on
top of the fabric in a plasticy-way like other

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transfers I’ve used.

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I’ll show you a close up at the end of this
tutorial, and you’ll see what I mean!

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So I cut the fox out with scissors, and then
I followed the instructions in the transfer

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paper kit to set the image into the fabric.

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Now this is only my second time using this
transfer paper, so I’m still working out

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the kinks – and larger images are harder
to do than smaller ones – BUT I think that

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overall, it transferred pretty well!

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So once I’d transferred the image to this
white cotton t-shirt scrap, I then searched

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through my scrap fabric box for two more pieces
that could act as 1.

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the back piece, and 2.

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A backing for the fox image.

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The scraps just needed to be larger than the
fox image.

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So I ended up with these two pieces, which
are both light-weight, woven, non-stretchy

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cottons, and I cut them to roughly the same
size as the fox image fabric.

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This darker floral fabric is going to become
the backing for the fox image.

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I put some pins through the two layers to
hold them together, and next I’m going to

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sew them together like THIS.

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I sewed right on the edge of that orange outline
“seam allowance” that I added, using a

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straight stitch.

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Now because t-shirt fabric is stretchy, I
was also careful to not stretch this at all

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while sewing it to this backing piece.

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Once that was done I carefully cut around
the image, just outside of the stitches.

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Then I grabbed this brown floral cotton piece,
which I’m going to use as the back of the

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plushie, and I flipped it so it was right-side-up,
then flipped the fox down onto it – so the

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two pieces of fabric are right-sides-together
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sewing around the fox just inside the white
stitches there.

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I’m also not sewing entirely around the
fox shape – I’m going to leave a small

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opening here.

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Then I cut off all that excess backing fabric
by cutting around the fox shape, just outside

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of those two lines of stitching.

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And those offcuts went right back into the
scrap pile!

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Then, through the small opening, I turned
the fox the right way around.

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I also used a pair of scissors to help me
push out the more difficult corners!

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And now we have a very deflated-looking fox
plushie, ready to be stuffed!

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Now because I’m using all scrap fabrics
for this project, instead of using something

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like Polyfill, I’m going to use scrap fabrics
to fill it.

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So this is where all my teeniest tiniest fabric
scraps get their chance to shine!

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A lot of these are offcuts from when I use
my overlocker, or cut threads off of my sewing

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machine!

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However, I didn’t think that even all of
these scraps would be enough to fill the fox,

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so I also chopped up some larger fabric scraps
like this, by folding them up and then chopping

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them into bits with scissors.

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I also tried cutting strips with my rotary
cutter just like a master chef slicing up

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some vegetables.

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And that worked… but it was a little bit
more dangerous, so… please be careful if

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you try this method!

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Anyway, then I used all this shredded fabric
to stuff the fox, through that little gap

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in its side!

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And yeah, this pile of scraps looks like more
than enough to fill the fox, right?

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Well, I actually needed even more than this!

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So I cut up a lot more larger scraps to fill
it.

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Once it was filled, I hand-sewed up the small
hole in the side, and it was done!

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OH and before I show you the final project,
I wanted to show you how well this transfer

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paper goes in the fabric – see how it’s
really a PART of the fabric, not just stuck

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on top, all plastic-y-looking, like most fabric
transfers can be?

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Anyway, this is what it looks like aaaaall
finished!

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SO, that was a really simple way of making
a cute Plushie toy, BUT if you scaled it up,

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this method could also be used to make something
like a pillow as well!

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The only “new” thing that you need in
this project is transfer paper, everything

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else is made from your old scraps!

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[kids cartoon music plays]

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SO, we still have 3 other scrap fabric projects
to go, I’ve filmed a total of 4, but this

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video is getting long enough already!

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SO what I’m going to do is to break this
up into a little mini-series of 4 episodes.

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So come back here in 3 days, if you’re watching
this on the day that this comes out, to see

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me try and make a sleeping mask out of all
scrap fabrics and old clothes!

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And then in parts 3 and 4 we’ll also be
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