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Hello, welcome to Make Thrift Buy, the show
where you suggest clothes or accessories that
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you've found on the internet and then I do
my best to recreate them.
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Today's challenge was suggested by am_y on
instagram,
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and Hanechon on youtube, who both wanted me
to try out tops featuring heart cutouts!
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So I'm pretty much a sucker for heart prints
or heart cutouts or heart... anything, on
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basically any item of clothing - as you can
see - so I really really really wanted to
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give this one a go. So let's begin!
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Now because I have uni exams in a week, I’m
going to be super lazy and try this out on
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a top I already own. So this is a high-necked
top, that I’ve never worn because it’s
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kinda… meh…
The most important thing about this top, however,
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is that the material doesn’t really FRAY,
because it’s stretchy.
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So, using a piece of chalk, and looking at
a picture of the inspiration shirt on my phone,
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I traced a heart-shape onto my own shirt,
in the spot that I wanted the cutout to be.
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And this is a super flattering shot. Ummm…so
let’s zoom in.
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So okay! – now that I’ve traced out a
basic heart shape onto my top, I take it off
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and even up the heart, making sure that it’s
centered, and that both the sides of the heart
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are the same shape and size.
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Then, I got myself some fusible interfacing,
which in this case, will allow the cutout
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to hold its shape.
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So I cut out a piece of interfacing that was
slightly bigger than my heart shape.
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Then I turned my shirt inside-out and – nice,
there’s a lovely spit-stain for you to all
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look at there from where I tried to rub out
my chalk lines… - and apparently the chalk
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also went through to the backside of the fabric.
Which will actually help me, but if your material
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hasn’t done this, make a note of where your
heart-shape lies, then, place your interfacing
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over the top of this shape, with the fusible,
rough side, facing down.
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Now, instructions for different interfacings'
will vary so make sure you look at your own,
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but mine told me to place my iron, on wool-setting,
onto the interfacing for 8 seconds. So I…
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did… that.
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I made sure that the interfacing was securely
attached to the fabric, and then I turned
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my shirt the right way around.
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Now, it’s kinda hard to see with this lighting,
but the heart outline IS still there, and
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then I basically just used some fabric scissors
to cut through the fabric and the nterfacing
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layers, using the heart outline to guide me,
giving me this.
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Then I turned the shirt inside out and ironed
the interfacing one more time, for about 5
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seconds, to make sure that it was really well
attached at the new cut edges.
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And that's it.
So…. How did I go?
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[fast-paced, happy, bouncy EDM music plays]
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So my conclusion is:
[scissor snipping, zipper sound effect]
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A simple change can REALLY make all the difference
to an item of clothing you weren't so keen
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on before. And - you don't have to just do
this on a top - you could pretty much do this
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on any fabric that isn't going to fray, so
any kind of stretchy, knit, jersey material!
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However, I do have an important tip, which
is to get yourself knit, fusible interfacing,
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especially if your cutout design is going
to be under an area that is going to be under
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a lot of stretch or stress, for example, on
top of boobs.
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Because I didn't have any knit interfacing,
I just used a normal lightweight fusible interfacing,
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however because I did this I actually have
to re-iron the interfacing on every couple
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of times that I wear this shirt. So keep that
in mind.
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And - that's all! Thank you so much for watching,
and basically, I wanna see you all making
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cute cutouts (they don't even have to be heart
shapes either, they could be any simple shape
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you can imagine - CUT HOLES IN ALL YOUR CLOTHES)
and I want you to upload them to instagram
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and tag me with #diyannika so that I can see
how you went!
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So thank you so much for watching, give me
a thumbs up if you enjoyed this video, and
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I'll see you all next time. Bye!