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Hi, welcome to "Get Sewing With Me",
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The show where I do a little bit of sewing, and I take you with me for the ride.
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Hopefully, teaching you some tips and tricks along the way.
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So I have a real problem with buying shirts - like blouses, like ones with collars and buttons down the
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front - and the problem
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with this is, is that I don't actually wear blouses - like, ever.
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But for some reason I can't stop buying them
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So I have a closet full of blouses that I don't wear!
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So I thought I might wear all my blouses a bit more if I made them a little bit more interesting
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And it has definitely worked!
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So without further ado, let's begin!
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So the first shirt I’m going to try and upcycle
is this boring black blouse.
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Now I found these cute buttons a couple of
months ago, and I think that now is the perfect
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time to put them to use.
I’m first going to sew two matching heart
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buttons onto the collar.
So, using some needle and thread, I bring
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my needle up through my collar right in the
middle like this, and then I thread my button
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on.
For the first few stitches it’s going to
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be all wobbly and move around a lot, but if
I sew it on tightly – and this is about
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after 15 times going up and down – the button
will stay in place.
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I tied a knot in the thread after bringing
it through to the back of the collar, and
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there we go!
And I simply repeated this on the other side.
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The buttons on this blouse were also very
ugly, so I chopped them all off, and replaced
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them one-by-one with these cute bow buttons.
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And I’m really pleased with the final result.
This shirt is now WAY cuter than it was before.
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So this is another method for upcycling a
standard old-shirt.
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I layed my shirt down flat, right side up,
making sure that the collar is totally flat
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like this. Then, I grabbed a piece of lace
and measured it to the width of my collar.
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Then, with some fabric glue – and just as
a side not, you can’t use craft glue or
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a hot glue gun here because it will make the
collar fabric all stiff – it’s got to
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be fabric glue – I put a thin line all along
the back of the collar and then stuck the
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lace down onto it.
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Then I realized that I probably needed to
cover the entire collar in glue, so I did
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that, pressed the lace down, flipped it over
to make sure that the front side of the collar
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was totally flat, and then I let the whole
thing dry for about 30 minutes.
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Now this is actually something that I’ve
wanted to do a shirt for quite a while. Drawing
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inspiration from fashion designers like Vivetta
and Coco Fennell, I’m going to make a shirt
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with a statement collar! For this, I’m using
iron-on patches. You can find these basically
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anywhere – but ebay and etsy are great places
to find specific designs!
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And, as the name implies, all you’ve got
to do here is iron the patches on.
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So to do that, you cover your shirt with some
cloth, like a sheet or pillow case, and with
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your iron on its highest cotton setting you
place pressure onto the patch and the shirt
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for about 30 seconds.
Try not to move the iron back and forth too
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much, because you might move the patch.
And – the patch is now bonded onto the shirt.
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And I repeat this with the other side.
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The last one was inspired by a shirt that
I saw in Dangerfield, which I thought that
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I could probably recreate for a lot cheaper.
Now this one does require a specialized stitch
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on a sewing machine. This stitch will probably
only be found on mid-range sewing machines
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and above, but, if you’ve got this stitch,
you can give this one a go!
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So this is the shirt that I’m going to transform.
Before I begin sewing, I round off the edges
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of the collar with a pencil, so that I’ll
have a rounder collar. This is the line I’m
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going to follow with my needle when I’m
sewing.
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Then, I set my machine to that stitch, and,
starting at the inside of the collar, I sew
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all the way around the edges, and follow the
pencil line around the pointy-bits of the
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collar.
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end up with this, and then I simply cut away
all the excess fabric.
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And with the scissors, you’ve got to get
right into those grooves, but making sure
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not to cut the stitches – and, hopefully
you’ll end up with something like this!
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Of course, there is also embroidery! I’ve
already covered this a couple of times in
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previous videos, so I will link to them here,
on you can find the links in the description
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box if you’re on a mobile device.
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So, hopefully this video gives you lots of
inspiration on upcycling your own shirts,
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both if you have a problem and can’t stop
buying them like me, or if you’ve got some
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spare time, and want to make a couple a cute
blouses!
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Share photos of your up-cycled blouses with
me on instagram using the hashtag #diyannika
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(and just a reminder that your profile has
to be on public for me to actually see
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the photo).
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I hope you all enjoyed this video, and I'll see you all next time. Bye!