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There is a box, in the corner of my sewing
room.
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It is a box whose contents have not seen the
light of day for many a month.
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Many crafters will be familiar with this box,
in all of its forms: There’s the ever-growing
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amorphous lump
that lies underneath your desk…
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The monster underneath your bed…
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The stuff you vacuum-packed in a fit of organization
and stuffed into your garage in the hopes
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that you’d never have to deal with it again…
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This, my friends, is the UNFINISHED SEWING
PILE.
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Welcome back!
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Today’s video is a sequel, of sorts, to
my previous video where I turned this dress
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here into a romper!
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Now, the method that I showed you in episode
12 works well for any dress that has a zipper,
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buttons, ties-up at the front or has some
other method that allows you to pull the dress
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up over your hips and waist, however, what
about dresses that you pull on over your head?
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The dress that I pulled out of the style pile(s)
for this video was THIS dress here.
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Notice how it doesn’t have a zipper up the
back?
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YEAH.
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The reason why that’s important will be
obvious very soon.
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So, excited as I was by my previous "romper-fication",
I also started turning this dress into a romper,
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in the exact same way that I did in episode
#12.
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But then I hit a pretty obvious snag when
I got up to the stage where I... had to put
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the romper on my body.
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Because there was now a couple of leg holes
in the way.
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Whoops.
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SO, I decided that I would open up the back
of the dress, to allow me to get it on, and
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to make it pretty, I’d also turn this opening
into a lace-up, corset back.
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So next, I placed the romper front-side down
like this and I sliced straight down the centre
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back, using some scissors, ending at my lower
back.
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Then I folded each raw edge in about half
an inch, tapering the fold at the bottom of
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the slit, and then I sewed a straight stitch
down each of these raw edges, effectively
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“hemming” the sides, like this.
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Next, I turned the romper inside-out, and
with a fabric marker I drew small dots on
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evenly up either side of the slit.
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Now, I shouldn’t have made marks all the
way up to the TOP of the romper, I should
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have only done them up to here… we’ll
see why in just a bit.
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Anyway, for each of the dots that I had marked
out, I poked a small hole through each one,
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and then I inserted an eyelet through that
hole, smooth-side on the right-side of the
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fabric, rough side of the eyelet on the wrong
side of the fabric.
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Once all the eyelets were inserted, it looked
like this!
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And again, I shouldn’t have added these
top few and, I promise, you’ll soon see
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why.
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Anyway, I then started lacing up the eyelets
using a piece of ribbon, lacing them up how
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you would lace up a pair of shoes.
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Annnnnd…
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I slowly came to the realisation that once
the romper was laced up all the way, I would
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still have my original problem of not being
able to get it on – not unless I had help
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from somebody else who was always going to
lace me up into the romper each time I wanted
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to wear it - which would present a little
bit of a problem everytime I wanted to take
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the romper off to use the bathroom.
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Yeah.
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So I had to re-think this whole lace-up corset
situation.
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Sooooo while I was lacing it up, when I got
up to about the 5th or the 6th eyelet pair
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from the top, I kept trying the romper on
my body to see if I could still pull it on.
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When I got to the 4th eyelet pair from the
top, I realised that this was the furthest
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that I could lace it up and still put it on.
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So, I then gave the romper an open v-back
by folding the top edges of the romper in,
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underneath the inside of the romper’s back,
like this, and then stitching over the top.
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You can see that I've pinned the on the right-hand
side already.
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Now, because I’d already inserted eyelets,
I had to hand-stitch this so that I wouldn’t
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run over the eyelets with my sewing machine,
which is why I wish that I hadn't inserted
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eyelets all the way up to the top!
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If the eyelets weren't in here, I'd be able
to go over it with my sewing machine.
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Anyway, we learn from our mistakes, and in
the end I still had this super cute romper
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with a lace-up corset back, that I think is
much more interesting than the original dress
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that I upcycled it from!
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I hope that you enjoyed these two episodes
on turning dresses into rompers - if you haven't
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seen the first one already, then make sure
you watch it and as always if you try this
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OR any of my other tutorials then please tag
them with #diyannika on Instagram, because
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I love seeing what you guys come up with!
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Thank you so much for watching, and I’ll
see you all next time.
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Bye!
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for making these videos possible.
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