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Hi! Welcome to Get Sewing With Me episode
#5 - and today's episode is inspired by one
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of my favourite Youtubers, April, who runs
the Youtube channel Coolirpa. Now April does
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this amazing series called "Thrifted Transformations",
where she takes a number of items of thrifted
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clothing, that are usually... not super fashionable,
and turns them into something really cute
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and modern and trendy!
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Anyway, I've been inspired by this series
since the day that she started it. And so
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today, I'm going to do my own little take
on April's series by doing my own Thrifted
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Transformation.
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So these are the two items that I have thrifted
and that I am going to try and upcycle into
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something cuter.
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The first thing that I thrifted was this dress.
Now it's a circle-skirt style dress and it's
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made from a ribbed fabric, so it is actually
pretty cute - but it's still a little bit
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boring. I love to wear things with prints
and patterns and colours all over them, so
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a plain blue navy dress is just... isn't really
my style.
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And I just have to show you all the tag on
this dress, because it's... kinda really weird.
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Apparently the brand is "God is Girl" - "Welcome
to God is girl. Tomorrow, tomorrow, we walked
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together. thank you hand in hand."
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The second is this blue top. Now I don't like
the cut, colour or material used in this top,
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but what I do really like - and what I think
will be useful - are these daisies all along
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the sides. So, let's see what we can do with
them!
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So the first thing that I did was to chop
the flowers off the top.
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They came off in a string, so then I simply
cut the connections between them.
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Then, I placed the daisies onto the dress
where I thought they’d look then best, evenly
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spaced from each other, to make sure that
I had enough flowers, and to preview what
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it would look like.
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Then, one by one, I sewed them on. Now it
would be totally possible to use fabric glue
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here instead, if you don’t have the patience
to sew, but I thought that sewing the flowers
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on would make them stay on a little bit more
strongly.
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Now for those of you who are totally new to
sewing, this is what I did to sew the flowers
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on: I threaded a needle with a piece of thread,
doubled up the thread, and tied a knot in
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the end.
Then I cut off the excess thread.
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I brought the needle up through the back of
the dress, through the middle of the flower,
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and then back down. I repeated this 3 times,
and then tied a knot in the thread, then cut
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the excess thread off.
Then I repeated this for all 40 or so flowers
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on the dress, until it was completely covered.
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Now I don’t like wasting clothes or fabric,
so with the blue top that’s had its daisies
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removed, I’m going to use the remaining
fabric to make a headscarf!
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I cut a strip of fabric off the top, and cut
the circle of fabric open, then folded it
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in half lengthways and sewed down this length
like this, using a straight stitch.
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I turned the resulting tube inside out, folded
the raw edges down inside the tube, and sewed
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over the top like this.
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So, these are the final transformations! Now,
the two don't really go together in an outfit,
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so I'm showing them off here separately.
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So I hope you enjoyed this video, give it
a thumbs up if you do want to see more Get
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Sewing With Me videos in the future, so that
I know whether or not this series is something
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you want to keep seeing!
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And make sure to go check out April's channel
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then you will LOVE hers.
And don't forget - I have my very own clothing
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line out now! So don't forget that you can
go and buy that if you're interested.
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Thank you all so much for watching and I'll
see you all for my next video. Bye!