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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:
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There’s the ever-growing amorphous lump
that lies underneath your desk…
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The monster underneath your bed…
The stuff you vacuum-packed in a fit of organization
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and stuffed into your garage in the hopes
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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Hi! So I’m starting this new series on my
channel. I have this box here, sitting in
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the my bottom of craft room, that’s filled
with half-finished projects and a bunch of
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thrifted clothes that I bought... some...
years ago, that I had all the intentions of
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fixing and upcycling and making cuter, but
then kind of just threw them in here and forgot
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about them and have been ignoring them for
a long time. But, as you can see – it’s
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turning into a little bit of a problem.
So, in each episode of this new series I’m
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going to be taking one item out of this box
and finally fixing it, until the box is empty.
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This series is mostly going to be focused
on simple fixes, so the videos are going to
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be quite short little episodes, but hopefully
they will teach you some more simple sewing
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techniques and cover a lot of the basics,
and at the same time help you to make your
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clothes… cuter! Anyway, I’m really excited
about this new series and I hope that you
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enjoy it too.
Alright, let’s get started on the first project!
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So this is the first item that I pulled out
of the box. Now, I’m sure that some people
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would be able to pull off a dress like this
with a big ring right in the centre, but I
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am not one of them. It's… definitely not
my style.
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So, first thing that I did was to get a small,
sharp pair of scissors and carefully cut the
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ring out.
Then, I also cut off the loops that held the
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ring in place.
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Now, I’m going to sew the remaining bits
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back together, like this.
I thread a regular sewing needle with some
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black thread to match the colour of the dress.
To do this, I push the thread through the
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needle’s eye, pull it through, double the
thread over and tie a knot in the end.
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This, in my opinion, is the easiest way to hand
sew because you don’t run the risk of losing
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the thread’s tail!
Then, I push the needle up through the back
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of one side, and then down through the front
of the other side. Then I repeat this, literally
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about 50 times, to secure the two pieces to
eachother very firmly. Then, with the thread
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on the inside of the dress, I tie a knot in
it and I cut off the excess.
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When I’m done, it looks like this. And you
can’t notice the threads at all unless your
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face is inappropriately close to my boobs,
so… success! I really like how this turned
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out, and now I have the cutest little black
dress, with an interesting cutout feature,
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to wear out at night.
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And a super BIG thanks to Julia Elms for doing
the amazing artwork in the opening title - didn't
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it look amazing??
