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What's going on friends?
I really wanna show you all
of the things that I have made lately
because there's a lot of them,
and also I really wanna show off
because I'm very proud of what I've made.
I have been sewing a lot these last few months
because basically any time I get sad
I spend the day at my sewing machine.
But I wanted to share them anyway
as inspiration for your own sewing projects,
and obviously the validation. (laughing)
Okay, let's begin.
First off I finally made pattern weights.
I've really been wanting to make these
for like three years now.
I've always had one project
or another that's more important
that making pattern weights,
but I've finally done it.
I just used this old thrifted Ikea cushion cover for these,
which have this cool funky painted blue, pink
and black and white effect across it.
And just by cutting that out randomly
I've ended up with some really cute pattern weights.
Then I filled them up with a combination
of heavier and denser fabric scraps,
and five cent coins and marbles.
I can't believe I didn't make these earlier
because they're really freaking useful.
I no longer have to run around my house
to try and find slightly heavy things
to put on top of my patterns
which are more random heights,
and then I have to put them all back.
These just stay on my sewing table,
and they're very good for cutting out fabrics.
So I've been focusing on making some pajamas recently
because I've been spending a lot
of my time wearing pajamas,
so why not wear something cute?
Like this.
I just finished this the other night.
I was all fired up after watching "Next in Fashion."
Like yeah I'm a fashion designer,
I can sew really quickly too.
So I actually whipped this up in one night,
although I really should have gone to bed,
I stayed up way too late making this.
This is up cycled from a pajama top
that was slightly baggier and had sleeves.
Instead I made it slightly more closer fitting.
And what I did was to use this dress
to cut out a new top,
piece it back together,
and then put lace detailings around the neck,
and add straps.
I also made this two piece set from scratch.
I drafted this from a crop top that I owned.
And the leggings, I drafted them off a pair of jeans,
skinny jeans that I own.
And then just cropped the leg of it shorter.
I'm pretty much wearing these every single day
when these aren't in the wash.
They're really comfy,
they're really cute.
The pants accidentally come up
to just under my boobs.
I made the waste line a little bit too high,
but I also have a short torso
so I often end up doing that
when I make high-waisted things.
Put I left them as is,
with the real hairy high pants look
because I did make this a little bit too cropped,
and this tends to ride up a little bit.
So having super high pants means my stomach
doesn't get cold, which is kind of nice.
You probably couldn't sell pajama pants
that come right up to here in stores,
but they work for me.
So, as you may have noticed recently,
I've been really into late 30's, 40's
and early 50's style,
so I've been making a lot
of clothes from around that era.
The top I tried out recently is this Butterick pattern
from, I think it's from 1940 something.
Now for those of you who have been following
along on my wedding dress journey,
you'll know that the 1930's instructions
were very sparse and required a lot
of previous sewing knowledge.
The one's from the 40's,
or maybe it's just a Butterick thing,
are a lot better.
These instructions were so much more clear
than the wedding dress ones, thank goodness.
And I made this cute little top.
It's super crushed right now,
but you saw me wearing it at the end
of this video here.
That's what it looks like.
Okay I actually made this
the end of last year,
but I don't think I ever showed it on camera.
This is a little crop top that I made
for the summer just passed.
But the fabric is a little bit too modish,
like 1960's style for my taste right now.
So I'm just gonna put that one away.
But maybe I'll look,
I'll probably have a 60's revival in a few years.
Let's be honest,
I've been 80's, now I've gone to 40's,
that's gotta be next, right?
Okay these ones I'm really excited to show you.
I have a few long sleeve turtle necks in my collection,
and decided I wanted a couple more for winter.
So this was the kind of like mock up first one that I made.
But it actually turned out really wearable.
Oh, you know what, I totally lied.
This was my first, first attempted at the long sleeve top,
and I gave up halfway through because
this fabric ended up
a lot less stretchy than I thought it was.
I can barely even fit my forearm through the sleeve.
Scrap fabric.
And then after a few minor adjustments
I made up this.
So obviously I changed
the sleeve pattern for this one a bit.
All I did was slash and spread the straight arm sleeve
from the previous top,
and I got this gorgeous balloon sleeve.
Or it might be more of a bishop sleeve.
Honestly I don't really know the distinction
between those two.
Maybe balloon is when it's a little bit more puffy up here.
People who know more about fashion,
is this a bishop or balloon sleeve?
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
It's so cute.
This is my, probably my favorite thing
that I have ever made.
This fabric as well I got really cheap
second hand from reverse garbage in Sydney,
and it's so nice.
Okay closeup.
It's this gorgeous semi-shear stretchy polka dot fabric.
It's just, it's really cozy and comfortable.
Like this is an extremely comfortable,
yet fashionable looking top.
And I'm very, very, very proud of myself.
Pretty much like every time I put it on
I start dancing 'cause sleeves like this,
you can't not dance in them.
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I also made this cape, and I adore it.
The pattern is free as well
if you go to Vera Venus.
I'll pop the link in the description below.
So I made it out
of this gorgeous like suede velvet material.
I'm not entirely sure what I would call it.
And believe it or not,
this was actually my first time ever doing a collar.
I've always been really scared of them,
and I was like okay, it's time to learn.
I don't think I did it right,
but it looks like a collar.
It works, it's fine.
So, so cute.
I often like wearing it over this.
Obviously not including the microphone,
that's for speaking into for the video.
This was actually just the first mock up
of this pattern,
which is why I didn't sew it very well.
Like I definitely should have used black thread.
When you're up close it does look a little bit janky.
Nonetheless, I've been waring it heaps
because it's just really eye catching.
I will probably try to remake it in this fabric.
But also, maybe this is fine.
I don't really mind that the stitching
looks all that janky because
most people see it on the computer,
where you can't tell.
I also made a matching one,
which I can't for the life of me
find anywhere in my house.
But it looks like this.
You can probably see I've been having a bit
of a stretchy fabric Renee sense right now.
And I have gotten back into lingerie making
in a big way.
I really wanna make myself nice vintage-inspired underwear.
So far I have only made two pairs of undies.
I'm gonna do something really strange now.
I'm going to show you these worn over jeans
because I don't want you to see my whole butt.
This was the mock up one,
which ended up wearable.
So win.
This second pair of undies turned out really nice.
It has this cheeky little cut out on the back,
which is why I'm wearing jeans underneath.
And oh my God they look really bad
and weird worn over jeans.
And this really isn't giving you
an accurate impression of them at all.
Oh well.
I also started on making a matching bralette,
and I'm up to this.
Hi, I forgot about it when I was filming yesterday,
but I did make a few more things
that I wanna show you.
So I made my own crochet 1940's Snoods.
Here's number three.
They are super duper useful
for someone who has trouble with energy
and doesn't wanna shower too much.
When my hair gets greasy basically.
When I'm on like day four of five hair,
I'm able to extend the life of it
for a couple of days,
and still have it look cute and vintagey
by throwing my hair up into one of these,
and just doing something cute
with my front bangs here.
If I can find the tutorial I used to help me make these
it'll be in the description.
I also made these cute shorts,
which I can't find anywhere.
I think they went away with me summer clothes.
Amway, I used this pattern here.
Okay here are some things I have made that aren't clothes.
I've actually been working on this one
for about a year because I crochet very slowly,
but it's finally finished.
And it, I'm in love with it.
These colors really inspired my wedding dress.
I am definitely not doing a full on tutorial on this
because of it taking me a whole year to make,
and I don't wanna make up another one
any time soon.
I'll explain what I did,
and if you're good enough at crochet
you can probably figure it out.
So I made lots of these six-petal crochet flowers.
And I got the tutorial from someone called
Bella Coco Crochet.
And I'll put the link
for the flower tutorial in the description box.
I pieced them all together, sewed them together.
And then I thrifted these handles
from a vintage store a couple of years ago.
And basically I crocheted this burgundy color
from this way down.
So I crocheted it a few times around this first,
worked it down ways,
and then joined it up to the bag.
Then I made a lining for it out
of this gorgeous thrifted fabric.
I love it.
It is the handbag of my dreams.
And when I used to go outside
I would take this with me all the time.
Here's a couple things for the house
that I haven't shown you.
I'm struggling here because this cushion is very heavy.
I made it as a cushion for some wooden seats
we have in our courtyard.
And it looks all patchwork
because I used, sorry, it's too heavy.
I just used these sample pieces
that were from like a sofa sample book.
It looked really cute patch worked together though.
So I've been on a bit
of a cushion making spree.
I made these two in my last video,
and then I made two more square ones
in this gorgeous velvet.
And I also used this fabric to make a lamp shade.
And this one, it was actually really quick to make.
I whipped it up in about half an hour.
It's just a little pot cozy for this fake plant.
But the silver was a little bit bright for it
so I wrapped it up,
and now it's all snuggly
and also hangs off the wall.
And lastly, here's a few things
that I'm not gonna talk about at length
because I didn't make them from scratch,
I just up cycled them.
And they were very basic up cycles too.
But very effective.
So I'm gonna show you.
So this pair of shorts
and this pair of shorts
were originally both,
I think this one was a pair of school pants,
and this was just another pair of tailored slacks.
Basically I really wanted some cute
high-waisted tailored looking shorts.
And they're kind of hard to find.
Most shorts that I can find like new
are denim shorts,
and just a really different style from this.
But this is a more vintage style of shorts.
And I was able to get two paris of them by cutting up some,
honestly not super flattering work pants.
And then finally we have this sweater here.
Now this was also a really basic up cycle,
but it worked really well.
I've been really loving the look
of sweater girls from the early 1950's,
who wore these super cute short-armed sweaters,
often in pastel colors
or with really cool prints.
And there are so many
of these cute sweater patterns out there,
but just for knitting,
and I can't knit.
So I cut the sleeves off the sweater,
cut off the original cuffs,
and then sewed them
back onto the short sleeves.
It was really easy to do.
Things that I'm really looking forward to making
in the next little while,
I've got a little list.
Some nice comfortable elastic haired lounge pants,
a garter belt
and a bralette to match those gingham underwear.
And a shawl.
I also want you all to tell me
which of these you'd most like
to see turned into tutorials.
I'm going to give you some options
because I definitely don't wanna
tutorialize every single one of them.
So please choose what you'd most like to see tutorialized
out of these.
This cut-out tee shirt,
this high-neck top with
a straight sleeve and bishop sleeves,
basic cushions, including patchwork cushions,
this style of two-piece set pajamas,
and velvet lampshade.
I've actually already filmed the footage for that
so I'll probably make that anyway.
But it will be nice to know
if you wanna see other things first.
That about does it,
thank you so much for watching.
And I'll see you all in my next video,
which will be the final installment
of the wedding dress series.
It's been a very big editing project.
I've had just so much footage to go through.
But I've made it super fun,
and I'm really excited to share it with you all.
So I'll see you all next time.
Thank you for watching, it was nice to have you here, bye.
What projects are you all working on right now
or have recently finished?
Let me know in the comments,
and let's all inspire each other.
Stay safe out there everyone.
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