This is me cleaning before coronavirus, this is me after coronavirus
Hello, welcome back to my diy channel if you're new here, my name is Wendy and this is a series called Wendy Tries
where I attempt new crafts and techniques
Hopefully inspiring you to try something new as well recently. I cut a mirror to have rounded corners
I tried tie dyeing for the first time and actually went really great. And today we are going to be attempting viral instagram diys
To be clear i'm using the word viral very generously here, but it's really just things the instagram algorithm
Fed to me. That made me go "woOH!"
All of these diys have some interesting techniques that i'm going to try to figure out and this video is also sponsored by Koho
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budget better and so in the spirit of saving money
All of my diy stay are also super affordable first up out of this whole feed of logos and pastels
This cute little purse is our first target. Let's see if we can make this
Sponges i've got three packs in total
These sponges have a nylon mesh exterior
Which I think will really accomplish
The overall look for us i'm going to start with joining the sponges just like the picture
this is the layout my thinking is to just like
Pinch these so that the nylon is exposed and then sew it together
Hopefully it'll lay flat. Let's give that a try
Yeah, that's the plan
I've created the weird sponge wall. This is identical to the pattern in the photo
I'm assembling another one and just like mixing it up a little to do it my own way
I'm going to add a stitch going up here
Going across here coming down here. Every sponge gets sliced in half via one stitch
It's going through surprisingly easily
I feel like it could look more square. Maybe i'll do another
Stitch i'm kind of into this but i'll cut it free in the name of replicating. Well, oh, yeah
That's a little more square now to repeat
That's it after fixing the top stitch
I then realized it would be nice if the bottom row of sponges shifted just
Slightly over so they lined up with the top stitch as you can see. I'm so excited by my realization
This is extra challenging because the mesh made it nearly impossible to seam rip. My stitches are totally blended in
So instead I did my reconstructive surgery by cutting the sponges apart
And then trying really hard to not lose any mesh as I re-sewed it in place
Amazingly this worked. So do what you will with that information
Just a tip. I used exactly all 15 sponges
So cutting this excess piece from the bag front
And using that on the bag back so that all of the gaps could be filled in we have a front
We have a back
Julia has helped me draw
The shape using this as a grid to follow the picture if you cut now it will just become
A crazy mesh explosion i'm going to sew just outside this line first then cut off the excess
I'm going to do the same thing to
the
Back for the bag bottom it tapers a little bit at the sides and then is a bit wider along the base
And where is she at? I have a strap as well. See you in a moment. It's time to assemble the front
gets sewn to this
It won't be easy
But we'll try a tip I have is to start in the bottom center and go up the two sides to increase your odds of
Symmetry also i'm going to be sewing these wrong sides together
So that we have this leftover in the end to wrap around for some nice trim. It's coming together though
It's not a bag tutorial unless there's some like real wrestling involved, you know
I've got this beautiful satin bias tape
It's left over from the Cecilie Bahnsenn inspired wrap coat that I made last winter today
Hopefully it will be put to good use this was cut on the bias
So the whole intent is that it can flex without puckering up too much
It's sewn open on the wrong side
Flip it around
And tuck in this raw edge
And then do a clean stitch like a little top stitch right here
I'm going to keep going with this method I went with doing the bias tape for the bag opening
So that's the entire mouth of the bag plus the two short ends of the handles
This is where I started to run into some broken needle adversity rip
And I found the foam did need more trimming to make sure it would all fit inside the bias tape
so
trim trim trim trim trim
After that, I added the bias tape to the outer circular edge so that all the bias tape at the back
Opening could get tucked away
The last step is to just top stitch my way around the front
And around the back the bias tape ended up being just the perfect amount
I'm, so lucky to just now I was sewing around here and I finished the bobbin just as I made it full circle
Thank you on this other side
The bias tape has already been sewn on one half and I just need to wrap it around
To finish it off on the other side and the last step
Will be to put in
the little prada monog mono logo
logo plate
Julia, drew this prada logo. This is so good that we might get sued now
We're gonna bake it and it'll shrink and magically hopefully be the correct size after the baking we glued it to some spare
White leather that I had i've literally been hoarding this leather
For like six years and julia also added a nice decorative stitch around it
We're just gonna glue that onto the purse too the next time you see this purse she'll be all done
She's so cute
I love it for anyone who plays animal crossing
It does ever so slightly remind me of bunny day diys for all the easter colors
But i'll accept it. The next diy we're going to try is
sierra boyd of frisk me good
she has a couple styles going on and a lot of these are available for you to even purchase so you can just
Have her amazing creations. This is the one that stood out to me. It is a lace-up corset made out of shoes
I thrifted these pair of shoes adidas high tops size 12. We've cleaned them off a little bit to kind of like
See what type of leather we're dealing with. I'm, not 100 sure what the plan is right now
I believe the first step will just be to cut it free from the bottom
See what the upper looks like. Once it's all spread out. I'm pretty sure the original design has four pairs of shoes, but i'm
Thinking this high top will kind of like make up for some lost material. Goodbye shoes
Hopefully you will still look good in your new life. Very strange
looking
Felt like a home alone trapdoor. We're gonna cut along the tongue this gray edge
cut here
Cut here preserving the adidas logo since that's the brand value
Then this whole chunk comes off this can be flattened out
After all that cutting the ankle was further cut into two more pieces take out
Any parts that are making it bulky such as the internal foam and the little supports
So this is the main piece cut free the front of the shoes here is the tongue
This is the back ankle now becoming like a nice hip pad and this is your new six pack
These are all the stitches that julia put in
And lace up the front and the back. I don't know
We're gonna figure out what to do with these little angel wings
The next step we're gonna tackle is putting the ankle pieces the high tops on the hips
I think we're just gonna use a glue gun
Using this leather awl tool we poked a series of holes into the corset that kind of had a bit of the arched shape
And then we poked an equally distant set of holes into what was going to become these hip pads once the holes are in
It's so much easier to hand sew just with the needle and thread that successfully secured the hip pads to the core set
This is where we started here is where we are with the shoe. Of course
It feels good also very much posture correcting and kind of like a stage performance outfit vibe, so
Or like a wrestling performance
These are not activities that i'm regularly participating in but i'm bringing it back to today's
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Our final diy uses a special sewing tool that I haven't gotten my hands on in a really long time because I don't own one
charlotte who runs
Ruacarlota, she makes these amazing pieces using only dead stock or used materials
I love that the technique here is greatly benefited by owning a serger
And thankfully my assistant Julia has one. So we're gonna give this whole technique a try. I have this old tank top
It is in heavy need of assistance, especially at the armhole area
But I do love this minnie mouse design so i'm gonna go ahead and try to slim down those two sides
And preserve what I can of the spirit of this shirt.
Alright, Julia brought over her serger. Do you guys want to meet Julia?
Quick crash course for those of you who aren't familiar with sergers. The reason we're using this is because in one motion
this small blade will cut the excess fabric off and these four threads will combine to
Thoroughly wrap the edge so that it looks really encased
We purposefully chose red so it's a contrast to this but also matches
Little mini and then the parts that are like a sewing machine. Is that this?
Feed keeps your items moving forward. They go in between these plates, but it's just that
On the way this whole chain stitch is created that wraps your fabric
I'm trying to look at like the places where it naturally folds
So this is where normally like you could add a dart to fix this
I'll pin it in like I could put one here do a little pinch that curves around minnie's face
Guess I will go sew these in hopefully it still looks cute
Okay
She doesn't look too messed up i'm gonna figure out where I would like to put some vertical lines
Maybe do a bit of like a wavy grid once everything on the front is assembled
Then i'll move on to the back do some details on the back this armhole i'd like to get rid of this
Extra little flap. So i'm just gonna surge from here
And meet at the armpit this armhole
roughly seems like it's okay and then along the bottom i've been trying to figure out like
if it would be okay for me to
Angle like this side is high and it comes down low. Originally. This tank top was already cut from a t-shirt
So here it is after its second
Let me know which one of these was your favorite. I already anticipate that it was not everyone's cup of tea, but
I tried to cover a range of aesthetics and I do like how there's a spirit of recycling supplies in here
Granted that in the case of the purse. Its recycling will come later when I potentially
Return it to its dishwashing destiny
I don't think I will but
The option exists serious kudos to the creative minds that were behind all of these ideas
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inspiration on all of their feeds for my fellow canadians
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Thank you all so much for watching and i'll see you on the next video
Bye-bye!