If there's a gentle sound of rain in the background, that is a treat for you,
it is... not a treat for me, and trying to
create good audio for this video
Hello!
How y'all doin?
Today is a special video, I'm super excited about it
it's a special collab with April, or COOLIRPA,
as she's known here on Youtube
We did film an intro together when we met up in LA, so
let's just roll that clip right now
Hey everyone! It's Wendy aaaaand...
April!!!
So... this is a super rare occurrence, but I'm here in LA
we're shopping together in the fashion district,
and now we are here, at the one dollar yard (one dollar!)
Everything out here is only one dollar,
How is this possible? I know!
Do you wanna tell them the idea that we had? Yes, so
last minute, we were just going to show her around the fashion district,
but I thought, y'know,
'how can we miss this opportunity to do a challenge?'
so, I challenged her to
pick out a fabric from this one dollar section,
and... we picked out something for each other, and now
we're going to switch~
and then she has to make something
that I picked out from- I know, this bag is heavy!
and then I'm gonna make something from what she picked out for me!
After you're done watching this video, don't forget to go to
April's! Honestly, I don't know how you're following me
and not following April - same! follow
her too, like, what the heck
So, go to April, give her some love, subscribe, and...
I hope you enjoy what we create.
Let's get started!!!
And now, I am back in my studio, and
it's time to actually sew.
Here's the fabric that she gave me:
I think it's 4 yards in total,
a printed chiffon, with some flowers,
and I appreciate that these flowers are
kinda ~fall vibes~ because
I think like, back when we picked it, it was
so hot, so we were both thinking summer, but being Canadian...
it's coming up to fall-winter times.
With that being said, I kinda wanna figure out how to make this
still fall-winter appropriate
even though, it is
a flowy fabric.
Let me walk you through the plan:
I... get quite a few DMs, and I'm not
able to reply to them all, I'm so sorry, but I do actually read
almost all of them.
I couldn't scroll back far enough to find the exact DM, but
this photo, pretty much,
was one that someone to sent me, and it really stood out to me
Slip dress, therefore great if you're heading into warmer days,
but if you're like me and heading into colder days,
uh, you can just throw a sweater underneath!
We're gonna give that a shot!
As per usual, you gotta find
something that fits you already, this is
a slip dress that I already own, and
I think it's a good fit, so let's cut out the pieces that
we need.
I'm gonna start with... uhhhhhh
getting a pair of scissors,
I'm gonna start with
cutting out the trim that's gonna go at the bottom,
um...
yup.
I will measure it, so that
I can tell you how much I cut,
but I was originally just gonna eyeball it.
Let's go with...
20? or 25... 20, or 25...
doo doo- I'm going with 25.
Will it rip?
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[that one spongebob meme] Four... Yards... Later...
Save that...
for later
Now, we are gonna cut out
the front and the back
It always sounds so easy when you just word it that way
phhhfffff-
I think I'm gonna have to lay this out on the ground, 'cause it is a bigger piece than usual,
I will be back to show you the pieces that I cut out.
I have laid down my pattern on a diagonal,
and my hope is that
by tracing this along the bias, it's gonna help the dress
to drape better.
So that's what I'm doing. We're gonna trace it out, I'm gonna do my best to
replicate the darts...
If you want a video on how I've done that in the past,
I'll put a link in the description
With the darts,
we're trying to suck up 2 inches in here, so
we're starting at 8" going to 6"
I'm gonna use a paper technique that I've done in the past
this has... served me well
in other projects, so I'm gonna try to
enjoy its success again. But
basically, here's where that dart is beginning,
here's where the dart is ending,
we'll connect these two
We want to suck away 2 inches of material,
so I'm gonna measure
2 inches down, and then with that
point, we're going to line this up again,
I'm gonna label this bottom...
top...
cut it out,
that way, I can use this here as
a guide, but I can also
use it on the other side.
Darts always make me really nervous, um...
I would like to act confident
and pretend I know what the heck is going on, but
darts, man. AGHhghh
I hate em!
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On this dress, once you flip it inside out, see where my finger disappears?
That pretty much is how much fabric
is absorbed into the dart. Looks like the folded away
about 2 inches, or the fold
is 1 inch thick, so
I'm going to do the same.
Bringing you in for the close up, okay.
I have a line drawn here, and a line drawn here. With the dart,
the goal here is to go in one line,
come out the other line, go in the same line,
come out on the first line...
so we go in and out with the pins, and
that brings the two sides together
along the line that we drew. Sew here
with a straight stitch
and then re-trim the sides so that
it's all smooth again.
All right, lemme show you!
This grey line is now holding in
the dart, with the excess
you're just gonna wanna tie a knot so that
your dart never comes undone
And on the front,
there it is! Shapley to suit the
cUrvEs of yOour bOdy ;)
All right, I'm going in to cut out one side
as you can see, following the curve, getting rid of that excess fabric by the dart,
and now, we can do the neckline...
Then, we can fold it in half,
and do the other side.
Moment of truth~
*crickets chirping*
We gotta keep going. Let's cut the back!
When it comes to the back, our goal is to make this
B I G
so... I'm gonna totally max out what I can use
Coincidentally, it worked out that the
height of my front piece was pretty much the height of
the remaining fabric, so I'm actually just gonna cut out
a rectangle.
Just use a straight stitch,
and I usually start at the armpit and go
down to the bottom because you can always re-cut the bottom so that
it all matches in length.
So I still gotta add the straps,
but this just shows the v-neck shape in the
front that I have replicated
On the side, same armpit hole
And in the back, we want everything to be the same up until
where the strap meets the back,
and then all of this, needs to be like...
gathered up?
(rumour has she's still gathering)
to be back here, obviously in a much nicer way than this,
so that when it moves, it has this much room to
billow out, but then it still fits, just like
the original, so: two parallel straight stitches on the
biggest stitch length you have, put that
all the way along this top edge between
these two spots, and then we're going to...
tighten it up.
I wish I had done that before this demonstration, 'cause now I could just...
show you... *crickets chirping*
Okay well anyways... you get the idea.
All right, so on one side, I'm gonna tie the
two strings together on the outside of the dress,
on the other side, I tie the two loose strings together
on the inside, and then pulling on the free strings, you will...
see it slowly gather up.
I think the next step is to finish off the
binding along the total top edge,
so I'm just cutting out these strips on an angle,
that way they'll be nice and flexible, 'cause they're cut along the bias
of the fabric, and I'm gonna sew them together to make one
long strip which I'm gonna use to seal off the top.
So, lemme just show you how I'm gonna sew it on
I'll demonstrate on the model, and then I'll show you
the close up as I'm sewing it, too.
We've got this strip, this right here is the right side,
this here obviously, the right side,
actually it's technically the left side of her body but you get what I mean,
and, you're gonna sew
we're gonna sew right sides together
along the top edge, all the way around,
and that includes the back,
which... will take
some maneuvering, and then
after it's all sewn right sides together, then we're gonna
flip the entire binding to the inside,
and give it one more stitch, all the way around to seal it off.
Basically, we've created our own bias tape.
Start at the peaks of the front going around
the back, and then we're gonna finish the
front middle at the end.
I'm gonna give you a close up on what just happened,
so I've got this whole edge
sewed up nice and clean now, we've tucked it under
I don't think it's the prettiest on the inside,
but it's getting the job done.
This is the back here, obviously, with all the gathers,
and then we come around to the side, here's ~le dart~ ,
and up here, this front v is still
not done, I'm gonna do the exact same thing now and
close off this front v.
I just finished the binding up here
at the top, and then right here,
I'm just folding it so that
I can continue carrying it on as a strap.
Just bringing in the two sides to the middle,
then folding it in half,
and sewing with a straight stitch, all the way until I get
to the end of this, on both sides.
A little tip if you want the front to have
a little bit more finesse,
so normally with stitching, you start with going forwards
backwards forwards, whenever it's, like, something
super visible, I just come back to
the raw string, pull on the back one
a little bit, so that it eases out the loop,
Basically trying to bring
both of the strings to the inside of the outfit, where
they won't be seen.
Bring the threads to the inside,
tie them off with a little knot,
and then that way, you have a really clean start and end.
So, I think the way this
got sewn, I kinda made the front neckline
of the dress a little rounded,
and so the last thing I'm gonna do is
bring the two shoulder points right sides together,
grab this center part, and just
do, like, a tiny little straight stitch right here
which will help to pinch it into the v shape.
The v is back!
The goal here is to figure out how long these straps need
to be, so I've pinned it to match my dress in the front
exactly, and on the back...
I don't know. This is where it's at right now?
I'm not even sure this is gonna look nice,
but...
the side boob is pretty much
matching with what's available before
Then, we can sew these in place,
and then the last step will just be to finish the bottom!
My place is messy because we're leaving for a trip soon~
Always good to try it on one more time
before you sew the straps on,
but then also terrifying to try on because
I don't wanna get stabbed by pins. ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ˢᵗᵃᵇ ᵐᵉ
doooon't stab me
don't stab me
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Here's the front,
definitely billowy,
and the back,
Actually wait excuse me
w o a h !
I do not mind this!
Alright! I'm cool with where the straps are,
gonna sew them in right here. Now that everything is on,
this is the right time to assess how long it actually is.
Do not do anything to the length of a dress
until it's the end, until it's on your shoulders.
I speak from experience, so I'm
gonna back up to show you how long this dress is,
uh, the goal is that it's...
y'know, it's maxi length, but then I still wanted to add
that one last frill at the bottom, so I think right now
it's already maxi length, slash maybe too long?
So I just gotta cut that back.
I will show you.
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It's too long!!!
I'm gonna trim off the bottom, like I said,
this is the first piece that we broke off,
and, um, since I want the bottom to be as
big and bad as possible,
I'm actually just gonna trim
the... current bottom to be the
same height as that piece that I cut off
in the beginning, and that way the two
of them can be joined together
to make the ultimate
big, big finish.
So I put in a little snip at the correct height,
and now I'm gonna rip, and I hope I don't rip the whole
dress apart in the wrong way...
Snip my way through the side seam and keep going.
OH WAIT shoot- oh good thing. Ok I can't.
You cannot keep ripping, 'cause remember?
We cut the front on the bias!
That would've been a big mistake...
People who don't sew are like, literally, 'what is she even
talking about', but trust me,
I just saved this dress.
So, I'm just gonna cut a straight line
Alrighty!
I'm gonna cut this free at the side seam,
This is the strip that we tore off in the beginning,
this is the strip that I just tore off of the dress,
they need to be joined together to form
one gigantic loop, so right sides together,
throw down a straight stitch, sew it
into a circle. Also do your best to make sure
the pattern is still going in the correct direction.
Also this fabric is copyright protected? Hopefully
that does not cause this video to be demonetized.
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I have made a very large loop,
so it is definitely enough fabric,
and we're just gonna sew it, right sides together
to the bottom of the dress.
I make it sound easy because I have to.
It helps me to not get stressed.
doo doo doo
Get the dress out,
be looking at the right side of it,
get the giant ring of fabric out,
be looking at the right side of it
I think I'm gonna lay it on the floor, pin all the way
around, and then come back and sew it, so
next time you see it, I will be hemming the bottom,
and then you can see how it turned out.
[that one spongebob meme] One... Eternity... Later...
i'm literally sweating, the... bottom edge is attatched
to the dress, y'know we're just gonna do a basic, old
turn the edge under, and sew, I
purposefully kept the finished edge of the fabric so that
I wouldn't have to hem it, it has no risk of fraying
[deep breath]
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Focus! On my face! Hello! It's me!
Sun's going down, managed to finish this dress
in a day!
One day!!!
aAHh!
I think I'm gonna pack it for my vacation!
Elana (?)...
was a real trooper!
and...
shot a bunch of photos and videos that I
hope you guys will enjoy!
Okay here it is!
Alright, I hope you guys really enjoyed the outcome of
what I was able to make with the fabric April gave me,
If you wanna see what I gave April to work with,
go over to her channel, subscribe, give her some love,
COOLIRPA,
and we'll see you guys next time!
[both] Bye!!!