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Okay back to our regular programming it's been so long since we've done this tutorial
I'm so excited. Today is full of
Drama as we take two tops, give them some extra drama in the shoulders
All of this is sponsored by Valley Village. Thank you so much Value Village
I've got this white dress shirt, has a very interesting
left and right thing going on on the front with the diamonds and the stripes.
Let's get started on giving these plain shoulders some major action
We're going for this kind of inspiration, a nice puffy shoulder as well as a cinch at some point.
I can give it some cute balloon effect. A natural place to start when we're working on. The shoulders is the sleeves
I'm gonna cut these off left and right following the seam as closely as possible with a pair of fabric scissors
Next up, taking a cropped top that I generally like the fit of I tried to align the
Armpit seem to be at the same point and then measured where from the shoulders I could afford to drop down the shoulders we want
to take away whatever fabric we can from the arm holes on the body and
give to the sleeves so that the sleeves have enough volume to create the puff
So here I measured that I could afford to lose two centimetres up at the shoulders
and so I flip the shirt inside out, pinned a two centimeter drop down from the
Collar all the way down to the end of the shoulder and sewed that in with a straight stitch. Here
You see how that turned out an incline that goes up to two centimeters and when you flip it on the outside
Not too much visible change now that the shoulders have been brought down to make the armhole a bit smaller
the other thing we can do is to bring in the sides of the dress shirt plus the fact that it was too big for
Me so I got to bring it in
Anyways,
I laid it flat measured about seven to eight centimeters from both sides and put in some pins as where I can
Sew a straight line to cut off the excess fabric on the sides. While I had the shirt flat
This was also a great time to cut off the bottom. I always give an extra three centimeters or so just to be safe
But I'm going as straight as possible across the bottom and now it's a crop top links
Right now I have slim the sides. Obviously these shoulders are not fitting me, right but I think
like you can always just
The super you want it to be
And it's really that easy anytime the check up goes
Well, that means I can cut off the excess fabric because I don't plan on going back and redoing that anymore. Thank goodness
Now when it comes to the armhole as you slim the sides sometimes the front and the back gets a little misaligned
So here I'm just trimming it so that the armhole is one smooth circle again
I like to trim on one side then take that piece
Carefully align it on the other side and use that as a guide to trim hoping that this will result in some good symmetry
Okay, we have successfully
Shrunken the armhole of your dress shirt
And so now we're going to work on blowing your sleeves way way out of proportion
the first thing I had to do was to remove the seams that were forming these little darts because I
Want this fabric to be as flat as possible
I'm grabbing that excess fabric that I cut off from in the bottom of the shirt
Hopefully you did not throw it out because we're trying to use everything out here
Next I'm folding the entire back in half so that I can produce two symmetrical pieces
and then I'm measuring the entire length of that inner sleeve seam and
Laying that down on this back piece that I folded from there. I'm cutting off a back piece
That is just a little bit shorter than that inner sleeve seam
And then I'm reshaping it so that it's kind of a funnel shape
Hopefully soon. You will understand what we are trying to do here taking each sleeve I carefully
carefully cut it open along that inner seam just sticking again as close to the seam as
Possible then I'm opening it up and we're going to insert this funnel shape that you have created
So on one side of the seam
Sewing it right sides together with the funnel and then on the other side of the seam that you cut open
sewing it right sides together with the funnel so that now the sleeve is basically
The width of the original sleeve plus the whole funnel shape that you inserted to the sleeve
It does get a little bit tricky at the corner where it meets the cuff
but it's not to be really noticeable because this is a part that's gonna be all billowy and
Foldy and all the ruffles are just gonna hide any imperfections you have it's gonna be okay
So now we have created a sleeve that is way too big for the armhole
Therefore the next step is to put some gathering into the top edge of the sleeve with the sleeve
I sewed two parallel straight stitches along the entire curve of the sleeve - the part where the funnel is
I'm gonna put a link in the description
To how to gather because I feel like I covered this in every single video and it does get very repetitive
Essentially these two parallel stitches help you to gather the fabric one hand is holding on to the two parallel threads the other hand keeps
Smoothing the fabric and it starts to all pucker up exactly like we want it to so this area that's flat
That is the funnel that I inserted
I did not put any gathering on there all the gathering. Like I said is happening where the original sleeve fabric was
This also looks weirdly like I gotten some strange artsy fight
I
Attached this sleeve to the body here
And as you can tell from this if I literally follow this edge
It's going to hang way too far out and it doesn't look good. I like so design
Saw how it looked undead part of it. And then just what like doo-doo-doo
And now it's sitting at a way better spot
It kind of shortened the sleeve a bit
which was nice as well because I was more of a cropped length the shortening happens because
Much of the volume went into going up here crawling up the sleeve did that make sense?
hopefully
so all these pins are holding in the
excess piece of fabric that I had cut off from the sleeve that I already finished remember earlier when I said I like to do
1/2 cut off the excess fabric and then bring it over and use it as a stencil in hopes of maintaining symmetry
This is what's happening here
the reason I'm doing this is because once I've cut off the excess fabric and then I can just follow the edge of
The fabric as my guide for how to shape the sleeve now that the armhole is cut to the right size
It's time to pin the leave in to do this
I inserted the sleeve so that the right side of the sleeve is touching the right side of the shirt
But there is a little bit of inside-out action that you may have to wrap your brain around first
I pinned the bottom center of the funnel piece to the bottom of the armpit
This is in hopes of achieving
Symmetry as I move my way around the sleeve then I pinned the middle of the hole gathered area
to the top shoulder seam and after that I just kind of smooth out all of the ruffles until the
circumference of the sleeve matches the circumference of the armhole
so this is why this method of gathering is going to be most effective here because it gives you a room to
Readjust how gathered the fabric is as you're working so that you can get the measurement just right
Smooth out your gathers pin it as you go and eventually you will have matching circumference. --is that are ready to be sewn together
This is going to work out but we is symmetrical
Let's keep going
So I'm taking some elastic and I'm sewing it into a loop shape so that it's a comfortable fit around my upper arm
Don't make it too tight and make your circulation hard on yourself be kind to your upper arm once those loops were done
I slid it on to the sleeve making sure the sleeve is inside-out don't make that mistake and then pinned it to the sleeve at
Relatively equal distances around. I mean this part actually got really hard
But I did my best to pin it equally all the way around
We are aiming for
Upper arm above the elbow and if you're happy with the position of the elastic go ahead and do a zig-zag stitch all the way
Around finally the bottom of my shirt is still a total raw edge
And now that I've tried it on so many times I know exactly where I wanted to end for this crop top fit
So I went ahead and cut across
Losing that last little button and then just did a basic fold over him all the way around
I fold in the fabric once do a straight stitch and
finito
Personally, I thought this crop would look a lot cuter if it was a bit more fitted I put on the shirt and I measured
How far apart the two side seams were
Around my back and we were roughly at 20 9 centimeters
So I cut a piece of wide very comfortable
Elastic down to 29 centimeters and we're going to sew this across the back first
I gave it a zig-zag stitch to the two side seams just because it's not going to show up on the other side since it's
On the raw seams and it helps me to make sure the placement is perfect
Next we're gonna tug on that to help it lay flat put it through the machine with one zig-zag stitch
and that will help lock it to the entire back side of the shirt and
Here is the before don't forget this plain little dress shirt. And this is how it looks now
It's done. I added a little closure up here to close it off
I'm pretty happy with how it turned out some parts, obviously
I moved through it really fast just so I could make sure I gave you the details on how to do this shoulder thing
This was intended to be like all cute and fashionable
But from the comments I can tell some people watch my videos to like learn how to cosplay or whatever
So if that's why you're here
I wish you the best in making the biggest baddest puffiest sleeves you can the puffed sleeves is just one easy way to
Butt
Here we have the before because I knew I needed more fabric to add flavor to the shoulders
I went for something as dressed like as possible so that I would have the extra fabric to work with now in this original
inspiration photo from the ultimate 80's glam TV show dynasty
I noticed that one of the things that helps the shoulders to look great is also that her fabric has some great
Shine to it
So if you're gonna do this one
I do advise looking for fabric that has a little bit of iridescent
shine Sparkle because when you put ruffles in fabric that catches light it looks extra magical coming in at a wonderful little
11n design price tag we're gonna get started on this caftan. I'm not too crazy about this neckline
So to start I'm gonna flip it inside out and put it on
Since I anticipate that I might make the back drop lower than the front I'm gonna do this backwards
I added pins to mark the places where I need the neckline to come straight down on the two sides straight across in the front
When I take it off I can cut out the new neckline do what you can to add pins use measuring tape
Just make it nice and clear
So what we're going for is to sew a square shape straight on the two sides and shirt across the bottom after that
However, I did get a little scared and confused as to what the heck I was doing
I went to the sleeves and like the white dress shirt
I cut off the two sleeves so that we could get to this whole area ready to be transformed
Okay, she's back and braver than ever I've decided what is going on with this neck hole
This is what is going to become the front. I sewed this rectangular shape and I was happy with its placement
So I went ahead and cut off all the excess fabric flipping it over to the back side
This white chalk shows you the general shape that I was aiming for on the back
I sewed all of those down with a straight stitch and then cut off the excess fabric
This obviously is a good time to try it on
This is the neckline I was aiming for I was super scared, but it's working
Oh and also this is where I discovered that the head pockets
So I felt like I had to mourn that a little because I didn't know I didn't know you had pockets
But now you're gonna get cut off. Sorry
Seeing this red shirt is a telltale sign that we are about to cut off the bottom, excess
So that we can turn this into a crop top with this excess fabric at the bottom
We are gonna do a couple of things first. I'm gonna get rid of all the lining because I do not need that next
I'm going to take these two layers that I have prepared and we're going to fold it in half and
Cut it so that now we have four layers in total
The bottom two were conveniently already rounded because the bottom of this caftan was rounded and with those top two layers because they are more
Rectangular I did give them a trim to give them a more rounded shape
This also meant I needed to hem those top two layers because I just cut out a raw edge of the fabric so I did
That by folding in the edge once doing a straight stitch all the way around
Then folding it in one more time and doing another straight stitch
This is something I do often when I'm working with lighter fabrics because it helps you to get a really
Really tiny and tight little hem these pieces we've created are going to be the flounces that go on the shoulders
So we need to put a little gathering in them to get some good ruffle action again
I'm back with the two parallel straight stitches that are going to help me to gather the fabric and
Check the link in the description
If you want a full explanation on how to gather
What I decided to do with these four pieces I created is two on each shoulder. They're starting an ending point
I kept the same but up at the top you can see that I put in about one inch three centimeters ish of difference
So that there's enough stagger that you can really see the two layers and they look like nice and pretty flower petals
I pinned each of those to the shoulder at the top do the bottom one and then do the top one and
If you want to make it look extra fluffy and you should sew it so that these sleeves are
Pointing away from the armhole and that way they fold over to flop down which gives them a little bit
More volume if that did not make sense to you leave a message in the comments and I will reply it with a better worded
Description and now what to do with cinching the body ba-bam. We are going to add some elastic first
I did a zig-zag stitch with elastic all around the entire neck hole
so the front the back and the two shoulders without this the top can be prone to
Sliding around or falling off your shoulders. This elastic will help everything to fit nice and snug around your neck hole for the body
I cut five pieces of elastic that were a comfortable fit around me and I sewed them into five separate loops each of those
I slid on to the body
About two to three centimeters apart from each other and I did a zig-zag stitch all the way around to lock it in place
There's a couple more finishing touches. But before we get to that, let's take one more look at the before and
the after
There is drama
There is loose there is a cute loose crunchy effect going on around the body
Some of my seams are not perfect. Please don't come for me
I wish they were a little straighter and neater but you get the idea from the tutorial standpoint
I think you have everything you need and you're just gonna look like such a pretty flower out in the wilderness
It's gonna be great. Please do give this a try to wrap up the top opening
I folded over the edge once more ended a straight stitch all the way around that way
It looks nice and clean from the outside and it hides that zigzag stitch that held the elastic in place on the body
All of those elastics were sewn in a circle using a zig zag stitch and on the bottom
I finished that off with just a simple fold over lastly
There was a little bit of extra fabric at the armhole which makes sense because the original piece was a bit big on me
So I pinched all the excess fabric and sewed it away into a little dart, which I think ended up being pretty neat
As well as a great theme I went with this 80's glam theme because that is the style vibe that Valli really presented to us
Basically, they took us to a fashion show that was completely styled by King and stylist to Kerry Tobin
He picked 100% Valley Village items and through that. I was just like
Transported to the world of 80s and big shoulders and like fun prints and at the show even a dress
I was wearing that white bag they were alterative from Valley Village
I felt like it had this princess kind of look but not Disney Princess more like how
actual royalty real life seemed to dress when if it they have their down time if you want to see more photos of
These finished outfits you came to find on Instagram. It's at with Wendy as well
If you do end up giving yourself a little shoulder lift, you can tag me on instagram using hashtag baby with my knees
So I can find it. I can lick it. I can give you love for doing it. Thank you all so much for watching
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