pinning them where they ought to go and hoping that i don't stab myself
hello welcome back to my channel today we're going to be doing a thrift flip i finally got a chance
to go to the thrift store and because there was a super long line i tried to pick up more things
than usual because i didn't really want to go back anytime soon we've got two items that we're
going to transform and i'm pretty excited about it there's this little leopard skirt thing i'll
talk about that one in a moment oh what just fell off oh no and a cardigan which is already
losing buttons but it's okay because i don't think i was crazy about these buttons anyways
i like the color like the little collar and like that it has a pretty ribbed pattern that always
makes knits look a little bit fancier a longer cardigan is better because you'll have a little
bit more material to work with and this right here is the inspo we're going to be working off of
i got a lot of dms for this type of ensemble we're going to chop it up see what we can do
after i made the completely non-intimidating no turning back cut that is not the reason i
procrastinate starting a project because i'm paralyzed in fear i
got my elastic my sewing machine and i got started i have my elastic feeding in over here and this is
the inside of the cardigan just doing a zigzag stitch to attach the elastic to the edge just
make sure you're pushing on the fabric so that it's in its least stretched position possible
i'm not putting any tension on the elastic just everybody in their most condensed state
going through with the second stitch we're just folding this in once folding it in one
more time doing a zigzag stitch it retains its stretchiness and looks clean on the outside
this is a pretty good technique whenever you need to hem a knit or stretch i used it
to turn a t-shirt into a one-shoulder top in a previous video i'll link it in the description
any time you're doing a thrift flip with knit keep this in mind you don't have to be like
me and buy a giant roll this was me before the kovitch shut down i panicked and i just bought
as much as i could for the inner tank top i don't think i can go for the
full bra cut that katie holmes has so i think we're doing a more straight across
crop length honestly you could just make a tube top but to provide a little bit of guidance i did
lean on the patterns that i had made back when i made this paris georgia sweetheart top if you guys
remember that video the goal of that one was to make a perfectly fitted tank top i thought i'd use
the patterns that i drafted from that to draft the starting point but basically it's a front piece
got two darts in it waiting to get put in and then i have two back pieces first i will put in these
darts once the darts are sewn in i sew the front and the two backs together with just a straight
stitch right sides touching the side seam that back middle seam this makes a complete tube that
as you can see was definitely too big for me but we'll figure that out indeed is a little spacious
i think i can get rid of maybe like six inches even in the whole back there's a sports bra
underneath i feel like the straps actually are where i would want it to be in the end
so i'm kind of just using it as a guide i also want to straighten this out save that for later
okay after slimming this down a bit this seems to fit much better so then i focused on cutting away
about two centimeters of fabric from the lower back so that the bottom edge could be smoothed
all the way around once that is good the top and the bottom edge of this tank top can be
hemmed with the exact same method as the cardigan using the elastic and doing two stitches that fold
the raw fabric away all right i love when a thrift lip is super resource efficient honestly i think
these are the two largest pieces of waste fabric that came out of this whole project
i made the straps by joining the extra blue rectangles all together and i finished them
off with the flipped elastic just like i did the top i just got to attach these to this
usually i do that by like literally putting it on and pinning them where they ought to go and
hoping that i don't stab myself and then it's done so as a reminder here's the little cardigan
how it looked before and here is how it turned out after this flip
and i'm too ashamed to say that now
our second project actually is a idea that's kind of been stuck with me ever since i did
a virtual thrift flip video where i like photoshopped a thrift flip for someone
and one person sent in a denim skirt which i said could be modified into this orsone iris
skirt with a corset detail and i ended up thrifting a little leopard skirt i'm
not crazy about these rectangular skirts i feel like they just don't so i'm finally
gonna do that thrift flip i proposed i feel like that orson iris skirt is also still
really cute and really popular we're gonna start by just cutting it open right down the middle
i hate the first cut it is consoling that it was just 8.99 so if i fail this is a relatively
inexpensive sewing lesson to help me out with this transformation i have also gathered up
three to four meters of flat shoelace about two meters of one inch grosgrain ribbon some
silver grommets we ended up using 38 a leather punch to make holes for the grommets a matching
grommet hammer which will be used to install the grommets into the holes that we punched
and four meters of bias tape as well as some long sturdy zip ties julia helped to cut it open
i promised i was not trying to outsource the scary parts to julia
the easy way to seal off the raw edge is to take some grosgrain ribbon it's pinned here
along the edge just going to sew with a straight stitch and then we can flip it to the inside
and you hardly lose any fabric but then all the raw edge is hidden away
i repeated those exact same steps to seal off the other side of the skirt opening so it's
one straight stitch that secures the ribbon to the edge tuck the raw ends of the ribbon under
and do one more straight stitch that hides all the raw edges away the zip ties will hopefully
give this skirt some more structure so that it looks just a little bit more expensive
that is the goal out here with the diy is you want it to look a little bit nicer after you are done i
used this by tape to create the channels for the zip ties the zip ties i used were a bit wide so
i had to open up the bias tape before attaching it you just lift the skirt lining and we aimed
for four in the front four in the back julie and i tried a strategy where we pinned the tape to that
top waist edge and then we marked where it needed to land at the bottom this didn't work amazingly
but i will get into that in a second if you're wondering why we're using zip ties it's because
this is kind of an easy and affordable way to replace boning and it helps me feel like
i'm a carrot tours which is also a great benefit it's not straight i need to add a little bit more
visual guidance i think so as you saw the lining made it really hard to get these channels straight
since they prevent you from holding the fabric flat underneath the machine so it did help to add
a few more markings to show myself where the bias tape needed to go and i did have to participate
in my favorite sewing activity undoing stitches julia helped me out with marking the holes to be
two centimeters apart and then we work together to punch the holes and hammer the grommets in
this blanket below is really just to not damage our floors or annoy our neighbors too much
i think in my thrift flip video i had wondered if it would take me longer to photoshop
these grommets onto a skirt or actually hammer them in and thankfully i found out
hammering the grommets is faster my photoshop skills still have some catching up to do all
the zip ties can be tucked into their individual channels and then if everything's looking good you
can lock them inside forever with a straight stitch at the end of the bias tape this is
also when you can lace up the entire skirt i'm really not sure if julie and i were any faster
doing this with two people versus one but yay teamwork and finally you can add this little inner
panel that will give you some room to expand and contract the lace-up as needed mine is made from
some left over pleather that i had from a previous louis vuitton harness video to refresh here is how
this little thrifted skirt looked before and here she is now i can be a little bit over dramatic
but i'm obsessed with the habit of loving you and they don't understand that
somebody
let me know which of these two thrift flips you love more generally with my thrift lips i always
try to find items that are on the easier side to find at a thrift store so you actually feel like
you can apply the thing that i'm doing are you a cardigan with matching top type
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i think that's it i'll see you all in the next video hope you're doing well virtual hugs bye