i feel like this whole video is just a tutorial on how to dress like the michelin man
hey everyone happy new year welcome to 2021 if you're new around here an extra welcome to you i
find every january there's a couple of new faces maybe you want to make this the year you sowed
and i'm happy to help you with that we're gonna kick things off with an easier project here in
canada we are in the chilly months of the year so i thought we might as well look cute and
accessorized while we survive the winter we're gonna make some cute winter accessories that
i've just had floating around in my mind or i've seen them on instagram and today
we're gonna make them a reality let's turn up the heat i want to thank this video sponsor they are
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project we're gonna go with is mittens tna has really gone so nuts with their super puff
line and now they have super puff mittens and i just think they're so cute i have the sage green
beautiful nylon ripstop you really don't need much other ingredients you will need why do i
sound like i've been cooking too much this sounds like a cooking video now is some cotton batting as
well as some fleece which will make the inside nice and comfortable from the materials we're
going to cut out a mitten pattern i took the glove pattern that was developed when i did last year's
ariana grande gloves and you just merge the fingers together and it's a mitten there are
three shapes in total that come out of this one back of the hand one palm of the hand and one
the finger assemble i always just look at the reference photo so they have one two three four
five stitches that go across looks like they're roughly like an inch apart from each other okay my
machine just made a really scary sound i've never cleaned it and it's been with me for five years so
oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh
i'm so sorry you have to see that i'm just i'm sorry to myself diagnosis earlier i noticed the
bobbin plate was jiggling a bit inside of this holder and since i was able to pull
out two broken needles that were magnetically stuck to this plate i think this should now sit
nice and snug no more jiggling since the quilting stitch is decorative i should start it over again
since i stopped part way okay where did we leave off yesterday i have to go wash my eyeballs from
that experience i did a basting stitch all the way around the back pieces palm pieces i also did it
for the thumb pieces i'm just sewing the thumb to the palm right sides together along this entire
opening it is kind of tricky so you might want to bring out the invisible zipper foot to make
maneuvering a little bit easier last step with the shell why do i feel like this is taking so
long this prime example of me saying we're going to do easy projects it's always like this i'm
going gonna try to line up the quilted lines along the side as best i can to help it look nice and
professional and sew it along the top curve cute deceptively like oven mitts if your new year's
resolution was baking i have you covered as well i guess although you definitely should make it out
of a different material the next step is to repeat literally all of these assembly steps using the
lining fabric to insert just make sure you don't get your hands mixed up the goal here is that you
want the inside to be just a little bit shorter than the outside so that the rim of the glove
curls inwards and you don't see any of this black fabric on the outside when you're wearing it just
gonna put this glove in its little sleeping bag i'm gonna sew all the way almost around the wrist
but just leave a little gap so that we can flip it inside out in the home stretch i can see the light
then you want to ease this lining all the way inside black fabric all done
last step just a little hand sewing to close off that one opening we left for the flip
i don't know what else to do to really show you that i made gloves
you get it gloves mittens we made them okay we get to do something a little different we're going to
go over to julia's for a little change in scenery if you're new to this channel julia is my amazing
assistant and if you're new to covid lockdowns that is the reason why we did not get to shoot
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my body temperature regulation maybe it's because of watching the crown but i'm in a bit of a head
scarf frame of mind for winter change it up and do a puffy one like one of these ones that i've
been seeing on instagram you could go with a simple triangle shape but we're gonna do like
a hooded scarf shape so that there's actually a point to making a tutorial about it just like
the mittens you'll need a nylon rip stop in any color fleece for some lining and the quilt batting
one more time we're going to need three general measurements so the first measurement is at your
neck in between your collarbones around your head and then back to the mid collarbone point
top of your head you kind of want to hit front to mid scalp region and from that same measurement
you're going to take one third of it and then add three quarter inch and then for the second
measurement it's going to be from your hairline at eye level around the back of your head and
to the other side and then from that measurement we just need half of it for the third measurement
i'm going to measure from front mid section of your scalp and then back down to where you
would want the hood to end measurement one becomes this first straight line that's on the left a to b
then take one inch off of measurement one and that becomes the straight line that grows across the
top from b to c you add a one and a half inch small straight line at the end that is c to d
and from the midpoint of that first line you add a three quarter inch line to the left this is e to f
and then draw your measurement two extending to the right this is e to g a couple more tweaks
come in one inch from the upper left corner that gives you point h and then you also add a midpoint
between b and c which gives you point i okay pause just a quick interjection i know normally i would
just tell you guys to like trace the shape of a hoodie that you already own i do want
to indulge us in just a little bit more pattern drafting than usual i'll try to move through this
efficiently but in the future if you want more of this please let us know in the comments and we'll
try to work it out back to julia using her own bodice block she added this back curved neckline
a to j and again three quarter inches away from that back seam she added another back neckline
this time with the full shoulder and the little point of it is k this shoulder becomes a bit of
a guide for adding the front neckline and then she adds a mark three inches away from k which is mark
l and another mark that is 3 8 inches back from l which is point m connect m and h add a mark
three quarter inches down from h which is point n and then add one and one eighth inches to both
sides of n which becomes o and p with all of those satisfying measurements laid out the french curved
ruler comes in so you can start to see the soft hood shape emerge this here is a snug hood so for
a more relaxed fit julia cut it out and then did a little slash and spread to the pattern taping that
to a fresh piece of paper the hood is now a more comfortable size and you can add the cute little
ties for the front slash and spread gets us a front hood piece that will finish off the front
edge and then a two inch wide section along the bottom of the hood helps separate the pieces that
you're going to need from the outer shell tie and the lining to make the inside layer of the hood
this assortment of pattern pieces gets you this we've got two layers of the front hood
one hood shell with batting one hood lining with two symmetrical pieces of facing and
two little ties start with adding the quilted lines in the hood and then sew the back
seams together making sure the quilted stitches all line up seams are matching
so i ended up tapering the front a little bit i cut off this portion because we're going to
be adding more i didn't want to make it too forward-facing for the next part we're going
gonna sew the lining to the facing and then after we sewed the facing we're gonna attach
the tie end piece pin it and then sew straight down now that the lining has the facing and the
ties attached it can be assembled just like the outer shell i feel like this is pretty cute too
with like the contrast colors back to the hood front it's these two moon shapes in blue plus one
moon shape in batting sewing them together along the outer curve makes a clean and not bulky finish
for the front you can under stitch everything to the side with the batting to keep the edge
nice and neat and then fold the whole moon shaped closed with a stay stitch line up the shell the
hood front and the lining right sides together you can sew all the way around but just like with the
mittens make sure you leave a gap somewhere on the bottom for flipping it inside out flip that whole
thing right side out and stitch the gap closed and we've got ourselves a cute winter hood skirt
okay one last project if the hood and the mittens are a little bit scary for you you could make one
of these sleek super minimal puffer scarves i feel like this whole video is just a tutorial on how to
dress like the michelin man if we aren't dressing like cute little puff balls what is the point
of winter and suffering anyway same materials as the other two winter accessories with
way more straightforward dimensions i'll put them in the description and also there's one part i
genuinely don't know how julia julia's going to do she figured it out so we're going to see
what happens so i have a dilemma i need to cut out the batting but luna's sleeping on it what do i do
we've got a rectangle of the shell fabric two layers of batting this time and then the fleece
lining one more time i finished cutting the batting and then she found her spot again
yuna so i just pinned together the self to the batting and i drew a chalk line going down the
center lengthwise and we're just going to attach them together with a straight stitch
same thing with the fleece lining and batting you know the drill by now we start with let
me hear you quilting stitches one goes down the middle to connect the shell to one of the
batting layers and then one goes down the middle to connect the lining to the other
batting layer okay so there's a couple of things i did off-camera first off i added a
stay stitch along the outside of the shell and the batting and then also the fleece and the batting
second i realized that the two layers of batting isn't puffy enough as the montclair scarf i added
one more layer of batting in between these to see how puffy would be the montclair scarf is really
intense so i added one more and it does look a lot proofier so i'm probably gonna go with four layers
also i realized that we probably didn't need to add that quilting line down the center because
we need to sew all layers together in order to get that bulge is that a good word uh
that puffiness but we can still do it at the end we can manage i'm just gonna cut out one
more layer of batting and then i'm gonna sew one layer to the shell and then one layer to
the fleece okay so i finished adding the stay stitch to the edge next step is to add the slit
but in the reference picture it looks like the slit is pretty high up so i actually might just
move this a little further down just so you can feed more of the scarf through it go down about
six inches and then have the cap opening be eight inches so the next part i'm gonna put two pieces
right sides to right sides and i'm gonna pin them together i'm gonna mark where the slit starts
and ends we're gonna sew the perimeter of it the ends are going to be pointed and then it's just
going to go down around and then point at the end as well i'm going to use a smaller stitch length
to go around twice with a slight gap in between the two stitch lines just so it reinforces that
seam so when you're taking the scarf in and out it doesn't suddenly open up but what you're going to
do is take just one side and just push everything through the hole wow in order to seal the outer
edge we're going to do the roll-up method this is the part that i actually have no idea how this is
done and because you want right side to right side you're going to take one end and literally roll
it up from underneath you're going to take it flip it and then get this right side to that right side
and then we're going to pin everything in place do you like that hunchback meme
witchcraft so we're going to sew one side halfway and then a little bit past the slit
take it inside out repeat it to the other side so one side is completely sealed for the other side
so you can sew from where we left off all the way down around and then around again here you can
stop and you can leave the gap so you can pull everything out again finish with flipping it
right side out for the last time and then close the gap by hand you know this drill by now too
also that long middle seam was never quilted through the entire scarf so give that a final
run through the machine and this is the outcome of what can only be described as julia's sorcery
let me know which of these cute winter accessories you like the most also this was julia's first time
filming by herself in her place and i think she killed it so feel free to give extra love
to julia if you love her as much as i do don't forget to check out this video sponsor native and
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basics videos that i've made in the past i'll put a link to those in the description so you can
check them out and decide if you want to really get into this sewing thing because this is what
happens to you as you go down that journey thank you so much for watching see you in the next video
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