I'm worried I'm like sleep-deprived or something I'm starting to love my own ideas too much
everyone welcome back it's with Wendy today we're kind of like turning the tables a little I have
asked you to submit me photos of items that you want to transform through that you will get to
see a bit of how I break down tackling a thrift flip part of the reason why we're diving a little
bit into the process is because this video is sponsored by visco visco is an app that I love
I use it to create discover connect with other artists I use this app a lot so this is kind of
an ideal partnership and visco tasked me to make a video that dives more into my sewing process
and explained like what goes through my mind when I look at an item or a piece of fabric and decide
I will make this out of it if you've never used the app before it looks like this and I use this
very heavily when I'm in the creative process the good bad and everything in between and photos goes
here I'll put them in here to kind of like see how they look with different presets and it gives me a
little bit more inspiration on like how I'm going to tackle these projects you know posting it to
Instagram I'm sharing it with you all if you have not tried this app before I will put a link for
you to download and try the app in the description is free and just as a side note to show how
passionate I am for Bisco I even paid my own money to join as a member when they launched it I think
they had a couple of exciting features but the one that I've used the most would be getting
to use all of their editing and presets on video I put out an open call to look for photo submissions
of clothes that people are looking to flip well let's see who's up first Adrianna she sent in
this blue striped dress you can tell oh there's a back tie you can tell from her twirl there's a
lot of fabric to work with that's a great thing when it comes to a thrift flip you want one of
the things we could do here slim down the sides a little and then take all the extra fabric and
turn it into like big fun ruffles on the bottom there hope you love that I being someone who just
loves clothes to be versatile I think I would end up splitting this up into two pieces so now
I've got like a cute little crop top as well as like a nice billowy skirt cuz I think this skirt
has some great features to it I also love that she has this tie in the back in order to make
everything cinched together nicely all you gotta do is on the top half so the ties so that they
can come all the way around the block all the way around the back and into the front you're a cute
little bow as well you probably have to add like a little elastic to the back half of a skirt to help
it fit nicely oh yeah I'm into this let's save this photo Riya sent us this lovely black dress
there's a lot going on here it's like roses black mesh God but then like make the shoulders nautical
very interesting since there's applique I can't help but wonder what would it look like with more
applique we'll keep them for now but I'm not 100% this is the right way to go in this particular
instance say for example we go with adding edge I'd get one one gigantic flower instead
idea we could also just change the nautical ties everything together better erase Yanks actually
scared me I felt just now I feel like this is the right way to go yeah Maria my advice for
you change the ties and maybe giant Gucci flower Thank You Elena for sending in a photo she's got
this like pretty necktie bears Moya Maria and the word textile in case you weren't sure that this
was made of fabric something I've been kind of tempted to try is I kind of want to see how it
would look if we gave it some side ruching I feel like there's enough room on this dress to do that
one downside though is that it will like not let this fabric really shine through and I feel
like these working women prints is really a key feature of it once you're rich they're all just
gonna have like a squished face do we think this will look good with balloon sleeves you
could cut off the fabric and kind of like a reap umph it into the sleeves I did that in a previous
pulling the sleeve tutorial I did a link in the description if you want to check it out I think
the idea with this I think is if you're gonna go balloons leaves you should probably turn it just
into a top so that there's a bit of balance I feel like personally my approach would just end
up being that we turn it into a skirt and then I think something that would be really really cute
for it would be use the excess fabric you know we're all about not generating waste out here and
you just I'd like a cute little boat it could be in a red tone or a beige tone there's kind
of two tones going on in this dress you could do totally different accent color I feel like
that's what I would do with this Joe come on down Joanne trying to send us a plaid bested dress I
feel like Billy Eilish wears a lot of plaid so yeah this is one road you could take with Platt
you can just be like is this plaid too much no I could combine two more plaids with it see what I'm
saying okay okay could work one like the cute and easy thing you could do is you could just square
out the neckline so I did a tutorial explaining this a little bit it looks like a drew a weird
chef's hat but the point is to focus on the plaid yo okay so see you could square out the neckline
then this looks a little more like cute picnic yeah and then with the bottom I feel like there's
enough fabric here if if this is like a little big on Joanne this is what she could do I would
chop it in half do a little square neckline and then these shorts that's the idea that
I'm going with here tree new I hope I'm saying your name right girl you look pretty cute also
this bathroom is gorgeous is this your personal home the brass legs and the sink Hardware finish
arched mirrors okay and there's a note I already started by removing the elastic but I'm kind
from there don't have pictures of it without the elastic but it's basically a white tube yep can
you imagine it now it's a tube alright play along with me on this one I think it's tricky
that it's so shapeless like it begs especially this type of fabric bags to have a little bit
of accent so ooh let's try so like you know how I'll do lots of tutorials where I show you how
to gather something I haven't really covered is like strategic gathering where you kind of just
only gather in specific places as part of a little detail or a little accent but not like just like
ruffling the whole thing you could add those two little studs and that would give it like a little
bit more of a shape more intrigue oh another one with all the excess fabric that's in the skirt
again if you kind of like give it a little bit of a circle cut you can get enough bend in it so that
it makes a cute little rebel and girl if you have time may I suggest oh yeah that's quite the dress
I feel like the flounce shoulders will look even cuter if it was like a little top and then you can
maybe just add like an elastic waistband around the middle oh no that's what she removed sorry
tree new if you want to do this you would react the elastic waistband around the middle but then
just like cut off the rest of the skirt so it just tapers below the bust I'm just gonna call this the
shimmy Cheryl's [ __ ] what shimmy shoulders purl shimmy shoulders I'm gonna put those into visco
visco has a fun feature where it will like once you publish the photo it will show you related
images so I kind of think through that you'll get to see like a bit more of a collage of like
how the look could all come together what kind of vibe is the entire outfit despite being an open
call it looked like so many items that came in or addresses so I feel like with Wendy video is not
complete without me doing my own modifications so actually I have thrifted address based all these
photos and I gonna apply my own consultation to it and transfer it into something new dad
stop thinking just do it so I got this from rift awoken vintage in New York and it was on final
say hello and I kind of think I know why like it's obviously very festive I don't have a big butt and
I have broad shoulders and this thing is super snug on my small butt and still spacious on my
shoulders cute button detail all over the place including here on this randomly unnecessary hip
flap when I approach a thrift update I just try to focus on the thing I like the most that excites me
you like doesn't have a fun print doesn't have any like cool sewing details since in that case
they've kind of done the work already for you and for this the thing I love the most were the
shoulders it's got like this curved Raglan cut that you don't find on a lot of clothes anymore
and then I find these shoulders have like a nice little point also it's like a keyhole back so let
us try and chop this up into something that'll wear a little bit more often all right so the
first step that I'm going to do is I'm going to cut off the bottom of the skirt but because I
kind of want to leave a little bit of a waistband let's leave 2 to 3 inches since when did I switch
back to Imperial I'm so sorry folks we're gonna leave 10 centimeters like a good old metric person
okay now we have a top here is basically now the new waistband but aside from these buttons up here
this part down here has no way to close I feel like something smart here instead would be if
I used the rest of the skirt and made them into like a waist tie two more 10 centimeter strips
we're going to put one on each side now that I've sewn this all into like a big ribbon the
plan is to fold it in half do a good ole stitch in the ditch the goal is to stitch as closely as
possible into the scene so that you can't see it hence stitch in the ditch and to do this I
just have to keep checking before I sew that I have enough fabric folded under to get caught
it's kind of too much okay wait I'm going to take that out every time I have to seam rip people seem
to have a hoot about it I have some pins to the waistband to show what it's like folded up and
that helps me see how much excess fabric needs to be hidden away let me just throw these darts in
all right stitch in the ditch here we come for real this time
moment of truth did I catch all of it I
missed a few spots okay I will go over that before I finish but before I take too long on it I am
going to finish off these waste ties I added one more stitch along the bottom edge because I feel
like it just helps it to look a little crisper I don't know if you noticed in the footage you'll
try to show it but there seem to be a bit of an excess fabric situation on the sleeve seam and
so for that I think it's a pretty easy fix but basically you want to look at the theme from the
inside and then make sure it's laying really nice and flat wherever the seam is currently
you kind of just like sew a little bit deeper so there's a bigger dark stitch is from the original
industrial machine my lighter one since I'm just using a whole machine is down here so that helped
me basically take out one and a half centimeters in total and the only last thing to help you sell
your modification as if nothing happened is you should press the seams okay before I show the
finish items here are the five beautiful thrift flip creations I passed all of these through some
of my favourite visco presets and also disco kind of help me serve up the mood board that
you see in the background this is the time where you obviously get to vote in the comments on which
one was your favorite okay are you ready to see how my shirt third flip turned out tada I hope
this got your creative juices flowing regardless of your DIY scale level a lot of the consolation
I gave was just like stuff that I thought would look nice but also are things that I've learned
via experience are kind of like within the realm we're not in the realm of possibility and a lot
of you have shared with me that you're scared to try because like you don't know if you can pull it
off and that's why I was really excited that this video was sponsored by visco their whole message
with the make it anyway campaign is that it is about the journey not the destination but chances
are if you have a great time along the journey the destination won't be that bad either do not
forget to vote in the comments don't forget to check out the Misco app also linked in the
description don't forget to subscribe don't forget to know bail I will see you all next time bye