 We're gonna be going into our closets and thinking about purging all the things We didn't wear last year and all the things we don't love anymore and all the things We don't see ourselves wearing ever again before you do that though I have some really fun cute ideas for how you can kind of take some of those boring drab clothes Take them up a notch and maybe fall in love with them again I am gonna be doing all of this with the help of Farm yarn and I've talked to you guys about farm yarn in the past But a quick refresher farm yarn is basically salvage ends of knit fabric that they source from various Undergarments swimwear athletic wear manufacturers. This is a plain boring basic t-shirt It actually doesn't fit that well at the hem as you can see it's a little bit tight And because of that when I wear it it just kind of like hugs me and doesn't hang like I like it I am going to be using the farm yarn to create little Channels on the side seams and then using that to create this ruching effect That is gonna create all these little ripples over my problem area Keep the side seams as high or low as I want them and also create this curve temp So let me show you how to create this little look on this plain little red t-shirt. All right, you guys This is so so simple. So you are going to take one of your side seams like so turn it up facing you And basically we need to create two channels one along each side of this side seam But if you remember I got all those knit scraps I'm going to place it right along this side seam and then from the right side I am going to sew Three eighths of an inch On this side of the side seam and three eighths of an inch on this side of the side seam Okay, and when you are done you are going to have one seam running down the middle I just use like stitch in the ditch to go along the side seam and then you're going to have two seams along Either side of that and that creates our channel now I want to point out also that this is open on the sleeve side and open on the hem side We have not closed either of those just the tried and true safety pin trick Um It's attaching the safety pin to one end and then feeding it up through our channel All the way up to the sleeve and then bring it back down and through down to the other hem All right, and once you've got your farm yarn all fed through both Channels like so you will have two ends hanging out of one end And then at your armpit essentially is where you'll have like the loop where we where we turned the thing Um turn the corner, uh, if you'd like you can stitch in the ditch along the under arm seam to seal that close Because we went up and over it's never going to come out So I am just going to chop mine off. All right And so here is how this is going to work Basically when you put it on you are going to pull on one end And that is going to be what creates our ruching. That's the beauty of this also is that you can take it up and down Um as You know just depending on your outfit depending on how you're feeling that day So yeah, finish up the other side and you are done with this cute little refashion T-shirt hack. All right, and here's what we have with our cute little t-shirt hack No one would ever know that this was not the original fabric from the shirt Like no one would never know that this wasn't made this way. This is what the side seam looks like super super cute And again, you can of course adjust these if you want to make it super short You know Obviously, I would retie this but um, you can make it really short. You can pull it back down to the original length if you want Um, so so many options so so cute lots and lots of good options. Um, so so happy that I'm going to be able to keep my little Red t-shirts. Okay, so now we're going to take a look at the Green sweat. Next up I have this sweater that I actually really do love It's got a really great texture to it. But again, it's a little bit Just tight across the hips not to mention. I'm not really Wearing sweaters that are super long like this anymore So I'm going to be taking some farmyar this one here. It's not an exact color as you can tell But it's pretty pretty close close enough anyways And you can see this one has a little bit more give to it in the red does which is going to be perfect for um This application so basically what I'm going to be showing you how to do is how to take a shirt or a sweater Could be tunic length could be dress length whatever you've got and shortening it Creating a little casing and then running the farmyar in through it So that it creates this little like drawstring effect On your sweaters giving it a lot more visual interest and also kind of better proportions for the body So let me show you how to do it So I have marked with a safety pin kind of wear generally where I want this um Want my sweater to end up length wise um, so measuring up from the side seam is What is that? five inches from the hem um, and I need enough of Extra from here in order to turn it under and hem it so i'm actually going to chop it at four and a half inches All the way around so um, we have this turned wrong side out. This is the inside out And we are just going to flip this up to create a one inch hem all the way around So I'm going to do that all the way around and I am going to um What am I going to do press this and then I'm going to take it over to my sewing machine And I am going to just do a simple Street stitch you don't even have to do the zigzag stitch if you don't want The zigzag will prevent this from kind of ravelling and unrolling But I don't even really care about that too too much All right, we have our sweat shirt sweater with the new hem So we are going to add this little gathering effect what we are going to do I love this little tool from I think it's from clover. Yeah, um for wider casings And because it just fits right in and then just zips right around But we are going to pull the farm yarn through Our new casing and my farm yarn is here and it's just pulling from the center just kind of like regular yarn does So it's really easy to use and not make like a huge disaster of a mess with a big pile of Farm yarn everywhere. All right, so now we've got that and then I want to have I don't know six to ten inches additional Farm yarn so that I can tie it off really easily So we have that and because the farm yarn is stretchy This is going to act a little bit like elastic not so much so that it's going to like hold it to your body But it's definitely going to pull taut and then stay there. Um, which is really good You can tie this off In like a permanent situation into a knot and bury it into the casing if you'd like or if you want it to be adjustable Which is what I'm going to do. You can tie it off into a bow. All right, you guys This is what this one ends up looking like again. Super super cute I think you would find this in an athlete a store in a heartbeat fabletics. Call me um Super super cute. I ended up leaving my casing open a little bit to the front and to the side So that's where my bow would end. I just I don't like bows like right here at the center front But obviously you can do it in the side seam even in the back You can do it right you can do it wherever you want so mine's right here on the side And again, if you don't want the bow to show you can just kind of tuck it up under here like this And no one will be the wiser and then similar to our red one You can obviously let all this out and just have it be like a regular Sweater too depending on what you're wearing and like the vibe you're going for or whatever Okay, our last and final Refashion remake is the navy open front cardigan. All right, and last up I've got this very dated, but I know you all had one about 15 years ago, too But it is a knitted open front Short sleeve cardigan. I just I just I'm not into cardigans anymore. I don't know What happened? I used to wear them all the time and now I don't so I want to use some of this white Farm yarn to give it kind of like a little bit of a nautical look um to create more of a More of a sweater with the top that I have versus a Cardigan so to do this we are going to be installing a grommets all along the little Placket that is created here on the garment Um, and then weaving the farm yarn up through it Let me show you how to put the grommets in and then how to lace this up for optimal like Cuteness so that it doesn't look like you just kind of hacked a cardigan Okay, so our first step is to identify where we want the eyelets to go and how Um far apart we want them spaced you can see here. There's a button on the other side and this is a little um Like thread chain that they used as the buttonhole. So for me, this is how I know where the waist line is So I know that I'm going to place one grommet here for sure So I'm going to place my little button marker thing um Along the center front making sure to put one of the buttonhole Uh marks on this same line as the buttonhole of the original Um cardigan and we are going to space them a lot closer together So that one end is kind of like at the hemline All right, so now we need to mark um all of these and again I know that I am starting at the hem and I'm going to need to know this for the other side So it's going to be this guy here It's going to get one and then This guy here is going to get one. So that's one two three four five six seven little ribs In between those two marks. So that's what I'm going to use going forward And that's what I'll use on the other side as well. Okay. I've got all my Demarcations for the grommets and this is a quick tutorial on how to make grommets Your first step don't freak out is to cut through this little thing I'm using my serrated scissors my favorite favorite serrated scissors and just going for somewhere near the center Now the tall guy the one with the little stand on the back gets pushed through the front Like so and position your fabric all around him like this Then this gets laid into the grooves of this little tool that it comes with and then you get this little washer guy And you get this little other little metal thing and then you just Um take this part of your tool put it on top of everything give it a few wax and then you've got Your grommet installed. So I'm going to go ahead and do this along both sides of my entire Garment and I'll be right back. All right. And here is what we have when we've installed our grommets already a thousand times cuter Am I right? We haven't even laced it up yet. So the next step is to take some of your farmyard You can absolutely take this stuff fold it right sides together stitch along the raw edge Turn it out and have like a proper tube But I'm going to just leave mine raw for now And if I ever change my mind I can always go back and so it shut no big deal um So you need to cut a length of this For mine all I determined how much I needed I just pretended that I was weaving this up like so And got to the top Like this and then just doubled That length So I have sort of pinched a center mark and I know that that is where I want This whole thing to start down here. So just lace it up like you would shoe strings All right, so I have her all laced up and I just want to add one more finishing detail Just to make this look even more kind of intentional. I have these wooden beads These might be a little bit small. I have some that are slightly bigger With a bigger hole So I'm going to try and feed this through Either of these holes. I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up with this one here But um, I just want to add some beads to the end Like I said, just to kind of give it a more finished polished look Okay, so I ended up getting the bigger ones on to The string to make the end look pretty just tie it into a knot like this Push your bead all the way down and now you've got a cute finished look for your Sweater tie. All right, all done. Tell me if this isn't one of the cutest tops you've ever seen and that you would not pay premium top dollar for this in the store But um, but yeah, I think it's super adorable and it's going to get so much more wear than When it was just an open card again and that's going to do it for today I hope you enjoyed these three kind of like refashions featuring farmyarn you guys go check this stuff out You can find them at farmyarn.us. We're absolutely going to love it Your imagination is going to be running wild with all the different ways that you can use it Um, some of the more obvious ones that I didn't touch on today because again, I just kind of thought they were obvious are waistband draw strings draw strings for a hoodie And masks so if you're making the ear masks Or the ones that tie above your head farmyarn is going to be perfect for those as well So go shop grab yourself some farmyarn and I can't wait to see what you guys do with it That is going to do it for me today. I'll see you all very soon. Bye