 Hey everybody and welcome back to Happily Dressed, a fashion blog dedicated to self-acceptance, self-confidence and self-sufficiency and welcome back to the channel. Today I'm doing something very exciting that I haven't done in a while and that is a thrift flip. I really wanted to take the opportunity and use my pdf pattern the Haley top that I have for sale online right now to flip this skirt into something really cool. So basically I have this skirt that I thrifted a long time ago but there's so much fabric I wanted to keep it just in case I wanted to create something cool and special and I guess today is that day. It's just really nice like I think it's so cool so today I thought I do. I thought I'd try to make it into the Haley top and the crazy thing is though this fabric is so light which is really nice but I'm just scared that with stiffer fabrics it's easier to manipulate them to do what you want but with stiffer fabrics you're able to manipulate it a lot more and a lot easier and this I won't be able to do that but I think with ironing it down and stuff like that it'll still be fine. If you want to get your hands on the Haley top you can by following the link down in the description below it's available on my website it looks something like this once you print it out it's just paper and you get to tape it all together which is great. If the bleed on your printer is a little weird don't worry just put page to page take that down cut it out and it'll work for you. I'm kind of just crossing my fingers I'm hoping that I have enough to make this work if I don't I'll just choose something else. I'm kind of just starting this video with high hopes and so let's keep it up. So first you're going to cut out all your pattern pieces they should look something like this you have your front your back left and your back right. To get started I cut up the middle of the skirt trying to find a good point to fold it and be able to place the pattern down but cannot get it so I had to end up undoing the darts to make it a square and less of a circle. Once I did that I had to lay down the pattern on a front seam which you'll see later on definitely turned out to be a problem. All right guys we've kind of hit a snag so with the skirt I had to cut the front part off on a center seam and it just does not look good in the middle especially because this fabric is so stretchy because when you pull it and tie it it's just going to like pull and not be cute or fun. So I'm thinking of switching the material I was going to try and do it with a pair of old dickies pants but I think I'm going to run to the same issue that there's going to have to be a seam on the front but it would be a little bit more structured so I could try that but I think what I'm leaning towards is using this curtain my friend Andy thrifted it for me I don't even know what to call this but it has structure and texture and it's a really nice like chocolate brown which is really cool. I might try this but I'll just keep you guys updated because this unfortunately is not working. So I ended up using the dickies pant to make this which is really nice and I only use one pant leg because I also cut out a lining instead of doing two of the same fabric just to save some fabric for the dickies pants so I could do this with other ones and the other leg. So now what I'm about to do is go ahead and just work on my loops so I'll just fold them in half and sew down at one fourth of an inch seam allowance and then once I finish doing that to all seven I'm going to fold them outward or like right side out and then top stitch them and that's the loops done and then we'll move on to our bodice piece. So now after your loops are done what you want to do is take your front and use your pattern to mark out your darts. I used an awl to poke a hole in the middle so I know where my middle point is and then mark my two side points and marked in the dart. I did that on the front piece and the lining piece and once I was done I went ahead and sewed that down and ironed it flat. After that I went ahead and put the sides onto the front right sides facing pin them down and sewed them at a half an inch seam allowance. I did that for the front and for the lining. Once that was nice and pressed as well this part you're going to want to stay stitch your loops. Basically place your first loop an inch down from your point. Place your last loop or the third loop an inch up from the bottom point and then place your middle loop at an equal distance between those two. It should look something like this after you finish and then what we're going to do is take our lining piece and face it right sides facing to our front and go ahead and pin that down. The cool thing about this method is that you don't need a serger because all your seams will be hidden and you want to make sure you leave a little space open so that way you can flip it over. Once it's done it should look something like this and then what you're going to do is cut your seam allowance down to a fourth of an inch so that way your seams can lay down easier and then go ahead and flip it right side out. I use a point turner to go ahead and get those corners nice and crisp and once you're done turning it out you're going to take it to your ironing board and go ahead and press it flat around the seam so that way you can top stitch and you're going to top stitch around the whole piece. So now once you have your piece all sewn together now is the fun part I'm going to pin it to my mannequin really quick and then tell you guys what I'm thinking. All right so now when you're done you can put it on your body but I have mine on the mannequin. Basically now you can test and see how high you want to sit it on yourself because now we're about to work on the strap so the cool thing about this top is that it's completely customizable with what kind of straps you want and how you want it to lace up in the back so basically you could use ribbon you can use the same material that you used to make it out of. I could actually cut the strip out in the Dickies pant fabric that I used to make this in the first place but I think what would be really cool is if you use some kind of really long ribbon whether it be like pink something very light shiny delicate lacy even I think that'd be really awesome I don't have enough pant fabric to make the straps out of it so I think what I'm going to use is some elastic string that I have which I think will be really nice and whatever method you choose with the straps that is your Hailey top done you can't see it in the camera because it's overexposed but I love the white straps on this if I had time I'd go out and get some kind of white ribbon and go ahead and tie that in the back a length that I'd recommend is around 50 to 83 inches I believe I've had this string about 80 to 90 inches and it's a little too long but I mean having a longer string makes it more adjustable to different body types which is really nice you can use this pattern upcycle in a spare fabric you have if you go thrifting and find an item that you really like and want to turn it into something different like I tried to do with the skirt today but it just didn't work out and yeah I definitely recommend for something like this you use a stiffer fabric like like a linen duck canvas even some cottons like a heavier weight cotton I think would be really beneficial for you and then the lining you can put in almost anything it could be a satin another cotton yeah I actually really like this top and I would wear it if I could but it's just not my style but thank you guys so much for watching if you did enjoy this video make sure you give it a big little thumbs up for me and if you didn't know I actually have a patreon that you can find in the description below so if you want to show your support for the channel you can do it by going over there I host live streams q&a's and even do some fun motivation stuff about self-acceptance of confidence and self-sufficiency as well as tarot readings so go ahead and check that out if you're interested if you want to stay up to date with what I get into on an everyday basis you can go and follow me on instagram and happily dressed and until next time I'll see you guys in my next video see you guys later