 pattern of any kind it genuinely does not matter if you want if you have a bunch to choose from and you want to find the most perfect one I would find one that's a little bit oversized because you know we do want this to be kind of like a roomy situation nothing close fitting if you don't have that then just size up one or two sizes on yours to get a really oversized look then you want to go ahead and cut that out of your lightweight fabric and you're going to cut it out all in one piece sew together your shoulders and then I'm going to be using my ditto form today so ditto form is literally an exact replica of my body I went in and did like a 3d scan on this really cool like I don't know I guess 3d body scan machine and then they kind of 3d printed and this is my exact body so I am able to determine just exactly where I want all of the trimming to go because the trimming is see-through you know kind of really don't want it over the apex of your bust you might not want it at your belly button you certainly don't want it like at your cropped line so it's really helpful to have either a ditto form like this with all of these style lines or a second set of hands so that you can help you kind of place it push comes to shove just put it on your body and pin the trimming on that way so I've cut a few strips of this I only got enough of the trimming to do the front and then the full hem this trim can be a little bit expensive I have the it's this here and you can see that it was 7.99 yards it's eight dollars a yard and I think I got five yards of course I used a coupon but still it gets pretty pricey so I didn't think it would matter too too much if the back wasn't done if the back was just completely solid so that's what I'm rocking with but okay so we have a little strip of this and we are going to want to figure out where to place this on our garment so I need to make sure that my center front is truly at the center front and that is where this little notch is and I'll bring her in so you guys can see and again this is what makes the ditto form so great is that they have all these little ribbons here that tell you the exact center front of your body your bust apex your under bust waist and hip as well so it's really really nice to have all these little horizontal situations to help you whenever you're placing any kind of trimming like this whenever you're doing buttons um any of that kind of stuff this really really helps okay so we've got this in place and I'm only going to do one side and then mirror that on my cutting table on the other side so I know that I want a piece of this kind of at the chest level I want something sort of at the waist level and then another one at the hip level but again I don't want to you know like if you put it over here then it becomes like kind of like boob tassels and we don't really want that so I need to make sure that I get it up high enough through here and then again not even really worrying about it being super straight I'm going to do all of that flat on my cutting table I just want to get it kind of eyeballed in there so that I know where it wants to go and then I can take another piece here okay so on this on the waist seam I want to make sure again that I don't think it's very flattering to see your belly button um at the exact waistline would be really nice because you know that would draw attention to the smallest part of your body even though this is a roomy your garment so again place your garment along the center front I have this kind of like button placket thing that's happening so we've got ours like this and you can even like the um you can pin into the ditto form because they're completely foam so you can totally pin into them and hold things in place there's no plastic in there whatsoever so that's really nice let's get another one just keep it going down here okay so if we're going to place this at our waist seam like so do we want to split the difference do we want it to be right at the waist seam do we want the tassels to be the waist seam I think I'm going to go right at the waist something like this so again put some pins in I will transfer these you know out of the foam here shortly but you just want to make sure that you get it along the center front exactly where you want it to go and then we'll do the hip oh gosh you can really see the state of my sewing room at this point okay and then we're gonna place this again we don't want we don't want the see-through part to be like right at our crotch level I don't think that would be very attractive like at all um and we do have trim that's going in at the bottom so maybe maybe we just do is just three right oh can you see yeah that way we have bust waist and then we have it at the hem as well and then if I did that then I would have enough to put some through the sleeve as well which would be a nice carry over from this situation so see it really does help to put it on a dress form because if I were doing this flat on my table I would have had one two three four levels of this trim and I really think that I only need three um so that's all I'm going to do I'm going to do one two three just like so and then also going to get it into my sleeve using the notches on the pattern as a guide for you know where it should go same same concept as if you were matching stripes so let me get this off the dress form onto the table I'll get you guys an overhead shot so you can see how how we're going to get this onto the garment and then you know work the trim from there all right so I have my garment off the ditto form flaying flat um just that one side or that one front panel um and we know a few things our grain line is parallel to the center front here and our center front is roughly one and a half inches so if you wanted to go ahead and press this in place just to make sure it was nice and even throughout a good finger press probably just fine too okay so if we know that our um center front is parallel to the grain line then we know what is horizontally straight so that is what we are going to use probably need a bigger more than this that is what we are going to use to determine um where the trimming goes and you can see I pretty much had it spot on here you just want to pull it down a little bit and there we go now we know that that one is in place so we can grab our pins and pin this in place and trim away any excess I'm going to leave I don't know probably an inch or so just to make sure that I have enough room but you get an idea of where the trimming goes from here all right um trim so we can put this in and then I'll leave like an inch or so and then I can use this for the other side all right and for the waist one um obviously this little self-facing is going to be turned inward so we can't just have our trim hanging off the edge like I had it before so we want to just scoot it ever so slightly to the edge put a pin in and then do the same um little system where we line up our ruler with the edge of the center front and then just lay this in nice and gently so that it's straight to get this so now we're going to go to our machine and we're going to stitch along the top of the trim obviously and then we're also going to stitch along this edge now your trim might not have the tassels which is fine you're just going to um stitch along both edges leaving the fabric underneath completely intact and then I'll show you how we're going to get it to be see-through after that okay I've got this completely sewn down as you can see and I thought I would go ahead and show you how to match up left to right just get laid back down on top of this through the waist like so then you can slide in your trim like so and then pin it all right and then you can turn it right side out and now you have them perfectly matched up re-pin stitch repeat all right it's so cute already you could just leave it like this and it would be adorable but we're not we are going to take advantage of this crochet trim and this is a moment in the tutorial where I need to tell you guys don't be afraid just be careful okay we are going to be cutting our fabric I know I know it's scary but you can do it um we're going to be cutting through these channels right all through here right down the middle of all four channels now I'm going to try and run these um edges through my serger press back and top stitch that's going to be the um order that I am going to do all this in so let me get a couple more done or I guess I'll just get them all done and then I'll show you what it looks like afterward all right I got all my trim in isn't it the coolest little hack ever um I love that you can see through I love that it is at like a good proportion to my body and it's not weird over my um bust or anything and my waist seam one is right at my waist seam just where I wanted it and then of course we'll have some hanging off here at the end but from here you really just sew the garment based on the patterns instructions you just you know now this is all treated as just like your original cut of fabric and you have a super cute detail so of course I'll finish this up and show you guys what she looks like in the end