 Hey guys, it's Brandon, creator of Happily Dress, the fashion blog dedicated to self-acceptance, self-confidence, and self-sufficiency, and welcome back to the channel. I am filming a lot later than I normally do. What time is it? It is 9.22, hence no daylight and great lighting for the video, but I actually said in my previous video that I miss drafting out my own patterns and just by like luck maybe, or I called it into existence. So I found this picture on Pinterest, and I thought I'd draft this because this looks pretty simple, and what's cooler is there is a front seam, which, well there's a front seam that goes all the way up, and I had the idea of actually never using an invisible zipper before, but I thought it'd be cool to use that front seam as a zipper as well by putting in an invisible zipper. I mean I also could do a regular zipper and like have the teeth showing, that would be cool, but I love the way the front like, I just love the way they kiss. I love that little seam, and I think with like a little zipper and that little faux collar, that this jumpsuit could be really cool. And for some reason I'm like, oh you know what, I think this will be easy to do. It looks kind of easy because all you need is like one front piece that you would, because like whenever you're doing a jumpsuit, it's almost like you're making pants, but like for your whole body, so you kind of have to figure out how you're going to add the top part to the pant, because you could do pant, waistband, and then top like bodice part, you can do separately, and then connect it to the waistband that the pants are already connected to, and there is your jumpsuit without a front seam going all the way up. But with this jumpsuit, the front seam does go all the way up, which makes me think it's just like making pants where you'll have one half of the front, that you'll cut out twice and sew together, and then you'll have one half of the back that you'll cut out, and then you'll sew together. And then you have to worry about like sleeves, and I actually love the big pockets on this, and when I recreate something similar. So yeah, I thought this would be really cool to draft, so I'm not going to take you through my complete drafting process just because this is me doing it from scratch from the dome, and so it's not going to be perfect, I know that first try, but I will kind of walk you through my process of what I'm doing. So first I actually want to use the pant pattern I already have to work out where my waistline is going to be, just because on the pant pattern I already have, I love where it hits me on the waist, so I want that to be my waistline, and I can use that to measure out how tall I need my bodice to be because I know exactly where it hits me on the waist. Because this jumpsuit is so wide leg, I also want to mimic that just a little bit, I don't want it to be over the top, I think that the jumpsuit in the photo is a little over the top, but I do want it to be wide, and also with the big sleeves as well, I think that would be really cool. And this seems really neat, I'm excited to try this out, and let's hope that it goes well. Fingers across, but I'm feeling inspired to do it, so let's just go for it. So I'm working on my bodice currently, those were the measurements that I just took earlier, so I could put in my shoulder seam and armhole at the appropriate length of how I wanted it, and basically adding the bodice to the top part of the pant, so it's one long pattern. Now I'm going ahead and tracing my back pattern as well, making sure those waistlines match up, because my back pattern does slant up, so my waistline point was the point at where the back meets the front, not where it slants up, but a straight line across. Once I did that and added the bodice to that as well, I trued up my patterns by putting them next to each other to see if they fall at the same place, if the shoulder seams match up, if the armholes match up, and everything was looking pretty good. I went ahead and chose this fabric that I thrifted a while ago, it was a lot of it as just a test, just because I didn't know what I really would make with this fabric in the first place, so I thought why not use it as my like muslin pair of this to see how it goes, so now I'm just cutting everything out. And to try on the fit, what I'm doing is closing the front seam, the back seam, and the shoulder seams, just to see where everything sits. And once that was all done, I went ahead and tried it on just to see if I was liking it. It definitely was feeling a little tighter than I wanted it to be, and as you'll see later on in the video, it was too tight, so I had to go back to the drawing board and do some things differently, but very excited with how it was going. Hello guys, it is the next day. I just woke up, it's very early, I think you can hear that in my voice, but I finished a mock-up of the jumpsuit, and it's too like thin, it's very skinny, it's not boxy enough. Even the legs though, which I thought would be really wide since I increased the width of my leg from my original pant pattern, it's still not wide enough. So basically, my game plan for today is to take my pattern, I'm going to cut off the bodice part, work on that separately, make it wider. So I'm going to take off the bodice parts of both my front and my back, work on those separately to increase the width of them just because it's like, it's, I would say, almost skin tight. There is some wiggle room, but it is pretty on there, and it's very tight in my chest too because like my waist and my chest are two different sizes. I feel like my chest is like a 38 maybe, and my waist is like a 31. I love where the neck hits, it like hits right here, which I think would be really nice with that faux collar, not faux collar, mandarin collar if I still designed to put that. So I'm going to alter the pattern and maybe even go ahead and cut out a new version if I get that far, but I do work at four, so I'm just trying to do what I can today. So let's go. To adjust my bodice piece, I went ahead and just drew like a right angle that I could put the old bodice on top of, and then trace out some important placement. So like the neck hole and the shoulder seam, and I ended up actually making the shoulder seam a little longer than before because the goal of this was to make my bodice wider. So then the whole jump seat would be wider. So I ended up creating a whole new bodice, and then for the back piece, I did the same with the right angle cut out my front piece, which already had seam allowance, laid it on top of that right angle, and just cut out my back piece. No need to even trace. When I got up to the back neck hole, I just like went up higher than the front neck hole. Like maybe like an inch and a half down, if not just an inch down, and then curved it up to the shoulder point where they'd meet. But then I traced everything else the same. Once that was done, I went ahead and attached my new bodice piece to my old pant piece and then filled in the gaps with some spare paper. That's why I always like to keep my scrap drafting paper just because you'll never know when it comes in handy. And I taped all that down, did it for the front and back. And once I was complete, I had a whole new front and back. Was loving the way it was sitting already, just with the pattern. It seemed a lot wider. The legs were definitely a lot wider. So all that was left to do was cut it out again in this fabric. I told you I have so much. So I cut it out again. I still have some left over actually and tried that on as well. And just like last time I saw the front seam, the back seam, and the shoulder seams to see the fit. And I actually ended up closing this one as well just to see how it would really sit on my body. Alright guys, so this was the first one actually. And you can tell it's like too skinny. The crotch was like too low in the front and the back. And then right here when I tried to close it, it was like too tight on my chest. But yeah, so on the new pattern, I forgot to say that I actually raised up the waistline by like an inch and a half. So this is the old one. Let me show you the new one. So here's the new one and you can already tell there's like a lot more space. Look at that. There's so much more space here in the chest. This will be able to zip right up. And this is what I was thinking about the neckline. I love like exactly where it hits. And basically I just went down three inches, went over three and seven fifths on my pattern and then just drew a curve. That's how I got this neck hole, which I love. It's a lot wider at the bottom, which is more like the photo. And I think this is more manageable. Like I don't want to go any too much wider than this. I will because you can't tell. Let me see. They're too short. Like that's kind of where I want it to stop when it hit when it gets himmed. So I think I'm going to add about an inch and maybe an inch and a half actually to the bottom of both the front and the back pan pattern. So it comes down just a little bit more. But I love where the crotch sits. It's so much better than before. I will say though, because it's a lot wider in the back, you get that like Mr. Penguin from Batman, from the classic Batman vibe. So I think I'm actually going to add in some like a not necessarily a waist strap because you can add a tie. And that would actually help a lot if you had a tie, which I could still do. But I think it might be cool to add like side latches that would like connect to like a button here so that way you get it more tight in the back. It's almost the same as like adding elastic back here. But I always thought that was more tricky. So I think it'd be a cool design thing to have like two little, what is that called? I don't even know. But we're just going to call it like a waist strap. But it'll only come out like an inch. And then there'll be like a button right here. And this will like fold down and button like making little side pleats, which I think will be really good for the shape of the jumpsuit, which is nice. I'll probably do sleeves next just to see how it looks in this fabric since I don't care too much for it. But once you start getting the fit right on your items, it's so cool because now you can really start imagining what the piece will look like. So I want to do the little waist straps here with the buttons and probably have like some kind of shape, whether it's circular or like pointed. But then I thought it'd be really cool to have like a pocket that comes out of the scene and comes down right here. And then on the side of the pant, like closer to the bottom, I do that big, I think I'm about to fall over, I do that big cargo pocket. I think that'd be so cool down the side. So we'd have, we'd have the waist buttons, then we have the little side pocket here that I could use on both sides. And then at the very bottom, we'd have that like larger cargo pocket. So that's as far as I'm probably going to get today, only because I do work soon. And I started to eat breakfast, take a shower, do all that good stuff. But I wanted to make sure I got the fit of this, right? I might even work on the sleeves while I'm here, just because that would be super easy and I could like work it in. But I really like the way this is looking. I feel like this looks way more, this looks a lot closer to the inspo image. Very excited with where this is going. And I will see you guys soon with an update. Hello everyone, it is what day three, I think I did day two yesterday. But yesterday night, I went ahead and drafted out a sleeve pattern, which is right here. It is so simple. I drafted out a sleeve pattern and created a sleeve for the jumpsuit. And it looks amazing. Like it worked so well. It's been a while since I've like constructed a sleeve that like went on exactly the way it was supposed to. I'm going to put this on to show you guys what it looks like now. But I also want to let you know I went ahead and mapped out where everything was going to go on my pattern. So I decided like the front pocket, like this and length, you can barely see that. And then when I had the jumpsuit on, I went ahead and marked where I wanted the side seam pocket to start. And then also where I wanted the cargo pocket to start further down. So I went ahead and marked my pattern again. So it'll just increase a little bit in size each time. Oh, and then also where my little button flap is going to be for the side. So that way it can cinch in and not look crazy in the back. I work again today, like around four. And it's about 12 right now. So I don't know how much I'm going to get done. But I do want to decide what I want to make this out of, because I'm ready to just jump into the real thing. And then if I have enough fabric, go ahead and start on some of the little stuff and then cut out the big stuff maybe when I get back home from work. All right, guys, here it is. The sleeves look awesome. They're like just as triangular as I want them to be without being so dramatic. So the invisible zipper will probably start from like down here up so that way I can like go to the bathroom without having to like take this whole thing off. And then we'll have some like waist buttons. So it'll button right here. Give us a nice little motion, a nice little flow. The bottom will be increased by two inches. I cannot forget to do that. I'm going to make now the pocket patterns and also choose what fabric I want to use. So I kind of have to have a lot. I have a specific vision in mind. And I have some velvet that would make a really cool velvet one. But I don't know if I'm ready to do all that for my very first one. All right, so I found the fabric that I want to use. So I had this khaki material for a really long time. I don't know what it is exactly, but it's a khaki color, which I think will be perfect for this jumpsuit. And I have polenta. So that works out for me. So basically with the real garment, what I'm going to do is sew the back seam last. So the seam of the bag that goes last. But I will sew the backs to their respective front. And while I do that, go ahead and wedge in the button flat thing. And then also the side seam pocket. And then once those are sewn together, then I can sew on the cargo pocket that would go over both the front and back leg. Sew those on. And then after that, all I have to do is the invisible seam. Oh my God, the invisible zipper in the front and then close the back and then close up the end seam. That makes sense to me. So I'm just gonna start cutting out stuff. Now working with my real fabric, I'm going to head and cut out both front pieces and both back pieces, as well as cut out the sleeves. And then also the breast pocket, the front pockets, and the cargo pockets, which I actually just traced onto the fabric because I ended up not making a pattern for it because I was like, I can just trace this out. This is what they all looked like. I made sure I had enough room at the top of the pockets to fold them down in a way that left a clean finish. And then I also have my belt loop thingies and my belt pulls or snags. I worked on the pockets actually right before work and I thought they just looked so good. So I included this clip because they look so crisp and nice. Some pocket porn, if you may. And once I got off work, I went ahead and placed all my pockets where they're supposed to go and sewed them down to their respective front pieces. Next, I moved on to the like button loops. And once those were put on, I started the task of this invisible zipper, which took me forever. So I know I watched this video and it's a very good video. I still put the invisible zipper in backwards. So now I'm seam ripping it out. These are the parts of a project that can sometimes make you wish you didn't even start. I'm glad I started this project because it's looking really good. But this is definitely making me lose steam. I feel like without a mess up, do you really know how to do something? But hopefully the next clip you see will be of me zipping this bad boy up and you won't even see the zipper. Hello, everyone. It is day whatever of this jumpsuit project. I think day four. But when I started this, I've had a, sorry, I'm like, how crazy do I look? I've had a late start just because that zipper really took me out, that invisible zipper. I think reading is fundamental. Practicing is fundamental just because I messed up twice and then didn't get close enough to the zipper tee also two times. Sorry if you can hear my dog going back and forth. But the biggest tip I can give you is press your zipper. Like they tell you to do that. You want to make sure that your iron is on a synthetic setting, but you want to make sure you press your zipper out because when you do that, you allow that space to open up so you can get right there by the zipper. And once I figured that out, after seam ripping for literally like the fourth time, I said, Oh, cool. I get it. I gave it a good press last night as well. And I got really close on one side and then the other side is close enough. But look at that. It looks so nice. You can barely even see like where the zipper is. So the zipper stops right here. This is what the collar is going to be. It works. It opens up. And then now what I'm going to do is sew the respective backs to their fronts and put in the bottom side cargo pocket. We are in the last stretch, everyone. If you've made it this far, give yourself a round of applause because this was kind of a long video. But now I'm just finishing everything up. The way it needs to be surging, top stitching, all that good stuff pocket placement and honestly getting really excited with how this was going to turn out. You guys, I closed it and you can see, look at that. You can't even see it. It's like a front seam. Here's a little zipper. I am in love. I will say I love everything about the fit. Even the cargo pocket is being too low. I'm still in love with it. I just did the sit test to see like if things like bunch up or move. I am super satisfied. And it's not iron either. So I still need to like iron this out so it lays out better. But look at that, guys. This will help move that to where it's supposed to. Even my little button flaps. Once I get them working, that's going to be so nice. Look at that. Like silhouette. I'm all about a good silhouette. But yeah, once I put the sleeves in, it's all about the button here and then the collar at the top. But y'all, this is crazy. Like this is what I love about sewing is that you can have an idea and be like, wow, I want to make that happen. I have the tools to make that happen. I did an invisible zipper for the first time. Like what? Nothing's like pulling or tucking too crazily. This is going to be nice. I've been doing some work and I'm pretty much done. I added to the hem. I just need a collar. I love the shape. I love the silhouette. I love the pocket. It's definitely giving me fun. Very fun jumpsuit. But from the front, it's kind of giving me straight jacket, prison uniform and that literally could just be the material that I use, which is fine. I loved a little button detail on the sides though. Hello guys. I've added a collar. I've put on my Sherlock Holmes hat and I'm feeling good. The outfit is done. I'm like, no, I'm not going to really wear this hat with it, but I just thought it definitely fit the vibe. But I was going for it. Actually mark my words. I'm sure this winter you will see somebody in this exact outfit and know that you saw it here first. But yeah, it's done. I feel so great. I posted on my story kind of my thoughts about the whole process. The invisible zipper was definitely tricky. It took me a very long time to get it right. The collar I would bring down literally by a third of an inch, three eighths. I would bring it down by three eighths and I could now. I just don't feel like it. And then also the way I sketched it out, I should have curved back more. So that way it doesn't overlap because right now it overlaps when you zip. So I just need to like curve it back. So I won't do that because it's supposed to just meet right here in the middle. And then if it curves back, it wouldn't have all this extra room to overlap actually might just take it off. But yeah, really, really happy with the turnout. But let me show you it with this leather trench that I drifted. I got this trench coat for literally $20 at a value. Actually, I was a goodwill. It is so nice. I've been waiting for the right day to bring it out. It's finally getting colder where I am. So I think it's so perfect. We had a little pocket. We have a little cargo pocket on the side. Excuse my dirty mirror and cords everywhere. And all the clothes in my bed. But I am stoked with this, you guys. The corset part from the inspo photo, I probably won't make. I thought about doing it in this like tandem that I have. But I was like, no, it doesn't need a corset. Now that I have these buttons, it looks so good. I'm like so happy with the turnout. I'm going to do it again in denim and then change a few things. Even though I'm happy. Like I love the pointed sleeves. I think it's drama. I might not always want the pointed sleeves. I want to get the invisible zipper right a little bit because it does pull just a little like I think it's so light. And then the collar I might just fix right now because I have the time. All right, guys, so I fixed the collar. It's actually not that dark outside. It's just very gloomy. So I have to have this light on me. But fix the collar. It's still not, it still overlaps just a little bit. But it is lower, which I enjoy. I definitely don't want pointy, pointy sleeves all the time. Because it's like, it's cute for this look. But I think in the next one I'm going to do, I'm going to just have regular sleeves. Oh, since we're trying out crazy hats, let's see it with this one. Don't wait till it looks cool on someone else to wear. Because then that could have been you. I really like this jumpsuit. I'm very proud of construction. I'm very proud that I had an idea and went to execute it. I was actually kind of growing fond of the blue. But I knew I wanted to do it in this khaki color. I'm glad I got to try a mandarin collar for the first time. All in all, I'm really feeling this very thankful to the inspo image that I saw on Pinterest. And was like, wow, I really want to make that. And then I went out and did it. Very proud of my pattern, which looks like this. I'm telling you, you don't need a fancy pattern to make clothes or even to go out and spin a lot of money online. These are the patterns that I use and create it for this. And they will remain just like that. Let me know you guys' thoughts down below. I've already told you my critiques and likes. I'd love to know yours. And if you made it this far, I really appreciate you sitting down and watching my journey through sewing, self-drafting, all that good stuff. It's been a while since I've done a lengthy video like this one. It's been a while since I've had the time to document all of that. So it was very fun for me. I hope this was enjoyable for you to watch. If it was, you know what they say, you can give this video a thumbs up, because it means a lot to me. And it really does help support this YouTube channel. So until next time, I will catch you all in my next video. See you guys later.