 Hey guys, so thought we would do some upcycling clothing sewing video. We'll do one. If you want to see more, let me know. So fun fact about me, I started my creative journey sewing with my Nonna and I wanted to learn how to do crochet edging around her, that she did around her anchor chips. But she said first I needed to learn how to hem the piece of cotton and not by machine, by hand. My hand sewing is not as good as hers was. Anyway, I still sew. I also wanted to make, I wanted new Barbie clothes and we couldn't afford them so my mother said you're going to need to learn to sew. I still sew. I used to work for Chuck E Cheese back in the day making the fabric for the robotic characters. If you don't know what that is, google it. Anyway, I haven't done this much garment sewing in a really long time but I am making a lot of clothing for myself. In fact, fun fact, this outfit I have on today is one that I made. This is a pattern I drafted. And my pants. Let's see. They look like a skirt but they're pants. Anyway, I have this blouse. I thrifted it. I think it was like six dollars or seven dollars. It was brand new, never worn. This mannequin is about my size but this blouse is too big for me. So we're going to alter it a little bit. I have an idea for a couple of easy changes. So we'll see what we can come up with. The first thing I'm noticing that I need to do is raise her up a little bit because I'm not that short. So let's do that first. So I looked around on the internet a little bit and I think that I want to do something simple. Like put some pleats, like two on each side in the front and a couple in the back. I think I want to take out the sleeves and move in the shoulder just a little bit like up to here. Take the sleeves out and redo them so there's something that's more fluttery and more like a cat sleeve. And I think take the collar off. So yeah. First thing we need to do is do some seam ripping. Not my favorite thing but if you don't know what a seam ripper is it's this little thing that helps you deconstruct sewing that you've done that needs to come out because you've done it wrong because yeah anyway you get the idea. A lot of times when I'm deconstructing garments I don't bother seam ripping them because I'll just cut them. It's quicker it's easier but I do reuse what I can. So if the garment's already hemmed I usually try to reuse that hemline. If it already has buttons on it and buttonholes I reuse the buttonholes. You get the idea right. So I'm just trying to alter it to make it something more interesting and that fits me a little better for inexpensive because have y'all seen the price of fabric or clothing lately? Oh my god yeah. So first thing we're going to do is we're going to take the sleeves out so I don't have a whole bunch of fabric here but I'm going to try not to squint at what I'm doing. I'm going to sit and I'm going to play some YouTube and I'm going to unpick this. I'll be right back. That took a little bit. Now I'm remembering why I just cut the seams and I don't seam rip but we got it done. So this is what we have now. Now the inspiration images I saw had v-neck neckline but I don't really want to recut and rewind the neckline so I just took the collar off I left the neckband and I'm thinking that'll work and I'll just restitch this. Again though I think we need to bring the shoulders in a bit. And recut the armholes. How does that look? See that already looks better. Also let me grab some clips. So I use pins but I also use these. These. These are easy. Okay so then if we put some pleats around the waist yeah that gives it a cute shape. Yeah that's already cuter. And if we want to this is normally what I do. That's easier. And if I wanted to we could re-add this. That I would gather it. I wouldn't just be messy about it like that. Do we like it with sleeve cap without the sleeve cap? I don't know but I'm thinking I need to get this done first. So the pleats. So I'm going to take it off the mannequin. I'm going to take it over to the sewing table. I'm going to measure it all out. This is right about where it needs to be on my waist. The mannequin is my measurements so we need to even all that out and do some pinning and some sewing and I'll be right back. I've got all the pleats pinned so that they're in the right places and they're going to be one and a half inches long and seven inches up from the bottom. So I'm going to just go to the machine and I'm going to run a straight stitch from one pin to the other back stitching in the top and the bottom at the beginning and the end. I'm going to do each one of them that way and then I'll decide if I want to go to the front and do any top stitching. I might. We'll see. All right, let's go to the machine. I think we're going to add these where I'm going to recut the sleeves and I'm going to add them as little sleeve caps. So yeah, let's go to the table. Okay, so I cut this off the top of the sleeve and shorten the sleeve so there'll be more of a little sleeve cap and actually I can use the bottom of this to bind and finish off the bottom part of the armhole. So let's go over to the sewing machine and get that done. And then I think we might be finished. That was quick. All right, hang on. We'll be back. This is what it looks like after. It's cute. I like it. So quick, simple, easy changes. If I can do it, you can do it. Give it a shot. Let me know if you do because I'd love to see what you do. There is a few upcycling clothing video channels out there. That's all they do. I'll include one of my favorites down below. She doesn't even use any patterns. And if you try this, please tag me and let me know what you do. Above all, go out and have a good day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye, guys.