 going to be to gather our materials. We have our fabric here and I'm using a much scaled down, pretty significantly scaled down piece of fabric just so you can see the entire piece here but I'll talk you through the orientation of it and everything. Then you're going to need your trim if you are using it for the sides. If you're not using it I'll show you in a little bit how to treat the sides but if you are using it go ahead and grab that as well and then you're going to need some bias binding for the neckline. This is some that I've just made but you can obviously use the package stuff as well. Okay so for your fabric you are going to imagine that this is the cut length of our fabric. So we've got our selvedge edges here and down here at the bottom and we've got what was cut at the fabric store on these edges. So your fabric should be somewhat of a rectangle. My finished calf tan ended up being 64 inches from cut in to cut in and then 30 inches from selvedge to selvedge. So I did trim down my fabric a little bit just to get the length that I wanted like how far down my legs it went which is this portion. This is how long it's going to be down your body and then this is how wide it's going to be. So this is how much it's going to drape over your shoulders how it's going to fit over your hips. So you're going to want to make sure that this fits the widest part of you. Alright now our very first step in turning this plain piece of fabric into a wearable garment is to take the short ends and match them up like so. So now we have half of our length and this folded edge here is what is going to end up being our shoulders. So we're going to take the bottom end and we are going to turn that up. So now that we have four layers of our fabric this is our shoulder this acts as like our center front and center back and then this is what is going to be the side seams and this is going to be your hem okay. So we need to cut out a little bit of an area for your head to go through. I on my my big version ended up measuring out three inches and cutting a three inch three inches this way three inches this way and cut out a hole with a three inch what would that be diameter radius. I get them all confused but I marked out three inches this way and three inches this way. One little tip I have is for you to grab something circular whether that's a lid uh just any a bowl play anything you've got and just come in here grab a pencil and just make sure that you have a really pretty rounded edge that way all right then just cut out this circle this is going to create an opening that is the same in the front as it is in the back you can complicate things a little bit if you want it to you know scoop down in the front you would need to cut one of these one layer of this deeper than the back but for your first one just to kind of get an idea of how it works I highly recommend just going with keeping it simple for this first one okay so let's open this up and see what we've got so now you can see you've got an opening for your head to go through this is going to fold over or drape over your shoulders this is going to be your side seam and this is going to be your hem all right so we need to go ahead and hem this you can do it's deep of a hem as you want I think they ended up taking a one inch hem on mine which means you're going to take your fabric you're going to turn it up wrong sides together one inch press a crease into here then take your raw edges and place your raw edges in the crease you just made and turn that up and then stitch that down you're going to do that on both short ends and then for the long ends you're going to take your trim and you were going to place it right sides together with your fabric and I know this seems kind of counterintuitive for trim but this is how we are going to do it so that our raw edges are stitched down and creates less fraying so you're going to stitch this all the way down both long edges of your fabric right where the the like cute part of the trim whether it's fringe or pom poms or whatever is inside and you've got the outer edge of your trim matched up with the raw edge of your fabric stitch all that down and then you turn it under along your stitching and you've got this really pretty finished edge you'll top stitch this all the way down as well and so that'll secure the raw edges of your fabric and it'll secure the trim in as well and then you are going to apply bias binding to your neck opening obviously you have a much bigger neck opening than I do so it would be a little bit easier for you to maneuver but basically you just place the raw edges together so I've got the raw edges of the of the bias binding with the raw edges of the um neck opening and you just stitch that down all the way around once that is stitched down then you're able to turn this over and back under and you will get a really beautiful finish along your neckline obviously you can use double fold or single fold bias tape on this it just depends on whether or not you want the bias tape to show if you want it to show use double fold if you don't want it to uh show use single fold and it'll turn out like that so let me kind of get this demo caught up with all of that I'm gonna hem one side I'm gonna put some trim down and I'm gonna finish the neckline with as much of this little guys I can so that I can show you the final step this is really quick and dirty so I can show you the final step of getting this little guy okay so once you've done those three things hem trim and finish up your neckline you're gonna have to pretend that mine's a little bit prettier than this this super small hole and the big bias tape didn't make for like the prettiest finish but um you can see on my finished version what it will look like all nice and pretty when the proportions are right but I want to show you the final step so I've told you guys this is where it will drape over your shoulders so you're gonna bring it together wrong sides together right and you're gonna match your hems you are going to match your side seams and then you are going to stitch all along this edge here now you need to leave enough room for your arms to get through on my finished version I left 13 inches from shoulder to where that stitching starts so you'll come down 13 inches and then stitch all the way I think I only have like an inch or two on the sides hanging over here so 13 inches down roughly two inches in and you are going to stitch uh this closed wrong sides together and when you are done this is what it looks like your head goes through this hole your arm goes through this hole your legs go through what would be one hole here and you have your cute little calf tan super super easy to sew super super cute by the pool or if you have to run into the food store anywhere you have to go on the way to and from the beach dinner cabana whatever it is this little calf tan will have you covered literally