In some blue china plates there is the traditional two little flying blue birds. I would probably do a couple by hand. Craft tassels? Would they not perhaps run in the wash?
The first time I ran into those hanger ribbons they were in a strapless dress. I had no clue what they were so in the dressing room I forced my arms into those things and came out wearing this strapless dress with "spaghetti straps". It was a fitting for a friends wedding and the seamstress nearly burst at the seams trying not to laugh at my mistake. She said later that I wasn't the first one to make that mistake but I was the first one to successfully wear the dress that way. (I had very skinny arms)
Your perfectionism really paid off! That top was so shapeless to start with. Your first version was nice, but the second version - wow! So flattering, so authentic, so right, so you! I love these videos - they really help with my own mending and refashioning. Thank you!
@@Evelyn__Wood Hello Ms Wood! Firstly I do love your sewing videos! As I was starting to sew I got your videos on my Phone. Very happy about random picking from Google(?) Very well constructed and represented!!!! About the tassels, my experience is that embroidery thread discolours/ bleeds when washed,! If you have not found the tassels yet ;have you considered an upholstery shop? They have different types of tassels in size and colour! Best Regards M
I’ve been sewing for 60 years. Yep, I’m old as dirt. I’ve been learning a lot by watching...and I’m going to make a trip to the thrift store. Thanks for your delightful videos.
I know this is late and off topic, but this lady is so remarkably beautiful. I almost cannot even believe the color of her skin tone is real. It looks airbrushed, so evenly tinted and smooth everywhere! And her face with her culry hair looks like a sculpture of a cheribum.
It’s very cute! Agree on the tighter waist and shorter length. Making tassels is very easy, btw. Why not make some from embroidery yarn? You could choose the perfect color that way 🙂 Otherwise, a couple blue beads at the end of the white string might also look nice.
I really enjoyed this. Like previous videos, it’s really helpful. This week, I thought of you as I refashioned a loose top with asymmetric, diagonal seams across the front. I needed to bring in more shaping under the bust, and bring up and narrow the v neckline. I took the sleeves out, narrowed the back, unpicked the side and front seams and rejigged it all. I took one step at a time, pinning it, trying it back on, sewing that bit, pinning the next.....having the confidence to leave that bit until I’d done this bit, having a general plan but getting the shoulders right first, then the neckline, front diagonal seams, sides, then the hem. It’s your videos that have given me the confidence to have a go, knowing the general idea but not the exact details, and getting there in the end. So now I have a top I always loved and spent my hard earned cash on, now fitting my newly slimmer figure in a much more flattering way than before. In the past, I’ve tried refashioning but given up when I didn’t know exactly how I was going to get where I needed to go, so, once again, THANK YOU! ❤️
Loving the little ruffle you added to the sleeve. It brings back the innocence of the era. Great call on removing the peplum. It was too long for your body.. I learned how to adjust a waistband from this video. Thank you for sharing your talent and time.
When you first mentioned doing the rolled hem along the bottom, I thought "I'd do the sleeve hems too!" Great minds think alike! I was thinking about the tassels - maybe you could dye them? You could incorporate all four of the blues I could see into a dip-dye effect with the lightest blue first for the whole length of the tassels, then the next darker for 3/4 of the tassel length, then the next darker for half the length, then the darkest for the bottom quarter of the tassel. It would be a lot of mucking around, though. Several years ago, I used a product I got at Lincraft to dye some cotton lace (I couldn't find any cotton lace in Navy); it was paper impregnated with dye and you use an iron to press the dye into the fabric. I've done a quick search - it's called "Design Dye (TM) Paper that dyes Fabric, Wood and More". My lace project worked really well, though I pressed the dye into it three times because I wanted the colour really dense (and it did go through to the wrong side, about half the colour denseness of the right side) - I then made the lace into a lace and bead bracelet to match a dress and necklace I got for my eldest step daughter's wedding. The colour match was perfect, even in photos! Something to consider, though: I haven't washed it, even though the packaging stated it was color-fast; I mean, who washes bracelets? Just an idea, though. On another level altogether, would a peasant have had coloured tassels? Even homemade ones? Or if they did, perhaps they were made out of embroidery threads (seeing as they did do embroidery?). I'm sure there would be videos on how to make them, I have no idea myself. I'll stop rambling now!
Hey Evelyn, I love what you do, I love that you do all the hard work for us! I love that you show all of it to us! I enjoy your teachings, your techniques, your great finds at your thrift finds, yard sales, etc. I just wanted to share with you that you are a wonderful woman, a wonderful teacher, a wonderful person, great hearted, and needed in my life! I really do just totally smile and laugh with you in your videos. Thank you for making my heart smile every day! Thank you for sharing YOUR heart with all of your VIEWERS EVERY DAY!!!!
thank you so much for bringing back the fond memories of my mum. Im now in my 60's and can here her tutting as i cut corners...... you have reminded me of all those do's and dont's. ^ Think before you do^ sticks in my mind. Never a negative, just the beginning of a new journey. for each garment. She was as high as you could go in the 50's as seamstress. Target.... make a shirt from scratch. No pattern. Just a visual of 5 mins look at man. (dressed of course) no measuring. WOW. Im now going through my wardrobe as a new disability means those things i love, just wont work now. Im hooked onto your channel now. just begun my first shirring stitches on beloved top. Amaizing and pleasantly pleased with myself. Many thanks again.
Wow what a beautiful blouse you created! I’m 71 and just getting started sewing. I sort of learned the very basics at 13 years old…Anyway, I decided to watch tutorials before deciding on which sewing machine to buy. However, after watching your videos i realized what I want a machine for and what I want to sew. I want to RE-FASHION! I’m always looking at pieces in my closet and imagining how I would make it “work” for me… Or, I’m at a thrift shop and see a lovely piece of material in an unflattering design and I’ve wished I had the skill to re-fashion pieces. Thanks so much for your tutorials! Now I know what I need my machine for so my next step is to learn about the many different machines and find the best I can afford. I look forward to many more of your great tutorials! Sue
You added the little peplum at the bottom of the sleeves. I love this top. I wore a lot of them in the 70's when they were back in style. Great job! Blessings all!!!! 💜💜
My dear, I am so glad I found your channel. Your style is just amazing and inspiring. This top turned out so beautiful! I noticed the sleeves were different straight away but I must admit I couldn't put my finger on exactly what was different lol. So many of the dresses I have seen from my love affair with Joan Crawfords films would be so perfect on you. There's one immediately that comes to mind, which is a beautiful 40s dress with lovely embroidered grapes and vines. There are also some dazzling numbers in "the women" from 1939. The fashion show during the film just makes my heart sing. I think if you designed and made something like the beautiful cherry patterned dresses from the late 40s/early 50s, it would be beautiful on you. Especially with a lovely scarf tied in your hair that matched the colour of the cherries and so accessories to match. Stunning!
I remember so many times trying to get out of a pinned ballet costume and feeling like the pin cushion. There was one particularly memorable experience in which my mum had to sew me into a costume side stage. I think she got me with the needle more than the costume.
I love love love this remake. I like the tassels white. They don't detract from the blue details. But...you could remove the white tassels, dye them navy and put them back on? Use what you have. I think it so sweet and dainty as is. Bravo! You so inspire and empower me. Thank you!
Its lovely! And I was that girl with the pins. I love the little inspirations that come to me while I’m ad-libbing my sewing projects. I bought an a line skirt that I planned to take in, but I ended up turning it into a baby doll blouse instead.
The little ruffle on the sleeve!.......I love that you really want it to be the best it can be, to it's fullest potential! Satisfaction, you have earned it!!!! I have the same standard, but my ability isn't what it used to be. Age puts a wrench in things. I love it, great work!
Amazing work! Thank you so much for your honesty in the process of making. Your philosophy about taking the time needed, harvesting and enjoying the process itself as art is precious! Thank you!
Sometimes I don't get how people can just get rid of such nice shirts especially when it was such an easy fix to basically have a more flattering version of that?! I mean good for us for finding such treasures. The amount of people I know who want to get rid of a pair of pants because of the pants length instead of just getting it rehemmed or rehemming it by hand. Doesn't take longer than 15 minutes. Like when boyfriend jeans went out of fashion and everyone wanted mom jeans
I absolutely agree it is amazing what people throw out! But it is hard to make clothing adjustments when no one has ever shown you! Hopefully we can fix that and show more people what can be done! ❤
@@Evelyn__Wood I kind of got an idea now. On Saturday we will watch some Harry Potter together but before we do I want them to bring an old tshirt or some pants and I will show them how to backstich and cross stitch so they can make some now croptops out of old tshirts and some ancle length pants during the movie. Yes, I am aware that I am quite the party animal 😂
The hem on the sleeve made it go that extra mile. 👍 I love the end result looks much more your style 😊. The blue tassels can you make your own like with embriodery floss? I just found out one of my jean has a hole in the crotch from them rubbing together 😳 I went to work with it like that. It's currently on the work table.
Oh, the excitement when you find that one thread! And that moment when Mom would say 'okay, let's take it off' was nearly as scary as feeling her slide the pins in right against my skin.
I thought for a minute you were going to make the rolled edge or zig zag navy on the tie part but I noticed the sleeves right away, love how it turned out!
I cut these hanger straps off too but I can't throw them away because they're usually made from such lovely ribbon. So I have a big shoe-box full of them! I know some day I'll find a use for them! LOL!
I am 18 months late watching this video Evelyn, and I am so glad I did. You have (hard) worked a small miracle with transforming your peasant blouse and I absolutely love it on you.🐾
That final adjustment on the sleeves - genius! So small yet so crucial. I've recently become temporarily obsessed with capsule wardrobes, so have done a brutal edit on my clothes. Most of the few that are left need mending, so (mostly thanks to your prompting) I've been working through the mends. Then onto making basic pieces to pull my wardrobe together; then finishing the dozen refashioning projects I started! (Having a 32G chest tends to quickly exhaust the refashioning interest...).
If you have navy embroidery floss, you could make small tassels by wrapping it around a piece of cardboard. Tie it up on one end, cut the other end and tie the top knot around the tied end.
I love this. It was a sorry looking garment to begin but you worked your magic and came up with something beautiful. I watched the bit at the end where you asked us if we noticed anything. Well, I could see there was something different on the sleeves and I was looking closer when it ended. I had just twigged what it was just before you told us! That just completed the beauty of this little top.
I didn’t know about the magic thread until a couple of months ago. Doing a major makeover on a winter vest. When I found that thread and pulled the whole seam just came apart I almost wanted to dance around.
Lol 😆 it was a close one, but I didn’t want to tip all the threads and my seam ripper onto the floor. Definitely need to remember how it works. Best sewing hack ever 🧵 👍🏼. And this refashion/alteration turned out amazing! You were so brave to pin it up while wearing it 😬 I've had the fun task of trying to find that one pin that managed to catch my shirt while home alone 😐 not fun 😆
You are so right. Small details make all the difference! I agree that the sleeve ruffle with a touch of white topped with navy took the whole blouse from cute to FANTASTIC!
I really love that you teach us to be perfect at sewing it’s great for me as I am one to go down the quick road but you have helped me to be more patient and better at sewing Thank you
Very cute shirt! I love those kinds of shirts! The second version you did is waaaay better looking btw. 5:29 I always cut mine off too. Those things are annoying, but sometimes I'll keep them on for the shoulder less dresses because those things help hang the dress on the hanger.
Love your thrift to vintage and mending mondays videos. I learned so much!! And I love all the refashions. Thanks for sharing all your tips and knowledge
i love this transformation... i have a suggestion: take the navy thread you used on the edges, three groups of three threads and plait them and make a tassel at the ends with more thread.
You could make your own navy/royal blue cord using embroidery floss (multiple strands) that you could braid or do a woven tube. We made woven bracelets in Girl Scouts using something like this.
As someone who started out as an artist and is now learning how to sew, i really admire how you approach your sewing projects. I used to feel like a slow worker with the way i did my art, by revisiting my paintings little by little until i get the results i want. But watching your process and results makes me feel differently about it now.
So happy to have found your videos! You are doing exactly what I dream to do everytime I go to the thrift store and come home with a pile of way-too-large clothes made of beautiful fabric! Very impressive that you did not just say "good enough" (at least in my humple perfectionist oppinion) ANd perservered until it was exactly what you had envisioned!
Yes, I did notice the extra fabric on the sleeves! It caught my eye as soon as you modeled the blouse near the end of this video. Your blouse looks so cool and comfy. I have a similar one that is just like the second version of your 30s style peasant blouse, only mine is black! I loved watching this video! Thanks for sharing! ~Janet in Canada P. S. Stay safe!
I really enjoyed this video thank you 😁. I was so happy that I’d did notice the sleeve trim before you said. It shows I am starting to really see a garment.
I saw the navy thread in your overlocker which made me look at the edges, so knew what you had done. Tassels are so easy to make. You could also make oval crochet tassels, I know in the 70s I had a few gypsie blouses and drindle skirts, and I remember having crochet ends on at least one of them. xxxAnnxxx
Have you gone back to old makes? What do you think, worth doing it twice??
Absolutely worth doing, I much prefer the final result.
Definitely, have watched most of your videos. Enjoy them very much.
Definitely liked the second remake best. It fit the style you wanted and was more flattering on you.
In some blue china plates there is the traditional two little flying blue birds. I would probably do a couple by hand. Craft tassels? Would they not perhaps run in the wash?
Yes, often I do that. I keep changing things until they are just right. I do wonder if you have found your navy tassels by now? :-)
The first time I ran into those hanger ribbons they were in a strapless dress. I had no clue what they were so in the dressing room I forced my arms into those things and came out wearing this strapless dress with "spaghetti straps".
It was a fitting for a friends wedding and the seamstress nearly burst at the seams trying not to laugh at my mistake. She said later that I wasn't the first one to make that mistake but I was the first one to successfully wear the dress that way. (I had very skinny arms)
😂😂😂 I used to work in bridal, I saw the same thing happen a few times too!!
I did the same thing!
Your perfectionism really paid off! That top was so shapeless to start with. Your first version was nice, but the second version - wow! So flattering, so authentic, so right, so you! I love these videos - they really help with my own mending and refashioning. Thank you!
I'm glad to hear that it helps you in your own refashions!!
Yes, the navy rolled hem on the sleeves!
You saw it! 😀😀
I saw it too! 😍
Sleeve edges. Very nice.
Oh that feeling as an artist when you let yourself go all crazy perfectionist on a project and it feels so good!
Try using some skeins of navy embroidery thread to create matching ties and tassels Xx
I think I might have to!!
That's what I was going to say. I want to make them for you, but realistically I am terrible at following through with mailing things.
@@Evelyn__Wood Hello Ms Wood! Firstly I do love your sewing videos! As I was starting to sew I got your videos on my Phone. Very happy about random picking from Google(?) Very well constructed and represented!!!! About the tassels, my experience is that embroidery thread discolours/ bleeds when washed,! If you have not found the tassels yet ;have you considered an upholstery shop? They have different types of tassels in size and colour!
Best Regards M
I’ve been sewing for 60 years. Yep, I’m old as dirt. I’ve been learning a lot by watching...and I’m going to make a trip to the thrift store. Thanks for your delightful videos.
I know this is late and off topic, but this lady is so remarkably beautiful. I almost cannot even believe the color of her skin tone is real. It looks airbrushed, so evenly tinted and smooth everywhere! And her face with her culry hair looks like a sculpture of a cheribum.
"This is what your face should look like as you're coming to the end" is the best advice on refashioning and sewing in general :)
You're SOOOO effortlessly 30's chic, I can see you being a Swiss Baroness of some sort in your previous lifetime! LOVE IT
I'm really glad you redid your redo. Now I want a 30's peasant blouse.
It’s very cute! Agree on the tighter waist and shorter length.
Making tassels is very easy, btw. Why not make some from embroidery yarn? You could choose the perfect color that way 🙂
Otherwise, a couple blue beads at the end of the white string might also look nice.
I just might have to get into the tassel making bussiness!!!
I really enjoyed this. Like previous videos, it’s really helpful. This week, I thought of you as I refashioned a loose top with asymmetric, diagonal seams across the front. I needed to bring in more shaping under the bust, and bring up and narrow the v neckline. I took the sleeves out, narrowed the back, unpicked the side and front seams and rejigged it all. I took one step at a time, pinning it, trying it back on, sewing that bit, pinning the next.....having the confidence to leave that bit until I’d done this bit, having a general plan but getting the shoulders right first, then the neckline, front diagonal seams, sides, then the hem. It’s your videos that have given me the confidence to have a go, knowing the general idea but not the exact details, and getting there in the end. So now I have a top I always loved and spent my hard earned cash on, now fitting my newly slimmer figure in a much more flattering way than before. In the past, I’ve tried refashioning but given up when I didn’t know exactly how I was going to get where I needed to go, so, once again, THANK YOU! ❤️
This makes my day! 😍 Thankyou! I'm so glad you've decided to just try and see how it goes! With great results it seems!! ❤
That was so nice to read for a beginner as myself Attila. Thank you! Taking it slow and getting it right - love it.
Loving the little ruffle you added to the sleeve. It brings back the innocence of the era. Great call on removing the peplum. It was too long for your body.. I learned how to adjust a waistband from this video. Thank you for sharing your talent and time.
When you first mentioned doing the rolled hem along the bottom, I thought "I'd do the sleeve hems too!" Great minds think alike!
I was thinking about the tassels - maybe you could dye them? You could incorporate all four of the blues I could see into a dip-dye effect with the lightest blue first for the whole length of the tassels, then the next darker for 3/4 of the tassel length, then the next darker for half the length, then the darkest for the bottom quarter of the tassel. It would be a lot of mucking around, though.
Several years ago, I used a product I got at Lincraft to dye some cotton lace (I couldn't find any cotton lace in Navy); it was paper impregnated with dye and you use an iron to press the dye into the fabric. I've done a quick search - it's called "Design Dye (TM) Paper that dyes Fabric, Wood and More". My lace project worked really well, though I pressed the dye into it three times because I wanted the colour really dense (and it did go through to the wrong side, about half the colour denseness of the right side) - I then made the lace into a lace and bead bracelet to match a dress and necklace I got for my eldest step daughter's wedding. The colour match was perfect, even in photos! Something to consider, though: I haven't washed it, even though the packaging stated it was color-fast; I mean, who washes bracelets? Just an idea, though.
On another level altogether, would a peasant have had coloured tassels? Even homemade ones? Or if they did, perhaps they were made out of embroidery threads (seeing as they did do embroidery?). I'm sure there would be videos on how to make them, I have no idea myself. I'll stop rambling now!
Hey Evelyn, I love what you do, I love that you do all the hard work for us! I love that you show all of it to us! I enjoy your teachings, your
techniques, your great finds at your thrift finds, yard sales, etc. I just
wanted to share with you that you are a wonderful woman, a wonderful teacher, a
wonderful person, great hearted, and needed in my life! I really do just
totally smile and laugh with you in your videos. Thank you for making my heart smile
every day! Thank you for sharing YOUR heart with all of your VIEWERS EVERY
DAY!!!!
thank you so much for bringing back the fond memories of my mum. Im now in my 60's and can here her tutting as i cut corners...... you have reminded me of all those do's and dont's. ^ Think before you do^ sticks in my mind. Never a negative, just the beginning of a new journey. for each garment. She was as high as you could go in the 50's as seamstress. Target.... make a shirt from scratch. No pattern. Just a visual of 5 mins look at man. (dressed of course) no measuring. WOW. Im now going through my wardrobe as a new disability means those things i love, just wont work now. Im hooked onto your channel now. just begun my first shirring stitches on beloved top. Amaizing and pleasantly pleased with myself. Many thanks again.
This speaks to my vintage-loving half-Hungarian heart! Thanks so much!
Wow what a beautiful blouse you created!
I’m 71 and just getting started sewing. I sort of learned the very basics at 13 years old…Anyway, I decided to watch tutorials before deciding on which sewing machine to buy. However, after watching your videos i realized what I want a machine for and what I want to sew. I want to RE-FASHION! I’m always looking at pieces in my closet and imagining how I would make it “work” for me…
Or, I’m at a thrift shop and see a lovely piece of material in an unflattering design and I’ve wished I had the skill to re-fashion pieces.
Thanks so much for your tutorials! Now I know what I need my machine for so my next step is to learn about the many different machines and find the best I can afford.
I look forward to many more of your great tutorials! Sue
This was SOOOOOO satisfying to watch. I love seeing your entire re-design process and ADORE the end result.
The shorter peplum really made the blouse way cuter. Nice detail on the sleeves. Great vid! 🤗
You added the little peplum at the bottom of the sleeves. I love this top. I wore a lot of them in the 70's when they were back in style. Great job! Blessings all!!!! 💜💜
Navy tassels or no, it looks fabulous on you, and you did a beautiful job !
Sleeves are pure genius!
Clever you, Evelyn ! 🤗
You turned a tunic with some promise, into a blouse fit for a princess !
Brilliant detail on the sleeves !
Maybe you could string navy glass beads onto the white threads on the tassels! Love love love the blouse!!
Have definitely refashioned a refashion. The blouse turned out beautiful!
The sleeves look good done the same way as the hem.
It was the perfect finishing touch I think!!
My dear, I am so glad I found your channel. Your style is just amazing and inspiring. This top turned out so beautiful! I noticed the sleeves were different straight away but I must admit I couldn't put my finger on exactly what was different lol. So many of the dresses I have seen from my love affair with Joan Crawfords films would be so perfect on you. There's one immediately that comes to mind, which is a beautiful 40s dress with lovely embroidered grapes and vines. There are also some dazzling numbers in "the women" from 1939. The fashion show during the film just makes my heart sing. I think if you designed and made something like the beautiful cherry patterned dresses from the late 40s/early 50s, it would be beautiful on you. Especially with a lovely scarf tied in your hair that matched the colour of the cherries and so accessories to match. Stunning!
You can make your own navy cord & tassels from embroidery floss or pearl cotton, and have a perfect match!
I love that blouse! It’s perfect for Summer,, so light and airy.
Watching this 3 years later, but it's been inspiring for sure :)
Absolutely ADORABLE. Thank you for inviting us on your refashion journey today.
😀 Thanks for watching!
You added the thread to the arms such a good call. Loved the finished result.
So cute. The sleeves turned out great as did the ruffle on waist.
Sleeves with blue rolled hem! It is really ‘30’s now!! Very good job. Such imagination. Extremely good color on you.
Thank you for sharing your process. Perfection doesn’t happen on the first try and that is a great reminder :)
It is very very pretty ! Add blue tassels to the end of white ropes. yes, worth doing it again. Love your little dance too !
I remember so many times trying to get out of a pinned ballet costume and feeling like the pin cushion. There was one particularly memorable experience in which my mum had to sew me into a costume side stage. I think she got me with the needle more than the costume.
Loved this one. Thanks so much. I toss those little hanger ribbons into my 'gift wrapping' box and use them for tying up presents. 😃
I love love love this remake. I like the tassels white. They don't detract from the blue details. But...you could remove the white tassels, dye them navy and put them back on? Use what you have. I think it so sweet and dainty as is. Bravo! You so inspire and empower me. Thank you!
Its lovely! And I was that girl with the pins. I love the little inspirations that come to me while I’m ad-libbing my sewing projects. I bought an a line skirt that I planned to take in, but I ended up turning it into a baby doll blouse instead.
The little ruffle on the sleeve!.......I love that you really want it to be the best it can be, to it's fullest potential! Satisfaction, you have earned it!!!! I have the same standard, but my ability isn't what it used to be. Age puts a wrench in things. I love it, great work!
I love the way you matched the rolled hem on the sleeve and sooo flattering 🥰
Version 2 is so authentic - very impressive!
Amazing work! Thank you so much for your honesty in the process of making. Your philosophy about taking the time needed, harvesting and enjoying the process itself as art is precious! Thank you!
The final product is just lovely. I really enjoyed watching this process.
Sometimes I don't get how people can just get rid of such nice shirts especially when it was such an easy fix to basically have a more flattering version of that?!
I mean good for us for finding such treasures.
The amount of people I know who want to get rid of a pair of pants because of the pants length instead of just getting it rehemmed or rehemming it by hand. Doesn't take longer than 15 minutes. Like when boyfriend jeans went out of fashion and everyone wanted mom jeans
I absolutely agree it is amazing what people throw out! But it is hard to make clothing adjustments when no one has ever shown you! Hopefully we can fix that and show more people what can be done! ❤
@@Evelyn__Wood I kind of got an idea now. On Saturday we will watch some Harry Potter together but before we do I want them to bring an old tshirt or some pants and I will show them how to backstich and cross stitch so they can make some now croptops out of old tshirts and some ancle length pants during the movie. Yes, I am aware that I am quite the party animal 😂
Ummm, sounds like the best party ever!! 😃😃 Definitely my kind of party! And a fabulous idea! ❤
Not Me That sounds like a great party to me and you are teaching people a valuable skill that they can use later
The hem on the sleeve made it go that extra mile. 👍 I love the end result looks much more your style 😊. The blue tassels can you make your own like with embriodery floss?
I just found out one of my jean has a hole in the crotch from them rubbing together 😳 I went to work with it like that. It's currently on the work table.
😀 I'm thinking me made tassels might have to be a thing too!! Good luck on the jeans!
I agree. Use your overlocker to make a thread chain using the purple thread you used for the rolled hems for the ties at the neckline.
I LOVE the final, final project! Good job! I'm addicted to your channel. I'm inspired to find dressmaker school!!
Oh, the excitement when you find that one thread! And that moment when Mom would say 'okay, let's take it off' was nearly as scary as feeling her slide the pins in right against my skin.
😂😂😂
Just love it! Great work. Thanks for sharing!
I noticed the edging on the sleeves. Fab job on this refashion! I would say sewing and refashioning takes talent and skill!
Very pretty and done as it should ! Christine
super beautiful it really become so nice after refashioning thanks for sharing it with as
I thought for a minute you were going to make the rolled edge or zig zag navy on the tie part but I noticed the sleeves right away, love how it turned out!
That was my suspicion too with the ties but then I noticed the cute ruffly part 😊
I loooove your refashions! I learn so much. And I hope you are doing well. I hope your health is improving.❤
What an amazing transformation. I enjoyed that journey.
If the embroidery was red it would be my Polish peasant blouse dream lol .
It is so pretty .
I cut these hanger straps off too but I can't throw them away because they're usually made from such lovely ribbon. So I have a big shoe-box full of them! I know some day I'll find a use for them! LOL!
There's a use for sure!!
I love what you did with the sleeves! Such a small detail makes a big difference!
I am 18 months late watching this video Evelyn, and I am so glad I did. You have (hard) worked a small miracle with transforming your peasant blouse and I absolutely love it on you.🐾
That final adjustment on the sleeves - genius! So small yet so crucial.
I've recently become temporarily obsessed with capsule wardrobes, so have done a brutal edit on my clothes. Most of the few that are left need mending, so (mostly thanks to your prompting) I've been working through the mends. Then onto making basic pieces to pull my wardrobe together; then finishing the dozen refashioning projects I started! (Having a 32G chest tends to quickly exhaust the refashioning interest...).
So glad this video popped up in my recommends! Lovely and full of good information.
Thanks for watching!!
I really like the way you transformed this blouse!
I found your channel yesterday watched almost all of you videos already. As a beginner, you're my new favourite person.
Fabulous refashion! I love your commitment to achieve perfection. I need to embrace a little bit more of that!
If you have navy embroidery floss, you could make small tassels by wrapping it around a piece of cardboard. Tie it up on one end, cut the other end and tie the top knot around the tied end.
How neat to see your process of refining your design as you go!
Maybe dye the tassels you have a dark navy?? At least until you find what you are looking for. Lovely work. So glad that I found your channel!
Thanks for watching! I actually ended up getting sent some baby tassels from a viewer that are perfect!
It looks like you put a tiny ruffel on each sleeve that is finished the same as the bottom of the blouse. Beautiful! I love it.
Evelyn, you’re a vision in that blouse!💗
Very clever to add the extra bit on the sleeves to match the rolled hem on the peplum.
I love this. It was a sorry looking garment to begin but you worked your magic and came up with something beautiful. I watched the bit at the end where you asked us if we noticed anything. Well, I could see there was something different on the sleeves and I was looking closer when it ended. I had just twigged what it was just before you told us! That just completed the beauty of this little top.
I didn’t know about the magic thread until a couple of months ago. Doing a major makeover on a winter vest. When I found that thread and pulled the whole seam just came apart I almost wanted to dance around.
You didn't dance around??? 🤣 It certainly calls for a dance I think!!
Lol 😆 it was a close one, but I didn’t want to tip all the threads and my seam ripper onto the floor. Definitely need to remember how it works. Best sewing hack ever 🧵 👍🏼. And this refashion/alteration turned out amazing! You were so brave to pin it up while wearing it 😬 I've had the fun task of trying to find that one pin that managed to catch my shirt while home alone 😐 not fun 😆
Getting pined is part of sewing I think! 🤣
4:49 save that magic thread, mix with dryer lint and crisco makes an incredible fire starter lol
Great redo....and you look fabulous in it!
Hi you’ve got your tassels !!! Lovely. Great work. Love all your help in different sewing techniques even at my age haha won’t tell you. Secret.
You are so right. Small details make all the difference! I agree that the sleeve ruffle with a touch of white topped with navy took the whole blouse from cute to FANTASTIC!
You are absolutely ADORABLE!! Loved all the extras you put on that blouse.
Yes! The white edge added to the sleeve with the same hem as the bottom edge! It's SO cute!
I really love that you teach us to be perfect at sewing it’s great for me as I am one to go down the quick road but you have helped me to be more patient and better at sewing
Thank you
Very cute shirt! I love those kinds of shirts! The second version you did is waaaay better looking btw.
5:29 I always cut mine off too. Those things are annoying, but sometimes I'll keep them on for the shoulder less dresses because those things help hang the dress on the hanger.
That top is so sweet! And you are so patient and precise.
Fabulous journey! Loved the evolution of thinking. Really fun!
That small elastic inserted in the sleeve hem was BRILLIANT! love this
Loved this type top back in the 70's I did what you did roll hem in colour I made matching cord from cotton I used to do roll hem. Took me.
Love your thrift to vintage and mending mondays videos. I learned so much!! And I love all the refashions. Thanks for sharing all your tips and knowledge
i love this transformation... i have a suggestion: take the navy thread you used on the edges, three groups of three threads and plait them and make a tassel at the ends with more thread.
You could make your own navy/royal blue cord using embroidery floss (multiple strands) that you could braid or do a woven tube. We made woven bracelets in Girl Scouts using something like this.
As someone who started out as an artist and is now learning how to sew, i really admire how you approach your sewing projects. I used to feel like a slow worker with the way i did my art, by revisiting my paintings little by little until i get the results i want. But watching your process and results makes me feel differently about it now.
So happy to have found your videos! You are doing exactly what I dream to do everytime I go to the thrift store and come home with a pile of way-too-large clothes made of beautiful fabric! Very impressive that you did not just say "good enough" (at least in my humple perfectionist oppinion) ANd perservered until it was exactly what you had envisioned!
So happy we've connected!!!
You’re just so cute! I love watching your videos and you have taught me so much about sewing. I really appreciate you!
Yes, I did notice the extra fabric on the sleeves! It caught my eye as soon as you modeled the blouse near the end of this video. Your blouse looks so cool and comfy. I have a similar one that is just like the second version of your 30s style peasant blouse, only mine is black! I loved watching this video! Thanks for sharing!
~Janet in Canada P. S. Stay safe!
Beautiful and so cleverly designed
I really enjoyed this video thank you 😁. I was so happy that I’d did notice the sleeve trim before you said. It shows I am starting to really see a garment.
What a beautiful outcome Evelyn......love your attention to detail. 💙Deb
Sleeves. Rolled hem. Perfect.
I saw the navy thread in your overlocker which made me look at the edges, so knew what you had done. Tassels are so easy to make. You could also make oval crochet tassels, I know in the 70s I had a few gypsie blouses and drindle skirts, and I remember having crochet ends on at least one of them. xxxAnnxxx