Rob Czar: Hey Mr. Leigh! Is Corinne home?
Mr. Leigh: Yeah. Come on in. So you are taking my daughter out to prom huh?
Rob Czar: Yes, sir.
Mr. Leigh: You drink, you drug?
Rob Czar: No, sir.
Mr. Leigh: You smoke?
Rob Czar: No, sir.
Mr. Leigh: Do you ever white after Labor Day, chew with your mouth open, cheat on your taxes?
Rob Czar: I am 17.
Mr. Leigh: Have you ever lied about your age? Alright, clean this cup.
Corinne Leigh: Daddy, are you harassing my date again?
Mr. Leigh: No, no darling. Oh, don't you look beautiful?
Rob Czar: So are we ready to go?
Corinne Leigh: Aren't you forgetting something?
Rob Czar: Cool!
Corinne Leigh: Daddy.
Mr. Leigh: I told you he was no good.
Rob Czar: But I was going to make one.
Mr. Leigh: F***ing kids.
Rob Czar: Need a corsage, this week we are going to show you how to make one, plus dive into the wonderful world of prom.
Mr. Leigh: You can't hear it kid. Get off my apartment, I am getting my shotgun.
Male Speaker: Still learning.
Rob Czar: Alright, so the materials we are going to use for this project are: some lace, a pair of old jeans, a men's white button up, some fusible interfacing, a bit muslin or scrap fabric, a needle and thread, some sort of cutting tool, elastic, chalk, a handy-dandy Thread Banger Genome sewing machine and an iron.
Alright. First things first, grab your fusible interfacing and scrap fabric and cut a piece out that's about 3 inches by 8 inches long. Lay the shiny glue side of your interfacing face up and place your fabric on top of it. Flip it over and iron on for a few seconds. Once your interfacing has been fused, fold your fabric in half and draw a circle roughly 2 inches in diameter. Take it over to your sewing machine, trace your circle with a straight stitch and then cut it out alongside the stitch. You now have your corsage base.
Next, take your elastic and cut off about 6 inches. Head back to your sewing machine and attach it like a loop to the middle of your base. Alright, the hard part is done. Set your wrist a little side and grab your white button-up.
Measure, chalk and cut out a rectangle that's roughly 24 inches by 4 inches. This is going to be your flower. I learned how to make this one over at elizabethannedesigns.com, where there is a great tutorial.
Next, take your rectangle, fold it in half long ways and press the seam with an iron. Now, head back to the sewing machine. Set yourself a long and loose stitch length and begin to sew up the open side. Make sure not to lock your stitch when you begin. Once you reach the bottom, leave yourself some long tail threads. Once sewn, take the bobbin thread and begin to ruche your rectangle carefully pulling and pushing to scrunch up your fabric. Once you got a circle shape, slowly begin to roll your fabric up from one end to the other, and just like that, you have got a flower.
Okay, we are almost done. Next, burst out those old jeans or any fabric really. and chalk and cut out two leaf shapes. Make sure each leaf has a significant opening at its end. Now, flip them right sides together and sew along the edges leaving the bottom open. You are doing this, so you can turn them inside out. This might be a pain, but once you got them, take out the iron one more time and press them flat.
Alright, now it's time to attach everything. Remember that lace? Cut a piece off and use it as your bedding. I word of advice, it's always a good idea to find out your date's dress color, so you can match the elements of your corsage. Alright, adjust that lace and sew it onto the base.
Next step, attach your two leaves. And lastly, set and place your flower where you want it and begin to hand sew it down. As an after thought, we figured it might be cool to even add a decorative stitch to those leaves and make them really stand out, as seen here drawn in chalk. And once you are happy with your corsage, it's time to give it away.
Rob Czar: Who are you?
Male Speaker: Corinne's date. She just called me to pick her up.
Rob Czar: No you are not. I am Corinne's date. I was just here. I just made this corsage for--
Male speaker: You mean I just made this corsage.
Corinne Leigh: Hi! Did you make this yourself?
Male speaker: You bet I did.
Corinne Leigh: I love it.
Male speaker: You are ready?
Corinne Leigh: Yeah.
Mr. Leigh: Alright kids. You don't have too much fun. Be home by 10, wrap it up.
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Corinne Leigh: Hey, welcome back! So this prom season is all about the two ecos; economical and eco-friendly. If you still need a dress of your own and don't feel like buying or making a new one, try organizing a prom dress swap. teensturninggreen.org just hosted their first event called Project Green Prom, with help from Whole Foods Market they helped teens prep for prom with organic cosmetics, recycled dresses and donated accessories. Check out teensturninggreen.org for more and what you can do to keep green this prom season.
If you have got a prom dress, but don't think you will ever be wearing it again after the big night, donate it. There is a bunch of great organizations out there for helping underprivileged students make their prom dreams, a reality. Operation Fairy Dust, the Fairy Godmothers and the Glass Slipper Project are all individually run programs taking dresses, cosmetics and accessory donations year around.
Operationfairydust.org has a great list of sister organizations. So check to see if there is one in your area. But if you are really into making your dress for prom and you have 50 extra rolls of Duck Tape hanging around, then you should definitely consider making you and your date some outfits out of them. Do so and you will have a chance to win cash and prizes from Duck Tape's yearly Stuck at Prom contest. Check out last year's winners and find out how to enter at stuchatprom.com.
Now, for those of you who don't think your school's prom is cool enough to go to, and you are looking for an alternative, there is no prom cooler than the Geek Prom. Annually held in Minnesota, this prom has it all; cheesy music, awkward romances and clumsy dancing. But if your perfect prom night includes brains and blood, then the Zombie Prom held out in Baltimore would probably be more your style. Just don't go shaking away, again, have it fall off.
Over on the Thread Banger forums, the prom dresses and reconstruction photos are in abundance. Like RonicaDemonica's post of her super awesome Gothic-Lolita prom dress, with matching date. CPThreads posted up her two dresses she made for last year's prom season. The first for a Winter Formal she attended, and the second for a prom in which she used ribbon to create some awesome texture and color. Bucky4prez made this prom dress completely out of recycled newspaper for a school challenge.
Happychic made herself this little number, mahryanne started putting together her prom creation for this year and goofipinay is just getting started on her dress and posting pictures as she goes. To check out her progress and see what everyone else is making, hit up the Thread Banger forums.
Rob Czar: Taking her for prom, check out previous throughout episodes from Thread Banger where we show you how to make a bow tie and how to restyle that old 80s dress.
Corinne Leigh: If you are making something for prom, we want to see it. Post it to the Thread Banger forums or e-mail it to us at tips@threadbanger.com.
Rob Czar: Until then, make sure you are following us on Twitter, becoming a fan on Facebook and leaving a comment below.
Corinne Leigh: See you next time.
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