Male Speaker: Sweaters, sweaters, sweaters. It's getting warmer outside and you're going to have a closet full of them.
Female Speaker: Out of style or on their way out, fear not. This week we're hanging out with independent clothing designer Kcoline, and she is going to show us what to do with all of them.
Caroline Flach: Hi! My name is Caroline Flach, I'm the designer of Kcoline. Kcoline is a brand of handmade women's clothing.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make a brand new sweater out of three recycled sweaters. First we will give this kind of the bottom piece here. We're going to have the sleeves made out of these two pieces. You can start like this, starting in the middle or if you want to be a little bit modest, you can just kind of lay it like this. The opening is not as wide and not as low. And then you're going to need a chalk.
You want to trace where you are going to cut and sew. This is going to be the arm hole, improvise a lot. You do the same on the other side. I have marked a new side of seam here because I thought this sweater was too large. When the sweater is too large, then there is not enough room for this piece. So we basically have the outline of the sweater here. So we are going to cut this out leaving a quarter of an inch seam allowance.
So now take your two other sweat shirt and lay them on top of each other. This is the important part here. The bottom of the sleeve and the top of the sleeve here match. I'm going to make it -- make the curve go a little bit higher. And now we're going to cut the sweaters leaving a quarter of an inch seam allowance, just two sleeves holes here, where we're going to add a little bit more than a quarter of an inch because we want to make a hem. I trace the line at one inch.
The last thing we're going to do is that we're going to cut the bottom part here of the sweaters. Now do the same to this one too. So now that you're cut all of your pieces, you can lay them down together to get a better idea of what the finished garment it's going to be.
In order to be able to sew it, we're going to put a good side against good side here. We're going to start sewing the center pieces first, so we'll just pin it. If should stretch your fabric when you pin it, then it's just going to look wavy, and you don't want to do that. Here we get one done. So I'm going to bring the whole thing to the sewing table and we are going to search it.
So we get our seams here. So now you've finished one side, we're going to sew the other side. Lay it right side against right side. We are just going to pin it together, right side against right side. That is getting close to what we call sweeter. Just make sure that these two seams match and pin along the length of your size. And the final touch is you add a little tag here.
The next and last thing you're going to do is, you're going to hem the sleeves. We're going to pin it at one inch all along. I'm going to iron this quickly. I basically just want to flatten that hem before I sew it. This is going to be a little tricky.
We're going to fold this one more time inside against inside, a little bit off the edge here. So when we flip it back like this, it won't be a stretchy over all. Basically what I'm doing here is that I am just strapping some of that fabric here inside my seam. So it just includes it in the seam, but doesn't cut it and then it just makes this beautiful finished hem. This is our new fancy seam here that is stretchy and beautifully finished.
Thanks for coming by today at my studio and if you want to see more of my work, you can visit at kcoline.etsy.com.
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