Rob Czar: Hey, what’s up? Welcome to the threadheads, this week we are hanging out at Stitch the country’s first urban selling lounge.
Corinne Leigh: And who better to tell us what is all about, then Stitch co-founder Melissa Alvarado.
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Melissa Alvarado: Hey, welcome to Stitch lounge come on in.
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Melissa Alvarado: Hi, I am Melissa Alvarado and I am a co-founder of Stitch Lounge. Stitch Lounge is a sewing Studio in San Francisco California and we are dropping studio or you can come in rent time to work on sewing machine and you can take classes, to have project base classes, or private lessons for one on one instruction.
We also have a boutique at local designers clothing and everything is one of a kind and hand made, owning business with to of your best friends this is a really good time but writing a book with them. It is actually even more fun.
Our first book is called Sew Subversive and it is all refashioning, it is all about taking the clothes that you already have in your closet and making them more you. So, we have a new nook coming out and it is called Subversive Seamster. The premise is and it is all about first store shopping and the treasures that lie with in we wanted to make a book about taking all the steps that it is already there and giving it new life.
We all grew up Melissa and Hook and I grow up as crackticads but now was so much technology and so much digital everything there is a like this luck of connection with the top tile and crafts and arts, you know even somebody we might want to try the sew. They have this image of what sewing is and it is hard and it is for all people, and it is boring, whatever but we are helping them see that it does not have to be that way. Thread bangers is going to help you become a Subversive Seamster by giving way three sets of our books, both so subversive and Subversive Seamster.
For information on how you can win and check out the threadbanger.com.blog.
Corinne Leigh: When we return, we take a pick of the new book.
Rob Czar: Plus get a tutorial from one of our very own four members right here in the Stitch Lounge.
Erick: It is October and IndyMogul is celebrating a Halloween all month long. Five episodes dedicated to your favorite creepy request. Happy Mogulween.
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Corinne Leigh: So, the stitch girl’s new book Subversive Seamster just hit the shows and it is full of awesome dirt store projects. A few of our favorites how to make cool wrist bands from old purses, grocery bags from old sweaters, there is Rob’s favorite “Ain’t No Collar Back Girl” and my favorite, how to put the “Ole in your Bolero?” Bottom line it is a must have forDIYers. Check out stitchlounge.com for more details and enter to win an autograph copy of the new book at threadbanger.com.
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Rob Czar: Hey, what is up? So we are hanging out here at the Stitch Lounge special guest, special guest Carlo a.k.a. might known as the pinoyblaze. What we are rocking today? What we are doing?
Carlo: So there had been a lot of question on male DIY fashion. So I am here today to show you how to basically make a kick ass hoody blazer for more urban feel and all of it will be drift, recycled, and easily done. Even you know how to sew.
Now we have blazer and this actually a scrap hoody where you can see I dissected it there already. The first step, you are taking a really try of pair of scissors and cutting right along hood this is right under it, so that the hoody does not unravel at the same times. You would not have to do this with a lot other hoodies but this one is connected at base, so I am just going to split it right in the center.
So, that it is even in the blazers, so you had to lose it right here. Make sure that this hoody right where this tag is, and it is a perfectly with the basically the color of the blazer, right? Then, you can either go from these crosses from stitching it through the entire thing, through with the sewing machine or you can hands a sheet or you can do it my way which is using simple safety pins. You can get this any where you could not probably find it in your sewing kit right now.
This part is basically done you see the hoody attached the blazer on arms even and it is prefixed. The next step is stencils that is all hand cut, it took forever like three hours and so we have italic spray paint because we want it to be sparkling. And so, let us go outside for that. You pick the newspaper down so I do not want to see it get dirty.
Now that you have your stencils out you can firmly and fix it to this. I am putting it off to side of the shoulder just to create more visual interest to that blazer. So for over spray we are going to use some used newspaper and any application just prevent leading through the fabric first like coats and then let it dry and keep on going till about two or three coats. After it dries a little bit, just slowly remove this stencil from the blazer, I like it already.
Now you want to just put this is on the other side of blazer just see that is a little bit more balance. Again, you peel it off this last step and you are basically done with your hoody.
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Corinne Leigh: Very nice.
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Rob Czar: What do you think?
Carlo: I think I am impressed to myself once again.
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Rob Czar: Well that it is for this week, do not forget to check out the new books, the Subversive Seamster.
Corinne Leigh: And if you ever in San Francisco be sure to come by and visit the Stitch Lounge. Until next week, see you.
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