DIY PUFF SLEEVE WRAP TOP from Men's shirt - Me-made Summer Challenge - Ep 2

Hello everyone, Jess’s here and welcome to my channel This week I'm back with a transformation from men's shirt into this puff sleeve wrap top Here's the men's shirt before the transformation To make a nice puff sleeve, I recommend you to use the big size men's shirt The first step is removing the front pocket After that, I cut off the neck of the shirt The men's shirt usually has this part at the back which is not good looking So I take it out too Because of that, I need to make a new shoulder for the top I fix the front shoulder to the back shoulder by the pins first. Then cutting the extra fabric later Make sure it has to be slightly down from the neck to the shoulder Then sewing The new shoulder makes the extra fabric at the sleeve And it helps us to create the puffy at the top of the hand So that, I'm making a loose seam at the sleeve first Then I create the frill after Just pull the thread until the sleeve fits to the new width of the hand Then sewing to connect them together Now I’m measuring the width of the crop top I want It's 40cm which is the width from the shoulder to the belly button You can make it longer if you want I'm drawing a horizontal line there Then cutting From the connected point between the hand and the shoulder, I move to inside 10cm and mark there Then I'm drawing a line from that mark to the end of the top And doing the same for the other side As you can see, the width of the top is quite big Because the original men's shirt is bigger than my size So at the middle of the back, I fold the fabric in to make it smaller To know how much you need to fold in, just make sure the width has to be the same with the width of your shoulder Then sewing and cutting the extra fabric after that At the back of the neck, I'm drawing a curved line there And cutting by the drawing line I'm using a long fabric with 3cm width to hem the neck I connect the long fabric to the neck and make a first seam. Then I fold it twice to the inside and make a second seam And that's how I hem the neck of the top Now I'm making the ties at the end of the top by using the leftover fabric I'm cutting the rectangles with 10cm width Then connecting them together to have a long strap I use the iron to create the folding I fold 2 edges of the strap inside around 1cm first Then folding it in half after When connecting the strap to the end of the top Make sure you keep the extra at 2 sides So you can wrap it around your belly when wearing If you have a big breast, you can make a frill at the end before doing this part to have space for your breast when wearing it To the hand, I'm cutting it shorter Then folding the end inside 3cm Check the width of your folding with the width of the elastic to make sure you will have enough space to put the elastic inside later. When sewing, keep a small un-sew space for the elastic to get in As usual, I use 2 safety pins to put the elastic go through the fabric hole Then sewing 2 ends of the elastic after that and closing the hole And I finished this DIY Here's my final transformation What a lovely top. And is it perfect for this summer? Hope you enjoy this DIY And don't forget to join me in the Me-made summer challenge. See you next week

Channel: Jess Dang

Views: 104,923

Rating: 4.9564033 out of 5

Keywords: DIY, thrift flip, transformation, men's shirt recycle idea, recycle, refashion, wrap top, crop top, puff sleeve, summer top

Id: hBIA3Wp2jaY

Length: 10min 4sec (604 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 01 2020