Joni Jumpsuit by Friday Pattern Co. Sew Along

[Music] hi everyone my name is michelle and this is my channel sewingbunny thank you for joining me in my video today which is my september so long and this was voted by you guys when i shared my september summing plans i pull up for a vote as to which one you would like to see as the so along and you guys picked the friday pattern company joanie jumpsuit so this is what i'm going to be making today and i do have to just mention that um for some reason you can't buy this pattern directly from friday pattern company anymore i don't really know why i don't know if they kind of like discontinued it for some reason on their website but i will link it down below because you can get it from the fold line still so i will link it down below for anyone that is wanting to try this so as you can see from the picture here um we've got a full length jumpsuit with this lovely sweetheart neckline you might not be able to see it too well here but there is this detailing at the back where you've got like this tie um at the back just at the top part of the back there and it is designed for stretch fabrics so i have got a lovely ponte which i will show you a little bit later on for what i'm using for it um but the first thing i need to do with this is i need to work out what size i'm going to do now when you're using knits sometimes you do have to take into consideration that knits have negative ease on some patterns so for instance i mean i'm wearing a t-shirt today and when you go say like across the bust you may have a slightly smaller finished measurement because the fabric is stretchy so it can stretch obviously over the bust but then also you don't necessarily want negative ease maybe around like stomach area and things so again you can see i've got a little bit of um normal kind of wearing these it's not stretched so i just want to kind of think i don't want anything with too much negative ease but also i don't want it too baggy because it's meant to be a nice fitted jumpsuit so i'm having a look at the back we've got your standard measurements as well as finished garment measurements um uh what i will do is i will have a look at what my measurements are and where i sit on this scale so my measurements i'm a bust of 36 inches a waist of 30 and a hips of 40 and i have misty dying to come in the room if you can hear any meowing i will let her in in a minute and so for me because my bust is 36 i fall into a size medium for that because that's a 36 to 37 inch bust now my waist as i say is 30. now for a medium it says 28 to 29 inches but the large says 30 to 32 and the hips for oh you are in right so sorry the uh so the medium the waist is 28 to 29 but the large is 30 to 32 so that would mean that i'm fitting more in the large part of the waist and then the hips again for a medium it's 37 to 38 which is smaller and the large is 39 to 41. so i fit for a bust a medium and then for the waist and hips i'm a large so i'm thinking yet i may have to grade in between those two sizes so now i'm going down to have a look at the finished garment measurements so i'm going to have a look at the medium so the finished garment measurement for the medium is a 34 bust and that again is so you've got the negative ease going across the bust and as this is um you can see here it's a fitted bodice on there it's allowing for that stretch across the bust so i think i'm happy with that because i also have heard that some people have a little bit of gaping um underneath kind of like the arm and the bust sort of area so i'm actually thinking that i should be all right for that for the waist it's got 29 inches and the hips is 40 inches so 29 so that would mean it would have to then stretch um an inch across my um stomach which i'll be honest i'm not that keen on i don't mind if it kind of sits like on the same measurement so if it said the finished garment measurements was a 30 i'd be all right but i'm just not sure if i want it to stretch that much but for the large the finished garment measurement is a 31 so that's one inch over the hips for a medium is 40 which is bang on what mine is and then for large it's 42. so i'm kind of thinking what i might do is do a medium for the bust i'm going to grade out to the large for the waist and the hips because i just think for this particular design i think i'm fine with it being fitted up here but i don't know if i want it too fitted around the stomach and the hips i just don't think i wouldn't necessarily want it too clingy so i think that's what i'm gonna go for so i'm gonna do a medium grade it out to a large so yeah i'm going to get opening this because i haven't even opened the package yet and i'm going to see what pieces i need to cut out i always trace my patterns so i'm going to get tracing and i'll pop you on fast forward so you can see me doing that [Music] now i thought i would just show you what i'm doing for my grading so what i've done is this is the front bodice piece so what i've done is because i want a medium on the bust line and i want a large for the waistline what i've done is i've traced out a medium all along the top and then this fold line i've actually gone all the way down to the large line here so what i need to do is i need to connect this line and this line now there are a number of ways that you can do this and i i think it's just entirely what your body shape is like probably one of the easiest ways to do it is just to grab a ruler and measure from the medium to the large and what you could do is you could just grade that way so you could just draw a line directly from the medium to the large if you want to but what i want to do is because this is going to be the bust area i don't really want to have extra at this point i want my extra to be more kind of down this way so what i'm going to do is i'm going to use this notch on the medium to grade out there so i'm almost creating a bit more of a shape coming in and then going out because i just personally find that works best for me it's entirely up to you how you like to grade this is just the way i like to do it so i'll just draw out what i'm what i'm going to do and then i will show you so if you can see here so i've kept the medium line going all the way down and then when i hit this notch then i'm going out to the large and i'm doing that because if i show you again this line drawing we'll see here that this section here does actually sit on the waist so it just means that i know by this point i need it to go out to the size large i just find if i grade too high up it's going to affect the bust and then it could be a bit too baggy there so i do hope that kind of makes sense what i then do from the bottom of this because i've now done the large and i've graded out to the large it means on the trouser piece i just cut a straight size large so i hope that makes sense on that so that's the front bodice piece and then the back bodice piece i just need to make sure that i do something similar so when i get to the back bodice piece i will show you that too and here is the back piece so um this is my tracing of the front piece now i'm looking for this notch because this notch lines up with these notches so again exactly the same as what i did for the front i've done the medium on the top and then i've gone down to the large at the bottom i don't know if you'll just be able to see that there and so now i've got to again connect these two lines up so depending on however you graded on your front piece you want to do the same on your back piece so be it whether you did the line you know join up from medium to large if on that or like me if you grade it out from the notch then what i'm going to do is again i'm going to grade out just like this one here if you can see my little kick out there from this one so i'll do that and then show you and there we go we can see i've followed the medium and then kicked out to the large now i didn't mention actually when i was showing you the front piece i use the medium notch on this one because that's the one that best represents um where that's going to be sitting so this notch and this one will line up um well once i've done that now because i say i've done this and kicked it out there and i've done this one and kicked it out there so this hopefully should be a really nice fit i'm gonna now continue tracing the rest of the pattern and then come back to you [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] so there we go all of the pattern pieces are now traced and cut out now i do quite often get asked what tracing paper i use and to be honest i've got a whole variety of different tracing papers um my favorite one that i always used to get i haven't been able to get for months and months i think it used to come over from europe and um yeah it's just not been available for ages so i've been trying out all these different types of tracing paper and this one i will link down below it's from ebay it is quite a nice one it's kind of um thin enough not to be bulky but it has got quite a nice structure it's not too um like thick but it's not too thin i've also got you might have seen i added on like a little extra piece onto my strap bit there's this sort of style which is very thin very papery um it's not my favorite but um yeah it has its uses and then you may have seen in other videos i've got ones that are similar to this but slightly thicker and i don't really like using that one so i would just suggest that tracing paper don't necessarily go by my recommendations you know everyone you know each to their own just try out a whole load of different types is what i suggest um but yeah this one is quite nice it's probably one of the nicer ones that i've found it's got it's very wide and it's still maybe not quite as thin as i would like not as papery and still got kind of like that kind of sheen on it which i'm not a massive fan of but it's still nice and also some people ask me actually as well what pen i use to trace out on because i think quite a lot of people use like pencils by rows i actually use these which are the um like fine liners and i just pick up a pack from amazon um they're not expensive at all and they're these little like fine nibbed ones and that's kind of what they look like and then we've got kind of quite a fine nib on there but it's like a felt tip pen and i just find that it gives quite a nice thick line which you can when you cut out your tracing you can cut on the line so if i was to use a pencil or a biro i think i kind of find my cutting can be quite kind of inaccurate whereas using a kind of like a felt tip sort of style i find i can cut on the line so i'm quite accurate also what i like about these is here they are washable so if you do get any because i do sometimes get like the lines on my hands and things if i get any on my clothes or anything i know that it'll wash out so yeah i do love these right so let's get on to now cutting out the fabric so the fabric that i've got i've picked it up from satisfaction and it's quite a hefty bit here it is a navy blue ponte it's really nice and soft this stuff and i just think it would be lovely for this jumpsuit so um yeah i'm gonna get cutting one thing i do check is i don't know necessarily what height patterns are drafted for now i love it because in friday pattern company instructions they do tell you what it is uh height wise there we go there's a little section just here and it says this pattern was drafted for a b cup and a height of five foot five so in sewing patterns i am a b cup which i think relates to um the inch difference between your high bust and your main bust which i think a b cup is two inches which is exactly what i am so that's good and height of five five now i'm five eight and i must admit i did put one of the um trouser pieces up on my waist had a look down obviously very technical just see how long it is and um i kind of just saw how long it was to the bottom of my jeans kind of very roughly just kind of went like this to kind of measure and put it up against my ruler and it was about three inches so that makes sense drafted for five five i'm five eight so five so three inches extra is bang on so i am going to add three inches onto the bottom of the trousers and just be careful if you do extend things you know lengthwise if there's a length and shorten line to have a look at but the trousers if you can see um they're not different shape kind of from here so it's not like you need to lengthen it up here or anything i can just literally add three inches onto the bottom i made myself a little uh note just for future reference so add three inches so i'm going to add three inches onto the legs so i should have enough fabric for it because i think this uh says i think for the width of fabric i've got i think it said it takes about 2.1 meters i think and i got two and a half meters so i should have plenty okay well i'm going to get cutting i'll pop you again on a fast forward and i'll speak to you in a bit [Music] [Music] [Music] well i think i actually bought three meters of this ponte because yeah i've got loads left over i've got a whole another meter more or less uh so yeah that'll be lovely that'll make myself a nice um skirt or cardigan or something like that i can use it for some sleeves and bits and bobs so that's lovely i've got a chunk of that left over so yeah all my pattern pieces are cut out there's my lovely little pile there so now i'm going to have a look at the instructions and see where we start so it is nice on these instructions because at the very front if you can see there at the bottom it gives you the seam allowance nice and clearly i love it when they do that at the front because if you just kind of forget what seam allowance it is you can just quickly look there you don't have to try and troll through all the instructions for it so the first step is to sew the strap pieces together so let me just grab those so i've got my two strap pieces here now if you're using ponte sometimes it's very difficult to find the wrong side and the right side or they can even be kind of double-sided and they'll be exactly the same with um this stuff from satisfaction i can tell that the right side is slightly more kind of like softer fluffier than the other so what we want to do is we want to lay them out like long sort of like across long ways and then we want to do right sides together folding so this i know i can see this is the wrong side so i'm going to flip it up so that i know that this is the right side and again with this one so both right sides up and then just fold it the whole way down lengthways so do that for both of those like so these are nice actually because they do have little notches in them as well so you'll be able to see i'm not sure if you'll be able to see that at all of anything there but there is a little notch so both of them should line up i hope you'll be able to see that i'll zoom in if not um so yeah those are your two straps so now i'm going to sew all the way down the long ends because yep 5 8 of an inch at the front and then it says to trim them so i will get doing that [Music] so there's my straps now sewn together uh dark color so you're not really going to be able to see much on there you might be able to see my stitching line what i'm going to do is i'm just going to trim all of that now just to a slightly narrower seam allowance and then i'm going to turn them inside out using a pin um or safety pin so i'll just cut these down to a smaller seam allowance so that's the seam allowances trimmed down i've done them about half and now i'm going to turn them the right way out so i'm going to grab myself a safety pin i'm going to use quite a large one because it's quite a large strap so i'm going to pierce that through and then feed it back down i think i have shown you guys this um technique that i do on one of my other videos where i was doing straps um but yeah you can get like different like loop turners um and like you know little bits and bobs kits like that but to be honest i find a safety pin um is all right for if you're dealing with slightly thicker straps if you're dealing with really tiny straps like if you're doing like a little cami top or something like that then you know it might be worth getting some of those loop turners because i do think they are really useful for small straps but the um the larger ones i don't think anything wrong with a safety pin right i'll continue doing this uh once i've fully turned them through i'll come back so there we go both straps are now turned out now they're all kind of a bit like wibbly wobbly and everything now so i'm just going to go out and give them a press so that they're a little bit more flat for the next step so i've pressed my straps now it doesn't say in the instructions to press them but i just think it's a good idea just to work with them as flat as possible also what i've done is one of the ends i've just kind of tucked in on itself because you need to finish it off so i don't know how well that's going to show up there but i've just kind of got the fabric tucked it in on itself and what i'm going to do is i'm just going to do a zigzag stitch just along this bit here just to secure it down so i'll do that now and then we i think have to attach these to the front bodice [Music] so there we go i've just secured that across there which you're probably not the neatest thing in the world but it does the job so now we've got to attach these to the front bodice so let me just have a look and just make sure now very strangely on my um front bodice piece it says that there should be a notch just on this top part here so i thought oh i've obviously forgotten that from the um pattern piece but when i pulled out the pattern piece there is no notch on this front section there so um i think that might be an error with the pattern but what i'm going to do is it looks like it's just placing the strap in the center point of this so i'll just do that to be honest so we have two bodice pieces here because the bodice of this jumpsuit is lined so one piece is your lining piece and one piece is your front piece so i'm just going to grab one of them for me it doesn't matter which one because i'm just self-lining it with the same fabric and you're wanting this right side up so i'm just making sure that is the right side of my fabric facing up and then you want to get your straps and you've got one end which is closed which i've sewn together and one end that is open and you're going to want to lie those now according to the instructions where the notch is but my pattern doesn't have a notch so just on this straight line up here i'm not sure whether you'll be able to see it so it kind of goes up then you've got a straight bit and then it goes down into the sweetheart neckline so it's this straight section where you put the strap so i'm going to lie the strap and in the center of there and i'm going to pin that in place and then i'm going to do exactly the same for the other one that looks around about central i'm sure what you could do is you could just measure um the top bit and then just make your own notch that's the center point but to be honest i think you can just eyeball it and what i've done just in case anyone is wondering when i've um pressed the strap there's one end which is kind of like the seam end and i've done that on the outside so that just means that um the seam line is going to be on the outside i hope that sort of makes sense you won't be able to really see it but um yeah i just thought i'd mention that's what i'm doing so that is that one i'm presuming we will now base that yep so baste those in place so i'll do that now that is my straps now basted into place so i'm going to lie that back down with the right side up so we have this section right side up so just where we basted the straps so have that there and then you grab your lining piece and you want to have the right side of that as well so this is my right side here so i'm doing right sides together i'm lying over the top and the straps are going to be sandwiched in between both of those so right sides together line it up and then i'm going to get that pinned in place and then it's saying to sew along this top section all the way around the neckline you leave the sides open you don't do those yet one little tip which i find when you're sewing a v neckline is because you're using a seam allowance it's kind of knowing when you should pivot at that v point now i find it's easier if you grab yourself a bit of chalk i've got this little green chalk pen that i like to use and what i tend to do is i just draw a line just down from the v and um i will insert a little picture of what that actually looks like but it just means that when you're following on the seam allowance you know where your pivot point is so um you don't have to kind of guess and see where that that v point is you can actually just use that line to stop and then pivot so i hope that makes sense um but yeah so i'm going to get that all um stitched up and then come back [Music] so that's now all sewn together i don't know if you'll be able to see where i've done my chalk line and the stitch line there i've kind of caught it in the light there you might be able to see so it's just easier to get that pivot point so now the instructions say to trim those seam allowances so i'm just just like when i did the straps i'm just going to cut those in half along here and then i'll have a look and see what the next instruction is so actually the next instruction is just to flip it out the right way and give it a press so i'm going to flip that out there and yeah so we've got the first signs of the front of the jumpsuit like so so i'm just going to give that a really nice press and then it looks like we're working on the back bodice so now we're moving on to the back part of the bodice and you've got your two little um kind of strap tabs so exactly the same as what we did for those front straps we're going to do right sides together lengthways on those ones and so yeah sew them across there turn them inside out you don't need to finish off the ends of these ones because they're going to be attached to the bodice it doesn't they don't need to have a tied up end so i'm just going to do that quickly off camera because you've seen me do it with the long straps you don't need to see me doing it again with the little ones so i'll do those and then come back okay so i've done my two little um short little straps and just very similar to what we did on the front we need to attach these onto the back bodice pieces and um i've got four pieces of the back bodice so i only need two of them because two of them are lining so i've set those um other pieces to one side and what we need to do is we need to attach these straps to these pieces now there is a notch on this one so you find your notch on your um back bodice piece and also you've got a notch on your um strap pieces as well if you can just see that there and so what you need to do is you need to line up so you need to fold these in half and line up those two little notches and then line up those notches to your back bodice notch and then pin that in place now this is going to be quite bulky going through the machine that's a lot of layers that it's going through so i'm going to use my i've got one of those little um humper jumper things um on into my machine which looks like this so i'm going to use this to go over these bulky seams because yeah otherwise you could get quite a bit of nesting so have a little practice if you've not done that before um but yeah it probably is worth using one of those when you're working with really bulky fabrics because this is ponte so it's not a lightweight fabric by any means so you're going through five layers of fabric there so it's going to be quite bulky okay so i'm going to baste those in place and then i'll come back to you so i've attached my little hump jumper on here so it's just a case of uh lifting the foot and sliding it underneath and just making sure that it lines up okay with the machine yep so like this i will try and show you so i'll put my needle down i'll take my pin out i've got this pin in here because i just want to make sure that it stays in place so yeah i will just show you how this works now that's um slid in i'm now going to lower my foot so the needle is down and then i'm going to start sewing okay and then i'm just going to try and take this little pin out because that's getting quite close to that and you can adjust the humper jumper so again needles down and i can bring that forward a little bit more because you can see how many layers of fabric we've got here and then keep going and again if you're coming to the end lift up the foot move that down a little bit more lower that presser foot again i hope you're seeing this okay so i'd need both hands for this and then carry on there we go i've got to the end so you can take that off pop that down let's do a quick back stitch i've got my thread there foot up and i'm hoping you'll be able to see that i've got no nesting because i used that um little humper jumper thing so i hope that shows it off anyway for anyone that's not used one before so those are those uh little uh tabs now sewn on there and again similar to what we did on the front bodice we now need to sandwich those straps in with the other pieces so again grab my other back bodice pieces find the right side so right sides together there and right sides together there so you're sandwiching in those strap pieces under there and then we're sewing along the top so again where those straps are that's going to be some pretty bulky fabric because you're adding another layer on so uh if i just showed you how i used the um humper jumper so if you do have one i highly recommend using it there and for anyone that's wondering i am using a size 90 jersey needle for this project um so i think that probably is the most suitable because it is quite a bulky fabric so i'm going to get those uh sewn up and then i'll come back to you [Music] do [Music] so that's those put together and again i always seem to show you details on dark fabrics so i do apologize i hope i can get the light right but um you may be able to see i've got one row of stitching which was my basting and then just underneath it there is my stitching there so you can see using that hump jumper has given a really nice smooth um stitching line so no nesting or anything so really pleased with that so just like the other one i'm just going to trim the seam allowances put them the right way up and give them a press so i'll come back once i've done that so those have now been pressed so looking nice there so now we're attaching these pieces to the front bodice piece so i'll just grab that again so now if you can imagine we're going to be popping this side piece on this end and this side piece on this end you're probably going to see that very well shuffle things over a little bit more hopefully you'll be able to see that so that's kind of what we're going for that's what we're going to be looking at so what we need to do is we need to attach these um to this piece so what we're going to do is we're going to open up this front bodice and let's just start saying with one of these open up that as well and what it is we need to attach these two together so this is the wrong side it's the right side that we want right side wrong side here right side here right sides together so we're going to pin all of that right sides together so you're sandwiching it there so it means you're just working with the wrong side so i hope that kind of makes sense and then you're going to sew all the way up there and then do exactly the same with this side so you're going to open it up and then you want to grab the right side of your fabric here the right side of your fabric here pop those together and again line it up and sew all the way up there so i'll get that all pinned all sewn and then i will come back to you [Music] [Music] so i've sewn up those um edges and i've also trimmed the seam allowance as well so that it looks less bulky so if you can imagine that is what it's going to look like so you've got the side bits there and they go all the way around to the back so it's looking nice now what i am going to try and see is if i need a zip because in the instructions it does say that the zip is optional at the center back and it's um a stretch fabric so i might actually be able to get away with not having to put a zip in so what i'm going to do is the bodice i'm actually going to just kind of join up at the back and just do a little test to see whether i can get this bodice kind of you know step into it push it through up through the hips and see whether it'll be okay to do that otherwise if not then i will have to put the zip in now i'm gonna use some large safety pins um because that's probably i think the best way of uh finding out whether it will go through um i don't want to use pins because um well they might come out and you know poke where you don't want them to wear safety pins obviously you can you know tuck away the the sharp bits um i do like to use wonder clips as well the problem is is with wonder clips because they are i'll see clips in there when you're stretching over they could so easily just ping out of place so um yeah there's probably no point me trying that so i'm just going to put in just a few safety pins and also to pin it in the seam allowance as well so don't pin it right up to the edge we need to be realistic and um see whether it will actually go through so i'm just putting in my last safety pin so those are my safety pins there so now i'm just going to do a little test to see whether i can get it over my hips obviously going to be taking the jeans off because they're going to be really grippy so i'll do a little test and then come back brilliant so no problem getting over my hips the fabric is stretchy enough to go over really comfortably so i am more than happy to get that closure fully closed and not use a zip so that is fab so what i'm going to do is let me just take these safety pins out so i'm going to slightly detour from the instructions because i do want that back panel closed is very similar to what we've just done and attaching the side pieces to the front bodice is now i'm going to open it up and i'm going to do um right sides together so if i flip this around get all the little straps pop them in the middle so they don't get all caught up and i'm going to do right sides together there and do exactly the same um and sew that up and then that means i've got a really nice enclosed um layered bodice or um lined bodice rather so it just means that it will look really nice and neat so i'm going to get that all pinned sewn up then turn it all the right way around to give it a really nice press and then come back to you [Music] so i'm hoping you'll be able to see this okay so um there we go so that's the front of the bodice there and then i've just kind of tied it up sort of at the back a little bit and the back part of bodice where the zip was meant to go i've closed it up there so it's really nice and neat so yeah that is the bodice done so let's have a look and see what is next on the list so next up is the pockets so again pockets are optional you don't have to have pockets on the jumpsuit but uh yeah kind of if a dress or a jump suit has a pocket option i'm going to go for it so what we want is we want uh wrong side up on the pockets and what we're going to do is this straight line here i'm going to fold over i think it is by half an inch the instructions say half an inch so i'm going to press that down and then all of the corner as well that is also going to be turned over um half an inch as well now it can be a bit tricky when you go around a corner so what i'm going to do is i'm just going to be going out to the iron giving it a really good press and just trying to get a nice pressed curve on there sometimes what you can do is if you are really struggling is you can sew um just a kind of guide line down these um curved edges and then you can clip into it and then fold it over that can help some people i'm just going to go go to the iron and just give it my best so i've folded my pockets over and pressed them so you can see there so it's not too bad just doing it by eye and what i tend to do is kind of just like make some little folds just to get those corners just right so now i'm going to attach them to the front trouser pieces so let me just grab those before i grab the trowels and pieces actually sorry i missed a step is um this uh piece that we folded over on this straight diagonal edge we do actually need to sew um in place so i need to do that for both of those then i can get uh them attached to the trousers just getting a bit eager so yeah just off camera i've just um stitched that pocket down uh again i will show you dark fabrics isn't it i'm not sure i'd be able to see there i've done um the uh seam allowance at one centimeter um which is three-eighths of an inch um just because i thought that one was the best one for that so now i can get my leg pieces now what i do with my um trouser legs whenever i make any trousers the first thing i do is pin the um bottom of the legs because then i know that these are the front pieces because trouser legs to me just look so similar like the front and the back the amount of times that i've pulled myself out by putting a front leg and another front leg together when i should have done a front and a back leg so what i do is i put a little pin just at the very bottom of the trouser leg so i know i'm working with the front legs and then when i join them up later on i know to get one with a pin and one without a pin so just a little tip there in case you have a similar issue where you've done that problem before okay so let's lay this one out so i've laid out my front or one of my front legs and i'm going to get the corresponding pocket piece now again i'm sorry if you can't see this because i know it is a dark fabric um but what i'm going to do is i'm going to line up the pocket um with the trousers now there is a notch on this side here which corresponds to a notch on the pocket so you can line that up as well and then all the bits that we've just tucked underneath for the pocket just make sure they are tucked under so i hope you can see that because when i look at it all i see is just a very dark blob so i'm going to pin that um in place and then what it's asking you to do is to baste along the top to secure that end of the pocket baste across this bit here to secure that part of the pocket and then top stitch all around this curve area to secure it in place so i'm going to get all nicely pinned and everything and then go to the sewing machine get the basting and the top stitching done and then i'll come back to you and show you it once i finished do [Music] [Music] [Music] had to turn the light on it's getting quite dark now we're definitely in autumn right so that is the pockets done again i'm sorry if you can't see um the detail on there i'll take a picture and put it on screen so you can see it a little bit better so i've basted it and top stitched we're just using a zigzag for that pocket to go in place um on both legs so let's just have a look at what the next step is okay so now we're going to put front leg and back leg together so i'm going to grab one of my front leg pieces and grab the corresponding leg for the back so it's right sides together and it's saying to do the inseam um first so again hopefully be able to see at least the rough shape anyway so um yeah so it's just this one so you've got the curve here and it's this one that we're doing so just from this point down to the bottom of the trousers stitch that first for both legs and then trim the seam allowance now sometimes what i do is i like to overlock knits i'm not going to overlock this one i'm going to just keep it as my normal zigzag stitch because this doesn't fray this fabric at all i think it's going to be absolutely fine and i don't want to add more bulk than what's needed because i say it is quite a bulky fabric anyway so i'm just going to do my zigzag stitch all the way down and then just trim the seam allowance so i'll do that for the two legs and then i'll come back to you [Music] so that's both legs sewn for the inseam and i've also trimmed the seam allowance as well down to half and then the next step is to just sew the other sides so the outer seams leg seams so pop that down this way so you can see that so this is the side that we've just sewn and now we sew all along the outside as well so i will do that and then come back [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so then i've sewn the other side of the leg and also trimmed that seam allowance as well so now i can put both pieces and both legs together and now the instructions show you to do it one way because um it's showing you how then you leave a gap at the back to then insert the zip so if you're inserting a zip then i would suggest following what the instructions say i'm going to be doing it slightly different because my trousers are going to be sewn up completely as i'm going to be just using it as a pull-on so i'm going to have one leg inside out and one leg right side out so let me just turn this one the right way out so that's the one that's the right way out then i'm going to grab the one that's inside out and what i'm doing is i'm lying it so that the open uh kind of u shape you probably can't see that so the open u shape is uh towards me so this is the one inside out this is the one right side out i'm gonna put the one that's right side out i'm gonna feed it through here and then i'm going to get everything matched up so i hope you might be able to see this can you see there so that's what i mean about that u shape so i've got one leg inside out one leg right side out and um put them um through so right sides are together on these bits so i'm working with the um the wrong side facing out i hope that makes sense there and all i'm going to do is i'm just going to stitch all the way around this u shape and what you can do is you can reinforce a little bit down on the crotch um if you want but yeah i'm going to do that and then once i've done that i'll be able to turn it all out and then i'll have a pair of trousers so i'll get that all pinned and sewn up and then i will show you what it looks like afterwards [Music] so that is all sewn up there uh i don't know if you'll be able to see but what i've done is on the crotch i have just um when i got to that bit i um went forward then i went back then went forward again just to reinforce that area just a little bit so now when i turn them out and there we go we've got a pair of trousers so they're looking very very nice so i'm going to take the pins out of the um the bottom where i should remember which ones the front were i don't want to get those left in there and yeah they're looking really nice and now it's just a case of attaching the bodice to the trousers so what i'm going to do before i attach the bodice i like to put a label in my garments so what i'm going to do is add a little label at the back so what i want to do is add it but only um to the lining piece so i'll get it all lined up and everything and i'll show you what i'm going to do with it so here is my lining piece for it so i'm just doing on the single layer this is the other side of it so this is where i want to have my little label and i've decided i'm going to go for this one which is you've got this i just thought that would be a really nice one and i'm not often wearing jumpsuits so i thought it would be a nice little motivational um one there and i'm going to stick it yeah just around about here what i'm going to do is i'm going to use some of my lovely wonder tape just to pop it in there for the time being just so that it's easier for when i sew it so i'm going to stick a little bit of this on the reverse peel off the paper stick it down where i want it that will keep it in place just temporarily until i go to the sewing machine and actually sew it properly in place um just a little tip there for anyone if your labels move about a little bit then a little bit of wonder tape on the back of your labels will be um a good idea and then it just washes off whenever you next um pop it in the washing machine so there we go that is my label all done i just think that looks really really nice so i've definitely got an inside and an outside now so that's good i've left this kind of inside out because i need to now attach the bodice to the trousers so i'm going to grab my trousers and i'm going to do them laying down with the pockets facing me and then i've got my inside out bodice um here and what i'm going to do is i'm going to do it so that the label is away from me and i'm going to put the trousers inside the bodice so there we go that is the back and then the front there as well you may be able to see i've got the straps dangling so you want to make sure they're completely out of the way because we're going to be sewing this top bit so just make sure your um sweetheart neckline is definitely in line with the um we've got it right side with the pockets otherwise you'll have the bodice on the wrong way around so that is all lined up now you're going to have to line up the seams as well you've got the side seams to line up and you've got the center back seam you can line up there is quite a lot of fabric so it could be quite bulky to do but um yeah it shouldn't be too bad and i'm going to zigzag that all in place i'm then just going to give it a quick try on make sure it's okay i don't need to make any other adjustments or anything and then once i've done that then this particular seam i will finish with overlocking just because i just think it would look nice when um i'm wearing it uh while i'm putting it on and i can see my rainbow thread overlooking just on the waist so i'll do that and then i'll come back and show you it [Music] so [Music] so there we go it is now looking like a full-on jumpsuit and um before i overlocked i did pop out i did try it on and made sure that it was all okay hence the reason i'm now not wearing jeans i'm wearing my hudson pants which probably don't really go too well with the top i'm wearing but hey-ho um so yeah i tried this on it's um absolutely fine on the like the crotch depth and everything the legs i think are going to be absolutely perfect once i've just done a small little double hem there is some gaping um around the bust which i know a lot of people have said about this pattern it doesn't bother me because i'm planning on wearing this as a kind of rather than a jumpsuit with nothing underneath i'm planning on using it like dungarees and wearing it something like with a t-shirt like this underneath it so that little bit of gaping actually isn't too bad because it allows me a bit of room for um any kind of layering pieces so but i do kind of um understand a lot of people have that problem so if you do want to make this just as a standalone jumpsuit you may want to take that little section in a little bit just on that side seam on the top of the bust um but yeah no really happy with it so my last thing is just to hem the uh bottom of the trousers so i'm just gonna do um a double fold on there and then a top stitch just using zigzag stitch and you can use like a twin needle if you want to but i actually don't mind the look of the zigzag stitch i know it's not for everybody but i don't mind it so i'm just going to do that with the hem and then i can pop it on and show you [Music] and they're finished and yeah i've just left it on with my little t-shirt underneath so you kind of get the overall sort of look that i'm going for i think i might need to take the legs up just a smidge in more i think maybe i needed um maybe about two and a half inches rather than three inches added on because they kind of do sit kind of on the floor but i don't really like my trousers kind of being that close to the floor i like them to be a little bit higher up so i think i might just unpick and just take up just a little bit more just so that they're definitely nowhere near the floor you probably won't be able to see too much detail um in this light and everything so i will insert some like twirls and things like that in the daylight so you can see it better but i really love the overall look of it it's got the the pockets they're not massive the pockets but they're still nice and the waistline actually i thought was going to be higher up because my natural waist is here and the waistline is actually sitting more like kind of where my belly button sort of is rather than my natural waist but i don't mind that and yeah i just think it's really cute with the back as well with this lovely little tie i just think it's such a pretty detail and so overall i'm really really happy with it i am glad that i did a medium on the top and then graded out to the large because it's not tight at all around the tummy but it just skims just it's kind of it feels close enough but without stretching if that kind of makes sense and also over the hips as well i didn't want to get kind of you know any sort of like hungry balm or anything like that if they were too tight that they're actually a really really nice um kind of fit and the wide legs are brilliant as well so yes um as i said before this little bit here so if i wasn't wearing a t-shirt i probably wouldn't be too comfortable um with it being a bit gay i don't know if you'll really be able to notice it but with um wearing a t-shirt you don't even notice it because you've got the layer so yeah really really happy so overall i really like the pattern instructions were absolutely fab as well i'll be honest i don't know if you'd really if anyone would actually need to insert a zip because i found this so easy to get on over my hips so unless maybe your proportions you know are kind of quite drastically different then you know maybe you would need a zip i really don't think you'd need to as long as your fabric's got a bit of stretch i think you'll be absolutely fine but i do like friday pattern company i always find their designs are just a little bit different and everything so um yeah very very glad that i have made it so i hope you enjoyed as i said i will insert some 12s and things at the end of the video if you did enjoy please give me a thumbs up and please let me know what you think comment below and i'd love to know what you think i have also um recently joined kofi which is a donation page and you know you don't have to by any means but if you do fancy giving me just a little uh like tip you know enough to have a cup of tea then you can do that as well which i will link down below just because i just thought you know what i've been doing this so long for a while and you know if anyone wants to give back then please do okay well i will speak to you all very soon in my next video hope you enjoyed and i will see you soon bye do [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Sun Sep 26 2021