I forgot that straight
across bangs almost, always result in doing the
"High School Skater Boy" 🎵he was a sk8r boi, she said see-🎵 *Sigh* 🎵Let's get down to business🎵 Hello!! I think it's pretty
obvious that my self-control, when it comes to things that
I am interested in is low. It's about as much self
control as when I drive by a field that has horses
in it and try not to shout, "HORSES!!" That's right, non-existent and so this leads me to this project. So this is my first two-part project. Usually, I try to cram
everything into one video, it's just kind of in my
like, pack rat mentality. Sorry, I have to turn
my recording light on because I can hear Nick talking. ♪ Turn on the red light ♪ For the sake of giving myself
enough time to do this project and not trying to rush, I wanted
to turn it into two parts. *tappity-tapping* So, scrolling on Ye olde
social media a few weeks ago, I came across this image,
got my gears a-turning. I just really love books and libraries and projects that have to
do with either of those, I already made a book dress, trashcan dress. - I'm the trash man. - Yeah, we're going to make another one. The photo is from the 1930s in London. "Critics are always remarking
that we in this country lag far behind those of European countries when it comes to borrowing
books from libraries. Well, this enterprising girl
at Rumsgate solves the problem by taking her books in
a rack tied to her back round the streets from door to door and people can borrow them for a week at the price of twopence." I think we'll go more into the history of walking libraries in part two. What I want to do, become
a walking library! Possibly take it out into the public. For the first part, the one.....
of which you are watching right now I would like to make a dress that goes alongside this
bookcase on the back and then obviously part two, I will be building the
bookcase on the back. Hopefully not one that
will give me sciatica, much like when I worked at
Petco as an assistant groomer, Y'know they tell you to lift with your legs All I'm saying is try to
lift a golden retriever who doesn't want their nails
clipped with just your knees. It's impossible, hence the back problems I
developed at the age of 21.... Anyways Now for the dress,
I have a general design of what I'm thinking for the bottom. The problem is I haven't
really thought about the top of the dress much Before ados are in any way furthered, let's talk about design. *wayne's world transition* All right. Hi sweetheart, whadya doin? I definitely want it to err on
the side of dramatic Extra, as the youths would say I would like this to be almost
kind of Edwardian inspired. Let me show you what I'm thinking, for the skirt, I definitely
don't want it floorlength honestly out of convenience
and also laziness. ♪♪ My plan and I may regret this later, individually cut out
and sort of stamp text along the fabric pages, I may need to make a base skirt to attach all of these onto The top? I don't knooowww *stressed laugh* Sleeveless but then we add
the pages coming out again, we can also just go puff
sleeves with this too. Before we get any further
with this bodice design, I think what I need to do is
go assess my fabric stash, see what kind of fabric I can work with, I would do big flouncy sleeves but I also don't want it to be too hot. I would like to avoid "swamp back" Swack. Let's go see what kind the fabrics I got, but before I do that Quick break, I need to water all my planty boys, I'm a bad plant mom and
I was supposed to do that three days ago and I didn't, so. I still like to water these even though I know they're dying, and I'm gonna have to throw them out. This one's just straight up dead but for some reason, I'm just
like here "Have some water." (shushing) that's good, drink up. This one's my newest
one, You got this champ. Okay, fabric stash time. We definitely want something
that's like kind of luxurious but not something too busy because I know the page skirt
is going to be kind of a lot to look at. Actually, this might be nice. That'll do, pig. Frodo Baggins, look at this mess. You don't need all of these toys. out. at once! *hedgehog toy grunt* Oh, my God, you got too many toys. ♪ When the moon hits your eye ♪ ♪ like a big pizza pie ♪ So, I have the fabric, there's really no telling
how it's going to look with the skirt until I make the skirt. So, I'm not going to
commit quite yet to this. Now for the skirt, this! This is a painter's drop cloth, my new, recent favorite
hack, they are huge. I have already made the backdrop for my spring thrift haul video. Out of this, there's still so much left I wouldn't dare make an
actual piece of clothing that's going to touch my body. ♪ touch my body ♪ Because it's kind of itchy,
not the most comfortable. One downside of this I did
notice with my backdrop is that when you cut it, it does fray. It's really not meant to be
cut or used the way I use it. Luckily for me, kind
of exactly what I want. I think it would look kind of cool if some of the pages were
fraying at the bottom or the sides,
That's Amore For the text on the pages, I've
got a few different things. What I was looking for
was a stamp of some sort, I've got this stamp, which looks like it's like a French kind of text. The other rubber stamp is
the one from hobby lobby and it's just writing. And then the other two, silicone, I think, that feels weird *flapping noises* Really.... flaccid I don't know that
I've ever used that word in a sentence and I'm not
quite sure I want to start now. And now I think it's just a
matter of getting to work, I should build the base skirt first. Sewing the base skirts sounds
so boring comparatively, I guess we'll do that. Pick a random fabric downstairs
that I have a lot of, handy-dandy skirt pattern
that I always use. So, let's do that. So, since my handy-dandy skirt pattern looks like a rumpled up old snakeskin, I wanted to make a new template and I ended up extending it here and here. Then I took some bedsheets
that I had in my stash, if wrinkled fabric bothers
you, I will fix it real quick *Ding* there, all better. Now, I made sure I
folded the fabric enough that I would only have to do this once, so, I had eight layers
of- Y'know I never get hiccups but of course, when I have
to record a voiceover, that's when they come out. Anyways, I am pinning
together all eight panels of this skirt, you get the idea *hiccup* Okay, so, I've got
everything pinned together. Now it is time to sew, I'm still not quite
back on friendly terms with my sewing machine, but I think if we're very gentle and we talk hushed tones, I think everything will be okay. *Australian wildlife music* What does being a YouTuber consist of? All right, I sewed all the skirt panels, I'm so sorry, it's so messy in here oh noOOoO *voice cracks* I sewed all these skirt panels
together and then ironed it, I know that's totally backwards of what I was supposed to do,
but this is an under skirt. I mean, it's fuine, it's
nothing extraordinary, but I didn't need it to be... Get started on laying out the size that I want the pages to be measuring and doing all that fun stuff. Which if you know me, is not my strong suit. ♪ Blue ska-dooed, we can too! ♪ So take that canvas drop cloth and I cut off sections where
the seam naturally lies, just to make it a little
bit more manageable, fold it over once and then again so that there are four
layers of fabric altogether. And then to just get a rough
estimate of how much I needed, I laid out the pages
onto one of the panels and I needed about 20 pages per panel and there are eight panels, so.. I then had the bright idea
to try to fold it over one more time so that there
were eight layers of fabric, not my best idea. *strained noises* Do you want carpal tunnel? 'Cause that's how you go carpal tunnel, but is she going to stop?
Nah. *Metal music*
Welcome back to my channel,
do you want THICK wrists? *explosion* But Rachael, why don't you just unfold it and stopped doing that to yourself? Cuz I hate myshelf. All of yesterday and today,
my forearm has felt horrible. and I was like, wha-what did I do? I didn't exercise. Ding ding....
ding ding. Gooooooooood morning, Are you ready to kick some ass and make some pages? 'Cause that's what we're going to do. Oh, OW! Just went to roll up my sleeve and instead of I pinched a
huge chunk of skin on my arm. Why do I roll my sleeve so aggressively? I really do mean business. Let's see what we're working with We have about 160 pages here What are famous books that have 160 pages? - [Google Home] The best books under 100 pages every guy should read,
here are the first seven. - I don't know why that was so specific, books every GUY SHOULD READ TRUCKS!! GRILLING!!!! is this worth it for just one bit? It's not going to stop me. Which is more pages
than George Steinbeck's "Of mice and men." And now I've got to stamp
every single one of these. (sighs) So, I think I had good way
to have done this probably would have been to get
like a little paint roller but I don't have that, I might
go a little messier with it and just use a paintbrush
and just slather.... slather.
Is slather a word? - [Google Home] Slather has
two different meanings, starting with the most common one, slather can be used,
spread or smear a substance thickly or liberally, is that
the meaning you had in mind? - Yes that's enough. - [Google Home] Do you want to
hear how slather is spelled? - No Slather is a word! Slather on some black
paint onto the stamp, hopefully it's enough to make
an impression on the fabric. I kind of like the idea that some will be a little bit more faded and some will be a little
bit more saturated. (metal music) Move this out of the way. All right, moved my rug aside since many of you seem to be
concerned about its well-being and this living room
looks like it just got hit by a super tornado,
akin to what Bill Paxon and Helen Hunt courageously ventured into in the hit 1996 film, "Twister." And you ready to test some pages? I have an inkling... pun intended, sort of That I don't have
enough black paint for this. At some point today, I may be running out and getting some more, but we'll see. So, I've got my kind of
janky print studio here. Slap it. Well that didn't work Full body on this one. (struggling) Better, this one doesn't really look like a book page though. I don't really like that one either Yeah, I like that a lot better All right, so, I think I'm going to stick with just the writing one. I think in theory, the
other ones are cool Maybe for like scrap booking or something, looks much more like collage work. Just because it's so small, don't think it's going to
quite read as a book page, whereas this one it's
kind of like a journal or a diary page, but you
get what you can get, I could not for the
life of me find a stamp that was just a straight up
page like you would find. This is what we're going to
go with One down... 159 to go Yeeeeeah Y'know what I'm going to do... going to Frankenstein this
so that it is much easier, Ta-Daaaa, okay (upbeat music) - Eventually. *carbonation noises* Just got like, nostrils
full of carbonation that was a weird feeling. That will put hair on ya chest or at least make
you... really burpy Content. "Look at how carbonated my drink is" So, after a few hours, I guess
it's only been like an hour and a half or a couple
of hours, which is good, I thought this was going to
take me literally all day. I'm really sweaty, have like sweat marks, but we have around 160 stamped pages. (monstrous burp) What did I say? I stopped burping in videos because people were finding it gross, but I felt like that one has to be kept in because I literally just
predicted the future. Think I'm just going
to start pinning these to the under skirt. I start at the bottom and
then just make the rows from there, Let's give it a shot. Oh, and also I only used
not even all of this tube for that whole thing. I saw recently that
mercury is in retrograde but...... I'm having a great day! Things are working out. (knocking) (orchestral music) dink, dink! Are you ready? Look at it! Ohhh, it's so cute. It's a little more old-timey than I initially was going for. I kind of look like Nicholas
Cage is about to steal me I think it's still looks really cool and especially if I'm
going to be having my hair kind of styled Edwardian like, I'll see you tomorrow. goodbye! Pardon me ma'am, Let's talk bodice. So, as you saw yesterday, I did
finish up most of the skirt, I struggled a little bit
with what I want to make The uh, bodice out of My problem is the initial fabric that I chose... It's pretty,
it's a pretty fabric but I just don't think it goes with all of the crazy
details at the bottom which I kind of felt
like was going to happen much like my soda stream burp, manifestation, everything
is coming to fruition. So, then I tried this, oh my god okay, plain looking linen. I could do this if I wanted to, it's a little too beigey, so, I kind of want to
add a little bit of color so then I tried... this green velvet, I like like how rich
and "Belle's library dress" it's stretchy, I don't do
great with stretchy fabrics, just felt like it would read
a little too Christmasy, but wait, there's more! This old skirt... So, then I tried that and again, it works 'cause it's kind of the
off white and black, so, it honestly does match but it's a little depressing, really, really monotone and drab. The last thing I tried and I
think is what we will go with, this is another skirt that I
was just going to get rid of. I like the color and I kind of like that it has these ridges. It kind of reminds me of like book spines, the bodice is not my main
concern here I think, between the skirt and
then the giant bookcase that's going to be on my back, whether the bodice is going
to be super interesting or not is not high on my priority list so, I think I'm going to go with this one. As far as the design, I was
thinking there's this dress that the brand Of Her Own Kind makes and I really, really, really
love the bodice detail, I mean it kind of reminds
me of like a ballet outfit. I'm going to try to replicate
the bodice situation on that, I'm not sure about the sleeves Whatever I make for the bodice has to be able to withstand kind of being pulled down a little 'cause..... she THICC *echoes* Let's get to work. (tango music) Cara mia.. Wait, no, I need... Oh no, oh no, the indecency. cara mi- Cada mia.. That's harder than it looks. Stop distracting me, I have to get to work! So, I took a basic bodice
pattern that I had made for my measurements and
I altered it a little bit to match the style of
the reference picture and then decided to do a mock-up. I will pause now for a collective gasps. Okay. It sounds so cheesy but one of my favorite things about sewing is just learning that clothing
really is just shapes. So, once you learn the
general rule of that, you can pretty much
make whatever you want. So, once I laid that skirt out, this was a little bit challenging 'cause I did have to work with the lines and as you can see, it's
already crooked here Made sure to leave myself
some seam allowance and just kind of repeated for
all of the pattern pieces. (orchestral music) Then following the design of that dress, I took the waistband string
that came with the skirt, cut it in four and used it as
little ties on the shoulders. I'm not going to lie to
you, this is one of those, "I cannot believe that
actually worked" moments. Look at it, it's so cute. The front's a little crooked, that's my bad, but you know what? We're going to dazzle them and
distract them with the skirt and hopefully no one will notice. Come on.... you bitch. So, now that that layer is done, I should probably make a lining then the skirt can be kind
of sandwiched in between. I really, really don't want to. Sometimes you got to do things
that you don't want to do. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. I'm wondering if I can just
take this bodice situation and trace it and then just
use that for the lining. I know that's not what
you're supposed to do, I'm gonna try that, I don't
know if it's gonna work, but, let's give it a shot. (orchestral music) - [Announcer] We interrupt this broadcast for a very important development. (humming) - Look at the little baby strawberry. This is our little strawberry patch, we don't know where it came from, I'm thinking maybe someone
planted it for my grandma like forever ago, but
this is the first time I really ever noticed it and so we decided to keep it. Oh, baby strawberry. I don't think these are
ever going to get big but you know what? I think these surprise
strawberries are delightful and I hope you do too. Okay, that's it, back to work. Progress, the bodice is pretty
much all figured it out, I put the zipper on We need to attach the skirt which I'm a little nervous about. Just like I said, she is thicc and I have a feeling it's going
to really weigh this down, lining layer and then the outer layer I haven't attached to the bottom yet because [I want] the skirt too kind of go, sandwiched right in the middle, like a peanut butter and banana sandwich. If you have not had one of
those, 10 out of 10, recommend, I personally got the recommendation myself from Face on Nickelodeon Jr a connoisseur of fine cuisine. Wish me luck, we are almost done! So far, nothing has gone horribly wrong.... Oh, I need some wood!!! Let's get to it. Okay, let's make a sandwich and we do this by very
delicately pinning the fabric in between each other. I definitely could have done this better 'cause it came out a little lopsided which you will see
right now in the reveal. Also my hiccups went away, just
in case you were concerned. Okay, here we go. (orchestral music) I didn't see you there, I was just reading about
the "Hill Billy Doctor" and that folks is what happens
when you only buy old books because they look nice. First part of this project
is pretty much complete, I have a few more tweaks to do
I think before I wear it out and so, let's talk about that. It's a little lopsided, I got a little bit more work to do just on the waist, I think to make it a little bit more symmetrical. That is pretty much the only
thing bugging me about this which is a very rare occasion. Everything else I am super psyched with, I think it's really cute
when I do wear this out. I think I will wear a thicker petticoat just to really accentuate
the volume of this 'cause right now, it kind
of just lays flat a little because it's so heavy. The zipper's kind of ugly but I'm again going to have
a giant bookcase on my back. So, I don't really care. It might just be one of my
favorite things I've ever made. So, that's cool. I know I did say that I liked
the fraying of this skirt but it's fraying a little too much. Before I wear this outside
in the wind and such, might go over some of these pages with fray stopping spray,
basically like a glue, just to kind of stop them
from absolutely falling apart. There are some messy bits, nothing make is going to be flawless. It is what it is, I think we
all have our different styles, in my style, instead of
flawless, is flaw-full, flaw-full good or flaw-full neutral, thought about that play on words while I was sewing yesterday and I thought it was pretty funny so, I wrote it down in my
notebook so I would remember, here's footage of that exact event. So, this is part one, I
am going to take a week in between part one and part two, do want to film reveal of
the bookcase in public? And I think maybe like a Saturday morning would be nice for that. So, I kind of need a week in
between to get that weekend. Anyways, I hope you had fun watching me stamp 160 frickin' pages. I love you whether you're
new or old to this channel, if you're new here and you
feel like sticking around, feel free to subscribe, I upload almost every
Friday and We have fun here and I will see you in my next video, bye. ♪ La Vie En Rose plays ♪ ♪ Everyday words, seem to ♪ ♪ turn into love songs ♪ That was a free performance just for you. Fun fact, Dunkin Donuts stopped
selling these styrofoam cups two years ago now, but
Nick and I have a stash of about four that we have kept and I personally plan to pass it down, generation to generation. Tell me you're from New England without telling me
you're from New England. Okay, libraries, sty- ♪ And life will always be... ♪ ♪ La Vie en RoooOOosee♪ This is probably a way too close to my face. uhh correct. Boy,... it's a big brain day Whether the broad... Whether the... ♪ That's Amooreeee, dooododoodledodoo ♪
