Making the Strawberry Dress from Lirika Matoshi! | DIY

okay seriously those this fabric i mean come on come on [Music] hi guys welcome back to my channel so today i am extremely excited about this project because as you can probably already tell i am going to be making the iconic strawberry dress it is by the brand lyricatoshi in case you guys don't know you guys should check out all their other clothes because they're super super cute and i love the way they're made and stuff and i haven't seen this dress go around for like six months now and i know that i'm pretty late to the trend but i was trying really hard not to buy the fabric i'm like i'm not gonna do it i'm not gonna break down i don't need it where am i gonna wear it and i just kept thinking to myself i'm just gonna wear it around the house and yes i do need it and of course i need to make the iconic dress where am i going to get the fabric turns out you can buy it on etsy and it was pretty cheap mine was only six dollars a yard i think i think it was on sale when i bought it i will link the store that i used in the description and i am in love with the fabric that i got so i was trying to hold off buying it and like two weeks ago i finally broke and i decided to order four yards of the strawberry fabric and it is absolutely beautiful it is so stunning i want to use it for like literally everything now and for the other fabric i bought 10 yards 10 whole yards of this pink tool there's only 1.50 yards so i didn't feel bad getting 10 yards of it because we're going to need a lot of tool for this project i assumed and then i also bought 3 yards of this knit fabric and i decided to go with one that i wasn't going to need to line because i didn't want it to have two new layers so this one is opaque for the skirt and for the bodice and so all together this is 17 yards of fabric i've never made a project with 17 yards of fabric i'm so excited i'm i love fabric so much i'm so excited so i am excited to make this video so you guys can see my whole process and how i'm going to do the whole thing and i think we should just get started [Music] so after i took a good look at the dress and pieced the whole thing together you know like mentally these are all the pieces that i decided will work best to make this particular dress and so i cut them all out and there are a lot of pieces i'm so sorry but here are all of their measurements so these are the lining bodice pieces and you're going to want to cut out two front pieces and two back pieces so the next piece i cut out is the sleeve piece and you're going to want to cut out two out of your lining fabric two out of the strawberry fabric and i cut two out of the tulle fabric even though i didn't end up using those the next piece i cut out was the skirt so the skirt for the lining piece was a basic circle skirt but it was so big that i couldn't really show you guys how i usually cut it out so i made a little diagram for you guys here so basically i measured all the way around from one point six and a half inches and then from that i measure 35 inches all the way around and it was very fun to twirl in already i think that's enough twirl this is already very fun [Music] the next thing i did was cut out two back pieces from the strawberry fabric and then for the front pieces of the strawberry fabric i took one of the bodice pieces that we already cut out cut out one side of it and then moved the piece over and measured 13 inches from each point that would be even and then cut out the other side and then connected the tops so basically you just have a piece that has been stretched by 13 inches so the next thing i cut out was the circle skirts out of the tulle fabric and so it was a pretty similar process to the lining fabric ones but these ones i made a full circle instead of a quarter circle so basically i again chose a point and measured three inches all the way around this time in a half circle and then from those points i measured to 35 inches out again you want to cut this particular piece out of tulle eight times and the next thing i cut out was the skirt piece out of the strawberry fabric and so this one is a rectangle piece i made the other pieces circle skirts so around the waist it would be a lot slimmer and it would look a lot more flattering and it just cut one of these pieces out of the strawberry fabric the next thing i did was cut out some two-inch strips out of the tulle fabric for the ruffles around the neckline and sleeves and then i also cut out some seven inch tool strips for the ruffles around the bottom of the skirt and then the last thing i cut out was some one and a half inch strips out of the lining fabric to do the little ties that go around the waist [Music] all right so i finally cut out all of the pieces which took a very long time i'm already very tired but i'm really pumped to get started on this project so the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to add some darts to the front pieces so i'm going to add a dart along the side right here and then one right here i'm going to do that basically by pinning it on myself until i like the way it looks and i'm going to go ahead and stitch those all right so i pinned one side and i really like how it looks so i'm going to just transfer those pins onto the other one and then stitch both of them it should look something like that [Music] all right so now i have my front pieces so the next thing i'm going to do is i'm going to take the strawberry fabric and i made it a lot bigger because it has little ruffles down the shoulders so i'm going to baste it around the arm seam and this seam and it'll be a little bit funny because we didn't put a dart in it but this is a pretty stretchy and forgiving fabric so we're not going to put a dart in it so i'm going to make it go down the side and then i'm going to make the other side go down the front i'm going to baste it there and then i'm going to ruffle all the stuff in between it all right so the last thing i'm going to do today is i'm probably going to ruffle some tulle strips so i'm going to take some of my two inch ones and i'm going to put my machine on a basting stitch and also on my highest tension so that it will gather it a little bit while it's sewing it and then i'm going to just sew down my very long strips because we're going to need it for the neckline of the shirt also because this tool is pretty thin i think i'm going to double it up so it'll be a little bit more opaque when we attach it [Music] okay day two so i finished ruffling the short pieces yesterday and i have like this very long big ruffle now and turning the tension up made it so i didn't have to ruffle it by hand which was a lot easier so i'm going to go ahead and baste the other strawberry fabric to the other lining fabric because i didn't do that yesterday okay so the next i'm going to do is i'm going to ruffle this top part that is much bigger obviously than this portion on the front piece i'm also going to do that on the bottom but i'm going to start it after it reaches this bottom seam because that part is going to be flat and the ruffling is only going to be for this section here so i'm going to mark this part here and i'm going to turn out my tension again so they can just do it for me really quick and then i'm going to just stitch it across [Music] and make sure you're using a basting stitch again okay so now we should kind of look like this so you have a bunch of ruffles down here and up here all right so now i'm going to turn my tension back to normal and i'm going to still baste i'm just going to baste across basically where we just did but sewing it down to the lining fabric now okay so i based it across the top and bottom and now we have our two front pieces it's now going to work on the back pieces first i'm going to turn on gravity balls okay so the first thing i'm going to do on the back piece is i'm going to add a dart right down the center of the back so i'm going to pin it on myself kind of like i did the last one and then make it symmetrical on the other piece too so my plan was to add darts onto the strawberry fabric but this mesh fabric has some stretch to it so i'm thinking i'm just going to lay it on it flat and based around the edges of it back pieces okay so now that all of the strawberry pieces are to the front and back of the lining pieces i'm going to put all the pieces together i'm going to put their side seams together on a front and back piece and i'm going to put their tops together so i'm going to stitch across the shoulder seam and the side seam [Music] okay so right now i'm not obsessed with the way the ruffle is looking at the top so i think i'm going to seam rip this side open and undo the top and the bottom of the front and i'm going to pleat these instead of ruffling them because i think it'll look a lot better and cleaner so i think i'm going to cut down the lining fabric a little bit because i seam ripped it and i tried it on again and i want this to be pretty close to my shoulder like right here so i'm going to take that in and then make it just gradually come back into this part all right i think that fits a lot better so i think now i'm going to go ahead and pleat this excess fabric now okay so i've been messing around with this for a while and i finally have some pleats that i really like the position of i'm gonna go ahead and replicate it on the other side [Music] all right so now i'm just going to baste the top and bottom of this piece i'm also going to re-baste this edge and i'm going to leave all these pins in here for when we want to put in the bands later so now i'm just going to go ahead and restitch the shoulder seams okay so i just tried it on and i pinned up the back so that i could try it once that's where the zipper is going to go and i had a lot of excess fabric so i'm going to cut it down making sure to leave some extra so i can actually put in the zipper but because we have so much extra it's making the v-neck a lot higher so i'm going to cut it then i can also cut the v-neck lower okay so now it's time to attach the ruffles around it so i'm going to take our ruffles i'm going to pin them where i plan on sewing it i'm going to make sure that they're facing in so when we sew it they turn out and then i'm going to baste them on top and i'm going to attach our single fold bias tape okay so now where we stitched it i'm going to go ahead and add some single fold bias tape to finish it all off and when you do that is you sew on one side of your single fold bias tape when you open it up and then i'm going to cut my seams really short flip it over and sew the other side of it all right so next i'm going to trim all of the tulle around the neckline um to about 5 8 of an inch okay the lighting in here is bad but here is the first look at the bodice so i just pinned some little strips on it so that i could do it like the ties in the photo but i think it's looking really cute and it's actually looking really good and of course there's no zipper in it either but progress okay so i think i'm going to attach the sleeves next so i did cut out those extra pieces of tulle for the sleeves and i don't think i'm going to use them i think i'm going to do it against the lining fabric like we've been doing so like before i think the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to pin and baste the strawberry fabric to the lining fabric okay so now that the pieces are put together with the strawberry fabric the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to fold it in half and sew along this line okay so next what i'm going to do is i'm going to put two basting stitches from here all the way around to here and then i'm going to pin the sleeve to the armhole and ruffle it until it fits around it [Music] okay it's just pinned but this sleeve though i'm already obsessed i'm literally so excited to put this on oh my gosh it's looking so cute okay so i think i'm going to cut down my sleeves by about an inch so they're a little bit shorter so i just cut out some new strips of tulle and i'm going to ruffle them so that we can put them on the bottom of the sleeves [Music] okay so these these are looking freaking adorable so next because the tool wants to sit upwards i'm going to turn it down and i'm going to baste stitch it down so that tool sits flat and then i'm going to take some thin elastic cut a piece that fits around my arm the way i like it and i'm going to stretch it and sew a zigzag stitch across it while it's stretched to cinch it all up around my arm okay so here is the bodice right now and i'm trying to figure out what to do with the sleeves because this is the one i did with the elastic method i showed you guys um and it's not quite getting the ruffle that i wanted and the ruffles on the bottom are kind of flaring out at a weird angle so i decided to try a different way with making a casing and i think this one's working a lot better and i can make it a lot tighter if i want to which gives me that cute little scrunching action where this one's kind of just falling loose so i think i'm gonna go with this method because i think i like the scrunch better so i will show you guys how i did that too but seriously this is looking so cute oh my goodness i feel so cute okay so i seam ripped everything on the sleeve that i hadn't done and i cut out this strip of the fabric that we used for the lining and i'm using the not stretchy side so what i'm going to do is i'm going to open up the sleeve like this and i'm basically going to sew this on the seam that we originally did where we put the ruffles on it and i'm gonna sandwich ruffles between it okay so now that i sewed it around like this i'm basically going to take this layer fold it up here and stitch on top of it right by the seam okay so now that i topstitched that i'm going to cut the inner seam really really thin so that we can cut off all this thick fabric there [Music] okay so now that i cut that edge i'm going to fold this down and sew a big enough casing so that it can fit my elastic i'm going to make sure to leave a little hole in it so that i have enough room to insert the elastic and now i'm just going to cut off this excess fabric here and now i'm going to take my elastic and attach it to this little rudder tool i have but of course a safety pin would work just as well and i'm going to go to the little opening i left right here and insert it through and now once you have the elastic to a size you like you can just stitch it a few times and cut it off and then you have a cute little casing for your sleeves okay i'm feeling so cute in this look at these sleeves they're so cute oh my goodness i keep like walking like this i feel so cute all right i think it is time to start working on the skirt which should be an interesting process so let's get started okay so now i'm excited to start working on the skirt so one of the first things i'm going to do is i'm going to fold my skirt back in half and i'm going to cut down the center of it from the waistband about 10 inches that i have a way of getting this on and off i'm going to do that on all of the skirt backs so half of my pieces okay so now i'm going to take all my skirt pieces and sew their sides together all the way down i'm going to do that with the tulle ones also but not with the strawberry ones this is all the circle skirt pieces okay so i sewed all of the tulle skirts together obviously and um there's a lot of content here so i think the first thing i'm going to do to kind of make it a little bit easier to work with is i'm going to pin all the waistbands together and then put two basting stitches all the way around them if i can figure out where they start okay so last night i kind of decided i wanted to galavant around in the skirt in my house because i love big giant skirts almost more than anything else so i just went ahead and did two basting stitches around the tool layers together and then i pinned the side seams together to the lining fabric and then i scrunched up the tool fabric because the waistband was a little bit too big and then i just went ahead and did a basing stitch around it so the lining fabric was attached to all of the tulle layers and now we have a big giant skirt that is very very fun to wear and i will show you guys what it looks like on because i just want to twirl in it some more before i attach it to the dress look at this skirt like come on oh my gosh i shouldn't turn around in this all day i'm just like twirling and like it looks fun when i like kick in it i kind of like don't want to attach it i might just have to make myself a skirt that's like just this because like come on it's so cute i can literally just twirl around in this all day i feel like a beautiful jellyfish but i know it's going to look super cute with the strawberry fabric on it too so like i'm a little excited but i just love this so much i just want to wear this all the time it's so pretty all right so it is finally time to work on the strawberry part of the skirt so the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to put the sides together and sew them up so that it is one continuous loop but i'm going to make sure to stop eight inches before i hit the top so that we can add it in the zipper later okay so now that i set around the top i'm going to mark out the top of the piece in two quarters so that when i scrunch it all up i know like how to keep it even and stuff and then i'm going to run two basting stitches all the way around it so i can start pinning it to the actual skirt okay so now i have all of the basting stitches so i'm going to go ahead and take all the quarter sections that we pinned out first and attach those to the skirts first so we can pull on all of the basting threads and make sure that all the ruffles are really even all the way around the skirts but not one part is more roughly than the other okay so now that it is pinned to the skirt i'm going to go ahead and baste around the edge of it keep all of this in place okay so next i'm going to pin the bodice to the skirt and i'm going to go ahead and stitch all the way around the waistband and then for the front of the bodice because it is two pieces you put them really close to each other and then the back should be open just like the skirt [Music] okay so next i'm going to tackle the ruffle on the bottom so i have all these strips that i cut out earlier and i'm going to sew them into a very long strip so they're all together and then i'm going to go ahead and ruffle them all along the bottom and i'm going to use a basting stitch and put my tension all the way up to nine again so that it kind of ruffles it automatically so i don't have to do it by hand because i don't feel like doing that and i think i'm also going to double it up again so that it's a little bit more opaque [Music] okay so now that we've created these giant ruffles i'm going to go ahead and attach them to the bottom of the skirt making sure that the pretty sides are together so that when you turn it out it'll be nice and cute and ruffly okay so i pinned all the bottom ruffles so now i'm gonna go ahead and stitch them all the way around which there's a lot of content to get around there [Music] [Music] do [Music] okay so i've been avoiding taking my duct tape dress off my mannequin for a very long time because i thought it was going to go badly and then it went badly but i didn't think there was really much choice on what i need to do next because i need to cut the tool layers underneath and i need it to be on something so that they will all turn out even because i just don't think there's a way around it so let's get working okay so i just finished cutting out all of the basting stitches along the bottom and trimming it so it looks a little bit better and my main concern right now is the dress looks very poofy which is like fun but um doesn't really match the picture a whole lot so i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to cut out one of my layers of tulle and see how that looks to make it just a little bit less poofy and then i also worked really hard last night to trim all of the tulle and the lining fabric so that it is all the same length as the top layer so that it's not you know any weirdness going on there so i think the next thing i'm going to do is cut out that extra layer [Music] okay so now it's looking really good the only thing is i just looked at the photo and the bottom ruffles are a little bit shorter than mine so i think i'm going to go ahead and trim about an inch off of them which means i also have to trim all of the bottom layers again which was kind of a pain but i think it's worth it so i'm going to take it off and do that really quick [Music] okay so here is the dress right now and i'm pretty happy with the bottom of it so i've been going to stop messing around with that for right now so i think the next thing i'm going to do is add all these little ties right here around the waist okay so now i'm going to take these ties that we cut out a while ago and i'm going to fold them in half and stitch all the way down them and then for the ends i'm just going to stitch across them so they're finished and then i'm going to cut the piece in half to turn it inside out [Music] all right so i just made all the ties so now i'm going to pin them onto the waist and stitch it on the top and bottom all the way around and the bottom one is going to be right along the waistline and the top one's going to be about an inch or two above the first one all right so i just sewed all of the ties on it and it looks really really good so the last thing i'm going to do is attach the invisible zipper to the back all right the dress is officially done and i'm so excited to go try it on alright so here is the finished strawberry dress [Music] i am super obsessed with this dress i think it's so pretty and i've been honestly just twirling around in it for like the past three days because it is just so fun to twirl around and like all those layers of tool made it very poofy and flowy and it's just a really good time to wear this dress you guys and i also think i did a pretty good job of recreating it i really love accuracy so i think i did a pretty good job of recreating it as best as i could and compared to the original dress this one is much cheaper so i was very happy also here is me twirling awkwardly before noticing that the weird couple in the park was staring at me so there's [Music] do that want a strawberry dress next [Music] as always thank you guys so much for watching this video i hope you enjoyed it i hope this video motivates you to give the strawberry dress a try because it is a very fun dress to make and twirl around in i post a video every friday if you want to see more of my channel and hopefully i will see you guys soon bye

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Length: 25min 49sec (1549 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 16 2020