TURNING A COUCH INTO FASHION!

okay so here I am at the playground chillin with Milan with my not hoarding I'm about to be hoarding Here I am chillin at the playground with my niece and nephews and Hannah banana you want your face blurred out so I see across the street this gorgeous classy do you like dress do you let me see it okay so I know it may not look like a gorgeous tweed inspired classy fashion but it will be give me a favor and show the camera how heavy it is Wow okay currently unsupervised children hey Dad can you bring the truck over to the playground there's something I need fine that couch over there might have bedbugs it's too risky these days Ohio has the worst bedbug problem of any of the 50 states right now is that true it is true oh yeah I did remember to look that up and the results were totally unsettling turns out my dad never lies and at the top three worst bedbug cities and all of America two of them are in Ohio and take a look at this big juicy bedbug map of the entire United States I mean are you serious and then this is unrelated but I just thought it was kind of odd look at the icon for nursing homes in this I mean what nursing home pushes their old people around in there right it's some convincing she helped and he's gonna let me use the materials make sure you are protected just in case there are any foreign bodies on the account obviously this is hard for me because I don't want to cut it up because I've grown attached to the image of this couch on my porch it's like a classier version of a horse wing but what [Music] not gonna lie this is gross I want this to be over already is that a zipper there's a zippers this is a Eureka moment I believe Eureka is a Greek word means gold double Eureka I found a shoelace this is the least classy I've ever felt but it's alright I never feel incredibly classy like everybody knows I'm just the poor man's Amrish old that's who I am and it's fine [Applause] I'm having trouble breathing and I'm sure my sewing scissors are ruined so I'd say that was a success I was hoping you'd laugh mom now we are going to take that bag of goodies to the laundromat and wash it because I'd show before I wash it I got to pick off all the little fluffs so Shelby's helping me she offered by the way I'm not forcing this is not child labor right [Music] grab it grab the wit don't need like tongs or anything oh she's done this before thanks Joby you subscribe to Jakob oh you subscribe to me wait did you say pretty sure but you're sure that you're subscribed to Jake Paul you realize you're not Jake Paul's cousin right you're my cousin because I'm unsure of what direction I want to go in may be something vintage maybe something really modern I'm gonna ask Instagram in a very vague poll what the heck is on that tree that's the back but today it's no project should reducible to be modern nor vintage the votes are in the people have spoken and they want into they're zoomed on over to Pinterest for inspiration I knew I wanted something sort of Jackie Kennedy asked but I wanted the dress underneath to be able to be worn in a sort of Megan Merkel ish way now it's time to make the fashion sketch and when I make fashion sketches there are a lot of different mediums that I like to use such as charcoal color pencil and the occasional watercolor today though I would like to use the medium of gluten-free pancake batter one of them has green food coloring in it [Music] it's helpful to make a few different prototypes like I did here now pick your favorites I'm definitely digging this one with darts and buttons so I'm going to make that once you've chosen your favourite you have to commit it to memory you can do that by one taking a picture or two eating it it's no wonder that designers and scientists alike swear by eating your designs what happens is while you're digesting it since Plex ate or neurons to your brewing new synapses in your prefrontal cortex that causes future ation of the amygdala and when the future ation neuron sign with the carbohydrates given text withholding it causes nearly a rupture in the creativity section of your fusiform fabric that I harvested from the couch that we took to the laundromat and now I have to iron it all because it is sat rumpled up in a bad day I found out you can't iron this stuff I started out by removing the zipper then I mutilated the cushions and two big flat pieces that will be easy to work with I'm gonna start with the jacket you heard the lady we're starting with the jacket and we're going to make that out of two separate pieces starting by tracing and cutting out our armpit hole on the first piece and then tracing that onto the second piece so that they match exactly and then we are left with two side pieces that look like this and at this point we're going to stop saying we and I'm going to start saying I I fashion to this fold dart curved thing onto the front of the bodice of my jacket to make it fit the curve of the chest better and now I'm just gonna sew those in place as soon as I get the heart to stop petting apparently I worked up the nerve because Here I am sewing those in place if you want to know the measurements better take a screenshot quick because I'm about to get distracted by a gorgeous Blizzard I mean look at that staying focused it was really hard because I'm babysitting my brother's dog right now I've never had a dog before this is so new to me I never really understood the whole dog thing dogs have always bugged me how they can't grab anything but like I get it now I get why people have dachshunds watching her my self-esteem is through the roof you know those videos that make you cry every time of the soldiers coming home from war and like surprising their family members who makes me feel like that every time I come downstairs [Music] I'm just like too happy to get anything done but I have to try I then sewed my two sides of my jacket pieces together at the back inside out and then I lowered the neckline you know along the back of the neck and then to get the front of my collar just so I pinned it in place where I wanted it to be and then took it off and sewed it down I wanted it to be high-necked but I still wanted to be able to breathe now I'm double folding long right as I was trying to say double fold and then sew down the two edges where it meets in the front of the jacket then sew your two shoulder pieces together right sides together and start on the drug lay the sleeve I'm just kidding you don't have to dread the sleeves I mean I really just freestyled mine and it turned out fine not sure if this is helpful or if you can even read the numbers but um anyway I pinned the sleeves on inside-out sewed them to the jacket and that was pretty much it now to give this couch dress some sort of dimension I'm going to turn the fabric the opposite direction to make the dressy it's just slightly darker than the jacket fabric I made the dress in two separate pieces the top and the bottom and for the top I lay down next to the fabric marked where my belly button was and then cut it out then I cut this general shape watch closely and I purposefully made it a few inches too wide so that at the bottom I could add some of those folded art things like I did on my jacket then I stood in front of a mirror and traced where I wanted the armhole and neck lines to be or arm holes and neckline one neck two arms I realized I needed the lower the neckline just a tad and then I started in on those folded curvy dart things guys what are those called I'm sorry please let's make this a two-way conversation because I don't have all the answers but anyway just you know I did one side on myself and one on the mannequin you don't need a mannequin you can do this on yourself anyway it'll look like this when it's done do I say anyway too much anyway before sewing the neckline down I cut a bunch of slits so that it would stay nicely curved as I sewed it Oh something heinous happened while I was pinning I poked my thumb and I got a blood stain somehow this old couch survived who knows how many years probably fifty without having a blood stain on it and now now it gets one hey I'm back and I just remember that this is the inside side so it's really not that big of a deal hope you enjoyed that irrelevant little panic attack I constructed this card out of 3d panels one front panel and two back panels that would eventually join at the gigantic zipper I was going to add in the back then I hastily constructed two darts at the top of the front panel of my skirt okay so I'm finished but before I sewed those pieces together add darts to the back you know where my bottom was but I had no idea how big my bottom was I mean my eyes have always been on the front of myself so I just have no concept of it and the backside is a really hard thing to drape on yourself so I just winged it or wrong it if you will and it actually turned out fitting pretty well for the back of my bodice I just traced the front of my bodice I didn't have to add those curvy dart things because my back is just slightly less curvy than my front then I cut that back piece in half to accommodate for the impending zipper quick can you guess which cartoon character this shot reminded me of doo doo doo doo if you guess that I'm literally I can't even so then I sewed the front and back bodice pieces together and then I sewed the front and back skirt panels together then I him to the skirt and then it was time to sew the top to the bottom and boy was i frightened let me tell you I ain't even playing but for once I took my time I was cautious I tried it on several times with pins in it before I actually sewed it and it turned out slightly perfect I'd show you me sewing it but my tripod fell over so sewing the zipper was a little tricky because as you can see it's all Ripley and janky from you know we're guessing fifty years of use and the fabric around it was so thick that it broke my needle but you know what it was okay because I was able to find a replacement needle and I continued to happily so to my heart's content with the end of my project in sight when that darned hoodlum of a zipper broke my replacement needle that's right two needles broken within like 12 minutes but God is good and I was able to find another replacement needle if your mind is racing an anticipation of finding out what I'm going to do with these metal studs well they are for purposes of bedazzle Minh so these are all just slightly a different color and they look kind of old and nasty so on a glaze over them with some of this but firstly what I'm going to do is I'm going to prep them all and just take after prepping them I gave a paper bag more piercings than a 2007 seen kid and then spray-painted all the text once they were all evenly gold and shiny i embellished my jacket with them now if you're not up to date with your tetanus shots or if you just have some weird aversion to pain you can make it so you don't poke yourself with these by putting hot glue over the pointy part of the nails opposite side I also hot-glued several broken stud heads to the straps of my dress then I made my Jackie O styled pillbox hat using a strip of interfacing and a cardboard cereal box I pinned my strip into a circle then traced the circle and cut it out then I traced that circle onto my fabric and I glued the whole darned thing together if the cereal box you used has a recipe on it that you would like to try later make sure you face the recipe towards the inside of the Hat that won't be covered with fabric I glued this clear plastic comb into the middle of my hat but you don't have to do that if you're better at balancing things on your head than I am then I embellished it with another little piece of fabric and those two buttons and then [Music] [Music] okay look how literally perfect this couch fits right between these two cones once my dad sees this he won't make me take it to the DA

Channel: Micarah Tewers

Views: 2,335,051

Rating: 4.975596 out of 5

Keywords: 11-26-18, Jackie Kennedy, couch, DIY, sewing, Meghan Markle, upholstry fabric, transformation, dress, 1960s, vintage fashion, upcyled, recycled, micarah, Tewers, Micarah Tewers, jake, paul, micah, recycle, amber, scholl, dad, landon, jackie, meghan, Amber Scholl, Old Couch, Turning a couch into fashion, Retro, madmen, pillbox hat, tweed, sofa

Id: TYfgs3Aa4PU

Length: 11min 40sec (700 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 06 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/drPmakes]

She is using a method called draping. She makes it look easy and effortless but remember, this is a heavily edited video and good draping also requires skill and practice!

[u/ladyace]

Omg this is awesome. Gonna subscribe and binge watch this channel. She is hilarious (and talented).

[u/confluence]

I love this. Thanks for the recommendation! :)