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Upcycling for Beginners: Men's Jacket to Jumper Dress
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About Upcycling for Beginners: Men's Jacket to Jumper Dress
Intro + Project overview
What you’ll need
Tips for choosing the right jacket
Measurements
Ripping off the buttons
Ripping off and ironing the sleeves
Making the straps
Optional step: closing the slits
Marking the dress line
Attaching the front straps
Making the tunnels
Attaching the back straps
Closing and finishing the cut edge
Finishing the garment + Styling tips
What You Will Learn?
- This is the first class of the “Upcycling for beginners” series with Fashion Designer, Master in Fashion Engineering, Olesia Les..
- In this class you’ll learn how to easily upcycle an old men's jacket to a classy jumper dress. Together we’ll go through the processes of selecting the right jacket, ripping it apart, preparing all of the parts for the jumper dress, sewing and finishing the garment. Along the way you’ll get lots of useful tips and tricks of how to speed up the whole process and improve the quality at the same time!.
- To complete this project, you should have an understanding of some basic sewing principles and a basic knowledge of how to make a straight seam with a sewing machine. That's it!.
- I bet you never knew it’s so easy to create your own fashion at home!.
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- Designer's Sketchbooks, Tailor's Journal, Creator's Notebook.
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