Upcycling and Transforming Old Garments

Overview

“In this lesson, I will share the steps for putting your garment back together and how to finish the basic structure of your piece. ”

In this video lesson Caitlin Trantham addresses the topic: Reconstructing the Garment, which is part of the Domestika online course: Upcycling and Transforming Old Garments. Learn to transform old garments into unique and sustainable pieces using sewing and customization techniques.

Partial transcription of the video

“We've altered parts of the garment to fit. Now, how are we putting this thing back together? Let's lay our bodice out and measure the bottom edge. This is the width we will need our skirt to be. For example, i will be gathering my skirt to match it up to this bodice edge. Now I'm going to measure the edge of my bodice. Because we still have this zipper in place, I'm measuring just one side. And that equals about 17 inches. So I'm just going to double that number so we get the total length of the bottom of the bodice, which is about 34 inches. Once the skirt width matches the bodice width we...”

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Course summary for: Upcycling and Transforming Old Garments

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (10)
• 625 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (1h 25m)
• 3 downloads

• Category

  Fashion

• Areas

  Costume Design, Upcycling