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BB-8 Skirt and Petticoat - 1950s Inspired Fashion | DIY Inspiration | Whitney Sews - Duration: 17:40.
hi everyone I'm Whitney and I post videos here on my channel to help stores
of all skill levels learn new projects and techniques this week I'll be sharing
a DIY inspiration for the bb-8 poodle style skirt that I made as well as the
matching petticoat I showed both of these recently in my vintage style
clothing collection video but I wanted to do a separate video talking more in
depth about them and kind of the process that I went through making them in case
anyone is interested in learning more about that so I was inspired to make
this skirt when I saw the original one on Instagram I was scrolling through my
feed and a picture popped up that someone had shared or was an ad I'm not
really sure but it was a picture of a light grey skirt that had a bb-8 and
then the little orange rickrack coming out like a poodle skirt I will have a
link below to the picture that I saw on Instagram as well as any other pictures
I can find so you can see the original version of the skirt so I took a quick
screenshot of the picture and then just kept scrolling through my feed but I
knew that I wanted to make a version of that skirt for myself so I kept looking
back on it in my photos on my phone and thinking I have to make this skirt but I
wasn't in any rush to make it because I didn't really have an event to wear it
to I didn't want to go out and spend a lot of money on supplies right then and
so I just kind of had it on the back burner but I was kind of thinking it
over in my mind and figuring out the different aspects of it I did go ahead
and search through Etsy and a few other sites to find a bb-8 patch that I liked
it was a little difficult to find a larger patch I knew I wanted at least a
6-inch patch to make the scale look right I wish I could have found like an
8-inch one but I just couldn't but I ended up finding one on Etsy that was
six inches tall and I picked that up as well as three of their smaller patches
that are four inches in case I want to make something coordinating for Jeremiah
and the I will have a link below to the exact
patch that I bought as well as my Ebates link I shopped through Ebates to save a
little bit of money on my purchase it was just a few cents but hey every penny
counts so if you aren't using Ebates you should this is not sponsored I'm just
telling you how I like to save money when I purchased up online I go through
Ebates save a little bit of money it's really cool I prefer a link below where
you can get some extra money if you want to check it out
like I said not sponsored just sharing how I made my purchase
anyway and so I went ahead and bought the patch and have it in my sewing room
I also went ahead and bought the orange rickrack when it was half off at Hobby
Lobby so I was trying to get my supplies here and there so I could catch it on
sale or use discounts so that I wasn't splurging a whole lot to make this
project at one time I did find out later the original skirt cost about $100 and I
made mine for like $10 so I definitely was able to save a lot of money which is
awesome in my book oh and I did find out after the fact that the original skirt
was made by a company called her universe I was told this by a Disney
Store employee and who actually owns one of the skirts she saw me wearing my
skirt because we went to the Disney Store after an event and she said she
owned the original skirt it retailed for about $100 and she actually liked my
version better so that was really encouraging that someone who has seen
both versions said that they like to find better like that was that was
really cool so like I said I started out with zero timeline as to when I wanted
to make this skirt I was in no rush but I did attend a convention earlier this
summer whenever I go to a convention whether a dress up or not I almost
always come home wanting to make something wanting to either make a
cosplay or a new outfit or something so I came home
wanting to finally make this skirt and while I was at the convention I happen
to remember all of the trash bags full of curtains that some friends had given
me a few months prior they gave me ten of those giant black trash bags full of
curtains from a remodel project they're working on and I hadn't gone through all
of the bags yet I'm slowly working through them and washing the curtains
and taking apart and all that but I remembered seeing some gray texture
curtains so I was starting to put things together in thinking I could use those
curtains and make this skirt I already have the patch I already have the
ricrac I had everything I needed I could go home and make this skirt so
Peyton was at a sleepover at my parents house and so I put Skyler to bed and I
started in making my skirt so I got started at 10 p.m. which is pretty late
to start a project and I decided I was going to vlog the process but as you can
see this is not a progress blog and that's because the project was a
disaster I had chosen to use simplicity 8 4 4 6 which as you can tell is a
vintage reprint pattern from the 50s the original version of the pattern was a
full circle skirt but you may notice this is not a full circle skirt this is
a half circle skirt and I did not catch that when I originally bought the
pattern and when I was about to start in on it until I got everything out of the
envelope endless cutting the pieces out that's when I caught on to the fact that
this is not a circle skirt pattern so I ended up starting by having to draft my
own a circle skirt pattern which took some time but I knew I still wanted to
use parts of this pattern because I love the shape of the waistband here so my
original plan was to use the waistband and the pockets and then use my own
drafted skirt pattern so I got going I got everything cut out I started sewing
and it was just awful so in this design the pockets are way up
here at the top but the skirt sits at your natural waist so the pockets are
right up on your upper stomach area which is way too high like they're not
usable at all and then in fact on the left side where her hand is what she is
hiding is where the zipper is sewn in on the backside the zipper is sewn to the
back on the front side like the front half of the zipper it is sewn to the
pocket lining I had never done this before and I tried it several times and
it looked absolutely terrible it showed it was lumpy looking it just looked
awful it was the worst zipper I have ever sewn in in my lifetime I got the
skirt all the way to the point where I needed to hang it overnight and then I
was going to hem it in the morning this was at 2:00 a.m. and I hung this skirt
up and I went to bed but as I was laying in bed trying to go to sleep I knew I
was not happy with this skirt I could not wear it in public and proudly say
yes I made this skirt it is not up to my standards and I did not want to finish
it so in the morning I decided I was going to just chalk that whole skirt up
to being a mock-up and a practice version and I was going to start over so
the second version of the skirt is actually the skirt that you all have
seen it went so much better I used my self drafted skirt pattern I
also drafted pockets that would go lower in the skirt and then I used the
waistband from this skirt so with the pockets being down lower now they're
actually below the zipper I got them in perfectly nicely and I have a pop of
color in the pockets I used an orange polka dot print for inside the pocket
that when you're just wearing the skirt without your hands in the pockets you
can't even tell that the pockets are there you don't see the orange peeking
out and the zipper went in nicely I started in the same way I saw in all of
my skirt zippers which I have a separate video on that's linked down below in the
description box and I'm just so much happier with how the second version of
the skirt went it went so smoothly and I absolutely love it when the skirt
was completely done I went ahead and made the petticoat that I'll talk about
here and a little bit and I waited until the petticoat was done to add the patch
and the rickrack because I wanted to make sure everything
laid properly on the skirt with the petticoat underneath but what I did was
I put the petticoat on I put the skirt on and then I stood in front of a mirror
and kind of practiced where I wanted the patch to be pent it in place make sure I
liked the position of it and then I put the end of the ricrac
underneath where the patch would be and tacked it down then put the patch on top
and sewed around it this way the end of the ricrac is hidden underneath the
patch so this way it has a really nice finished look and the other end of the
ricrac is tucked in to the inside and tacked down right at the top of the
zipper I hadn't actually worked with ricrac much in the past but I really
liked it I was surprised how nicely it laid even around like curves and
everything I could get it to lay really smooth and that was a really nice
surprise I didn't think it would go on so nicely but I really liked it and I
think I will try to work with ricrac some more in the future
this skirt turned out exactly how I wanted it and I am so glad I originally
was going to use either a button or snaps for the waistband closure right
above the zipper but I am so glad that at the last minute I decided to go with
a hook and bar closure so it is hidden and yeah I think that was a really good
decision once the skirt was complete I of course needed a petticoat for it the
original her univers skirt was not shown with a petticoat
but I knew I wanted a petticoat and I wanted a big one and I wanted it to have
orange on the bottom and I just like exactly knew in my mind what kind of
petticoat I wanted and in my mind I'm picturing like The Wallflowers at a sock
hop I've seen a picture where it's like a bunch of girls lined up on
at a dance and they all have their petticoats and everything on and you
just see like mountains of tulle that's like you know right at their knee level
just ulle everywhere and so like that is what I wanted for this skirt so while I
was still in the planning stages for this project there was a local fabric
store that went out of business and I picked up a lot of tulle for really
really inexpensive there but since I hadn't worked out all the details for
the skirt I just had to guess on the measurements and thankfully I guessed
pretty closely like I actually ended up having some tulle left over which was
good especially since I paid so little for it and then I found this a great
tutorial on YouTube that I actually used to make my petticoat I didn't make it
exactly like hers I did change how I did the top level but a lot of the math and
everything was still really close to what she used and I will leave a link to
the petticoat tutorial that I referred to down below in the description box
because I did not film a tutorial this is the very first time I've ever made a
petticoat so I did not want to be focused on trying to film it and mess
something up as well as the fact that it is really hard to film white tulle like
when you're working with white tulle it is hard enough to see it let alone film
it so for my petticoat the top layer is the same orange and white polka-dot
cotton that I used for the lining of the skirt pockets and the measurements on
that are five and a half by 48 inches the rest of the petticoat is actually
essentially two different petticoats that are sewn three rows each and then
once each individual one is completed they are sewn together to that orange
cotton layer so the first row of the tulle layer is eight inches by four
yards the next layer is eight inches by twelve yards and the third one is seven
and a half inches by 36 yards long and of course it's not nearly as much
material as it sounds like because so for like the 4-yard row I was using
white tulle that was 60 inches from edge to edge so I just had to cut a couple of
strips that were the eight inches by the 60 inches and that was my four yards and
I just sewed those into a loop and I had my eight inches by four yards row so not
nearly as much fabric as it sounds it is just really really time-consuming to cut
all those strips and then piece them all together now of course each of those are
gathered down to fit the row above it so I started with the 36-yard row and I
gathered it down to fit the 12-yard row above it and then the 12-yard one was
gathered down to fit the 4-yard one now laying out a loop that is 36 yards
around and trying to equally pin it to the row above that is an interesting
task it took my entire living room and I would like match up one area and then
try to find the halfway point all the way across it so 18 yards away and then
pinned that to the halfway point on the row above and I would add about like 18
pins and then pretty much give up and just take it to the sewing machine and
gather by hand as I went and it worked out fine it's not like 100% evenly
gathered but no one's gonna know there's so much volume you cannot tell so once
all of that was done I picked up a slip at the thrift store is just a premade
slip because at this point I was ready to be done and I added it to the inside
for the lining unfortunately I did trim about five inches off the slip and it
was a couple inches too much so the last seam of the tulle does kind of rub my
legs some so I may have to add a little extender to that I'm not sure
but you know it happens sometimes so then for the top I just slightly
gathered it so it would fit my natural waist size and then I added bias binding
around the top I left a little bit extra on it in case I ever need to wear it
down at my hips I have the little bit of extender there and I just added a snap
and my petticoat was done it really wasn't as hard as I thought it would be
to make it was just a lot more time than I thought it would be
I made the petticoat over one weekend is when I made it so I worked on that
several hours over a couple of different days but I'm really happy with how it
turned out and occasionally I wish I would have made it like all white or
something like that would be more versatile but I do really love how the
orange looks on the bottom it's nice little surprise when someone sees the
petticoat how it you can tell it was made to go with the skirt and I really
really like that I have worn this skirt a couple of times already I wore it to a
pinup Bazaar as well as a local comic convention and I got several compliments
both times which was so sweet and then like I said earlier on the way back from
the convention we stopped at the Disney Store and all of the employees who saw
me wearing it just complimented and bragged about how nice it looked and
they like I said they had all seen the original version of the skirt in person
and so that was just so nice that they everyone was so sweet about it and
everyone liked my skirt and I still do have those other three patches that I
mentioned earlier the one for Jeremiah for Skyler and for Peyton I'm trying to
decide what to use them for so that we can kind of have like coordinating
family outfits because we're you know dorky like that but I don't think I want
to make skirts for the girls because I would like this to be something we can
wear for awhile and I feel like if I made circle skirts for Peyton and Skyler
they would outgrow fairly quickly so I'm not really sure what I want to do
with them yet so if you have any ideas on that on ways I could use these
patches for a whole family thing let me know in the comments below because I
definitely need some suggestions on that and make sure you subscribe to my
channel because I have lots of other awesome videos coming up soon and until
next time happy sewing
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