drug rug store

Raise your hand if you're like me and

you love slim-fitting hoodies and you're

so tired of picking one up at the store

and it looks like this? Well what if I

told you that you no longer have to look

for a manufacturer who actually makes

good ones, because you could just make

one yourself and it's gonna look like

this! I'm SD, it takes about 20 minutes and I

hate long intros let's do this! First

things first, we have to measure our

shirt and you can do this in one of two

ways.

If you have never ever tailored anything

before and you've never measured

anything before what you got to do is

you're going to gather all your

materials you're gonna need some pins

and you're gonna need a measuring tape.

And you're gonna measure the side of

your sweatshirt and you're gonna put

some pins in there and in the very

beginning you can just kind of ballpark

it a little bit. You can figure out how

much you think you want to take off and

you can kind of move from there. Now let

me explain imagine a rectangle for a

second and that rectangle represents

every single t-shirt and dress shirt and

sweatshirt that you've ever bought. And

now divide that rectangle into four

equal parts. You want to give that

rectangle a nice V taper. So that it's

more narrow in the waist and then it's a

little bit wider in the hips and the

chest. Well all you got to do is move

those two middle pins in by about a half

an inch to maybe three inches depending

on how big or small you are. And how big

or small your garment is. Do you like it?

Yeah?

Alright good take it off and we're

gonna we're gonna go sew it. Oh you don't

like it? Mmm okay well just move the

pins around a little bit and then just

kind of kind of go from there. Try it on

again and see if you like it. If your

face looks like this don't panic you can

learn everything you need to learn down

there in the description. Where to find a

sewing machine,

what kind of thread do you need, what

kind of needles do you use, all of that.

Now I hate this step I hate doing this

because what ends up happening is it is

inevitable. It is 100% inevitable. You

will stab yourself with the pins.

Seriously, every single time. I promise

you it's gonna happen. I just had to

accept that I just went with it and finally

I said no there has to be a better way!

And there there is. A much better way. You

can use this. It's a template. Oh crap. That

is a template of the measurements of my

favorite t-shirt in the entire world. And

all I do now is I transfer those

measurements onto every single shirt

that I tailor. Including this one. I made

a video on that too I'll give you one

guess as to where you can find it. Now

since we are doing a hoodie instead of a

t-shirt I don't want it to fit exactly

the same way. I want it to be a little

bit looser than that so what I do is I

end up moving the pins out just just a

little maybe about a half of an inch. But

nonetheless that template gives me a

great baseline for what it is that I

want to do to that hoodie. And now? Now

it's time to sew. Step one, what did we have

to do? We had to make a new bobbin

because for the first time ever you

finally weren't too lazy to go to the

store and get some green thread that

actually matched what you were sewing.

What kind of thread are we using?

Polyester. Why are we using polyester

thread?

Well because despite the fact that this

hoodie is a cotton poly blend, I'm gonna

use polyester thread because it's gonna

be able to stretch and move with me and

that way I don't have to worry about any

rips or tears if I'm taking it off or

putting it on. What kind of needle are we

using? A universal needle size 80 - 12.

Good job you got everything right! But we

actually had to change our needle, we

didn't use a different type of needle we

had to switch out our universal needle

because they actually don't last forever.

Change your needle about every eight

hours of sewing time or what I usually

do about every eight garments. And if

you're tailoring thicker materials like

denim you're probably going to change it

a lot more often. Now it's uh. yeah, now

it's time to sew this bad boy.

You know sometimes I wonder so what's my

plan if I screw this up cuz I still

screw up a lot of things. So then I'm

like "so am I gonna like go back and buy

another $15 sweatshirt?" or like what's

what's the game plan here. Maybe I should

take my time and make sure I do it right.

Maybe I can circumvent not making

mistakes by not sewing on a stool. You

think I'd get like a table by now or

like a desk or even a chair like would

be better as opposed to sitting on a

utility ladder but hey you know what are

you buying? No? I didn't think so! I should

probably stop yelling the significant

other is upstairs. She's on a conference

call right now I think so

any minute now I'm gonna get a text

saying "hey if you want to not yell while

you make your your tailoring YouTube

videos in the basement that'd be nice

thanks!" One side is done. Oh I made a

mistake

too, with the way that I pinned

everything up what I normally do is I'll

put the pins on opposite sides so that

way I'll have all of the fabric on this

side of the machine and then I just have

the edge of my garment on this side of

the machine. So that it doesn't get all

bunched up down here but I got

distracted, and I didn't do that. That's okay

Now it's time for a zig zag stitch. Boom!

I thought that we were done but we are

not done because we've got a huge major

major major problem. Here's what happened,

those sleeves. I didn't touch those

sleeves at all because they looked fine

they really didn't bother me that much.

But then after I took in the sides I'm

kind of looking at him and I'm like "mm

we gotta we got to do something about

that!" So we went back and we had to

measure the sleeves and the sleeves are

just as easy to do as the body is. You

can do them separately you can do them

together. And I took off a half of an

inch on the sleeves down to about 12

inches down. And then I moved in to an

inch. And I was kind of happy that this

ended up happening because now I'm able

to actually give my sleeve a taper. And

do this, give yourself the Flex test. If

you're ever tailoring the sleeves of

anything do the Flex test because you

might pin it up and you'll just kind of

holds your arm like that "yeah okay cool

it fits right?" Well, when do you ever walk

around like this? You're just gonna walk

around with your arms straight out like

this? No? I didn't think so!

Do the Flex test move your arms around

see how it feels. It might feel fine like

this, but if you go like that and all

those pins just start popping out all

over the place and you're like "ah my arm!"

Alright so it passed? Good! Okay so start

at that arm seam and then just sew all

the way down through your wrist. And now

not only one do you have a perfectly

fitted hoodie, but you can now make all

of your other hoodies fit and look

exactly like that one. That's all I got

for you SD out! Oh I kind of hurt. Oww, deuces.