Spanish subs are now available! (And whoever did them, please let me know because I want to give you a huge internet hug!! Here it is if you're reading. **HUUUUUGGGGGG** )
could you make this sweater please? I don't have 700 dollars lying around but its super cute. www.farfetch.com/ca/shopping/item10879853.aspx?QFGLnEolOWg&Linkshareuk&UKNetwork
I've never sewed but I've watched all of your make thrift buy episodes and really want to learn now! I mostly watch for your personality and the "how did I go" part is great I love it. It's hard for me to watch your other series because it doesn't end with "how did I go"! I'm just so attached to it! You're an inspiration and very talented ❤️❤️❤️
I don't want to make anything controversial, but I've always genuinely wondered. Is it better to not buy from places that pay people no money because it's wrong that they do that? Or would that make it worse for them because it means they lose a job that obviously they have because they need income however they can get it. It's a shame that stuff like that happens in the world, but it's hard to determine wether you're doing right or wrong. I stopped buying clothes from places like primark or online stores ages ago, but I wonder if that's the right choice sometimes.
I'm apprehensive about crop tops for myself(I collect mostly belly fat), but I could definitely do this for some of my slightly-too-big shirts. And I like how the laces can be loosened and tightened for the perfect fit.
Frankly, I'm not easily impressed by most TH-camrs. Nor do I subscribe that easily. But honestly, Annika, you are absolutely amazing! I adore your channel so so much, you have no idea. You are so creative and you inspire me a lot. Subbed about four months ago but it isn't enough. I kind of want to sub over and over. But man, you are amazing. I love your work. Thank you!
annika (yes I'm the girl from instagram hi) can u do the famous brandy melville dress that is like spaghetti straps and has like a huge open back and the bottom skirt part is like... layered? am i making sense?
+Minat Allah Ragheed omgggg no, the pressure hahaha I'm sorry if I don't get around to it for ages because there's literally about 100 things on my to do list ;) haha
thank you your channel is amazing i love handy-crafty things since i was a little and this channel is bringing childhood love back .. you are very talented
romwe is a scam btw! my family makes big fashion "open days" where they get items from different countries, they visit and my mom resorted to romwe because she was ill and couldn't go and we discovered they make extremelyyyy cheap rip off-s and their images are taken from websites, and the best part, they refuse to refund you even if it's something like the clothing being ripped or the wrong color !
goes for pretty much all wholesale sites. google reverse image the items and the real store will pop up. especially sites like dresslike all the clothes are made to look similar to the stolen photo but with cheap labor and cheap materials. you get what you pay for.
***** ah yea thats what i did when i started getting suspicious, and you get what you pay for /is/ true i saw some people who expected that and were pleased, i just don't like that when you e-mail them about a wrong size or something they go "try giving it to a friend" lmao
THANK YOU for the warning - I'm actually super susceptible to tendinitis! I'll be sure to do it in small bursts haha :) Hope your tendons heal up soon!
No, because it doesn't matter once it's in a charity store. I mean, the tag can give some indication of quality and how long the garment would be expected to last... But that's it. The money I'm giving for the item at that point is going to the charity, not to the company that doesn't pay its workers enough or care about the source of its materials.
Fast fashion stores bother me, because I'm afraid that the clothes are being made in a sweatshop by people who's lives are full of poverty and misery. I've heard many horror stories of sweatshop workers, and it makes me sad... I can't buy from those kind of stores anymore. :-/ I'd rather use my sewing skills and make my own stuff.
Shoelaces are almost entirely made by machines, not people on a production line, and the material is acrylic. And they're actually not that dirt cheap for that very small amount of labour (a couple of people monitoring a machine), because thousands can be made by a machine very quickly.
Plus it's impossible to be 100% perfect - moral absolutism isn't something I believe in or would hold anybody to. For example I still buy my socks and bras pretty cheaply from a company that are okay, but not perfect in their supply chain - because it's close by to me, and they fit really well. I do the best where I can.
Question from someone who doesn't do a lot of sewing... Would it be possible to curve the cuts outward like a baseball? Would that compromise the fit of the shirt?
Hello Annika i got 2 questions: 1) if you live in Australia why do you use inches why dont you use the metric system? 2) is it possible for you to put at the end of each video or in the description how long approx the project would take e.g. 40mins Thankyou kind regards ,keep up the great work!
A lot of patterns that you can buy here in Australia are usually measured in inches with centimetres. I'm from Australia too and although I measure everything in centimetres, meters, kilometres etc. all my sewing stuff is 80-90% of the time is measured in inches. Weird, I know but it just seems to be easier. Also in Australia we go "op-shopping" (opportunity shop) not "thrift shopping"
Hi! You really inspired me to make my own clothes! and I just wanted to thank you because instead of spending like 90 dollars on a shirt with a cat on it, I can make it myself! thank you so much!
I have to say Annika, you're the first and only person who ever taught me what fast fashion is! Aside from its iffy origins, I also noticed how very very poorly made the clothes are from uniqlo, h&m, forever21 and such. Plus they do not accept returns of damaged items, like some pants my sister bought, and note they are already damaged after we got home, she never got to wear them! So thank you :) i told this to my family and im trying to steer them away from those capitalist shops lol
Wow that top does look quite nice. I think that might be something for me to... I just have a lot of plain black shirt. Adding the laces in white would make it qay more interesting looking. Thank's for that cool video ♥
She really deserve to get a million subscribers ive been watching her vid like a year and she is so good at making trends clothes or anything that trends
my mum and I agreed I should make more clothes (it has to do with a subculture she's encouraging me to join) and your channel has been a big help ♡ glad I subbed
Do you think you could do a video about sizing up a non stretchy dress? I have an expensive dress that I got on sale and I really liked the style but it's a little too small around the waist and I've had it since December and I haven't even taken off the tag
I thought about that, and the eyelets do seem to stay pretty tight in the fabric when pulling and stretching it (I made up a sample piece that was just a strip of jersey that I inserted some eyelets into and tried to simulate some intense wear and tear haha). I think it more depends on what type your jersey is. There's ones which really snap back into the exact same shape when you pull on them, and I don't think those need any interfacing. Then there's the jerseys which can kind of stretch out over time and, I mean, I avoid those usually anyway haha, but I think that those are the kinds that *would* need interfacing. Another problem is that I never seem to be able to find light-coloured stretch interfacing either (I only have black and you'd be able to see that through the fabric), so that's another reason I didn't use any here :P
I was thinking about eyelids scratching scrin-thing... If it happens to somebody that they scratch, you could saw a small rectangle out of fabric to the inside of the shirt that covers the eyelids. I was thinking about sewing it closed on three sides, but leaving the side open where you lace the string or ribbon through...
Gah! I love your videos so much and bring a smile to my face! 😊 Sewing gets me extremely frustrated so its really amazing to see you tackle these projects! Keep up the good work! pls reply you are my sewing senpai
Fabric scissors are made for cutting fabric instead of paper, I believe they're sharper. I used to use normal scissors for cutting fabric and they small pieces of the fa from stuck that the end between the blades, but my fabric scissors never do that
Spanish subs are now available! (And whoever did them, please let me know because I want to give you a huge internet hug!! Here it is if you're reading. **HUUUUUGGGGGG** )
Can you recreate this dress?? I fell in love with it but I don't have the money to buy it!! ph.sesura.com/women/dresses/mk-6009910-grey.html
could you make this sweater please? I don't have 700 dollars lying around but its super cute. www.farfetch.com/ca/shopping/item10879853.aspx?QFGLnEolOWg&Linkshareuk&UKNetwork
You should try to make this cute cat hoodie ^u^ www.amazon.com/Rising-Sun-Kangaroo-Japanese-Pocket-Hoodie/dp/B01DW15RN8?ie=UTF8&tag=ecosia-20
+Trinity Naugler |-/
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I love how appreciative you are of independent artists' work.
Annika is such a sweetie 💜
I love how she's so comfortable in her own skin:)
Love it! I wonder how it's look with ribbon instead of showlaces. Also the art at the end is so cool 💫
Shoelaces***
thats what i was thinking too
Are you a Series of Unfortunate Events fan? Just going by your username...
haha yep- can't wait for the netflix series!
I'm glad you like it!! That makes me so happy ❤️❤️❤️
This is so freaking cute that I spent 10 seconds holding down the thumbs up button trying to get a heart. I realized I wasn't on Facebook. lol
This looks really easy. I think it could be fun to do down the back of the shirt too to give a sort of corset vibe.
That'd be really cool. Laced up with ribbon would also look pretty. but yeah! they're so easy to add in! You could really put them anywhere :)
I like it, in fact I kind of like the look even just with the eyelets, no lace but I like with the laces too.
I've never sewed but I've watched all of your make thrift buy episodes and really want to learn now! I mostly watch for your personality and the "how did I go" part is great I love it. It's hard for me to watch your other series because it doesn't end with "how did I go"! I'm just so attached to it! You're an inspiration and very talented ❤️❤️❤️
could you give those neat 2-D shoulder bags a go? I'd love to see how you go about it!
blown away with how pretty you look, especially in this video!! thank you for showing people (including myself!) how to avoid fast fashion xx
such a cute diy that you could add to alot of t-shirts to add a new touch to it
So in love with this series, Annika! Keep it up!!!!
Could you make a fabric beenie? I really want to make a custom one but I can't crochet or knit....
Check sarabeautycorners channel
They have looms specially designed for that. it's super easy
Fabric beanie
Crochet is super easy
You look like you're feeling a lot better lately. It's so great to see you coming back to us so often 💕
I'm OBSESSED with these videos!❤️❤️
I love the looser fitting one! Ive been wanting to buy eyelet (eyelit?) pliers for awhile and i think i finally will because of this!
oh my god your lipstick is life :O it looks so good on you!!
The cover design is so creative and well drawn!!!!!
I don't want to make anything controversial, but I've always genuinely wondered. Is it better to not buy from places that pay people no money because it's wrong that they do that? Or would that make it worse for them because it means they lose a job that obviously they have because they need income however they can get it.
It's a shame that stuff like that happens in the world, but it's hard to determine wether you're doing right or wrong. I stopped buying clothes from places like primark or online stores ages ago, but I wonder if that's the right choice sometimes.
+bby cks check out the blog post about this on my website annikavictoria.com :) (under the blog tab). it's a tricky topic!
Shops like shine romwe rose gal and alie Express steal designs from designers and buy out wholesale poorly made products and sell them cheap
you start your videos with so much energy it gives me happiness!!
Hello I m from Argentina. I love the way you make your videos you are really funy and original.
could you use ribbon instead of shoe laces?
Yeah - that would look super cute as well! ^_^
+Annika Victoria oh oh oh my my godddnsjksskkcksmskfnxksndjxn i love you so much! :)
That´s exactly what i was going to suggest lol
I wasn't expecting this to turn out as cute as it did. I have your videos on auto play right now as I work on a dress from style pile.
Annika! You HAVE to make the "See-through plastic bomber jacket" from Topshop, it is so cute and unique but it's 80$ + shipping :(
I'm apprehensive about crop tops for myself(I collect mostly belly fat), but I could definitely do this for some of my slightly-too-big shirts. And I like how the laces can be loosened and tightened for the perfect fit.
OMG WOULD YOU PLEASE RECREATE THE PETER PAN COLLAR NECKLACE
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This turned out so much cuter than I expected it to! I totally have to make one of these
Loved this episode! Love you Annika
aww yay! :D & thank you!
I love this series Annika! You are so creative in all of your videos and you have made me really want to sew more! love you!
Hey Annika, could you teach us how to make a baseball tee? I know they're onlye like $6 but its fun to sew!
I think the alien T-shirt is pretty similar to making a. baseball tshirt.You should check it out and see if that's what you were talking about.
Kate Shaw Yeah, I have. Thanks!
+rahaf fares You're welcome!
Frankly, I'm not easily impressed by most TH-camrs. Nor do I subscribe that easily. But honestly, Annika, you are absolutely amazing! I adore your channel so so much, you have no idea. You are so creative and you inspire me a lot. Subbed about four months ago but it isn't enough. I kind of want to sub over and over. But man, you are amazing. I love your work. Thank you!
annika (yes I'm the girl from instagram hi) can u do the famous brandy melville dress that is like spaghetti straps and has like a huge open back and the bottom skirt part is like... layered? am i making sense?
I know the one you mean! It's been on my to-do list foreveeeeerrr hahaha
+Annika Victoria marking my calendar :)
+Minat Allah Ragheed omgggg no, the pressure hahaha I'm sorry if I don't get around to it for ages because there's literally about 100 things on my to do list ;) haha
ya ya ya of course oh no ya i understand i wasn't being serious haha
+Minat Allah Ragheed Q2han has a tutorial for it btw :)
thank you your channel is amazing i love handy-crafty things since i was a little and this channel is bringing childhood love back .. you are very talented
The romwe colorblock shirts would be a great video! I adore it but I also won't buy from those cheap fast fashion websites
I love this series so much! I always smile when I get a notification.
the way I'd do it is make bust darts but that might affect the stretch a bit lol
I've seen amazing shoelaces in shoe stores which could also be used. Cute idea.
romwe is a scam btw! my family makes big fashion "open days" where they get items from different countries, they visit and my mom resorted to romwe because she was ill and couldn't go and we discovered they make extremelyyyy cheap rip off-s and their images are taken from websites, and the best part, they refuse to refund you even if it's something like the clothing being ripped or the wrong color !
goes for pretty much all wholesale sites. google reverse image the items and the real store will pop up. especially sites like dresslike all the clothes are made to look similar to the stolen photo but with cheap labor and cheap materials. you get what you pay for.
***** ah yea thats what i did when i started getting suspicious, and you get what you pay for /is/ true i saw some people who expected that and were pleased, i just don't like that when you e-mail them about a wrong size or something they go "try giving it to a friend" lmao
Ordering Romwe from Amazon is not a bad idea if your have Amazon prime and easy returns
I think this is my favorite episode it's so easy and cute!
be careful with eyelet pliers. I was making a corset and the next day had tendinitis. Still wearing a brace 2 weeks later.
THANK YOU for the warning - I'm actually super susceptible to tendinitis! I'll be sure to do it in small bursts haha :) Hope your tendons heal up soon!
I love how you shed light on sweatshop labour and bringing awareness to it!! Love your videos as always, currently on a make thrift buy binge xD
ahhh i need to make this asap!!
((also, do you have a facebook?? someone with your name and photos added me but im not sure if its you or not!!)
no :( it's a fake account. I think I dealt with it unless they've made a new one - when did they try and add you?
same happened to me :( yesterday
Not again, gahhh :(
Annika Victoria About a month ago! Their description and all of their photos are posing as you?
Annika, do you look at the brands of the clothes you buy from thrift shops to make sure they ethically made as well? Just curious.
No, because it doesn't matter once it's in a charity store. I mean, the tag can give some indication of quality and how long the garment would be expected to last... But that's it. The money I'm giving for the item at that point is going to the charity, not to the company that doesn't pay its workers enough or care about the source of its materials.
That makes sense! :)
Fast fashion stores bother me, because I'm afraid that the clothes are being made in a sweatshop by people who's lives are full of poverty and misery. I've heard many horror stories of sweatshop workers, and it makes me sad... I can't buy from those kind of stores anymore. :-/ I'd rather use my sewing skills and make my own stuff.
It's 1:30 am but I'm not sleeping before I watched Annika's new video 😂🙌🏿
"shoelaces? why knot?"
Love the pun in the description!! 😂😂
When you wanna do this but you're a boy >-< maybe I'll just make it for no reason
Clothes don't have a gender - if you wanna make it, make it! You'll look amazing - who cares what other people think :)
As annika said go for it! Clothes really dont have gender and you'll probably look awesome in that crop top
Who's gonna know what gender it's meant to be for? I could see guys in this, you'll look great.
+Annika Victoria I guess ^-^ I'm probably gonna use ribbon instead of shoelace though
I went to the first ever video ever and I was like what was I missing two Years ago. U inspired me to make clothing. thank u
you should have used ribbons instead of shoe laces🙃
This would be such a good baseball jersey theme !! It gives off the baseball stitch vibe
Why does/did she call her boyfriend her partner
because... he is my partner? ❓
Because she's a cowboy
she could've had a girlfriend. don't assume. (: happppy facceeessss
they are criminals
+Ryan The Duck of Ducks she said he in the video
I think this would be darling with some ribbon in place of shoe laces. Great video as per usual!
You bought really cheap laces? aren't you against buying cheap things when you don't know where they are from?
Shoelaces are almost entirely made by machines, not people on a production line, and the material is acrylic. And they're actually not that dirt cheap for that very small amount of labour (a couple of people monitoring a machine), because thousands can be made by a machine very quickly.
+Annika Victoria oh right well that's good to know. Sorry for the assumption, love your stuff and have been subbed for over a year now x
Plus it's impossible to be 100% perfect - moral absolutism isn't something I believe in or would hold anybody to. For example I still buy my socks and bras pretty cheaply from a company that are okay, but not perfect in their supply chain - because it's close by to me, and they fit really well. I do the best where I can.
this is super creative and I love this. yiu earned yourself a new subscriber!
you*
Great diy. Definitely liked the looser fitting one better because I feel like the tighter one had the laces too high up
Literally my new fav youtuber!
OMG u are like a freaking pro!!! It is so prettyyy. I love ur videos BTW❤
Question from someone who doesn't do a lot of sewing...
Would it be possible to curve the cuts outward like a baseball? Would that compromise the fit of the shirt?
Hello Annika i got 2 questions:
1) if you live in Australia why do you use inches why dont you use the metric system?
2) is it possible for you to put at the end of each video or in the description how long approx the project would take e.g. 40mins
Thankyou kind regards ,keep up the great work!
she said somewhere (I think it was a Q&A) that she uses it because most people watching are american and used to inches
She answered the first question in her latest Q&A and she already includes the time it takes in the description box, lol.
oh sorry :P whoops didnt realise hahah
A lot of patterns that you can buy here in Australia are usually measured in inches with centimetres. I'm from Australia too and although I measure everything in centimetres, meters, kilometres etc. all my sewing stuff is 80-90% of the time is measured in inches. Weird, I know but it just seems to be easier.
Also in Australia we go "op-shopping" (opportunity shop) not "thrift shopping"
sorry I mean 'measured in inches, with centimetres in brackets'!! Typo!
super in love with this series , love you x
Love how ethical you are 😊
Hi Annika I
Really ❤️ your videos and keep up the good work 👍
I looove the outfit you were wearing in the beginning!
You deserved 1 million subscribers,gurl.
I loved how easy and cute this was! I like that i could add it to pretty much anything :)
Oh man what an awesome art piece!
I LOOVE this episode sooo amazin you are sooo talented and amazing keep doing what you do lots of loove ❤❤
Annika!!! I was wondering if you could make a video on making a crop top from a pillowcase. Do you think it's possible?! Could you try it?!
I just made this and I'm in love with it😍
I'm in love with the loose one I need it
Your hair is amazing!
Hi! You really inspired me to make my own clothes! and I just wanted to thank you because instead of spending like 90 dollars on a shirt with a cat on it, I can make it myself! thank you so much!
😽💖
+Annika Victoria , beating when I saw that you replied to my comment oh my God thank you so much
+Annika Victoria , beating when I saw that you replied to my comment oh my God thank you so much
I have to say Annika, you're the first and only person who ever taught me what fast fashion is! Aside from its iffy origins, I also noticed how very very poorly made the clothes are from uniqlo, h&m, forever21 and such. Plus they do not accept returns of damaged items, like some pants my sister bought, and note they are already damaged after we got home, she never got to wear them! So thank you :) i told this to my family and im trying to steer them away from those capitalist shops lol
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Nice! I think it may have also been cute to use a slightly off white t-shirt (almost cream color).
Wow that top does look quite nice. I think that might be something for me to... I just have a lot of plain black shirt. Adding the laces in white would make it qay more interesting looking. Thank's for that cool video ♥
Love this, you always do the best diys/videos!
She really deserve to get a million subscribers ive been watching her vid like a year and she is so good at making trends clothes or anything that trends
Omg I love this design so muchhh!!! I'm going to try this method on a long and loose t-shirt transforming it into a t-shirt dress :)
I'm definitely trying this out but all the way down the back of the top!!
That 70s top looks really good on you!
I just started watching you videos there amazing and so are you thank you for all the ideas❤️
I am in love with your new hair colour!! (I also got that fiskar cutter you told me about last time and I'm so happy with it!)
That would look so cute with different colored shoe laces!
could you end up using this method in other clothing? like trousers or skirts?
my mum and I agreed I should make more clothes (it has to do with a subculture she's encouraging me to join) and your channel has been a big help ♡ glad I subbed
Do you think you could do a video about sizing up a non stretchy dress? I have an expensive dress that I got on sale and I really liked the style but it's a little too small around the waist and I've had it since December and I haven't even taken off the tag
Annika, would you ever consider doing a diy lookbook similar to your thrifted one?
I was really happy when I saw your vid I love your series and your whole channel
Omg you look so so cute and pretty in this video! Your braids are adorable ahhhh
6:19 am here and im watching your video ♥
Cute!!! But since it's stretchy, wouldn't it be better to give it a bit of interfacing for the eyelets so they don't get loose with the knit jersey?
I thought about that, and the eyelets do seem to stay pretty tight in the fabric when pulling and stretching it (I made up a sample piece that was just a strip of jersey that I inserted some eyelets into and tried to simulate some intense wear and tear haha). I think it more depends on what type your jersey is. There's ones which really snap back into the exact same shape when you pull on them, and I don't think those need any interfacing. Then there's the jerseys which can kind of stretch out over time and, I mean, I avoid those usually anyway haha, but I think that those are the kinds that *would* need interfacing. Another problem is that I never seem to be able to find light-coloured stretch interfacing either (I only have black and you'd be able to see that through the fabric), so that's another reason I didn't use any here :P
Ohhh!! I didn't know that! Cool, thanks. Looks great
I was thinking about eyelids scratching scrin-thing... If it happens to somebody that they scratch, you could saw a small rectangle out of fabric to the inside of the shirt that covers the eyelids. I was thinking about sewing it closed on three sides, but leaving the side open where you lace the string or ribbon through...
Gah! I love your videos so much and bring a smile to my face! 😊 Sewing gets me extremely frustrated so its really amazing to see you tackle these projects! Keep up the good work!
pls reply you are my sewing senpai
i'm cool with the fact you show your "fail" it makes the process more realistic.
OH MY GOODNESS I LOVE YOUR OUTFIT!!!!
What kind of lipstick are you wearing??❤️
could we make a cover piece for the eyelets if we don't want them to cut our skin ?
If no one's told you this today, you're a wonderful person and you deserve happiness. Have a good one!
Hi Annika! I was wondering what the difference was between normal scissors and fabric scissors
Fabric scissors are made for cutting fabric instead of paper, I believe they're sharper. I used to use normal scissors for cutting fabric and they small pieces of the fa from stuck that the end between the blades, but my fabric scissors never do that