My name is Julia Barbee and my clothing line
is Frocky JackMorgan. On behalf of Expert
Village, this is a tutorial on Recycling and
Deconstructing Old Clothes. So, here's kind
of the finished product thus far of this shirt
that we're embellishing with this other part
of a T-shirt and some leather buttons. And
I'm going to do some hand-beading on it now.
So, I'm trying to lay out the beads that I'm
going to need as I want to embellish. If I
use a sequin, I need to use a little tiny
bead in the middle of it to secure it. So,
I'm trying to be sure I have enough of those
as I go so that I don't have to fish through
my pile in the middle of beading. I have some
long beads, and just kind of a variety of
different things. So, I think this will be
enough to start with. And, I'm just going
to kind of make a little pile and then grab
from it as I go. So, I'm going to thread another
needle. I may need to change to a beading
needle, which is really, really thin because
a lot of the older beads have very small holes
and a regular hand-sewing needle won't fit
through those holes. But, I just attach all
of the beads with a needle and thread and
it's very similar to hand-stitching. You just
add a bead with each stitch, rather than no
bead. So, I'm going to start with my needle
and thread and I'm just going to thread the
needle through this piece and pull it taut.
And then I'll kind of lay it down to see where
it naturally falls and then I will raise the
needle back out and that's stitched on now.
Then I add this next, pull that through and
just continue down the line until I think
it's gone as far as I would like for it to.
Then I tie a knot in the same way I have along
the back side, running through the loop of
the needle. So, this is the finished product
for our T-shirt. We added some bead work down
the side and around the button. We added this
patch to cover some stains and added the buttons
just to make it a unique garment. It might
not be something you would necessarily would
make yourself, but you can use the principles
in a lot of different ways.