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I'm going to show you how to make team rocket costumes from t-shirts, and this is a no sew tutorial
So we're starting off with two
Long-sleeved white shirts and these are just fruit of the loom, and I just got them in the men's section
I got a size small for me and a size medium for him
And now we're going to see if it actually fits him or not
Doesnt fit! I gotta go back to the store
No face
Yeah, okay. I think that's a good fit
Especially because it's not going to be so full with it with this second. It won't have a second shirt underneath it
That's so thick.Okay, let me measure it really quick, so pretty much. We're making crop tops out of these shirts
I'm going to go up from the shoulder hem
And measure down to about 17 inches or we put your hand right here
I'm going to measure down
17 inches in the front too. The interesting thing about this is the 17 inches in front is up higher than the one in back
so
Whatever one needs to go down lower is where you want to mark it, and I think it's down lower in the back
So we're going to do the 17 inches right there, and I'm just going to mark it really quick
I'm just using a little colored pencil to mark 17 inches in the back, okay. Take it off. Take it off
Take it off
So before we make any cuts i'm gonna make sure that it's laid out
Perfectly flat so I want to cut evenly through both sides. Alright, I'm just using a straight edge to make a straight line
Cut it straight across
So now it's time to peel apart our "R" that we already cut out on the cricut if
you want to see how to use a cricut machine and how to
Do this exact project with the cricut, check the link in the description below it will take you directly to that video where you can
Just use a link where I've already designed it and sized it and everything so that you won't have to design it yourself
This is Iron-on material and it's already cut out ready to go. If you don't have a cricut machine you can also
Go to my fourth of july T-shirts video where I show you how to do it without a cricut
But it's so much easier with the cricut, so let's just do it
Tada okay now. I just need to get it centered
As good as I can
So I think it's centered and ready to go and then another thing you're going to need for this is just a very thin
Material like a pillowcase, and I'm just going to place that over the top
To use as a barrier in between my iron and my lettering. This plastic is heat resistant
So it's okay to leave it on at least for this project
and I just read the
instructions
and so it's very clear if you read the
Instructions how to use it I've got my iron on the hottest temperature it's cotton linen and if you want to do it even better
than what I'm doing you heat up the material underneath it before you put this stuff on it
But I just didn't want to have to peel up the paper
Just heating everything very evenly is a really good way to make sure that it sticks also once this is done on this side
I can flip it inside out and actually iron the other side just to make sure that we get a really good seal
It's very hot. I gotta let it cool before I peel anything away, okay. It's cool enough. I'm going to see if it worked
Also if any corners or anything starts peeling off, you can always re-iron it back on. So far it's looking
really great. Would you look at that!
That's pretty amazing and look at this
Sticky paper
Ouch that's pulling all my arm hairs right off
To finish off this shirt,
I'm going to measure the full length of the bottom of the shirt as it's laid out flat
Fold that in half and that is going to give us the exact middle. So ten and a half inches. Now
I'm going to go up four and a half inches to match our slit
Just going to make a very slight mark right there where we want to go to and just cut right to the mark
Because I've already made the other one
I'm going to measure one inch about one inch at the bottom and cut off half an inch on both sides of the slit
I'm bringing it just straight up to the mark so like a really long triangle
Make sure that when you are cutting the slit you only cut through the top
layer of the material
So there's the James shirt completed we also just left the sleeves
intact because they weren't going to need to be any length shorter than what they already were. How that shirt is different from
Jessie's shirt is she has a slightly higher
Cut she also has a shorter crop top also we cut the long sleeves about half way up
So they're not a bunch underneath her gloves because her gloves go up
Just slightly past her elbow
And so we wanted the sleeves to go down to the elbow so it can kind of fix that gap and cover up any skin
That might show. So with the leftovers of the bottom of the shirt that is how we're going to make our
Miniskirt and because this is a no sew tutorial we're going to be using liquid stitch to make the skirt
I'm actually going to use the hem side for the part that's going around the belly
Because this part likes to roll up, and it's a lot easier to push it down than to pull it back up like that
So I'm trying it on with some skin tight clothes alright, so I just am putting it on like I would a
Real Miniskirt make sure you're wearing something that's skin tight
So that it will fit the right it will lay the right way when you trim it. So right now, I've got it
So that it's over me, and this part fits perfectly fine
This part is really loose, and it doesn't look like a miniskirt right now
So we're going to actually take it and pinch it, so I'm going to make a mark right here
And I want it to kind of be
Perfectly on the side. Want to make a mark right here and a mark on the other side
So I know where I want it to stitch together, and then one more spot that I want to do it
We want to bring it to I want to bring it to about right there.
And then do the same thing on the other side
Here's the three marks that I've made and I'm just going to cut that triangle right out.
The great thing about this material is that because it's t-shirt material. There's a lot of forgiveness in it
It's very stretchy, so if you end up not cutting a Seam allowance into it
It's going to be just fine
So this is the top part of the skirt where we've made the cuts and now all we need to do is
Glue them together. So I'm going to take the liquid stitch and put it along one side
Kind of want to make it kind of a thick line really, yhis is just glue and it's amazing stuff
So you can't use elmer's glue. This is going to make it so that you can actually like machine
wash it after a certain amount of time type of a thing so it's made specifically for
Material and now I'm just going to leave it for 30 minutes. So this is how the skirt turned out
I think it turned out pretty good considering. It's just the bottom half of this t-shirt
Right if you don't like the way that it turned out you can also just get a white Miniskirt
and that would work perfect let me just do a quick rundown of
All of the costumes and what you're going to need for them. I got these gloves off of Amazon
they're
super comfortable and easy to wear and play and do whatever you need to. Also they go up over the sleeve and so when we
Cut the sleeve we cut it at the elbow so that they could go over the sleeve. We've got the hair
I have a tutorial for how to make this hair also easy alternative
To making the headpiece would be just to buy a curly long red wig. Isn't it cute? Then underneath
I just have a black shirt, in actual cartoon she has
anything. She's has a bare stomach and a black shirt like crop top underneath?
But this makes me feel a lot more comfortable, so this is what I'm wearing and then black boots
And that's it for the Jesse costume
Okay, so we got this wig also off of Amazon. The gloves also off of Amazon
He's just wearing the team rocket shirt that we made and then a black tight shirt, underneath purple belt white pants and
pirate looking boots
So we will have the links for all of the accessories and the things needed to finish off these costumes in the links below on
Amazon
Thank you guys so much for watching this
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Meowk! That's right! The next part and the last part for this part
Part part part part. We will have a link in the description below to the video. This is going crazy my face
