Dad Sews A Pillowcase - Epic Fail at 18:30

this is how shows go, okay this is the first episode of our project, dad

sews

a

pillowcase

. Historically, a

pillowcase

is supposed to be the easiest project because it's just a simple bag, but why would I make things easy for myself on my first project? I decided to sew a sausage roll French seam pillowcase that I saw on YouTube at Crafty Gemini. You can see it right here. Well this is a little more intense than sewing a normal pillowcase because you have 3 pieces of fabric and all the seams are hidden now. I didn't record myself cutting the fabric but I probably should have so you could have watched me for 2 minutes trying to figure out why this thing wouldn't cut because I didn't realize it had a safety, yeah. that security is for idiots and I proved that it should be there, so I already have my main piece cut, it is this Batman fabric, believe it or not, this is for my daughter Melina, she loves Batman the great detective and wants to be him whenever big.

Upstairs, as she always says, a police dad. I'm going to be a police officer when he grows up. Well, this one is for my daughter Melina. There is also a blue cuff and a red accent piece. Now you have to iron the entire fabric. Damn, I did it! I didn't even know the iron wasn't ironing back and forth over the fabric until last week. Press means pressing the iron on the fabric and not passing it from one side to the other because it stretches it. I didn't know it was in the name press, but I wasn't smart enough to realize that, plus as you can see I rarely iron so the main piece of fabric is cut 24 inches, you leave Selfridges Selfridges , what is that word Selfridges?

I didn't even know what it was. At first I thought they were saying suffrage and I thought it had to do with the suffrage movement and all the women getting their fingers pricked with needles and then I realized that a lot of the tailors at that time were men, so that was Not true and then I thought it was Selfridge as the guy from the Jeremy Piven show on PBS. I don't know people, these terms are new to me and they're driving me crazy, but Selfridge is the piece at the end of the web. when they cut it at the fabric store it is that little white strip that by the way is not on all pieces of fabric.

I'm figuring things out right, the main piece is 24 inches, the cuff is 12 inches, and the accent piece is 2 inches. now I have to finish pressing this, press this piece in half and I have to tell you that I have four children. I have changed the diapers of two of them, since we adopted the first two at 3:00 and 5:00, my three year old son has a kidney disorder and my five year old son, well, when I adopted him, my five year old son tested me every day by lying and i must tell you that folding this small piece of decorative fabric and trying to straighten it and pressing it is probably the hardest thing i have ever done in my life this includes learning to drive a stick imagine my life with two teenage daughters yes this is the hardest thing I have ever done I doubt it, I really don't think it is cut correctly. crooked everywhere I look at it but I'm going to do it I'm going to try because my misery is for your benefit you can enjoy watching Daddy Zoe and maybe see me destroy another sewing machine well now this self-healing mat is plastic and I'm already starting to imagine that I'm not supposed to press things on it because the heat is already starting to bubble.

If there's anything special I need to press this on, please leave it in the comments below. I'm going to straighten out all this fabric so you can see it properly and then we'll be right back. Well, I have my fabric ready. You want to spread your fabric completely over your table and then grab the raw decorative piece. edge up and place it right on the edge of the fabric and if you want you can put a little pin here now you want to do it lengthwise so it comes out nice well that was the first puncture in daddy's oohs you might think that's the second, now you're going to place the pins lengthwise because you're going to make a magical little sausage roll to get all those hidden seams and now you place the other piece, the cuff, along the edge where you want to put the bonito. side down but my side is blue on both sides.

I'm a newbie. I can't really tell if there is a better side or not, so I chose the edge that looks darker. I don't know if you put it on top of your other pieces and then hold them in long ways, okay, I'm going to take this one and put it that way too now I have two opinions on dad, soz for one I really like

fail

ures I would love to

fail

to than you I can laugh a lot and I can make a new destructive video, but I also want to give my little one a really amazing pillowcase and there is nothing better than giving your little one the perfect gift and then making her snuggle next. to his dad on the couch, so if everything fails, I'm totally happy with that and you'll see it from failure to the end, but I'm also crossing my fingers and hoping this turns out well after you've got everything completely immobilized. you raise your fist and then you roll the main material into a sausage roll, as they say, okay, then we turn this over.

I think I should rule that out once again, I will tell you that this is a little difficult to do at least on the small part. table that I'm working on and trying to give them a good view as well, now we flip all of this together, match up the edges and then pin again because we're going to do it, now everything is uneven at the end, but that's not it. It's going to matter because we're supposed to cut it out after we sew it all together. I'll try to pin them from time to time. I'll be right back.

Well, now I regretted everything vertically instead of horizontally like we did. and now it's all hidden in the roll, why did I decide to go with a French seam sausage roll? Well, for starters, it's because I thought it was go big or go home and if I fail big, it'll be better for you and my views, but the real reason I didn't want to have to rethread my machine. If you watched video number one, you realize that using this automatic threader is a pain and I didn't want to have to go through that again so soon with the hidden threader. sewing it didn't matter if I used white yellow red pink thread it doesn't matter because it doesn't have to match if only each project had hidden seams, now you are supposed to sew this with the quarter inch allowance.

I don't really know what that means because I've never taken a lesson before, but I see there are quarter inch markers on the machine. I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a little scared. Can you just take out the pins? I continue as I just did, maybe I'm not sure you understood it correctly. I can already tell it's crooked and I pinned it really badly and also my cut is very, very crooked, but as the first few projects go, I hope this doesn't suck. okay, really that's a crooked cut and I probably didn't put in enough pins, it goes faster, better probably not, oh, that quarter inch thing isn't happening, ah, okay, I can already feel underneath that this fabric is up, but I'm going to Continue because my little one does a lot as she will appreciate an amazing pillowcase.

She's also very forgiving, except when it comes to her little brother, because she wants to hit him with the real baton I bought her for her Halloween police costume. Step on the pedal and keep going because Jeremy Clarkson says more speed. I really have a bad feeling about this. I think I have not only planted a very crooked line, but I also think some of the things that are wrapped in the sausage. I just sewed it, everything good, back stitch. I know I have to trim this so I don't really know how much the back stitch is.

Wow, that's crooked. Okay, I'm going to lift my foot. I'm going to take this out. I'm going to cut it with these fancy Fisker trimmers. Well, let's see what we have, probably the most crooked. Look, there's also a loop sticking out, which I know is bad. I don't know why it happened. No I don't know if the machines threaded wrong if I went too fast this is horrible but you know it's a pillowcase so let's go ahead and get the material out this is what you're supposed to do now if this doesn't rip it off it probably means I sewed the inside of the sausage roll wrong.

Watch the videos on YouTube. Now they always make it look easy. That's because they've been doing it for a long time, but also because they eliminated all the bad things I told you. that I was going to let you see my failures if they happened and I mean you'll be able to see all the sewing failures okay hey it actually worked maybe oh no no no yeah wow now I'm tempted to go home at the moment. period, but there you have it, I have my accent color, my cuff and my piece of fabric, all ready, now we're going to move on to the next step and I'm going to move my camera, okay, now I review the sewing work that I did.

Really horrible, but I have to admit I'm pretty happy. I'm pretty pleased with how well it turned out the first time. I trimmed all the edges of the brim to a quarter inch. I'm not. Sure I actually made a nice quarter inch margin, but I came up short on the other side. Look, this isn't going to be perfect the first time, but you trim off all these jagged edges, now all you have to do is take the sausage roll. previous sausage roll previous sausage roll and you want to put these pieces together, match them up so it looks like the red accent line rotates all the way around now.

I think I'm supposed to press her on this point. I can already tell how bad it is. Work I did because the blue and red on this part don't even match the blue and red on this side, but I'm going to stick with it, people, okay, I think you should press this first and then you want to pin it down. this side and then pin it on the other side as well and then you're just going to sew all the way around with a seam allowance and if you think you were doing it backwards because you're sewing on the front, it's not because you're going to turn it around and then hide the seam, so I'm going to pin this real quick and then we'll go back to sewing step number two.

Now that we have the fabric pinned. nicely edge our decorative piece lined up on this end as best as I would like. I said it's very obvious that I did an uneven job sewing. I also grew up thinking you could leave the pins in the machine while you sewed. I'm just sure. I saw my mom when she was folding my pants leave the pin in when she sewed. I also remember going to school with twisted cuffs, so maybe that's part of the problem, okay, I'm going to put my foot down and start sewing, I think you.

We're supposed to make another quarter mark, there's my quarter mark, oh no, if that's the quarter mark, I've been doing everything completely wrong, well, we already knew this pin, let's put our foot on the pedal like they say and let's start sewing if you want. Look at me doing something here that is completely wrong and you are not a novice planter sewer Taylor, please leave a comment below and I would be very interested to hear it. I am also very interested in improving. I want to improve at sewing. One of the points of dad

sews

is not only for failures but also so that you can improve in sales.

I'm not entirely sure how fast to use the machine or how slow the other way around, but I'm doing the best I can, as long as I can. I won't be making a good quarter seam allowance. I'm trying to keep it as uniform as possible, which seems almost impossible to me. Now I'm reaching the corner of the cunning Gemini. She said this was pretty easy. Simply leave the needle down and pull the pin or foot up. Hey, guess what I forgot to do when I started sewing backwards? Well, let's hope it doesn't matter. Well, I don't think I've gone far enough, this is going to be a disaster, folks.

I'm going to keep going, I'm going to put my foot down and I'm going to keep sewing a little bit, you know, I'm going to do that little back stitch here just to get back to where I think it's a quarter. I really don't know. I'm going to lift my foot. I'm going to spin it like she said. Yes, it's easy enough to make, but how good is it going to turn out? That is the question. Now, do I topstitch here? I really don't know and I actually think it's the hidden seams that hurt. You don't want the stitching to be too thick because you want it hidden inside the pillowcase, so let's put the pedal to the metal on this thing. pins out and as fast as a man, okay, that was a bad idea, it's already seriously twisted, when you take the pins out of yours just as he arrives?

Are you going as fast as me? Are you going slow? I've seen different people do it different ways and I think a lot of it has to do with a skill that's inherent but that I don't have, but that's okay, they say practice makes perfect, ten thousand hours, even though 10,000 hours on the sewing machine are starting to scare me, I don't know if I'll have all my fingers and maybe even my toes intact when it's done right, we're coming to the home stretch, you're looking at dad, so a cover of pillow for the first time, oh oh, that was horrible. wrong, okay, I really don't know if I'm supposed to sew this back or not.

I'm going to go ahead with it, okay, executive decision, okay,put your foot up, use these handy dandy Fisker scissors, these things are amazing. the way all the guys in the garage are always looking for a sharp pair of scissors, sewing scissors, who knew, okay, here's my sewing, it's horrible too, maybe you can see the loop sticking out here, it's got the half the width of my finger, so that's a bad sign. Excuse me, we're supposed to get this out now. Hey guys, if you're watching daddy sew, you could see me fail because you're supposed to sew this side and this side together and I sewed the entrance of the pillow together, cut to the failure scene, the reason why it happens to you bad things is because you are a fool, you see what you did, you are stupid, stupid, stupid, sir do you see this? "They know". are you saying burns burn are you seeing balloons boos?

I was saying balloons right now. How many of you were yelling at the screen? Moron. You are sewing your entire pillowcase. Yes, I'm an idiot, but how many of you admit it? As? many of you didn't even realize, yes, that's because sewing is difficult, now what we have to do is trim the excess on this piece, all this extra fabric next to where we cut, we need to trim. let me move my camera for you oh yeah, now you can see my cutout, okay, let's get rid of all this excess just a little bit next to the seam.

I'm sure I'm supposed to do a quarter inch. but I really don't know if that will work because I did a very crooked job sewing this, so what I'm trying to do is keep the same distance in my sewing, which I will tell you is going to be difficult all the way. Proper safety on this wheel The Fisker cutter is really amazing because you just don't think I'm going to cut through all these layers of fabric because I do a bad job there, but yeah, man, doing things on camera, you can't go wrong like that. Okay, now I'm going to crop this.

I got very close to my sewing, there is my stitch, which is very poor, poorly done, there is the fabric, it is fine, we throw it on the floor and ask my son to clean it later. now we're going to turn this over and then this is where the French Jean comes in, we sew along our seam and then our seams should be hidden. Now the trick I saw haha, I already cut one of my seams. so I hope we can get this to work anyway. The trick I saw on the crafty Gemini was to roll the seam and fingers and that would help this come out or flatten out so you could sew against it, but I haven't had any luck since I cut my seam at the end.

I'm going to press this, le we're going to do one more sewing pass, okay, I already have everything inside out and I pressed it real quick, it's not a big job, now we're going to try Sew this right inside the seam that we already have and if you have a crooked look like mine , it will be a Jim. I'll make sure our camera is lined up here so you can see my sales and see for yourself. which is horrible and then I'm going to sew the last stitch of our sausage roll French seam pillowcase. I got caught with that thing again, this little metal adjustment knob sticking out of the sewing machine is a horrible, horrible death trap, okay?

I'm going to start. I'm going to sew back now. The reason I resew everything is because I heard it was good to do, but B. This is a pillowcase for my daughter, she is seven and she destroys most of it. she's got her hands on it, I mean, think about it, my daughter would love a Batman pillowcase, her favorite, oh man, she's going through a really thick scene there with all that fabric together, I just hope it stays together, She wants to, she loves Batman, it's not happening. there we go and his favorite stuffed animal is a bat bear we got to build a bear when we went to build a bear my wife showed her the whole store and she just looked at batman and said I want that and my wife said are you sure Don't you want to at least try a princess bear this time or Care Bear?

I don't know anything sweet, no, I want that and she didn't go for this cute blue and gray Batman like the one I have on this pillowcase, no. she opted for Christian Bale Batman It all starts black Batman and that's her bat bear that she sleeps with every night she wants to be a crime fighter and she wants the best crime fighter in the world to be with her at night, right now it's easier to sew without having to take out these pins, I appreciate that, but I also know that my sewing is so crooked that I'm not sure I'm doing the best job staying within that scene now that we're getting to the corner, which I like .

I said before, you're supposed to leave the needle down and then lift your foot, turn, yeah, that didn't work, oh, I didn't leave the needle down, look, it's actually key to listen and then follow three things, boy, my son. He's going to laugh when he sees this because I've told him this like a million times in the three years since we adopted him. Okay, come on, let's get home. How many of you have already commented on the video? that I was an idiot for sewing the pillowcase that you put the pillow in and honestly that was the only mistake, it didn't really even cross my mind.

I thought about all the things that could go wrong, one of which I sewed on my finger. two, I'm just frustrated and totally destroyed this machine, but sewing over the hole the pillow goes in honestly didn't even fit. I'm going to sew back here like I said, I'm not sure if it's the smartest thing to do, but I know my little girl is going to destroy this thing, so get her out. That back seam actually wasn't that bad. Now let's see if the seams are really hidden like they are supposed to be. Hey, look, it's not the worst thing I've ever done.

What I have seen is the best. Oh, I can see the problems in general. No, you can't see the white thread on it. Here's a quick shot with this camera and here we go. You can't see the seams now. You can see? some of the threads are sticking out, yes you can, can you see some of the fabric where it was cut? Yeah, I did a pretty bad job. This will take a lot more practice, but when all is said and done, I'll be able to get my daughter a pretty decent Batman pillowcase, so thanks for watching this episode, Dad shows off a pillowcase, please share it with your friends, If only so you can see me sew the opening end of this pillowcase and then see our failure. montage please come back to daddy says every week where we will have new projects and new fun videos for those who so next week we will even have a video called 5 things I learned while shopping as a dad at a sewing store thank you For watching our video, Don't forget to click Subscribe, it's there, it's very easy, just click Subscribe and we'll see you next time.