I made a designer sweater from a $5 thrift store blanket

I'm back guys, I'm back, I bet a lot of you didn't even realize I was gone, but I was gone for a week, I took a week off and I took a break and now I'm back, I hope you guys I had a good Christmas season and I hope you are mentally prepared for today's video. I really hope they are because today's video is about this folded

blanket

I found yesterday. I went to the

thrift

store

and connected with this

blanket

I really connected with it it's very loved and you know a lot of people probably overlooked it or didn't see any potential but I saw a lot of potential in it for a really nice

sweater

it was a size 4 .50 and I hope To do this with her, I hope that's my plan, not that big, so unfortunately I can't do the whole

sweater

with her, but like in the photo here, I'm going to do the body part and then let's go to make some arms.

You know, some threads that are a little bit close, so let's start with this hair movement, so the first step with this blanket is, um, we need to take it apart a little bit, we need to divide it into the front panel and the back panel, like this which it is nice. The thing about Granny Square is that they are all

made

individually and then they just snap together so we can pull them apart pretty easily to make our pieces look like it's going to be an exact square on the front panel. on the four by four back panel so before we get too far into crocheting a blanket sweater I don't know what we call this video we have a sponsor for today's video and if you want it's the book of the month I haven't heard of book of the month.

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I'm thinking I'm leaning towards that. I have my iPad. I

made

another sketch. I'm thinking about this. I do not know if. is it cool or how will it really look obviously it looks good in the sketch but in reality this is not proportional to these necessarily we are going to try it we are going to try a manga the manga I don't know what manga is in French hey google what is manga in French in french that's mush mosh really hey google what is sleeve in french now that we have our two bottom portions of sleeve I need to make a little triangular piece here because obviously your wrist is smaller than your arm up here so it's not a perfect fit of this, so I'm just going to make a little triangle here so it fits better with my yarn, so for all you curious cats, this is how to make a very small slice of pizza with crochet.

I started with eight chain stitches, chain number nine, nine and then I did eight double crochets in three rows and then decreased every third row until I got this shape. I don't think that helped at all, but these are the shapes I got now. that I have my two skinny pieces here, I'm going to attach them to my two bottom sleeves here, I'm going to attach them here and see if it works, I don't know, I just had this idea in my head, moment of truth, please. please fit please fit it's perfect it's perfect it's perfect it's perfect it's perfect i have a perfect sleeve here benson come look at my sleeve do you like it benson didn't really care but i have a perfect sleeve here like look at this Actually this looks pretty good, I'm actually really impressed and I think I should have done more things, maybe I don't know that my laziness is trying to take over and be like I just do everything in granny squares because then you don't have to knit or do anything, but I don't know, it might look better with a little bit of blue here in the middle, I'm not really sure, okay guys, I'll show it to you real quick, real quick.

Because I don't think a lot of people care about this, but how do I know they did this? If I pass. I'm going to explain this in Speed ​​Racer mode, so the first step is to make some stitches up to the bottom of the arm. until you get to the small slice piece and once you get to the small pizza slice, then you want to start attaching it to the pizza slice and not the other side of the arm so you're only connecting to one side. I want to join the right sides together and then once you finish joining a piece of slice that you cut, you know, tie a knot and then go to the other side and finish the other side of the pizza slice, go down to the bottom and then connect . them and then bob is your uncle that's how it should look on both honest questions guys when do you take down the christmas tree? because technically it's January, it's January 4th now and, I'm still thinking, is that the case too?

Isn't it great? having it in January or that was normal. Do people pick it up the day after Christmas? Don't know. I usually stick with it for a while because I'm lazy and it just takes me a while before I actually do it. I'm going to finish these sleeves. I'm going to go around and around and around and around and make it a little bit bigger because you know, this is bigger than this. I think I'm just going to make a tube. I'm not going to get fancy and do it like a traditional sleeve that you know, where you know it doesn't look like a tube.

I'm just going to make a nice easy lemon squeeze tube, put it in and we should be good to go, so for this sleeve I don't do that. In this sleeve we call it a sleeve, it's a sleeve, I'm just improvising, I don't have any pattern that I'm following, I just follow until I get it up, you know, pretty high on my arm. here and it fits and then I'm going to repeat that for the other arm, but again, I love blowing things up. I don't like following patterns because, you know, it takes a lot of mental work to follow them, so I just fly. and sometimes yes, it doesn't work, sometimes you know I end up with projects that aren't very good, but sometimes they turn out perfect and I saved myself a lot of time.

I was sitting there and why do all your toys here have so many toys? on the couch, so I finished both sleeves here and realized that after I finished them I thought I hadn't really explained how to do them. I'm not really sure if anyone at home is going to turn a blanket into a sweater. but if you're doing it and you're doing the exact same thing as me because you found the exact same sweater or blanket at the

thrift

store

, chances are this part all I did was a double crochet going around and around and around and around and turns but then you know when you get to the end here instead of continuing on and getting kind of a spiral look, you do two chain slips and two chain stitches up and then you continue on to the next row, that's how you build it up or you could make it flat and then join it together, really whatever you like, but it's just double crochet in a circle.

It snowed last night, so now we're at the part of the video where we're going to try to put this together. sweater and now that I've spread it out and I'm discreetly looking at it, it may be a little ugly, I'm not really sure until it's practically finished and it's on my body that I'll know if it's ugly. or not, for the head part, the top of the shoulder, you know, I was just making a single crochet joining them both together and then where I wanted my head to go, I stopped and left a hole there, that's what I made it and then I tried it on right away to make sure the hole was big enough for my head because I made it a little small and it was tight, but I put it on there and that's when I realized it looked like a poncho and not a good poncho. poncho, I guess my head went through the hole, so it's okay, but without the arms she doesn't look very good so far, so as everyone saw, she doesn't look very good right now, she doesn't look very good, so to try to save her I decided I wanted to take it.

I removed one row in the front so the bottom row of the crochet those squares I removed, I didn't throw them away, I'm using them and then I decided I wanted to pin the arms just because I wanted to see what this looked like. I know I was a bit worried at this stage so I put her manny on, put them on her and surprisingly she started looking much better, much better. I know she looks a little boxy right now, but you have to admit that she looks pretty good. She looks pretty good so far even though she is very square, so I saved her.

I'm going to pat her on the back. She is starting to look better and also just having her arms there she started to look a lot better. I decided I wanted to sew it, so I grabbed my crochet hook and did the same thing I was doing before. You know, every step, I'm just doing a single crochet, putting everything together, putting my arms in there and that's it. the final step, the neck and for the neck, this one again. I wasn't too excited about this because it didn't look very good, but I basically did a double crochet around and around and around and around like I did for you know, the arm, the tube to make the necklace, to be honest, I have no idea if this necklace will look good, I don't know because it is very flat and square, the top here because there is no shape for the neck, I'm just It's like having the feeling that this will not look good, the necklace, but I really wanted putting a necklace on it just because it looks really good in my sketch so I just have to try it out okay guys now it's come to my least favorite part. any sewing project now, crochet or knitting, getting rid of all these ends here and tucking them in is very tedious because you just have to take this little needle, thread it and then knit it in there and touch everything up, it's so I lied the final step wasn't the collar the Last final step is technically shaving the sweater because it's pretty worn out yeah I guess that's the word so I did this with my scissors I tried it with my razor but it didn't really help it just made more of a mess than a help but it finally worked so that after 45 minutes of trying to eliminate all the confusion here, I did a decent job, it's obviously not perfect and I don't think it will ever be perfect because This is a very beloved blanket sweater, now we just have to make it a little crazy and You know, I really love it, it just shows the character there.

If I wanted a new one I would have to make a new one but I made this with a blanket so it's already done so I'm going to put it on for you guys and hopefully it looks good it looks good I think I'd be fine with just it which I'm using now. I don't think I need it. to take off this blouse, so let's see how she looks ta-da, she looks amazing, this sweater looks amazing, look at her, I didn't expect her to show up like this, well, I was low key, a little nervous, as I mentioned halfway through.

I was thinking I was wasting my time and I would have wasted this whole blanket and ruined it and then I would have felt so guilty, but I didn't. I knocked it out of the park, just there, she's great, usually, in the end. from the savings change, I know it's okay, there are things I can improve for next time, sir, can't you do that while I'm talking? But this saving change no, no changes out of the park, actually, maybe a change, a change, only I could make. the sleeve a little longer, I could take off two of these you know, but I like the long sleeve style.

You know, just having them super long and then just roughing them up, but I don't know like that, I could just take them. easy, lemon squeezer, bob is your uncle, easy going guys that's it for today's video. I hope you enjoyed turning a blanket into this

designer

inspired sweater. It was definitely inspired by meow, meow, I don't know, that's right, I don't know. I think that's right, but this jacket of mine I think I'm embarrassing myself. You know, I've been talking about this

designer

and he's just incredible. As soon as I saw this blanket at the thrift store, I immediately thought of this jacket. and then I immediately thought I should change it for a sweater, so that's where my setup for this sweater came from, but this is it, thisIt's the end of the video, so I hope everyone has a great breakfast, dinner, whatever you're doing right now.

And I'll see you all in my next video, bye.