hey hey what's up threat bangers so back-to-school is in full effect if you're looking for a little something to spruce up last season's old duds look no further this week our good friend desiree Pesta is hooking us up with one that the season's hottest back-to-school accessories check it out hey I'm desert pest and I'm here at parachute my studio space in the Red Hook Brooklyn I've been designing for about four years and I do it for men and women alike and I have sort of a postmodern vintage aesthetic that also uses a lot of screen printing which comes from Android images I use eco-friendly sustainable fabrics have been since day one vintage materials secondhand and a lot of designer surplus so I started art in sculpture and I think I sort of add an element of sculpture to it I think I make and so one thing that you're gonna see a lot of in the coming weeks for fall for back-to-school is um a necklace collage that I make and involves lots of strands of fabric and they're really cool and they disperse up any boring old ensemble you have learning the materials that you'll be needing for this project are a ruler chalk fabric sewing machine a safety pin scissors and an iron but it's not necessary okay so the first step is you know selecting a piece of fabric that is long enough to make a strand and that's about 40 inches long and so the good thing about this project is that you can use all the scraps you have lying around that you really can't use for anything else I'm gonna be making a smaller strand so I'm going to be marking off about one and a half inches in width you can really do any size you want if you want to have a larger necklace piece like this one then I would go with maybe about two inches in width so I'm gonna go ahead and mark off one and a half inches across the entire length of this piece so now I'm gonna cut it out now we have our first strip and this is where an iron comes in we're gonna fold it in half thus creating three quarters of an inch and so I'm gonna be folding it right sides together then we do it across the entire length and then I'm gonna press it with an iron so I'm going to be making about 15 to 20 pieces make up strips or strands that makes a really full good-looking necklace and so you can just go ahead and keep cutting and then if you want to do it staggered like I usually do which makes like a kind of a good tiered necklace shape I'd say you know cut down 40 inches to 35 or 37 and make it staggered this is kind of time-consuming but it's up I'm gonna pay off so get to work this necklace is so hot guess what we're back tune in every Wednesday for a new decor it yourself right here on thread banger I'm gonna be sewing this the strip's now back such a few times this strip here is three quarters of an inch and we're gonna be using a half inch seam allowance which will leave about a quarter inch of the strip that you would be turning inside out and making a necklace so I'm going to be cutting off the seam allowance one-eighth of an inch away from the seam because when you're turning it inside out with a safety pin it's a lot easier to turn something inside out without any drag so now it's time to do the next step which is to turn it inside out so this is where the safety pin comes into use I'm gonna be using this and it's about the same size as the strip which is important because if it's larger it's not gonna fit obviously if it's small it might break so we're gonna be slipping the safety pin through only one side of the strip and then up through the center then we close it push these safety pins down into the center dunking it down they're kind of like falling water or something and then you're gonna start gathering this fabric now go like about an inch and then grab the end of the fabric and pull it over the safety pin where it's sticking out a little but pull it over and keep plunging it and pulling it it starts turning it inside out it's a magical trick I don't know who invented it I'm glad I learned it and we're gonna do this 15 to 20 times now see the edge it's turned inside out and we're slowly moving the fabric down the length of destroyed cutting the entire thing and set up and now there's this beautiful finished strip strip strip strip this is also how you make spaghetti straps for a dress so now you know the secrets so we're finish with all of our strands left turn them all inside out and then gather all of the edges the other all of them together so that they're all parallel to each other and then go to the other side and do the same so because I gathered the edges together and some of them are longer than the others it creates this hierarchy of strands and then now we're gonna sew over them which will seal the deal and then now we're gonna do the other side doing the same thing if you're afraid of the needle might break then I suggest you just tie them together or you can even hand sew them um depending on how you want it back to look I'm just gonna go ahead and do you know a little bit more raw look I'm just taking these than putting one over the other one and then sewing over these two and I put the securing such as in first because it's gonna be a lot easier for you to go ahead and make the final stitches putting the two sections together back stitching is really good so here's the finished product it definitely dresses up this dress and guys don't worry this looks good on you also if you want to see more visit Deseret peso com oh it does our custom HTML which is my Etsy shop and if you can't make it buy it have you seen any cool back-to-school trends that we need to know about leave them in the comments below and you know what while you're at it Halloween is right around the corner and thread banger is gonna be doing it up like always so let us know what you want to see made on the show till next week ekoo and stay in school hey I'm Desiree Pesta and I'm here in Red Hook Brooklyn wear a parachute study