for a bendy doll dress you need a little bit of paper and a marker to make a template a pair of scissors some felt to make your dress out of some embroidery floss a measuring tape and of course your bendy doll you want to take your paper in pens and cut yourself a simple trapezoid shape which is approximately three centimeters across the top five centimeters across the bottom and about four and a half centimeters down the side your measurements don't need to be exact but they should be somewhere within that ballpark once you've made your little dress template grab your scissors and your felt and cut out two identical pieces using your template next we're going to put the side seams in our little dress so take both of your pieces and lay them together because we're using felt there is no right or wrong side to the fabric but you want to make sure that your edges line up nice and neatly then you're going to thread up some of that embroidery floss in your needle and put a knot in the end of your floss so it doesn't go anywhere then split the fabric apart around the bottom corner of your dress so this is the widest part down here and you're going to bring your embroidery floss in from the inside of the dress and that little knot is going to keep it from leaving we're going to work at the blanket stitch up about halfway up the dress so that blanket stitch looks like this you wrap your yarn all over top of the seam and just to start it we're going to bring our needle back out roughly where we brought our yarn out the first time and you can just slip your needle underneath that loop you try not to catch it on the corner of your fabric here we go and then same thing so through both pieces go over a few Sen MF skew millimeters maybe a whole centimeter bring it almost all the way through and then from back to front pick up the loop with your needle and then pull the rest of the way and that will create this nice little running stitch that goes across the edge of our fabric so we'll do another one bring it from front to back through both pieces of fabric not too far into your dress you don't want to eat up too much of the space of the dress pull it almost all the way through and then from front to back pick up the loop with your needle and finish the rest of it probably fit in two more stitches up the side here and one try not to split up the threads and you grab it there you go so that's about a little over halfway up we need some space for the arm so we're going to bring our yarn through the same hole on the back that we just brought it through but through to the middle so that there's no extra stitching really showing on the outside and we're going to tie a little simple knot on the inside get that extra little string anyway so I'm running with my needle underneath the existing stitch and I'm doing the same sort of knot before I pull it all the way through I'm bringing my needle from front or from back to front through the seam loop and that ties a nice little knot and once that there you can you describe your scissors and trim that there we go now you can tie a knot on the end of that same thread I like to pinch it between my thumb and forefinger and wrap it almost twice roll it off my finger and then pinch that a little bit and pull it down towards the end so you've done the blanket stitch up this side now you're going to flip it over and run the blanket stitch up the same length on the opposite side of your dress once you find the blanket stitch up the opposite side of your dress you want to do the same thing to knot off so take your thread through the back stitch that you just did into the middle of the dress and you might have to sort of ply it pry it apart a little bit to see what you're doing and then tie a knot using that same stitch but the inside of it so you can sort of see it there there it is I'm going to run my needle underneath it and before that loop disappears take my needle through the loop from back to front and then do it twice just to make sure it's a nice solid nod snip off the excess there's the bottom part of my dress before I go any further I want to put another knot in the bottom of my working thread here there we go because once we have it on our doll we're going to sew along the neckline so grab your bendy doll you can shimmy her into her new little dress feet first and we're going to sew across the top from one corner over to the other so she's going to be nice and snug in her little dress we're still using the blanket stitch we have a knot in the end of our yarn we're going to bring the needle from front or back to front through the front piece of the dress so close to the edge but not all the way and then we're going to start the blanket stitch so now we go over top of both pieces and from back to front through both pieces before that loop disappears you can grab it with your needle and then we're going to probably only have room to work one more as we get to her neck so from back to front before that loop disappears you want to make sure you grab it echo and now we're going to pull the front part of her dress down a little bit sneak across to the other side of her neck just bring our thread we're not including the back in this we're just going to bring our thread out the front on the other side of her neck and then we're going to continue with the blanket stitch on the other side of our dress so you can probably work about two stitches here we're going to go from the back through to the front before that solute disappears pick it up with your needle try to keep your hair out of the way and then one more on the back side to the front side close to the edge make sure you grab that loop there we go here now this is the tricky part you want an 8 make a little knot on the inside of her dress and if that is too tight then you can put your needle through the back of her dress to the same little stitch try to find your finger up so that you can feel the need will be careful you want to poke yourself and then slowly guide the needle back down and out the bottom of the dress so it come down at the bottom so we can see that we've got blanket stitch across the back up both sides and now we just want to create a little bit of a knot somewhere down here at the bottom once you've got your thread at the bottom I've had to put my needle back in it you want your needle in it you're going to make a knot using the inside of one of the stitches along the side of the dress at the bottom and you want to make sure you don't pull too tightly because you don't want to sort of tug the dress down from the shoulder but you should have up just enough yarn or thread left to make a simple little knot on the inside of the dress using one of these stitches I'm just going to start that count and I always like to not things twice to make sure that they don't unravel they're not complete grab your scissors trim off what's left there we go to give our dress a little more shape we're going to put a little drawstring belt on ER so grab some more floss it can be the same color that you use to stitch up a dress or a different color and you don't need very much and we're going to put our finger inside her dress so that you can feel the needle you don't want to go all the way through her dress so be very careful you want to place your needle there's no not on my thread here inside the dress not all the way through about Oh a little little left or right of center make sure it goes into the fabric and then back out and don't pull all of your thread all the way through you can keep your thumb on this so that it doesn't actually go anywhere now we're going to pop over the seam and we're going to do the same thing so in and then back out don't pull so tight that you end up pulling your thread out and another one in and out try not to catch it around your arm and another one in and out make sure you can feel it going through the fabric with your finger but not all the way through the dress and then over top of the seam in and then out so we're not going into the very middle just a little to the one side and you can take out your needle now and then you can pull on both of those strings so that your little dress cinches up a bit and you can tie a knot so grab both the ends don't worry if one a little longer we're going to trim that up and we're done here so you can pull until you like the shape of the dress and then try it once more there we go so now there's a cute little drawstring on our dress grab your scissors and you can trim up both ends to the length that you like and there you go now our pending oil has a sweet little dress on for the simple little drawstring both gives it a little bit of shape and a little bit of color [Applause]