Waching daily Jan 25 2019

Find out why the regional city of Ballarat is catching the attention of property investors.

Just over an hour west of Melbourne, the iconic Australian location offers a tree change

lifestyle with big city infrastructure on the rise. Here are the top four reasons to invest.

Ballarat's rapid population growth has positioned it as the strongest market in Victoria.

Affordability; with the median house price just $455,000.

Ballarat Base Hospital is undergoing a 462 million dollar expansion.

25 million dollars will be spent upgrading the station precinct.

creating a new commercial and cultural hub.

With all this in the pipeline, Ballarat should be on every property investors radar.

Click on the link for the full report I'm Liz from DPN, thanks for watching.

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How To Sew A T-Shirt - Duration: 7:37.

Hey guys, I'm Bonnie from Bonnie and Blithe and today's tutorial is going to teach you how to make a knit t-shirt

It's one of the most basic

Articles of clothing that we all wear and having this little skill in your back pocket will come in handy time and time again

All you need for this tutorial is some knit fabric whatever you want to make your shirt out of

plus an

existing t-shirt that fits you or a child that you want to make a new shirt for

Now a traditional knit t-shirt usually looks like this: you have a front bodice, a back bodice and then two

Sleeve pieces that are known as set-in sleeves

So you sew the sleeves separately and then set them into the bodice the t-shirt we're gonna be making today is a little bit different

And a whole lot easier and let me show you how we're actually going to be making the front and back bodice

Only and making what they call a Dolman sleeve or a sleeve that is part of the bodice. It's so much easier

You don't have to worry about messing with sleeves and you're done in about half the time.

Now you can use your existing t-shirt to trace

The new t-shirt right onto your new fabric or you can do what I do and get a big piece of butcher paper

poster board whatever you have lying around

To create a pattern so that you can then make a t-shirt over and over and over again with that same pattern

You ready to do it? Let's go first grab your butcher paper or whatever you want to trace your pattern onto and lay it out

Fold your store-bought t-shirt in half lengthwise, so that the fold runs down the center of the shirt from the neckline to the hem

trace the t-shirt remembering to add a seam allowance around the shoulder and sides of the t-shirt and

A hem allowance around the hem of the sleeve and bottom of the shirt

for the sleeve just ignore the existing sleeve seam and trace around the whole thing if

Your shirt has fitted sleeves

Be sure to add extra allowance around the top and bottom of the sleeves to get a more relaxed fit

Dolman sleeves are traditionally pretty loose

Trace around the back neckline and also mark the depth of the front neckline then cut out your pattern

you can choose to cut out two pattern pieces one along the back neckline and one along the front or just one pattern piece and

Mark both necklines

Be sure to also mark your pattern with the title of the garment that is Dolman sleeve t-shirt

the size and where to cut on the fold

Also mark the front and back neckline if needed

Now fold your fabric with the stretch running side to side as opposed to up and down and

Lay the pattern down with the straight edge along the fold - you want to make sure that stretch is running horizontally

across the body

At this point you can trace your pattern with chalk or fabric pen or simply hold it in place and cut out your fabric around it

Now repeat for the front bodice this time following the front neckline marking or using the front pattern piece if you made two

Here you can see the sleeves of the t-shirts the bottom hem and the front and back necklines and

Now it's time to sew. Lay your bodice pieces flat, one on top of each other with the right sides together

Then sew along the shoulder seams

As well as along the side seams and under the arm hole using a stretch stitch or serger

This is what it will look like when done note that if using a serger the underarm portion might be a little trickier to sew

Just pull the curve as straight as you can while sewing

Next we'll need to hem the sleeve and bottom of the shirt either using a zig-zag stitch or a double needle

I'm going to skip the bottom hem at this point

because I'll be cutting the shirt shorter in the next video to make it into a dress and

After that, we'll attach the neck binding

Be sure to press the seams you just sewed before moving on

After hemming we'll measure the neck opening to determine how long to cut our binding. As you can see

I've turned my measuring tape on its side to get an accurate measurement

My neck opening measured 17 and a half inches. I always make note of this measurement on my pattern for future reference

And now I need to subtract a bit off this measurement so that my binding fits nice and tight

I usually subtract about an inch. But since this fabric was a really stretchy spandex blend this time

I took off an inch and a half and cut my binding 16 inches long and two and a half inches wide

The width of your binding is totally up to you

if you'd like a thinner one go ahead and cut it an inch and a half or

somewhere in between

Once you've cut out your binding strip fold it in half width wise and stitch together the short ends

Then turn the binding right side out, press that seam flat and fold the entire loop in half lengthwise and press again

Now we'll attach it to the t-shirts neck opening

Begin by finding the center of the bodice back and place a pin in the neckline here

Pin the seam in the binding to this center back

Ensuring that the raw edges of the shirt and binding are even and the binding is pinned to the outside of the bodice

Now mark, the center front of the binding by placing a pin there

Do the same to the center front of the bodice and pin these two together at this point

Finally pin the remainder of the binding strip to the shoulders of the bodice by stretching the binding

Evenly so that it matches the neck opening. Remember we want the binding to be slightly smaller than the neck opening

Once this is done

It's time to sew the two together

my best tip for doing this

successfully is to first baste the binding and shirt together while gently stretching the binding to fit. If everything looks good after that you can

Securely stitch the two together with a stretch stitch or serger if the binding looks wonky too loose or too tight

You can adjust or even recut the binding and try again without having to pick out lots of stitches

And that's it. I hope you guys loved this tutorial. I love making t-shirts and I hope you do too

Be sure to watch the next episode in this series where I take an existing

T-shirt like the one you just made or a store bought shirt and add a circle skirt to it

You can see that by clicking in the link below or right here. Thanks for watching. Bye