In this informal tutorial, the presenter demonstrates a DIY method for adding elastic to petticoats (or petti‑pants) to improve their fit and stay‑up ability. She starts by repurposing a 6‑7 mm wide elastic strap from an old bodysuit and attaches a safety pin to its end. She then creates a small opening by unpicking a stitch at the base of the petticoat’s waistband, threads the safety‑pinned elastic through the hole, and pulls it around the entire waist. After completing the loop, she recommends measuring the elastic to be slightly larger than the waist, tying a flat reef knot (left‑over‑right, then right‑over‑left), trimming excess ends, and optionally stitching the knot in place. The video includes practical tips such as keeping hold of the safety pin, testing the fit by trying the petticoats on, and using a needle for extra security if desired. The presenter ends with an invitation for viewers to ask questions.
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Hi, this is a tutorial, a little how-to if you need to slide some elastic into your petticoats to make them stay up better. So I got this piece of elastic I've actually just used. It's an old bodysuit, but you can get elastic at Coles or Aldi or the Reject Shop or anywhere, and I've just put a safety pin through it. This is an old bodysuit strap that I wasn't using anymore, so I thought I'd use that. It's about, if you want to know the width of it, it's about 6-7mm wide. Then I have a quick unpick. So what I'm going to do is just pick a couple of these stitches at the base of this. At the base, at the base, at the base. So if you just pull it a little bit taut, you can see the stitches and just wiggle that in until you can find one. See, you can see the stitches just there. I'm just going to unpick one. And I get in there. It's a bit firm, obviously these have been sewn very well. Where's the stitch I can get to? There's one. Very well made. There we go, that's it. Okay, so now what I'm going to do is see once you've got that little hole there, so I'm going to push this in and I'm going to wiggle this through the hole like that. Let the elastic go in through with it and then do the old-fashioned threading like we did it at home economics for the waistband pants. So, you know, scooch it along, pull it along, and we'll do that around the waistband. Scooch, scooch, scooch. Okay, so now we're coming to the end. Oh, except I've lost it somewhere. Oops, lost it. I pulled it through, that's why, and I didn't hold on. Don't do that. Anyway, you can find the safety pin easily in there. And then, um, just bring it through this hole, back through the hole with that one. In it comes. Okay, then now what I actually recommend doing is bringing this through. Measure this to around the size of your waist before you cut it, a bit bigger. And then what I suggest doing is actually pinning that together. And then what I would do is actually I would put these on, I would try these on, but I'll put them on back to front because the waist should be the same. That way then you've got this at the, at the, at your front. So then what you can do is once you've got them on and you can feel what the level— you could even pin it where you think it would be good, feel it, see what things— bend down a bit, check them, see if that's right. And then, um, I suggest doing the good old-fashioned reef knot, which I'm not sure if you remember your Brownie guides, is left over right. Left over right. Like that, and then right over left. And this is going to give us a really nice flat knot that is super strong. That is a reef knot, I think. Doesn't look like a reef knot, but it should be a reef knot. Um, and then just trim the ends. So then if you just trim the ends, um, and then you can just Slide them back into the hole. Trim the ends or slide them back in. And that is how you can— there we go. I would have trimmed that, that wouldn't actually go all the way back in there. And that should then— that hole shouldn't really get too much bigger. If you want to be really clever, you can get a needle and stitch that back up, but I don't think it's necessary. These are really strongly stitched here, and I think that that will be fine. So there. So then that should give you some elastic to help hold them up to whatever size feels comfortable for you. Okay, love you lots. If you have any questions, just send me a message. Okay, love you. Bye.
