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The Feed meets a Melbourne man who woke up from a coma speaking fluent Mandarin.

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Fafa have the body of a man but identify as female. They have relationships with heterosexual men mostly and are generally not gay. Meet the Samoan fa'afa, a third gender.


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I made a dress for my daughter using an old pillow case and some scraps of fabric that I had lying around the house. I had never sewn a garment before and so this was an interesting endeavour to take on and guess what? It paid off!

The process was fairly simple. I started by taking my daughter's measurements and sketched out a rough idea as to what type of dress I wanted to make. I then went off one of her current, store bought, dresses and used that as a template and made my very own dress pattern!

I have sewn some fleece pads and blankets for my guinea pigs before and so I know how to handle a basic straight stitch, which is what I used in this project.

Overall I am quite pleased with how it all came out. I am planning on creating more clothes, for her and myself in the future.

VIDEO BREAKDOWN

00:00 Introduction
00:18 Sketch and measurements
00:51 Creating a dress pattern
01:34 Cutting the fabric
02:09 Pinning the top
02:27 Sewing the top
03:25 Taking a look at the top and trying it on my daughter
03:48 Sewing the “skirt”
05:00 Hemming the bottom of the “skirt”
05:39 Attaching the top portion of the dress to the “skirt”
06:18 Sewing both parts together to form the dress
06:33 Finishing the edges
07:58 FINISHED RESULT
08:29 Conclusion

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