DIY Velvet Turtleneck Crop Top

I'm finally back with a tutorial! It's been fall for a while, but finally feeling the fall weather so I decided to make this tutorial. Honestly, I love layering clothes on top of crop tops even in the coldd because it's so comfortable. But anyway! My first time making clothes with velvet.

I bought this 2x extra large velvet long skirt from the thrift store a while backkk, like a couple years agooo and finally got to use it today!

I started off by removing the hems on the back of the skirt so that I have three pieces but still connected to each other.

 

(sorry for the quality it was a bit too dark)

Then I cut the two sides off so that there's just the middle piece.

 

This is the middle piece. (I kept the two sides for later) I then trimmed the fabric so that it was even.

I also cut the fabric into halves so you have two pieces. One for the front and one for the back.

After trimming it, I folded in half and traced out the body piece. I'm not really showing everything in detail because there are a lot of tutorials that will show you how to cut the fabric.

I placed the fabric that is already cut out on top of the  second fabric and basically cut it accordingly to the first one except for making the second sleeves and neck part less curved. (it is going to be the back piece)

After doing so, I got two pieces. a front piece and a back piece. Then I moved on to the sleeves.

Using the fabric that I cut out earlier, I used a sleeve pattern and cut it out according and trimming it to fit my arm. I didn't take pictures of the rest because I just sewed everything together like a normal shirt. The velvet was just like a knit fabric so it wasn't hard to work with! I was scared to work with it because of all the scary stories but it turned out just fine!
For the turtle neck part, I just cut out a strip long enough to fit the neck part and folded it in half and sewed it on. Easy as that! Here is the finish product:

Body Chain: Claire's
Pants: Flea Market
Booties: Aeropostale