 Hi you guys! It's Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel Inside the Hymn. Today we are talking about all my favorite things from September and I have to admit a couple of them I am a little bit late to the party on. So you might have these things already but I figured if you were stubborn like me or holding out for some silly reason I would share them so that you would go ahead, give in, realize it's not hype and the products really are awesome. So I'm going to start with those two and then I'm going to go to one that you might not have heard of before and then one that is more of a public service announcement, a PSA for all of us out there. So the first one is this Bobbin Holder. This is by Euro Notions and readily available at any fabric store. I got mine from Joanne, they have them available at Amazon and like I said a lot of you probably already own one of these and if you do congratulations but I just got one this month and I really don't know why I waited so long. I had one of those little plastic boxes and I thought oh this is fine like it's doing the trick where I was even putting the bobbins on my thread holder. For a while I did have the matching bobbin thread with the spool of thread and I still do that for ones that I have matches for but for others that randomly I have extra bobbins. This thing really is better than that little plastic box thing or really any other solution that you have and mostly it is so great because as you know there's no way to like lock in bobbin thread. The ends of it always hang out and the bobbin can come unwound but when you stick them into this little thing it's like rubbery so it holds the threads in. I mean they're definitely hanging down but it's not unraveling any more than you know the width here. So and I could go a step further and organize these by color like a color wheel which I'm sure would be pretty but I just got it so I just stuffed them all in there. I was just really finding too that a lot of my bobbins were all over the place and I also was having a hard time finding empty bobbins when I knew that I should have them. So in other words just having them all in one place that is a having them all in one place in a way that they can stay neat and tidy is really really helpful. Bonus is you can literally hold this upright as you can see I'm doing right now and they don't fall out so you could hang this on a hook if you have one of those peg boards or I don't know whatever storage solution you have so it doesn't take up precious shelving space like we all need for other things like fabric. So yeah the um I'll link this in the in the description box below it's called the bobbin saver. Love this thing. Okay the next one is wonder tape. Again I know a lot of you out there have used wonder tape probably been using it for a very very long time and love it but for whatever reason I had not used it until this month. I actually owned some well I probably bought it definitely this year maybe over the summer so it is a recent purchase but um I just never pulled it out I don't know really why but I know that I got it to try and match up zippers you know waist lines for zippers I know that that's really tricky um and a lot of people had said that wonder tape did the trick and they are all right um it did do the trick it makes it so much easier like pretty much foolproof to match up anything if you have to match up stripes if you have to match up multiple seams if you whatever you're matching up across the zipper or any seam for that matter um this stuff really really does help you it's super easy to use you just unpeel a portion of the tape you lay that over the right side of your fabric and then you peel away this little white backing at least a very thin strip of I mean it's like fabric-y but it's still sticky tape but it's not super super sticky you know what I mean like it's not going to gunk up your needle in your sewing machine um and it's not super thick so you can feel it in between the seam anyways then you lay your zipper tape or your other side of your fabric whatever it is that you're trying to stick together or line up you lay that over the other side stitch over it and when you are all done everything has stayed in a place nothing shifted um everything is exactly how you wanted it um this stuff washes away after your first wash or it's water soluble so you can take like a sponge or something if you just want to spot um remove it you and like if you're using dry clean only fabric or something that you don't want to put in the wash um just you know spot wash it spot wash it with um like a little sponge or even your fingers and some water and it comes right off so wonder tape it really is wonderful it's awesome again linked down below okay so now that I got those two things out of my system sold on both of them um I have been on the hunt for just some better options for marking fabric I just have never found anything that I really loved I've tried the markers I've tried the pins I've tried the little triangle piece of chalk I've tried so many different things and then I came across this this is by clover I'm not exactly sure what it's called at the top of my head but basically it's this hard plastic tube and inside the tube is like free chalk like it like loose powdery chalk and at the very very top is this itty bitty teeny tiny wheel and as you run the wheel over your fabric it draws a very clear thin um very um precise line um and the chalk in here is yellow so yellow works on white fabrics dark fabrics printed fabrics you know whatever it is yellow is a really good color um to have it works for most um fabrics but I just love how it's like tapered at the end and how that little wheel is so small that you can really draw like a really precise line um and know exactly where that mark is supposed to be what I found with a lot of the other products was that the line was so thick that it was hard it was just wasn't very accurate I didn't think but I feel like this is super accurate I've been using it to trace everything so I've been using it to trace the outer edges of fabric if I'm working with something that's a little shifty so I'll trace the outline of it and then cut it out um or to draw in um like dart lines or any other marking lines that you have on your pattern I've really not stopped using it ever since I got it um which is why it's a favorite um it's really really awesome and you can refill it so you don't have to buy a whole another thing um you can just buy the chalk and refill it with the chalk and I think also I'm pretty sure they have other colors too um so if you didn't want yellow you could do something else but yeah this clover chalk marker thing magic is my third favorite okay so my last favorite this is the psa portion of the video is for muslins I have been muslinning up a storm this month um making I I was going to make one dress and so I muslin did and then I realized after muslinning it that it wasn't going to be right for the fabric that I was going to use so I went a different direction and then muslinned another dress twice um both two versions of that dress so all in all between muslinning the different versions and then making adjustments to those versions I'm 99% sure I made like five or six muslins this month and I get that it's tedious and a little bit fruitless in that you do all this work and then you don't have like an actual wearable garment but it just reminded me of doing that again it just reminded me that fit is really important and also it's better to spend that time muslinning than to waste time or fabric um making something that isn't actually wearable um but for me I just took scraps of I think these are mostly quilters cottons or like this one is a um seersucker this is a linen um I don't know I've got all kinds of different things in here these are clearly not wearable but I was able to um do the the next best thing that muslins provide and that is make fit adjustments um a lot of times the adjustments that you need you cannot make after you have sewn it up in your fashion fabric sure you can take in a little bit here and there but um to to really get it right and do it the way it was supposed to be done you need to to do that from the pattern piece and not from a 3d piece so um I really feel very confident in the projects that I have made um or that I will be making from this I haven't actually made this anything into anything I had the shell of this one done and I really feel confident that it fits the best that I know how to get it to fit right now considering my skill level and that confidence goes a really long way um you know you just feel better in a garment that fits really well so with all that said um muslinning is my fourth favorite of september and I hope that if you haven't ever muslinned anything before that you will find something worth muslinning and not just diving right in trust me the what I always want to just dive right into my projects and get working on them but um sometimes it really does benefit you to take the time and you know make the muslin adjust for fit test how the fabric is going to work um in this particular pattern um and and yeah I think you'll just be much happier in the end isn't that what we all want successful well-fitting beautiful garments that don't look like we made them let me know in the comments below if you've found anything that is your favorite um but it can be a favorite notion it can be a favorite technique it can be a favorite you know pattern designer or online fabric shop or person or whatever just let me know what your favorite from september is um if it's something I haven't heard of before maybe I'll try it and it'll get featured on a future video um giving you credit of course um but that's all for today thanks so much for watching and I'll see you guys soon bye