 Hey everybody, welcome back to Inside the Hymn. It is March. Finally, spring has sprung. We live in Charleston, South Carolina, and we have been blessed with the most wonderful spring so far, 70-degree days. Sunny, it's been so wonderful. So we thought we'd come at you this month with some of our favorite spring patterns. These are going to be the things that we are either going to be making this season or things that, you know, we have made or things that we like to wear during the spring season. So I'm going to kick us off here. My very first pattern is a McCall's pattern in 7131, if you're curious. We're going to have all the links of all of these in the comment, I mean in the info box below. So don't worry about like taking notes or anything, but And it is a Kulotz pattern. If you're not familiar with Kulotz, they are basically very baggy, flowy pants. And if you make it with a fabric that's just as airy and flowy, it kind of almost looks like a skirt. And you can sew them at a variety of lengths, obviously. But the most traditional for Kulotz is going to be the midi link, which is just a few inches below your knee. Kulotz have been around for a while and I have proof of that. I actually have a vintage pattern. It is a Vogue basic design from 1985. Yeah, yep. And this was actually gifted to me from a sewist herself, Ms. Ada Corbin out in Mississippi. If you're watching, Ms. Ada, I love you. She sent me a bunch of her patterns whenever I started sewing, which was just really great and a lot of them are a lot of fun. So here's some proof. Kulotz from 1985 and then Kulotz from 2016. I mean, this was produced not this year. I don't think 2015, but still all the same difference. So everything comes back again and Kulotz are just a perfect spring pattern. Easy, breezy, flowy, comfortable. You know, you're intended to be made with lightweight fabrics. So that's my first spring pattern. Okay, for my first one, I've got this shirtdress and it's in the calls 6885. And it's got a simple style where it's just kind of straight. You've got a little self-tie waist you can do, but it's really casual spring pattern and shirtdresses have been really big right now. It's got options for a short sleeve, a sleeve you can roll up with cute little tab details and sleeveless too. And it's even got a hat if you're inclined to make a hat, although I probably won't, but I think this would be great in any type of like a cotton from the lightweight or like a chambray has been really popular, but it's just a really good basic shirtdress with like a half flacket. Yeah, those are really good too because you can easily layer that. They're a cardigan over cover that and it'll carry you from the cooler morning through the, you know, warmer afternoon. Especially that sleeveless one. With this sleeveless, yeah. Yeah, yeah, then you wear it in the summer. But I really think you should do it with a bunch of hats. With a hat, yes. We'll see. Totally thank you in that. So for my first pattern I have a maxi skirt. It's the Sohoholic Gabriola maxi skirt and I've made this one before. I really like it because it's a little more figured flattering. It's got these really nice yolks in the front and the back. There's also a zipper and it's really drapey and flowy. And I like to wear maxi skirts, especially in the spring. Well here in Charleston gets a little too hot in the summer for a maxi skirt, but also because my legs are pretty pasty still in the spring. So a maxi skirt covers it up. I like to pair it usually with a tank top and a cardigan. I can also wear it to work and I just think they're really versatile for the spring. Yeah, a little bit warmer than a regular skirt. Yes, definitely. Covers up your legs it's a chilly morning. Yeah. Okay, so I have a top. This is McCall 7094 and this is just a kind of a basic top with kind of a placket and some pleating. And really the idea behind this top is just of making something that's very lightweight and breezy. And similar to what I said about Amber's dress is that it can be layered. You can layer a tank top underneath it and you put it can be semi sheer or just kind of like even a rayon blend or some kind of silk. And then you can throw like a lightweight jacket over top of it and that'll give some structure to what can be like a flowy fabric. This one calls for fabrics that are like crepe machine, georgette, shali, and crepe. So you really want to go for those light fabrics and you know these kinds of tops that have the kind of what is that like a shaped hem, a shirt tail hem I think is what it's called can be tucked in to skirts or pants. They can be left out over your jeans or shorts or whatever you're doing. So you can get a lot of different looks with this shirt because it's so blousey and it's just easy and breezy and you know a lot of these fabrics come in floral prints which is also very spring-like. So you can just really like nail the season with with something like in 7094. Okay the next one I've got is a simplicity pattern and this is 1586 and it's an amazing fit pattern which is really great. They have different cup sizes and it's also shaped for a slim average and curvy which gives you a really good fit. So this is a simple like sheath style dress which I think would be great for wearing to work if you have an office job and you could also do a v-neck or it's got like a kind of a rounded neck or also sleeves too. I was thinking the sleeveless version would be cute with a little sweater or a jacket in the spring and I'm probably going to do it all in a printed fabric rather than color blocking but just those princess lines just really give you a nice flattering fit. Imagine that in like a white ponte knit. How pretty would that be with some like cream wedges? I think that would be really cute. Or something to go with your new breaklings or anything. Yeah I was thinking like floral prints. Yeah definitely. Very good. All right and for my last pattern that I think would be great for this spring is by Victory Patterns. It's the nickel dress and I think this one is perfect for the spring because it has a tulip hem and it has tulip sleeves. I mean tulips spring perfect. So I just think it's sweet and flirty. They show it really a perfect example out of a very springy floral. They even did a version where it's a lace up top and then the solid I think it's really cute and I've actually made it before and the way the sleeves are you can easily throw on a jean jacket or a cardigan and wear it both ways. It's a little chillier. So I think that's a really great one for this spring. So that's what we're thinking about sewing this spring. 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