 I hope you're all having a super Sunday. I've got something really cool and really fun That I'm about to tell you guys about Michelle from style maker fabrics, and I have been cooking up a little plan that I think you guys are really going to love I'm super excited about it basically what is about to happen is Michelle has two fabrics that she is going to bring one of them to her shop and The one that she's gonna bring you guys are gonna vote on It's going to be an inside the hem Exclusive fabric which is like super cool And so you guys are gonna vote on one of two fabrics and then once we get the fabric Chosen, then you guys will also vote on the patterns. It's really gonna be like a whole community driven Like project that user you guys are gonna participate in from start to finish and You'll have a say in like every single design element and at the end You will be able to see what you've created and then all of that will be available to you too Maybe at a little itty-bitty discount, which is awesome. So Let me show you the two fabrics that you get to choose from today So it's just like I don't know. What do you want to see? Which of those fabrics do you want to see made up into a garment? Which one of those fabrics do you want to have available to you? You know, which one do you love the most for me and which one do you love the most for yourself? So that's what you're gonna vote on now Well, you guys never cease to amaze me the panel one by a landslide I can share the results in the slide after this one But I truly thought that the border print was gonna win I don't know why I thought that you guys are gonna flip for that But the panel is our winner for the fabrics. So now that we know that it's going to be the panel We get to pick the patterns and this is really exciting We've got two patterns that we've narrowed it down to and I'm going to show you them now And again, it was a landslide victory for our winner the deer and doe Magnolia, so I will be making that dress out of the crepe panel. Those are what you guys have voted on so far Okay, and so today we're gonna vote on some of the design details Her shipping is like a couple of days. So I should have it by the weekend So I'll do an unboxing and I'll take you guys along the cutting process and selling some of it up So this is really gonna be just an IG Dressmaking party of our dress designed You guys spent the last 24 hours voting on the various design details and I have the results of those polls The slave voting really had me on the edge of my seat. It was really close the whole time And I guess it's okay to say now that secretly I wanted the long sleeve option So I was really hoping it was gonna pull out in the end, but it didn't I'll be making the short sleeve version For this project rest assured. I will have a long sleeve Magnolia dress before long But like I said yesterday my fabric and patterns are all on their way from Stomaker fabrics They should be here us today Wednesday. They should be here Maybe Friday, I think they'll be here by Friday if you'd like to make this dress along with me the fabric is not Like public on the website it you can only find it either through her link or With the item number so like regular people shopping her store Won't see it there only those of you on our Instagrams our Instagram followers even know it exists So that's kind of cool when like top secret and VIP and all of that So get ready to screen cap the very next slide so that you have that item number Okay, and some just like extra information about the shopping list. So this is a panel We've been over that that is 36 inches long So only so many pattern pieces will fit on that panel and you also have to keep the bodices in one color Space of the fabric and the skirts and another so you know when you're laying it out, you know You can't be you can't do a lot of that pattern Tetris like we like to do So Michelle pulled out the pattern pieces laid them on the panel found the most economical way for us to cut it out Was with three Panels and I'm gonna be showing you how to do that once I get the fabric and the patterns here But so that's why we decided on three panels To that point their bodice is technically supposed to be self-lined meaning the fabric that's on the outside is also What lines it on the inside? But if we did it that way, we would have needed to add a fourth panel So to prevent you from having to pay for that fourth panel What we did was we found a coordinating lining So the lining is a batiste like a cotton very lightweight cotton And you only need three quarters of a yard of it and it's cheaper than a full panel So in that way you're saving a little bit of money But if you want to have the dress self-lined in the bodice, then you'll need to buy a fourth Panel just to make it all match um So those were the notes about the panels and the lining And then you need to buy the pattern and that's it. I think that there might be like a zipper or something in there I'll go over all of that stuff whenever I get the pattern Um in at the end of the week I will be back to talk about this in a couple of days We'll do an unboxing and I'll show you the panels. I'll be laying my eyes on them for the first time too Um, and so we'll make this like I said yesterday kind of just like a whole instagram party Uh instagram dress party. I think I called it. So um, so yeah just waiting on everything to arrive and I will Check back in then The fabric you have is actually got here last night But it was too late and I was too tired to go get it Oh, I can get this email from sellmaker fabrics to let you know that your fabric has arrived So you don't even have to check the tracking. So let's go get it Like I said the other day, this is my first time obviously Seeing this Here's the pattern Deer and dough magnolia. This is a hefty Pattern, I haven't bought a deer and dough in so long Oh my gosh, here it is Okay, so here's the fabric Let's see how these panels go Please look at all that like drape and fluidity Beautiful And then you can see here where one panel ends and another panel Begins and it's like light colors, you know like more white and like lighter colors and then Turns it transitions into the darker side. Love it So pretty. Okay, and then we picked out this lining Um, she matched it perfectly as she always does um, so that's pretty it is a Batiste I think is it cotton? It is rayon batiste obviously not cotton. I think I had said maybe somewhere That it was cotton. I don't know. Um, either way rayon batiste freaking stunning Love that color so much. Okay. I'm gonna pre wash these now Okay, now we wait For it to finish washing I am also going to put it in the dryer I always wash and usually tumble dry My fabrics unless it's like obvious that it shouldn't be like leather or something I've ever made this pattern before you know the instructions are a little wonky with This bodice that we are going to be making so I'm going a little bit rogue I'm using experience that I have from the big four and I'm not going to do it the way that they recommend They recommend basically sewing the outer fabric and the lining fabric and then sewing them together And then attaching the back To both the lining And the outer which have all the seams showing and then you Put on bias tape It's really silly like if you already have four bodice fronts You know one for each side inside and out why not sew them right sides together? That's what I can't figure out So what I'm going to do is I am going to cut the bodice pieces And the waistband out of the main fabric and out of a lining fabric I'm going to sew up the entire Main I'm going to sew up the entire lining and then I'm going to attach them right sides together along the front Um the center front just like you normally would all the seams are going to be encased even the waistband It's going to be beautiful Okay, I'm just double checking the length of this skirt because it seems really long to me Um, so I marked the five eighths inch seam allowance for wearing attached to the waistband And this is assuming I'm making kind of a large assumption here But I'm assuming that this is your waist line on your body and that the waistband Sits above your waist line lord. I hope I'm right Um, I'll have a make it work moment. If not anyways, so I like a 22 inch finished skirt So um without the seam allowance up top and without the hem I like 22 inches the hem is three eighths of an inch Folded under twice that is three quarters of an inch total So I marked that line and all of this is extra. So if I measure that It's one two and a half inches So two and a half inches too long So I am going to use the length and shorten line on both of the skirt pieces And shorten this puppy by two and a half inches It has been a fun morning around here. Thanks for following along so far I have just figured out the pattern layout So I'm going to show you those and just keep in mind that since this is a panel And it's kind of like an ombre in terms of going from lighter color to darker color You have to keep all your bodice pieces at the top and all your skirt pieces Toward the bottom and then the waistband Kind of in the middle. Um, so I'll show you what I came up with Okay, so a lot of you were asking about how I attached the sleeve Lining and having it fully encased So basically you start with your sleeve all sewn on to the outer part of your fabric And then on the inside you have your lining Not sewn to anything And then you Take some kind of seam like let's use the side seam Pull the sleeve through to expose the seam allowance Fold under the seam allowance of the lining press it up against Your main fabric and then wiggle your hand up in between those two Pinching the seam allowance. So now I've got the seam allowance of the sleeve Okay, so when you're pinching the seam allowance like so You fold the lining back over And you reveal that you are holding this seam here. So you pin that And try and pin all the way around the The arm side or whatever you want to call it. Um, I can usually do this in two parts You're basically pulling fabric through the shoulder seam. So, um, it does get a little Funky once you get up higher on the sleeve cap But anyways, you can do any as many parts as you want and when you're finished you get a beautifully encased seam allowance like so