 Hi you guys! It's another month and I swear no April Fool's going on here. I have got a ton of plans. I think that you can just really tell that I love spring. I'm just immediately rejuvenated by all the sunlight, by the longer days, the fresh new energy, things growing in the garden. All of that just has me jazzed because I have so many ideas for projects and just not enough time. And a lot of these ideas, some of them are new, but a lot of them I've had kind of festering in my head for a while. And I'm just itching to be able to have the time to get them sewn. So I'm going to show you all my plans, including works in progress and patterns and fabric combinations that I'll be working on this month. But before I do that, I just want to say hello to anyone who is new here. I'm Lindsay. Welcome! Hi! So all my own clothes and use this channel to talk about it like a lot. So if you want, introduce yourself in the comment section below so that I can give you a formal hello. For everyone else, please be sure to like this video so that YouTube knows it's awesome and will suggest it to other people like us and our little fam can grow. Okay so first things first, let's talk about works in progress. So this skirt, simplicity 9267 was completely sewn. Completely sewn, had all the buttons on and everything. And then I put it on and it didn't fit. Say lovey. Mostly my fault because I made this too small of a size in the waistband I think or made some bad choices in construction. I'm not sure what happened. But I have the bottom of a skirt and I'm torn about what to do. There is a chance I'm just going to throw elastic on top of this and call it a day. I do have the original waistband that I could modify and add like something in the back to make it fit. But for now, this is all I've got. So I've got to figure out a plan for this. I do like the skirt. I don't want people to think that that's a bad pattern or anything. I think that the waistband just ended up too small somehow. Somehow. I'm not sure how. It's not the pizza. It's not my diet. Somehow the waistband ended up too small. So I've got to fix that. Making it a little bit adjustable too, probably not a bad idea, you know what I'm saying. I also have the petite stitchery Ramona Shacket. This is where I've gotten on this. I mean, it looks really good. I know I'm excited about it too. Got the sleeves on, patched pockets. I just need to do the collar and kind of got stopped in my tracks with this one because I ran out of my favorite interfacing. So I had to order some of that. Comes from ThermoWeb, the heat and bond. Love, love, love. They are interfacing so much. So Ramona Shacket, probably another day on this and it'll be done. I've got to do cuffs and collars and then the button front. It's another day to go on that. Then I've got this Palmer Plesch McCall 7695, a little vest, probably getting close to not being able to wear it anymore, but I do want to finish it because it's been in my work in progress for a while. But here's where we are with it. Very, very close. Now I have what's it called, bound all of these raw edges in this pleather bias binding, not for the faint of heart. You really have to like not be irritable. You have to not have any anxiety. You have to be in like a complete zen state because this will send you over the edge if you're at all frazzled. And in an effort to kind of help myself, this pattern comes with the pocket that has like a little bit of an angle. Do you see on the side of her body, that little angled pocket, that binding that whatever degree angle that is impossible. So I just made them square, they're rectangles and I think they're totally fine. But I just adore everything about this. I think we're getting really, we're getting really close with this one. I just have to do this one pocket and then also the arm size. And then I've got to figure out something with the zipper tabs because the zipper tape is exposed on the inside. That was the only way I could bind this in the leather. I've got to figure out some kind of plan, whether that's unpicking this from the inside and then tucking the end in there and then hand stitching it back closed. That's probably the most logical thing to do. But yeah, I just have to figure out a plan for this little guy as well. So really close. It's going to be really cute. I would love to be able to wear it like over like a form fitted knit, like rib knit, black dress. I think that would be really cute. But also like, I don't know, a bodysuit or something like that I think would be so, so, so fun. So working on that. And then you guys saw the vest that I wore and also talked about in the March makes video. This is the matching skirt. I have got all of the buttonholes done. I just need to put on their buttons. So that's just a matter of, is this the front? Yeah, just a matter of sitting around the television watching a program and getting those in. The skirt fits okay. I'm eager to show you guys to see what you think because I'm trying to talk myself into more pencil skirts or I mean, this was kind of a line. And I'm not sure if I'm really convinced that this is right for me. I'm actually not a hundred percent sure that skirts are for me at all, which is interesting because I have two more planning on sewing this month. Like I'm trying but I don't know between the fail and the other one with the waistband. This one to be determined, I'm going to show you guys whenever it's done. I'm just feeling like they might not be my favorite thing to wear. But we'll see because like I said, I have two others that I am sewing. This is that pattern I just showed you. Vogue 9209. This version here, so cute. Or maybe the knee length version. And like I said, only knee buttons on that. The first skirt, well, one of them is a skirt and one of them is like coolots. So I have this that I just picked up at the most recent simplicity sale 1069. That just felt really springy to me and also very wearable. I do find myself reaching for flowy elasticated. Oh wait, now that I look at this, they're not elasticated at all. Look at this line drawing. I don't know what I thought this was. It's a wrap pant. Wrap skirt. I don't know, but it's fitted. Either way, I am reaching for flowy lightweight stuff and I've had this fabric in my stash for a while and have never made anything with it because I don't love the color close to my face. But if we made it into a pant, I mean even this like monochromatic with this t-shirt that I'm wearing, I think it'll be really cute. I don't have a ton of it, but there is a short version, see, that I think could be really cute. High waisted always looks really good on me. It doesn't look like it has a wrap. It just has that bow, which I may or may not leave on, but it's got two darts in the front on each side and also single darts in the back. And then it looks like it zips somewhere. I don't know. I'm just gonna take a closer look at this and see what I think. But this is like a tensile twill, so the weight of it would be a little bit meatier than just like a shally or something. So it could be really cute and would get this out of my stash because I don't want it as a top. Do you guys agree on the coloring? Like when I wear the bright coral, you get this and then this just kind of meh, right? Okay. The other skirt I talked to you guys about already Vogue 1872. Love this skirt. This is a traditional wrap skirt with the like handkerchief hem on a circle. Everything about it is gorgeous. When I ordered the fabric from fabric.com, I didn't meet the minimum requirement for free shipping, but they were like, oh, we have it Amazon. So it's Amazon and in order to yards at each like I need fully expecting to get two cuts of fabric, one of each, but they sent me individual yard cuts. I laid it all out and it's going to work out. It's going to be fine. Not worth the trouble of sitting back and trying to get the full yardage anyways. So it's going to be fine. So I could just gotta, you know, have a little bit of a make it work moment. Thank goodness it's like big, big pattern pieces that are blocked so that I could pull this off. If I had a whole bunch of like little pattern pieces, that would be really annoying. So that's going to work for the Vogue skirt. I've also got the Rachel Comey dress still to cut out. I talked about this last month, Vogue 1859 in this neon green. Love this color. Love, love, love this color so much. So going to make that out of that. And then I've got a couple more ideas. I told you the ideas are plenty, but I've just had these fabrics in my stash for so long. And I just want to start wearing them. And I feel like I'm finally like hitting my stride with what my personal style is like post COVID post corporate life, you know, now that I'm here in Charlotte been here for a while kind of established like my routine here, like things that I'm doing for fun. Like what would I wear to those things? I did pick up this simplicity dress at the last sale 8384. I just love the simplicity of it. I love the handkerchief hem version. I also love the sleeveless version. They're all really cute. And just looks simple and easy to wear and would be super flattering because it's kind of like a fit and flare. And this is a stunning Carolina Herrera zebra print that I got in New York City a few years ago, the last time that I went. It is a cotton poplin or stretch satin one of the two. And it just needs a home already, right? So I figured I could make it out of that the simple designs of the dress, compliment the kind of crazy designs of the zebras and then wearing it with white sneakers, you know, kind of playing it down a little bit, dress it up, dress it down. I think it could be a really, really fun statement to wear on the weekends when I'm going to brunch or going, you know, not just to run errands, but like have an activity to do. So that is that. And then lastly, I got this at the last sale also 8558. I love it. Like I can't get it out of my mind, but I don't have a great fabric for it for spring. All I have that would work because you need something with structure and drape like a 10 till 12 would be great. But structure and drape for the blazer and the pants, the shorts to match. And all I really have is this linen that's this like eggplant purple color. So I might try and push this off to like September, where I will be able to get more use out of it. I mean, trust me, shorts and a blazer and a crop top in September is just as useful here as it is in April. So that's what I'm thinking for that resisting the urge to buy new fabric for this and try and make it work out of this, but in another season. So this might get pushed off, but I have it somehow magically I can get all that done. I have so many other ideas with all this stash fabric. As you can see, this little guy up here is all lightweight drapey rayons, crepes, things like that. And this is all slightly heavier weight versions of that. These two bins are so full and they have been full for way, way, way too long. So I need to get in there and I need to start coming up with ideas on how to sew those and getting them into my wardrobe ASAP. So that's probably gonna be the plan for the entire second quarter of this year, April, May and June. So we'll see. I like I said have ideas. I just need to find the patterns to be able to execute them. But I want to know what your plans are for April. If you've got like a big thing that you're sewing for, whether it's a wedding or an Easter, right? Aren't people making Easter dresses? I want to know like what your Easter dress plans are if you're making matching things for your children. Like what are we doing? What are we sewing in April? I want to hear all about it. I have linked here in the Inslate my March makes video so that you can see everything that I sewed last month. If for some reason that you missed that video, it's here in the Inslate. Click the bottom right of your screen and it'll take you right there. But other than that, like I said, I'm busy. So I got to go and I will see you all very soon. Bye.