 Hi guys! We are here today to talk to you about our September sewing plans. So if you remember, August was the first time that we made a sewing plans video and we each were a little bit hesitant because we feel like we're a little bit non-committal, someone more so than another person, and that committing to this was going to be a really disappointment to everyone because we wouldn't end up making anything. Well, we're happy to report that each of us stuck to our guns and made two of the three things that we said we were going to make, albeit one of the two of Abby's, she did end up using a different fabric. But I still set up the pattern. But she did still make the pattern. Yes. So we are back again to do this again. I thought it was a lot of fun and I was happy to, I don't know, it felt like it felt like it was like a accomplishment. Yeah, like when I finished it, I was like, I said I was going to do this and I did. Yeah, I agree. So yeah, that was really cool. Did you post any of yours to Instagram? I pretty much post all my finish makes to Instagram. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, mine are on there. I don't think that I posted any of mine up there for some reason. Sorry. Yeah, she's really sad about that. Anyways, if you want to see them, let me know and we'll post them to the inside the hem Instagram page. Hey, that's what we should do. Yeah, try to do that. Cute idea. Okay, anyways, so for September, keep in mind, for some of you out there in the world, it may have gotten cooler where you live because you have a season called fall. Yeah, but we don't have that. We are fall comes, honestly, November. November. Yeah. And really, I don't know, I mean, it's still like upper 70s. Yeah, I mean, we can wear what most people would consider like layering light layers all of the months of fall and winter and spring except for like January and February. That's really the only time where it's like, okay, you got to put a coat on and some gloves, but really any other time than that, it is, you know, fall or spring like weather. So it's still really hot here today. The Heat Index was one, no five, I think something like that. It all starts to run together. Yeah, every year. Right, exactly. So a lot of our ideas for September may still be summery. And I just want to share that it's because we it's still summer. Yeah. And also where we live, people wear a lot more color in other places. So it might also just seem more summery because of the colors that we wear. True, especially me. I wear lots of colors. Yeah. So anyway, so why don't you kick off there? Okay. So of course, if you're ever on any type of social media, then you know that rifle paper company came out with a fabric collaboration with cotton and steel. I love rifle paper company. That's my phone. I know a lot of people comment on my phone in my in my selfies in my Instagram. It is rifle paper company. I don't know if you can see it looks like a lot of Claire, but I love them. So I was so excited about the fabric release. I already have a top cutout I'm working on right now out of one of the rayons. So I hope to have that before August ends. And for September, I want to sew up something with the birds. The birds. It's like a really pretty lilac color and the birds aren't eating fish. And it's a really nice rayon fabric. I am going to make the true bias Ogden cammy. I've already made one. It's on my Instagram. I posted it. I made it out of a sham rayon chambray and I did a little ruffle peplum thing because that's always what I do. I love ruffles, peplums, my kind of thing. So I think I'm going to do the same thing for this one, I think, instead of just the straight. I think it's so funky anyways. Yeah, and it looks like the birds that we have here. The little egrets. We have long legs and horses. Exactly. It'll be perfect. Yeah. And I think it'll be so cute just with like a cardigan over it for work, like maybe maybe or I'm really excited about it. Yeah, it's really cute. Really, really cute. Okay, my first one is a, um, okay. So if you are similar in age to Abby and me, you may remember an MTV show called The Hills. I didn't watch it. I didn't watch it. I made some bacon's MTV as a kid. This was like when we were away in college. Still no. Well, I loved that show and Lauren Conrad who was like the narrator slash star of the show still has remained kind of like a style inspiration for me. I love her clothing line at Kohl's. I love her kind of like higher in line. I just like all of the stuff that she does like what she wears personally. So they did a reunion, a 10 year reunion that she hosted and they kind of went back and talked about, you know, where everybody's doing now and kind of like some of the not so real things. And during that show, she wore a top that I wanted to make. It was, um, one of those off the shoulder tops that everybody's into had more of a paper bag detailed to it at the top shoulder, a little short sleeve, and then just, you know, a straight boxy bottom. And it was a blush color. And so I thought, wow, God, wouldn't it be nice if I could find some blush colored tensile? That would be the perfect fabric. And I kid you not, at the end of that week, Indy So sends out an email, check out our fabric collection with this blush tensile in it. So my idea is to make that off the shoulder thing. And I'm going to be honest, I have been pretty much detesting making an off the shoulder top all summer long. One, because I'm worried it's not going to be flattering. And two, because I feel like it's a flash in the pan trend that's not going to stick around. And three, I don't know how practical it is to wear that. Like, does it come off? I've seen, I watched people. It does come on rides up. Yeah. So, okay. So for those three reasons, I have really resisted making one of those, but seeing hers and it was so cute. And I really love her hers was coming up and hers was really flattering. So I'm thinking to myself, maybe I can figure out a way to make it work. So that is the plan for this. If I don't make that, then I mean, this could be a zillion different talks with a big commitment to your iffy on it. I am beautiful. I got the same thing. Yeah, I have no idea what I'm making with it. Yeah, it is really pretty. But I think that I will for sure make something out of this. My original plan, the reason I got it was to make that top. Yeah. So if I decided to get it for, I think three pretty good reasons, not totally irrational or delusional. Well, you said the same thing to me, because I actually made one using Megan Nielson did a free tutorial. I made a blushy color one. I think I chose the wrong type of fabric for it. But Lindsay said the same thing to me. She's like, don't worry about it. It's just this season, because I wasn't loving it. Yeah. But I think I wasn't loving it because it's not as drapey as fabric, but right. So we'll see. This will be a little bit of a mystery for everyone, but this I think will get sewn. I love this so much. It's amazing. Miracle. So next thing I have here, well, I've got three things because I know one of these will become what I'm planning. But you're saying I'm being indecisive and noncommittal. Maybe we're really not so good at this after all. I think we're trying to do it, but also lead like a lot of leeway. Yeah. So I just got the Lou Box top and baseball skirt from Sew DIY. I've had those two patterns on my wishlist for a while. So I just got them from Indy. So recently figured right now is the time, the last time I have to sew it before it's too late to sew them. So I've got three fabrics that I all think would be good for the baseball skirt. I just, I can't, I'm not sure. This one is also from the rifle paper company release. It's the Lawn. It's the Flamingos. I kind of think it'd be cute as the baseball skirt, but I'm torn because I, I'm afraid that on my bottom half, I know this is going to be cool and see through. Well, I would line it for sure. Line it with white. Okay. Um, but I'm afraid it's going to look like a wrinkly mess from sitting and white. I feel like just white shows wrinkles. Okay. So, but if not, I don't know, what should I do? No, yeah. I want to eliminate that as the skirt and say that that needs to be, do you have enough of it for a dress? I bought a yard and a half and it's only like 44 inch wide. I bought it to make Fifi pajamas, the Chilling Button's Fifi pajamas, but I just love it so much. I feel like it needs to be seen by the world and not just inside of our house. It's too bad because it is really cute for the pajamas. It would be perfect for Fifi. Well, I could just make Fifi and buy some mulpar. There you go. I love that idea. I could do it. Let's do that. That way I don't have to stress over because it's amazing and I think it'd be really cute as some type of, I don't know, something else. I love my Fifi. I made it out of a rayon chalet and I, I really love it. Yeah. It's cute. So here's the other two options. Um, this is a Liberty Lawn. I got on fabric.com on clearance. It was like $17 a yard. It was like half off and I love it. Yeah, me too. Um, so that's a possibility, but would also look good as a top. So I'm torn again. Um, this would just be perfect. So yeah, that's, that's it. It's got to be that one. This is a like, um, cotton dobby, um, a little heavier weight. So I think it'd be super cute. That's the one. Yeah. So that's probably what I would get. The only reason I would say not that one is because you do have a lot of skirts in this. I have two. Is that a lot? No, you're sure you only have two? I only have two. The rest of dresses. The Tilly one. And then the Licep. Oh, I feel like there's more. Okay, then no, I have no objections. Yes. I think that this lawn would be a really pretty Hay June Biscayne. I don't think I have enough. I think I only bought a guard of it because I, when I bought it, I was like, this is going to be the baseball skirt. And you only need the yard for that skirt. You should know by now that you shouldn't know. But then if I buy more and I need it for projects that's less, I won't use it because I'm like, but I have a yard and a half. I could make something that needs more yardage. I don't want to waste on this project that only needs a yard. Wow. Okay. So it's like, damned if you do and damned if you don't. Exactly. Okay. Well, that's my own thing. Yeah. Exactly. Okay. So speaking of problems with yardage, okay. So a few months ago, several months ago, maybe six or so more months ago, Elliot Bierman was doing a contest on Instagram where you just had to like repost their post and follow them. It was one of the simple ones. And you could win free fabric and I won. I couldn't believe that. I was so excited. My, actually my Hay June Biscayne blouse that I made came from the fabric that I won from them. And this is another one. It is, I'm guessing, I don't know much about it, but I'm guessing it's a rayon or some kind of, yeah, some kind of, it's shally like to me. Yeah. But I only have a yard and a half of it. So just like sunny, sunny come, but I only have a yard, a half yard and a half of it. And just like Abby said, I don't want to use it for a project that only calls for a yard. I want to try and squeeze out a dress out of this. So I posted to my Instagram, I need a basic dress with a cinched in waist and like an extended cap slave and a few people suggested the staple dress. So I think that this might become a staple dress. Yeah, cute. If not, I shouldn't give you another suggestion. I'll throw you off. But I was able to squeeze a rosca blouse out of a yard and half of fabric. Which one's the rosca? That's the peasant one with the drawstrings. I had to shorten it a little bit, but I needed to shorten it. So yeah. Peasant could be cute. Or it's to stitch with the collar. Oh yeah. I was just looking at that one today. Somebody posted it on Instagram. It's to stitch, you know, with the little Mandarin ruffle collar. Yeah. Okay, so Mila. Mila? Self? Really? I don't think so. Either way, I look like I'm the same person to commit with this, is it's either going to be a staple dress or it's going to be a peasant-y, ruffly type of top. You're like, oh, I'm doing so bad at this. What are you doing with more damage to ourselves by doing that for this one? But I don't know. And I still feel like it needs to be a dress. It's going to be the staple dress. I'm going to stick with the staple dress. Final answer. Well, you'll be done with it in a couple hours. Okay, that's good too. It's quick sew. Okay, speaking of that, quick sew, this is the end. Yeah, I hope. I don't know. So I mentioned I've got the blue box top and I'm working on one now and I know it's going to be amazing. I can already tell and just file the pictures I've seen. So I got these, I've been eyeing these sheer birds. I was going to say, you didn't already have the, no, I eye them forever. Yeah. All the way back to when I did the swatch video from StyleMaker's spring release, I kept eyeing that fabric. I love these birds. I love these birds. I guess what held me back is because I had just made a bird top, the Roscoe bird top. So I'm like, oh, more birds. But these birds are so different. And it's been a few months. Exactly. So I ended up getting them. I just gave in finally and got them. But I thought they'd be really cute is the blue box top. I mean, it's a sheer fabric. So obviously trickier to sew the blue box top. It's like, you know, forcing. Yeah, no darts. So easy to sew. And it's funny, in her's erections, she actually does a lot of tricks that I do when I'm cheating. Oh, especially with like trickier fabrics, like sewing your hands flat before you sew up your side seams. I do that a lot. That's a big cheat of mine, especially with a tricky fabric, because to turn it twice when it's already that little sleeve. So I thought it was kind of funny that she uses a lot of my tricks to validate you a little bit. It does. It makes me feel less guilty. But she is saying for beginners to do them. So yeah. Yeah. But it really, you're better than that. I know I should be doing it the more advanced way, but I don't know. I mean, I sew so much. Sometimes I need to be a little fast. So I think it's going to be great. It's going to be perfect. Yeah, going to be perfect. And even though it's white, you'll still get somewhere. Yeah, well, I can even pop a cardigan over it and wear it with like darker color pants to make it more go into the fall. Yeah, true. So, okay, so my last one is actually a paisley peach skin. I'll show you the right side of it. From also from Stylemaker fabrics. And I don't know when I saw this, I initially thought of the true bias. Colfax. Colfax. But I was like, I really want to do the placket out of a contrast. So I snipped a swatch, took it to Joanne's and tried to find either a coral or navy that would match this. And it was like, beyond atrocious. Like the options that they have were either their like, whatever those like pageant type of fabrics that they have there, which they were too heavy, too shiny, too cheap, too gross. And they didn't color match very well either. And they didn't have any navy peach skin. I had found a black peach skin there once. And so thought maybe they might have more than one. They didn't have anything in their poly section. They had nothing. So when I couldn't find a match for it at Joanne's, I started thinking about something else that I can make with it. And so I was thinking about the, God, the blank slate pattern that I just made. The larylline? The larylline. Yeah, I thought that would be cute. Or the willow dress, the willow tank dress. Something that still has that A-line shape, but without the placket. Well, you could do the Colfax still, but you could just treat it like instead of making a visible placket, go to the inside. That's part of the instructions? You would just reverse it. You would sew it to the front. But then you'd have the top, you'd see the top stitching around it. Yeah, but I think that would be a fine detail. What do y'all think? Because I actually, I've actually made my mom a similar kind of tunic. I forget what the name of the designer is. Anyways, but it's, that's how it's made. That's how you make that placket. And it's the stitching. And you see just nice stitching. You know what, it might end up being, and it's not going to happen in September, is the tuning firewall is coming out. And they have that ruffle neckline version. I love ruffle. Shouldn't it be that? That could be really cute. Okay. What just happened here? So basically I have failed. I have failed this entire video. I'm going to do good. Oh my gosh. That's okay. I feel like you just got all kinds of ideas though. Like clarifying it for myself a little bit more. Why don't I hold on two seconds? Okay. I will be successful in turning this that I got from, guess where, Joanne's clearance section into a blue box top. Hey, hey. Okay. How's that? It needs a yard. If it's 55 inch wide, you have enough? I think I have two of them. Perfect. I have two. I want to be cute. Yeah. And it'd be cute tucked into a skirt, tucked into black pants. I have black culottes. Yes. There's your plan. Okay. So I have committed to one thing. Committed fully to one thing. Although it could be a cute one. No, don't do it. It could be though. It could be though. I have a location coming up the week of Labor Day. So next week. So I'll be able to get a bunch done. It's exciting. Yeah. So that's what we have. That's what we're planning to make for September. I'm excited to share what we end up deciding with you guys. I know. This is a bit of a wild card. Either way, I think it'll be great. So I hope you have enjoyed watching. If you liked this video, be sure to give us a thumbs up. You can subscribe to our channel too, so you never miss an upload. And sorry if you're going to hear Piper cry. It's dinner time. Of course, follow us on all social media inside the Ham to see what we're up to. And we'll see you guys next time. Bye. Bye.