 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside To Him. Okay you guys, well before we actually get to any sewing we need to prep a couple of stations. We have to get our sewing machine ready to go and we need to get our ironing station ready to go. So I'm going to show you how I would do that for a project. Here's my fabric, you remember it from when we cut it out last week and your instinct might be to use some kind of purple thread, but because the backing is kind of like whiteish, I'm actually going to use white thread because you mostly see the thread on the inside of the garment anyways and hardly ever from the outside. So I am going to using some white thread. I was just checking to see if I had any white bobbins and I don't. So I have to make a new bobbin. What I have set up, okay sure curious, is I have this little plastic bobbin case by Dritz. Again as always all the products I mentioned in my videos will be in the description box down below. So check that out if you're interested in purchasing any of these things. I just have one of these acrylic ones where I keep like navy, black, white, gray like those common kind of colors. I keep bobbins filled up there and then for my like random fun assortment I have a what's this thing called bobbin saver. These things are awesome. I really really love this. It keeps your thread from unwinding because it's I don't know like rubbery and so I don't know just stays more organized but I don't have a white bobbin at the moment. So I have to get a bobbin and I will make a white bobbin. I also need to change up my needle. I have this which is truly one of my most favorite things but they stopped making them. I know I know it's terrible. I've been keeping an eye out to see if they are going to bring it back but I haven't seen anything like it come back. I'll check again for this video put it in the description box because I find anything but this was made by Dritz. I got it four or five years ago. This is like I mean maybe you could make your own. This is like a velcro like the soft side of velcro and you just stick your needles in. So maybe you could make like a card and stick some velcro down. I don't know. I wish that I wish that I could tell you guys where to get these but okay so for needle size if you are using a lightweight drippy woven like this rayon shally rayon crepe you know any of those kinds of fabrics that we suggested for this video I mean for this pattern I would use a either a universal size 70 or a microtex size 70 I'm going to go with the microtex slash sharp needle because they are a little bit more precise and the like end of it is a little bit smaller so the holes that you put in the fabric aren't as big so that's what I'm going to use if you are using one of those cotton knit type fabrics then you're going to want to use something in the ballpoint slash jersey needle category most likely a 70 maybe an 80 if it's a little bit heavier okay so I'm just going to load up my machine here and then I'll meet you at my ironing board. Hey guys I'm over here at my ironing station you can see it is front of my window so the beautiful view of all the trees that are blooming outside but this may seem very obvious to you I'm not sure but you need an ironing board mine is all metal I thought that was really important like all the undersides are all metal and then it doesn't have like a super thick pad I don't find that to be very helpful it just has like a regular old one that you get from Target then I have my iron and before you freak out about it being horizontal it's actually intended to stay that way you don't turn it on its heel it's made by Oliso I will have the link in the description box and I think I have a coupon code for them too I'll leave that there if I have one but it's really really cool and a little weird to get used to but you always leave it horizontal like this and then when you're ready to use it it knows and then you can go about doing all of your ironing it's really really cool I love it a lot as you can tell um okay you also need to have some like back up water for your iron because inevitably you are going to go through like the cup of water that's in the reservoir so I just like to go ahead and have some ready to go so I don't have to like go out to the kitchen and get more water um you can use tap water or like bottled spring water you really don't want to use any distilled water so tap or bottled spring water is best for your iron and that's really it for your ironing station you could also have a pressing cloth which I obviously keep close by um and this will prevent your fabric from getting scorched if you lay this over your fabric and then press it um it'll just let through a gentle amount of heat and honestly we're using fabrics that are so lightweight and thin that you don't need a ton of heat um I have mine set to the wool slash silk setting and on like the lightest amount of steam and that'll that'll steam my rayon plenty good and so whatever you have there is a cotton setting but even if you're using the cotton knits I still think that's a bit of overkill you could probably ping back the um the heat a little bit and the steam as well anyways so ironing station is set up which means we are ready to do step one of our sewing pattern so exciting oh one more thing before we get there I really hate having to lean over like this because only way I can get the the ironing board in the viewfinder um some of you may be wondering how come I'm not setting up my serger I do have a serger a serger finishes the raw edges of your fabric like on the inside and I'm not going to be using one for this project because I didn't think it would be fair to like the true beginners for me to be just whipping everything through a serger and making life look awesome and easy when most of them probably don't have one I do recommend getting one if you're going to be sewing a lot of garments I highly recommend a serger I have the brother 1034d which is basic $200 and it served me well for the past seven years knock on wood or metal um but I am going to be doing french seams on all of my insides or turning them under I'm going to do it as if I didn't own a serger so that's why I'm not setting it up so if you don't have one don't worry I'm pretending like I don't have one either and honestly our garments are going to look way more expensive and awesome if you're using the knits I probably would never make a knit garment without using a serger but if you don't have one you really don't have to do anything you can just trim them the knit fabric is not going to fray ever it just won't be super beautiful but some sewing machines have a function look at your user manual and see if you have an overlock I think it's called an overlock stitch um that you can use on your knits anyways that's all I have to say about finishing seams you'll see how to do french seams I'll show you how I'm going to finish all of my seams as we go along so don't worry too much about that but I just wanted to address why I'm not setting up my serger okay let's get sewing