 Hi you guys! Are you in need of a sewing friend to hang out? I will volunteer! That's what these Let's Chat videos are all about and honestly they are one of my favorite videos to do because I feel like we are hanging out as friends and we are catching up as we would if we were in real life as well. Before we get into it though, please make sure that you're subscribed. I cannot tell you how many people think they're subscribed to this channel and they are not. So just double check and make sure that that little red button is now gray. I think it turns gray. And if you're new here I'm Lindsay. Hello! Introduce yourself in the comment section below but I share my love of sewing here on this YouTube channel. Alright so I feel like I can't really bury the lead any longer. You guys know Honey. This is our what 10 month old Morky. We just got her earlier this year after putting my sonny down who was like 14. We put him down last year and then we got Honey and she's such a sweetheart and so we had to get her a little sister. So introducing Biscuits! Hi Biscuit! Biscuit is a Yorkie. We got her from the same place that we got Honey. She has been it's just so interesting. Dog moms of two or more. Human moms of two or more. You guys know that like it's just so interesting how different their personalities can be. Even though Honey is a mix that shows Yorkie in her they are still so so different. As you can see Honey could not stay in my arms for longer than two seconds but Biscuit is ready to fall asleep. She's just so cuddly so sweet. She just wants to lay around lay with me and be with me all the time. She's been a great playmate for Honey. They play together all the time. Sometimes I'm like you guys like each other right? Like this is good play fighting because it gets it gets pretty aggressive. They are very very possessive over the toy that they have and the other one always wants the toy that they don't have. That's just inevitably how it works. But it's been really really great having her and as you can tell she's just such a sweetie. So I'm I was happy to introduce her to you guys. Formally I know a lot of you Eagle Eyes saw her kind of running around my feet in the Make It Monday video with the Chambray jumpsuit and I bet a lot of you were like wait what does she have a second dog? Yep we went ahead and got a second one. I think we always wanted to have two within a year so they could kind of grow up together. That might bite us in the butt later when they get older but for now it's really nice having them so close in age. But so that's little biscuit. Like I said she would probably fall asleep. She would. Okay so that is kind of like the big thing in the personal life. On the channel um or everything going on with inside the hem the channel the business everything that it is now. I just wanted to give a huge shout out to every single person that came and met me and said hello in Raleigh. I was there for the original Sewing and Quill Expo. I got to meet and talk to a lot of you guys in class but sometimes we were just passing each other on the escalator. They would be like love your channel. So anybody who said anything came to my meet and greet, came to the class whatever it was. I just wanted to give you a huge thank you. That weekend was so much fun and I had such a great time seeing all of you guys in person so that was a lot of fun. As for my sewing you guys are probably eager to hear everything that I have bought. So we have the Sew Together 21 pattern for September is the Sinclair patterns Daisy top. So I purchased that. I'm talking a lot more about the Daisy pattern in the like dedicated Sew Together 21 video but obviously I did buy that pattern. I am not buying the fabric for it though because my goal is to sew those patterns from my stash and because the Daisy is like a lightweight drapey situation I have plenty of those fabrics. So I'll be using that for the Sew Together 21. We also have the Big September Sew Along coming up this month, McCall's 8218. I did buy fabric for that. Have I already lost it? Nope it's right here hold on. Again I will be telling you guys a lot a lot more about the pattern, the fabric, everything that you need for that pattern as part of the Sew Along but quick sneak peek. This is what I got kind of like a marble tie-dye-ish in this really pretty like purpley gray, gray purple tone. It's French Terry so I'm going to have a French Terry jumpsuit. Maybe not the most conventional choice. I will have lots of other options for you guys to choose from when we start talking about fabrics in the video but I wanted to do something that I knew would be like super super comfortable. I went online like companies are making jumpsuits from French Terry and they look really really cool. If you know of the brand Lewin Gray from Loft it's owned by the whole Anteiler mega brand they would do something like this and I think Lewin Gray is great quality. I think you know it looks really good very comfortable but still chic so that's kind of what I am going for and if it's comfortable enough for a hoodie it's got to be comfortable enough for a jumpsuit am I right? So I got that. I also bought up the new Love Notions pattern. It's the tempo right? Love Notions tempo is it over here? Is this it? No. I got it printed on the tissue paper from Sublime Graphics though. I have a coupon code for Sublime Graphics if you want to get your pdf patterns your large format patterns printed on tissue paper but I got the tempo dress just because it was really cute and I love the Love Notions patterns and you know I want to support them during a pattern release. So I got that. I also got this really great Rayon Jersey knit from Rayon Cotton Jersey I think from Stylemaker Fabrics. It's from Moda if you know of Moda's Jersey knit that has that Rayon blended in it. It is a really really nice fabric. I loved working with it but I got that to make August's Sew Together pattern which was the made from her maid Alana dress. So I did actually do quite a bit of shopping. I actually went to Goodwill as well mostly because I got the Cricut Maker 3. Very exciting. I'll be sharing you guys a lot about that coming up don't you worry but now that I have four machines Maker 3 Original Maker Explorer Air 2 and the Joy I needed like a better organizing system so I don't know if you can tell that there's been some changes and the thing behind me there used to be like another cabinet like here and it took that out turned it on its side and then I went to Goodwill to see if they had like a shoe rack or some kind of shelving unit even I would have even bought like a full-on bookcase. I don't know how I would have gotten it home but just to get all of those organized and in a place where I can just set them up and use them like where they are. So that's why I was at Goodwill but of course while I was there I had to like run through the little like you know the place where they have the there's a bug crawling across my ceiling where they have like the sheets and the blankets and everything else so I ended up finding this like oatmeal knit fitted sheet it's small though I think it's maybe for like a twin and I got it just you know as wearable muslin or to make like a quick little t-shirt or tank top from you know it's two dollars so I figured this would be really good for just either muslinning or just making something that's just you know real quick and easy so oh here's a love notions pattern yeah I knew it was here somewhere love notions tempo sundress they were calling it I don't know what I said earlier but the tempo sundress so that is what I bought and if you've been watching these videos for a while you know that normally I would jump into my rapid fire but I wanted to start adding something new a new little segment to our let's chat video if you will and that is the youtuber spotlight so I know that there are so many amazing creators here on YouTube and the struggle to get seen on YouTube is very difficult so I thought I would find some of these like smaller channels maybe they just started or maybe they just don't have a huge following but they deserve one because they're amazing and they're doing a great job so I'm starting to highlight one of them every single month in the let's chat video today well kicking things off is Megan G makes do you guys know her she lives in Canada she has the most soothing relaxing voice it's like the complete opposite of mine I'm like she's like very even killed but still does a really great job of like explaining everything and really easy to understand terms she's obviously a very talented so is she sows for herself as well as for her sons like I could not keep that up but she has it's just so relaxing and just you know easy easy easy watching she's made a lot of really cute clothes like I said she does stuff for herself as well as her kids so if you're into kids clothes I think she has a boy and a girl maybe multiples of that but um so she's sewing boy clothes and girl clothes and stuff for herself so she's kind of just got it all going on but if you would go give Megan's channel a good old subscribe let her know that I sent you and we can start kind of sharing some of the love here on what I feel like is our very little small part of YouTube but it's there and it's growing more and more of you are starting your own YouTube channels dedicated to sewing and I just absolutely love it the more the merrier in my opinion so go say hi to Megan for me now before we get into rapid fire I just want to say I love when you guys answer the rapid fire questions as well like I said in the beginning of the video this is one of my favorites because I feel like we're all like hanging out catching up together so the rapid fire questions are what you're watching what you're reading your latest obsession and something new that you're trying so uh head to the comment section and answer one or all of those again what you're watching what you're reading something you knew you're trying and what you are obsessed with that way we can kind of all just like you know feed off of each other and all the new and exciting things we have going on but rapid fire what I am watching so I did a thing this past month I cut the cord officially officially cut the cord called the cable company said turn it all off I don't want it anymore and I am someone who has the tv on from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep I'm not always watching it but it is always on something in the background so um now that I don't have sort of I had liked it's complicated I had this live tv thing called low cast they got into some kind of like trouble with the law and had to like just shut down like all of a sudden out of nowhere so I'm waiting for one of those like you know HD HD but I don't know what any antenna antenna I don't know anything is called an HD antenna so that I can just get the local channels if I just have like NBC ABC all that like I'm said the rest of the stuff I can stream even if it's a day later I don't mind but I do like watching then like the today show for example while it's airing like I don't want to watch yesterday's today show so I'm waiting for that to come but in the meantime um I've been watching a lot of the magnolia network I've mentioned before that I kind of binged the whole um fixer upper the new fixer upper but also that show called homework or have you guys seen that they are renovating they are a blended family so she had three sons he had three sons they met got married and had a baby girl so now they have nine people in their family and they are like people who are really into history and preserve preservation and all of that kind of stuff so in their town in Utah they're like renovating houses like normal like you normally see on HDTV or whatever but this whole show is dedicated to their renovation of this old school house 20,000 square feet and so many original details either still left or they're like replicating I mean these people are dedicated to the authenticity of what like a 1907 home would have looked like but they're doing it and designing it in a way that's also very livable and very modern they did this thing if you've seen it you know what I'm talking about with this painting in their foyer that truly like gave me chills it was so so so cool they put a ball pit in their living room or in their den so it is a combination of like all that history but they're not super precious about it they have thousand thousand thousands of dollars worth of antiques but also a ball pit um so I've been loving that show but better than that show I've benched it in like 24 hours is cruel summer okay who has seen cruel summer that show is so addicting oh what you cannot just watch wanting come back to it like you're pulled in instantly and they keep you the whole time um and then you have to watch to the last second to get the whole story it is so good if you've seen it you know what I'm talking about you haven't seen it you have to go watch it it's just one see one season so far but it's like that kind of season where it all ends and then if they do another season it'll be a whole different storyline I think um but it's like takes place in the 90s so there was like all that stuff that was kind of cool and like over the course of three summers they go back and forth and it's just so well done like so so so so good so that gets my vote probably one of my most favorite things I've watched all year truthfully so go check out cruel summer if you haven't already um and then what I'm reading okay so I finished mod uh who is mod dixon a really good book by alexandra andrews and I liked it because it was kind of like that suspenseful book but I didn't see the twist and normally I can always predict the twist because I've read a ton of books like this I watch true crime and listen to true crime podcasts and so it's you know but this twist I did not see coming it's like twist on twist on twist on twist it keeps twisting um and in a way that like makes it's not like twisting for the sake of twisting it's twisting and you're like yeah I see what you did there that's really cool so I enjoyed that book very much right now I am reading malibu rising by taylor jinkins read I loved um the seven husbands of eval and q go that taylor wrote and so I thought I would give it's been enough time you know sometimes when you read one author back to back it's I don't know too much of the same but it's been enough times I thought I'd give another book of hers a try I'm really enjoying it so far it's not super suspenseful it's really just like a drama um but what's cool is that she will have like little itty bitty references to books and characters and places within those books um from the past and just little little references where you're just like oh okay I see that same magazine or oh she just mentioned that famous actress like so even though they're not taking place at the same time or anything there's there's a thread that kind of goes through all of them so I thought that's really cute how she does that um my latest obsession honestly you guys has been this channel I'm not sure if you have noticed but there's been a couple of changes um one is my like channel art um spent a lot of time on that uh but I feel like it's a little bit more representative of me and my personality I also removed the intro there's not going to be an intro anymore um and really just kind of like studying YouTube a lot and really trying to figure this thing out I mean obviously like I'm doing well with it um but I know that I could be doing better so I'm putting in the work and it is a lot of work um but just really really trying to give it my all and hopefully you guys will see that and support some of the changes that are coming or that have already come and just you know come along with me on the ride because that is what it is well you know we're buckled into this roller coaster one way or another well you can get off because you could just unsubscribe but I can't really get off like this is it for me so I'm on it um I also finished and I probably should have mentioned this like earlier in the video but I also finished the ultimate garment sewing guide of guides so I've had this idea forever to make all these different guides little bits of information little tips and things that I have learned along the way and and compile them all together into one guide and it's 100 free to you guys um just sort of like my gift to you I guess so I just want people to love sewing it's really all it comes down to and there's a link in the description box where you can download the guide for free yay um also as you're probably wondering like how is she getting all this done that's what I'm trying this month so I got this new app called fabulous and it's like this productivity helper um you basically go in and you can set it up for it to notify you morning noon morning afternoon and evening and then you put in like different tasks that you want to do at each point in the day so for me working from home and doing a job where like I don't have a lot of things scheduled do you know what I mean like it's just I get up and I just do what I do and then that's that and so if I'm not keeping track of certain things or if I'm not focused on something every single day it will inevitably fall by the wayside a lot of that happens to be like housework so um for me my morning routine is to take my vitamins because I was forgetting to do that make my bed every single day I'm pretty good at that even without the help but this is just like it puts it all in one you know what I mean brushing my teeth I put that in there and 10 minutes of housework do you know how much housework you can get done if you just set a timer for 10 minutes like a lot like like a lot a lot so it's really great because it just sends you a quick little notification I I stop everything I'm doing like even if I'm in the middle of something I'm like nope this is my time it's almost like a personal time it's almost like you know um time for me because I know if I do all of these things I feel so good so it tracks it for you obviously you check off all the things which is like rewarding and then they like if you do them so many days in a row you know you get these badges and there's you know then there's like some a little bit kind of like hokey stuff where they talk about breathing and or like while you're doing your tasks you can choose for them to play this like music that's really like calming and peaceful so it can be a little bit like okay but at its core in terms of like helping me check off all the things I want to do repeatedly every single day it has been really really great it is a paid app I want to say it was like 40 for the year so instead of doing a monthly thing it was like $40 for the year and I just thought that that was worth it because if you're more productive I'll make that $40 back one way or another in no time you know what I mean that's how I was able to justify it plus how much is like peace of mind worth you know what I mean so I've really been loving that app so that's the new thing that I have been trying this month I'll link it in the description box also for you guys all right so what to expect this month so September is national sewing month yay it's like our month I just feel I don't know it's like our time to shine um so I'm doing this so along obviously the mccalls 8218 so along you guys will start seeing that here really shortly episode zero is going up and then the whole thing kicks off on the 14th through the 21st taking that weekend off so go ahead and grab the pattern it's not on sale this month at joanne so you have to pay like the 15 bucks or whatever but um some people you might already have it in your stash um I also have two skill pop classes these are for beginner sewists like the the intro to sewing machines based on machine basics or whatever it's called is like let's unbox your sewing machine like how do you turn it on where does the needle go how do you thread it it's very very basic so if you have anybody in your life that's been begging you to teach them how to sew just send them to this class just say blunzy will teach you then you come back to me and we can sew it together um and then the week after that I always follow up machine basics class with a project ideal for beginners so this month we're going to make infinity scarves how cute right um so check out either one of those if you want to make an infinity scarf if you know anyone who's wanting to learn how to sew send them there I'll leave the links in the description box as always I just hope you enjoyed this video if you did please give it a like I have been doing these chat videos for quite some time now so if you want to watch more of them I have linked them here in the end screen if you're on mobile check the description box for a link and that's going to do for me today y'all thank you so much for watching and I will see you all very soon bye