 Happy holidays everyone and welcome to my 2021 holiday gift guide. I am so glad you were here whether you're a subscriber or you found yourself here through the magic of the internet. Welcome. I am so excited to bring you these 12 different suggestions from me, an avid sewist, someone who sews all the time. Whether you are a sewist yourself who is shopping for yourself, no judgment. I would do the same exact thing. You can't, what is this saying? Like you can't do it right unless you do it yourself. Same goes for a holiday shopping list or you're someone else who's been given this video sent via text or email saying give me something off of this list. I am so happy to have you. If you are new here, please be sure to subscribe, click the bell if you want to get notifications like this video. Whenever you like a video, YouTube starts passing it around a lot more and that way more people can see the gift guide. Also, leave a comment in the comment section below introducing yourself. I love getting to know you guys better and that's really the best way to do it. So all of these products are available now. Most of them are available only online. I will have links in the description box for every single product that I mentioned today. It's going to be the best way for you to get directly to the product and not have to do any searching or looking around a bunch. It'll take you directly there. If there is a coupon code that is attached, then I will have the coupon codes in the description box as well and I will put a little banner across the bottom of the screen here telling you what the coupon code is. But without further ado, let's do it. Biscuits ready. All right. Our very first item is the Codes and Clark Dual Duty All Purpose Thread Gift Set. How stinkin' adorable is this? This little sleeve slides right off. So if you want to wrap it with this on there, that's fine. If not, you get this really beautiful wooden box that all of the threads come in. There's a little latch here and it lifts right up to reveal 32 different colors of their all-purpose thread. This is the rainbow collection. You can see you get a variety of colors. Even these neon ones might be so many that you think, I don't ever sew anything with that color, but I can't tell you how many times I've just gotten a fabric and didn't really think about the thread matching at all and was so happy to have a gift set like this where I had threads that I wouldn't normally pick the colors myself because then you have the perfect match. You don't have to run to the store. And if you're not familiar with Codes and Clark's Dual Duty All Purpose Thread, it is a superior quality all-purpose thread. They have this like core spun technology where they have this like strong core and then polyester is wrapped around the outside of that. So it creates like a really strong thread that's also really smooth. So it's great for garments, great for crafts, quilting. Really it genuinely is a wonderful all-purpose thread. So check the description box, link to this exact gift set. They're only selling it online. You will not find it in stores anywhere. All right. Next up, who recognizes this little box here? I'm also showing you how they are shipped so you can determine whether you need a gift bag or wrapping paper or however you want to present it to the recipient. But this is the Cotton Cuts Modern Maker Fabric Subscription Box. And if you've been a long time follower of this channel, then you might remember Cotton Cuts from a few years ago. We did some videos together. Gosh, back when I lived in Charleston. So several years ago. But this box is the Modern Maker Box. It is perfect for artisans looking to make larger projects such as apparel and accessories. The fabrics are always from the same collection each month. Perfect for creating a cohesive project. Each box also includes a digital pattern download, a spool of thread, a signature pencil, and a color challenge card. Now this is the most recent Modern Maker box. And they're 100% cotton. All of these are quilter weight cotton fabrics. And what I use these for and have found, well, endless uses. But mostly like when I'm doing like a bag lining or pocket lining or a facing where I need a cotton, I am reaching for these like one off cuts all the time. Cotton Cuts also has eight other subscription boxes. They really have something for everyone. They have a batik subscription box. They have one just for thread. And then they also have a like puzzle mystery quilt. And the signups for that start on December the third. There are 5000 people from all over the world who participate in this program. Everything is pre cut for you. So all you have to do is sew. So for those of us that are garment sewists and the idea of making like a half square triangle just like makes you want to pull your hair out. This is perfect for you because everything's already cut. All you have to do is sew a straight line and you will have a beautiful quilt top. So cotton cuts is offering a 10% off your first month subscription of any box on their site. They normally do not offer discounts on the smaller boxes. But for this gift guide, they're offering the discount on every single subscription box 10% off your first month. The code is inside the hand. All right. Next up we have my beloved ditto form. The ditto form is exactly what it sounds like. It is an exact replica of your body made into a dress form because it is an exact replica of your body. It's not just your horizontal measurements. We talk about this a lot in fitting. Horizontal measurements are important, but so are length measurements. So are shoulder slope. You have one shoulder higher than the other. One breast larger than the other. The ditto form is going to capture every single little detail of your body so that whenever you are fitting clothes, they will fit exactly like you want them to fit. They have been making continued improvements to the ditto form over the years. The latest one is instead of this gray fabric that you see here that's a little bit like a stretch jersey that can be a little bit sticky whenever you're putting fabric to fabric. They found another cover fabric that is less sticky so that you can easily pull your clothes on and off of the dress form. They have also had a lot of success with making alterations to the ditto form. They can either meet up with you to make those alterations, do a video call to show you how to do it yourself. And then thirdly, they are looking at expanding some of the ways that they do scans. Right now Carol, the owner drives around the country and scans everyone herself. Obviously that's not scalable and poor Carol probably needs a break. So they're looking at trying to do it offsite at some remote locations. So follow them on social media if you want updated information on that. But I swear to you, I got this ditto form a year and a half ago maybe and I haven't looked back. It is it's an investment but it is like I would never so without it now. So love, love, love my ditto form. Okay, next up we've got another subscription box and this subscription is for the garment sewer in every which way. So you could obviously put this under the tree as is, wrap it, put it in a bag. Really, really cute. So a cute little shacket out of that black and white plaid. Here's your pattern pieces. Everything broken down by task if you want to, you know, take a bite off it every single day and finish a beautiful shacket and then all of your notions that you need. You know, obviously every single month they are sending out new patterns, new fabric. So it's a great way for you to discover new pattern designers, try out their patterns, obviously get fabric that you don't have access to otherwise. There are video sewing tutorials for every single project. So every month there's a sew-along for whatever the project is that was sent to you. There is a sew-along for you. So if you're someone who likes to work on projects where you know you're going to get a lot of assistance and hand-holding, just get the indie stitch box. They're taking all literally all the work out of it for you. They send you absolutely everything you need to make it. You just got to turn on your sewing machine, follow the video tutorials, you know, work on the little project card and slowly, but surely you'll have at least one project every single month. As a member, you also get a say in which type of fabric you want. There's a choice between solids, prints, neutral colors or more fun colors. So if you're seeing this and you're like, I would never make a shacket out of that black and white. Just know that as a member you get a say in which fabric is sent to you. So, so indie stitch is offering a coupon to all of the gift guide watchers. It is inside the Hymn 50 and that'll get you 50% off your first box on a six or 12 month subscription and you'll also get a free J. Lee pattern. Yollie, Jolly, oh it's French, I'm so bad at that name. You get a free pattern from them as just like a bonus pattern as well. So check the description box for the link. Don't forget your coupon code. All right, so if you love SewTube, I'm trying to make that a thing, then you know who Jennifer Stern is. She is J. Stern Designs here on YouTube and socials and all that kind of stuff and she is a fitting master. Her patterns are really great, a little bit basic, but she is going, you are going to get a pattern that fits when it is done. Well, she put together an exclusive bundle just for the gift guide. How cool is that? You are going to get the easy fit and sew yoga pants. You are going to get the happy hiking belt and you are also going to get two yards of black performance knit that's perfect for both of those patterns. A yard of cutting sew elastic and bonus video tutorials to help you sew the yoga pants and the belt. Here's the elastic. It's got a nice like soft hand to it. None of that like hard elastic. I hate that stuff. And then the fabric is, oh yeah, really nice. It is the, you know, athletic legging knit of your dreams really. It's not one of those that's like super shiny and like slick, but it's not super tacky either. It's like somewhere in the middle. It's going to make beautiful yoga pants. Right? Look at the stretch and recovery, stretch and recovery. So nice. Here it is along the selvage, stretch and recovery. Really good, right? Lots of tutorials for how to pick out a size and adjust the pattern pieces, how to lay out your fabric and cut it, how to sew the pants, how to make a custom waistband, how to hem the yoga pants with a twin needle, and adjust the yoga pants for maternity even. So it's basically like a sew along for the yoga pants. And then for the happy hiking belt, there's just step by step instructions to sew the belt. All of those things individually, if you bought them on their own would total $54.99, but Jennifer is offering a little sale price or a bundle price of $39.99 for the whole bundle. So you get a $15 savings by buying it as a bundle rather than each individual piece. There's no coupon necessary, but there is a like exclusive link. Because this isn't really available anywhere yet, other than here, the link down below is the only place where you can access this product on her site. I just love that so much. So check the description box, get the link. The discounted price, the $15 off is already applied. Okay, so our next product, I'm a little bit like remiss that I have not been able to talk about it on the channel a lot so far. But so this is the iron that you guys see me working with all the time where the feet lift and lower, but it has a lot of improvements. So first of all, if we're going to talk about the little sole plate here, they now have something called diamond ceramic flow. Think about your pots and pans in the kitchen and how they have that like nonstick coating. This has something similar to that to where if you are sewing with iron on interfacing and you get those little glue bits on there and then they kind of like burn and create this like brown streaks on your plate. This is supposed to prevent that because all of it is kind of like nonstick and all that glue is supposed to just wipe right off. It's also going to get even hotter. If you want it to there is options where you can set the heat. More even distribution. These are all things that were with the original TG 1600 as well similar to the steam distribution as well. Lots of steam, lots of little holes for the steam, super hot steam, like it's just really, really great for garments in that regard. They also made some improvements to the sensitivity of the handle that lifts and lowers. I think like before it was maybe a little bit too trigger happy. What did the kids say that girl bossed a little too close to the sun? This one's a little less sensitive to where like if you're just moving it you know the feet don't move but if you put your hand on it firmly it will move each and every time. It comes in four colors yellow pink orchid which is like a purple and turquoise. The yellow and pink are in pre-order right now. The turquoise and orchid have limited supply. You can order them from the website and they will ship immediately but it is limited supply. So if you want to make sure you get this before the holidays go ahead and order right away. All of the irons are already marked down by $40. There's a $40 savings on their website right now and anything over $50 on their site ships for free. So if you've been wanting an Aliso iron this is the latest and greatest version of the iron at a discounted rate available now with free shipping. Like what are you waiting for? You have to get the iron right away. Check the link in the description box. It'll take you straight to the smart iron page on their website where you can either purchase now your turquoise or orchid or pre-order your yellow and pink. Okay so what is a sewing gift guide without sewing patterns? So our next product is the Seamwork Magazine pattern subscription for lack of a better term. Seamwork is a monthly magazine that comes with two patterns in each magazine that you can download on the first of the month. So again if you like tutorials, if you like getting help with your projects, Seamwork is going to be able to provide that for you for their patterns. Seamwork members get access to Design Your Wardrobe which is a three-week class to help you plan to sew clothes that you love to wear. So if you are coming out of the pandemic and looking at your style, looking at your wardrobe and just feeling a little bit unhappy about it, join this course and then sew for the rest of the year knowing that everything you make is very intentional for your lifestyle, for your personal style, for your closet. Seamwork just launched a new class called How to Fit with Confidence along with a free downloadable fitting journal. It's an empowering process to fit your handmade wardrobe to your body. Members get access to the class and to the community where they can post pictures of their muslins to get fitting advice. I have personally made a ton of Seamwork patterns. I love that you get two every month and they hit you right the first of the month whenever you're like really feeling like okay what am I going to get done this month? You know what I mean? They're really cute. They have a variety of styles and I feel like they really appeal to lots of different lifestyles. They also have standard and curvy sizing so very inclusive in that regard and just lots of helpful information to complete a garment that you were going to love. This holiday season Seamwork is offering 50% off all unlimited memberships as well as all gift memberships. There's no code needed. The sale will run through Christmas and you will keep that price so long as you keep renewing like as long as you have your subscription you will keep that 50% off price. Already discounted on the website when you go to join so click the link in the description box to access that and then if you're interested in the other two services that they are offering those two links will be there as well. This would not be an inside the hem holiday gift guide if I did not include one of my favorite favorite small business shops like ever. This is Stitch Buzz. You guys have probably seen me use these rulers a thousand times. I talk about them a lot as well and they are just wonderful. The exact product that I am recommending for the gift guide is actually a set of two of these this larger one and then also a smaller one but they offer the same features so each of the rulers is five eighths of an inch wide so if you need to add five eighths of an inch seam allowance like mark your seam allowances on a pattern that already has seam allowances this makes such quick work of that. You just line up the edge and mark your five eighths inch seam like you don't have to think about which line you've got to line it up to or any of that kind of stuff. This green color although you know not necessarily my aesthetic does make it super super simple to see the pattern through the ruler and see the markings on the ruler even though there's paper underneath it. If you have a clear ruler sometimes it can be hard to differentiate the markings on the ruler and the markings on the pattern so because this is green it stands out really well from your pattern pieces it makes it very easy to you know notate whatever markings you need and because it is a pattern drafting ruler it has all the curvatures that you need for like arm size necklines hip lines you know all of that kind of stuff. These pattern drafting rulers the green rulers specifically are kind of what she built her business around she had this idea first and then anything else that she came out with after that was because of the success of these so I just love that story so much I love that she had an idea and she just went with it and that the idea is really good like it's a really really good idea so if you're going to be focusing on fitting in the new year um get these pattern drafting rulers you are absolutely going to love them. Stitch Buzz has and will continue to have a coupon code for 20 off the entire store just for my followers the coupon code is inside the hem to zero the link that's in the description box already has the coupon code applied so you click that link it'll take you to her site and everything in the store will already be marked down the 20 so you don't have to worry about remembering the code but if you ever want to come back and you can't find this video you can't find the link whatever it is you can always use inside the hem to zero on her site till the end of time and save 20 on all of her rulers she has a lot of really great products so go check them out okay so let's talk about sublime graphics who is next on the list sublime graphics is a pdf printer that will print all of your indie sewing patterns they have tissue paper tracing paper and copy shop paper so no matter what project you're working on what kind of fabric you're working with they have a paper that is perfect for that project they also have sublime graphics also has proprietary magical software where if you send them the print at home file right all the eight and a half by 11 sheets that you're supposed to tape together they can digitally tape those together for you so they put it into their little magical machine and it's it's out a file um where they're able to print those all on one sheet no more tape no more creases no more um like weird puckering no more ripping like no more like messing up from all of that taping that you have to do i have a myriad of videos talking about all the benefits of using them as a pdf printer using pdf printers in general instead of taping it together um so if you want you can go search my youtube channel for any of that information but they really are just like a lifesaver for me because i don't find enjoyment in taping together the pattern pieces i'm not good at it also i don't want to spend time doing that when i could be doing something else that i really enjoy so i don't i send it off and i have someone take care of it for me um but yeah they just have a great little service really quick turnaround um a little bit of planning is necessary because you know you are sending it off to someone else and it is going to take a little bit of time but i just use that time to find the fabric gather my notions i put all the little basket and when the pattern arrives i am ready to get going ready to start cutting and it just takes all of the frustration and annoyance of indie patterns away for me and i enjoy sewing them so much more now so check the description box i'll have a link to some live graphics they do spell their name a little bit funky so be sure to check the description box and grab the link from there the next product i have for you guys actually comes to us from heat and bond and it is their pattern and stencil spray adhesive so think about a very temporary very lightweight kind of tacky spray that you use to um keep your pattern pieces attached to your fabric while you are cutting them out which means are you ready for me to blow your mind no more pinning so if you have arthritis if you have issues where pinning is just like not your jam maybe you're just not that good at it maybe it's hard to do for you for whatever reason you are going to love love love this stuff another brilliant news for this stuff is that you can use it to kind of temporarily adhere rulers so you can keep a straight line you can keep the ruler markings um straight and you don't have to worry about your ruler shifting on you so smart so the pattern and stencil adhesive is repositionable reusable like once you spray it on a pattern piece once you can use it again it kind of turns it into like a post-it note if like i can make some kind of analogy but it also does not leave a residue on fabrics obviously your patterns will be a little bit tacky but you can just leave them um on like wax paper or parchment paper and then roll them up that way and that'll also keep them nice and flat and organized as well it comes in kind of like an aerosol type of can so to really help you control the evenness of the spray and get like a nice light tacky even layer across your pattern pieces so if you want to try something really fun um if you want to just quit pinning like who doesn't want to quit pinning pattern pieces to fabric if like rotary cutters are not your jam so you have to use pins maybe try this out and that way you can still use your scissors but don't have to worry about all of the pinning also might be a great thing for children if you're trying to get your kids to sew you don't want them to be using pins because they might poke themselves in regular places but also scary places um maybe this would work to help them learn how to sew as well so so many great applications of this stuff uh check the description box for the link to that okay next up has you guys can tell the sun is slowly making its way over to me um next up we have thimbles for you and I have just loved sharing um this woman-owned craftsman product with you guys all year long so Jan is a silversmith by trade and she makes these custom beautiful beautiful thimbles I've talked to you all year long about different types of thimbles how to make sure your thimble fits why having just a five dollar thimble from the craft store is not good and that might be why you think you don't enjoy hand sewing I've talked to you guys about that a lot so in the gift guide this year I knew I wanted to include one of her thimbles and I thought the best one to do would be heart tailor's thimble so these thimbles are like rings um and they were developed by tatlers uh way way way back in the day um they used to like just wrap oh gosh what was it like little pieces of fabric or something around their fingers like hundreds of times in order to make something like strong enough word for them to use the needles and so then this type of needle was developed and made out of materials that are like hard and basically indestructible but as with all of Jan's thimbles these are just as beautiful as the clothes fingered thimbles are as well um she's got ones with butterflies and flowers and other insects and which is really really beautiful they are heirloom pieces they are things that you are going to put in your sewing box that gets passed down to your daughter your granddaughter their daughter so on and so forth it's one of those things that's going to be in your family for a very very long time they are really really special but in addition to that they also work really well and they are custom fitted to your finger um and it really really makes a big difference whenever you're doing hand sewing so whether you are somebody that's really into like couture and tailoring or if you're doing like bindings on quilts or whatever it is having a great um thimble that works for you works for your style of hand sewing and fits are like the three main components and Jan can help you with all of that you were going to love love love having one of her thimbles all right our pen ultimate item on this gift guide is the vogue swatch catalog this was a part of last year's gift guide you guys flipped for it and i totally see why hopefully all of you that got swatch catalog um memberships last year are renewing for this year but basically vogue sends out six swatch catalogs every single year as part of their membership in the catalog are actual swatches of fabric their content the price um some of them are matched up with patterns and each one kind of has a similar type of theme usually based around the season that is approaching so if you don't like shopping online because you cannot feel fabric you cannot get a good understanding of the weight or the color or whatever it is this is the way to shop online for you you get the swatch catalog delivered to you you look through all the swatches you feel them you touch them you decide which ones you want and then for a limited amount of time only swatch catalog members can purchase that fabric a lot of times they sell it out and it never ends up making it on to their regular website but it's available to you first as a um catalog subscriber um so you get first steps on all the fabrics that are in the catalog themselves the prices are really really great the variety is awesome i there's not i mean there's you just need one of these i don't know i don't know what else to say it to you in this world where like going out to a store is difficult or scary or you know any of these other adjectives having swatches sent to you picked out by someone who knows what they're doing matched with patterns from you know time to time um it's just a no-brainer it is just a no-brainer so check out vogue catalogs or vogue swatch catalog link in the description box for you there you won't regret it it's awesome the very last thing that we are going to talk about today as i am literally losing losing light here is my brand new garment sewing basics video tutorial guide it's a lot of words i know the fact that i have something to include in my very own gift guide is just kind of crazy but i spent the past few months um developing filming editing producing all of these video tutorials for very specific garment sewing skills so that i could create kind of like a course for you guys where you would be able to have access to all these video tutorials that you can watch once a million times and forever i partnered up with a company called retrieve because their product to me was provided the best way for my tutorials and you guys is learning style to kind of work together so when you watch my tutorials you will find that they are video tutorials but every single thing is also transcribed you can read through it you can skim it you can read every single word um if you get to a part where you're like not understanding the verbiage you can click on that part and the video will go exactly to where i'm saying those words so if you're like yeah yeah yeah i get all that i get all that i need like the more complicated part or the part toward the end or whatever it is you can just scroll down to that part in the transcript click on it and the video will take you there it's also available in multiple languages so if english is not your native language you can also get it in spanish and french let me know if you want other languages we can add them there as well and then the videos are also or the whole guide is also searchable so if you come to a part of a sewing pattern that says something about basting i don't know um and you're like basting what's that you can type in baste search and it'll pull up every single instance that i mentioned the word baste so there are 12 different tutorials in the guide everything from pleats darts gathers um belts and strapping set in sleeves you will be able to sew a garment from start to finish with these tutorials um with no problem you will be able to ace every single step of the garment with the tutorials that i have provided in this guide so i am giving a 40 off coupon the code is called black friday and you guessed it it runs through cyber monday and then expires so check the link in the description box use code black friday to get my garment sewing basics video tutorial guide um i hope you guys like it and are as excited about it as i am and with that said in the sunlight i will tell you that that concludes the 2021 holiday gift guide you guys happy holidays i hope that whether it's one of these tangible products or something that just fills your soul with happiness and joy that this season is the best one yet for you i genuinely genuinely hope that for you um but if you happen to get one of these products too i mean just bonus right come back after the holidays and let me know what you've got if you just shopped for yourself let me know what you've got at the end of the weekend um yeah that's gonna do it you guys thanks so much for watching bye