 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel Inside the Hymn. So today's video is for all of the moms out there in the world. I am trying to help all of you out by providing a gift guide for Mother's Day. So if you are a mother and you're expecting a gift of some sort, then I want you to share this video with your loved ones, be it your husband, your family, your children, whoever it is that is responsible for making you feel super special on Mother's Day. Click the share button, which is just below the viewfinder, the video player of this video, and share this video with them. And if you are the loved ones who received this video from someone and you're wondering, what the heck am I watching? This is my Mother's Day gift guide for the mom who sows. I am a psoist and I am going to share with you some really cool gift ideas that you can give to the mother in your life, whether it's your wife or your daughter or your sister or your friend or whoever it is. So I've got some really cool gift ideas that the sower in your life, the mother sower, sower who the mother in your life will really love. And I kind of came at this with thinking about things that mothers typically struggle with when it comes to sowing. And I kept going back to time. I kept going back to moms are busy, moms are distracted. And so a lot of these gifts are going to be able to help them kind of weave sowing into their motherhood life and make sowing more of a fun process for them rather than a time-consuming one. I can't make them sown any faster. That I cannot do. But I can certainly help cut time from the things that lead up to sowing the actual garment. So here we go. The first thing I have is actually three different gifts sort of in one suggestion. So I love a subscription. Whether that is to like a food delivery service where they deliver the meal kits to you, whether it's trial sized versions of makeup and skincare that show up on your doorstep, whatever it is, I just love a subscription because I don't have to think about it, especially when it comes to sowing. I have three different subscriptions that are available. There's kind of a lot, but I heard it down to three that I've used and that I love and that I think will help the mothers in our lives get to sowing sooner without having to worry about the research and the shopping and this that and the other thing. Okay? So the first one is a pattern subscription service and this is called Seamwork Magazine. So Seamwork Magazine is an online digital magazine that when you subscribe to it, you can, I think there's two different levels of subscription services where you can get either one or two sowing patterns delivered to you every month and they release new patterns every month along with the magazine. So you have their entire back library, their entire previous catalog that you can choose from with patterns and then also new releases coming every single month. So being able to just want to sew and have a few minutes to sew and think, okay, what am I going to sew? You don't have to run to the store to get a sewing pattern. You don't have to scour through thousands and thousands of online sewing patterns. You can just go to your Seamwork catalog and find a pattern that you love, download it, print it and get to sewing right away. So Seamwork Magazine is my gift suggestion number one part A. Number one part B is kind of a fabric. Well, it is definitely a fabric subscription, but you don't actually get the yardage of fabric. We'll get to that in part C, but this is a fabric swatch subscription called Julie's Picks. Julie's Picks is part of fabricmarkfabrics.com so you would go there, sign up for Julie's Picks and every month she will get a little catalog like this with all these different fabric swatches in there. And this is really great because if you are just learning about fabrics or if you're not quite sure what fabric you want to use for a certain project, this is going to provide you with tons of different options. You'll get to feel the fabrics. You'll get to see them and what they really look like in real life rather than on a computer screen where the light of your screen or the light of the photos that they took could misrepresent the colors a little bit. You get to see them in real life and they send a bunch. I don't know exactly how many. I'm going to estimate like 50 different swatches every month of all different kinds of fabric. So it's a really good way to narrow down the process of finding fabrics and also eliminate the guesswork of like, is this really going to work for my project? Is this really the color that I want? So Julie's Picks is a really great way to speed up the process of finding fabrics for your garments. It also has pattern suggestions. So if you see a garment that you love and what am I going to make with that? A few of them in here do have patterns that they've matched with them. So you know you could knock out a project and feel very confident that the pattern and the fabric are going to mesh well together which makes for a really great garment. So gift idea number one part B is Julie's Picks. And just in case you're wondering the description box down below here's how you access it. It's going to have links to all of these products. So you don't have to worry about taking notes or anything like that. It'll all be in the description box easy for you to find and click through to buy whatever gift you want for your the mother in your life. Okay. Okay. And gift idea number one part three is actually a fabric subscription box. It is called cotton cuts and within cotton cuts there are I think four different subscriptions that you can get where you actually get fabric yardage delivered to your door every month. The one that I like the most is called Modern Maker. And that's because you get three one yard cuts in your box every month. And I like to have a lot of yardage as a garment sewer. I find that to be more useful in my life. If you're the mother that we're shopping for is a quilter then some of the other boxes might be better options for her. But if she's a garment sewer I think she's really going to want the full yard cuts. And the Modern Maker box I think has a larger version and then a smaller version. So I get the larger version and it comes with a quilt pattern. First of all that you can use or pass along to a friend or you know whatever you want. It comes with a really cute pencil. I know this seems silly but the pencils have little quotes on them that I just adore. This one says I can totally make that. And it's just a fun little kitschy thing that I know if the mother we're shopping for likes to sew. She's going to love the pencils too trust me. You also get a spool of thread. This is Aurifil thread which is 100% cotton. It's really great quality thread. And then okay so to the fabrics you get this cute little package of fabrics. And they come wrapped just like this. An adorable little package every month. And they are three like I said three one yard cuts. But as you can tell they all are from the same line of fabric so they all kind of match each other. So even though it's just one yard cut three times you can mix and mash them and you'll have you could essentially make a garment that requires three yards of fabric or slightly less. Because they're all going to go together if you sew them into the same garment. Does that make sense? And also one yard cuts are really great for small little craft projects or little scraps that you need for your garment sewing like pocket bags or waist band facings. There's a lot of really great things that you can do. So this is not the fabric that you would receive in May for the Mother's Day box. I think this is this must be April's box. So but there is a deadline associated with the Modern Maker. So well actually with all the subscriptions that I mentioned today. So you want to make sure that you can hop on over there quickly and go ahead and sign up if you're interested because there will be a cutoff date in which the box won't arrive until June. Maybe that's okay with you. You could make a cute little card you know and say this is what's coming. But it would be really great if you could say here's a box of fabric for example. And they're like oh okay cool and then you can tell them and by the way this is going to continue to come every month for the next two months or however long you get your subscription for. I think they start at three months and then go up to six and then twelve. So you can check that out. But it's good quality 100% cotton fabric. They're always very very different and variety in terms of month to month. And you know you can make some really cool stuff with them. This is one that came in like I said in April. It's got this really cute one too. So they're usually more modern designs rather than hence the name Modern Maker but more current more fresh designs than you know a coulter might actually use. But they sometimes they scream to me like a specific garment like a tank top. Sometimes they scream to me specific projects like an apron. So you could really use them for lots of different things and you know I always love the fabrics that come in the Modern Maker box. Whether or not it's something I would have picked out for myself or not I always end up finding something that I can make with these. And it's just so great having these one yard cuts on hand when inspiration strikes. And it's kind of like Christmas every month getting a box that you have no idea what is inside. It is really a lot of fun. So cotton cuts has been super generous and they are offering all of my viewers a coupon code. So enter the coupon code that's on your screen right now to take advantage of that in order to get your box for May. So like I said before there is kind of a time element to this. You definitely don't want to miss out on the May subscription. So head on over to Cotton Cuts and order up your subscription if this is something you think that the maker in your life would really love. And I do so I think that they would too. Okay so that is one gift idea. Three gift ideas kind of bundled into one in the umbrella of subscriptions. Love a subscription. Okay so the next gift idea have is kind of just for inspiration and kind of just to make a really great fun creative space. Like I mentioned before in thinking about the gift ideas for this video I was kind of channeling you know how busy a mother is and how you know she only has a few minutes here and there to jump into her sewing room and get something done. So I found these little gifts that you could get her that would just make her space somewhere that she really wanted to be and they're also quite practical as well. So the first one has been circulating around the sewing community for a while. So maybe double check and make sure she doesn't have them already. But it is these really cute button pattern weights and pattern weights are used to hold down your pattern to your fabric so it doesn't shift around while you're cutting it out and these are just really really adorable. They're also very functional because they're very large and they're really cute. Everyone loves those and quite honestly even if she does already have a set of these in my opinion you can't have too many. So getting a second set would still be kind of cool. They also have these really cute thimble shaped cups where you can put everything from pens and pencils to measuring tools to whatever it is that you want to store in kind of like a cup shape. The thimble one is really cute as well. And then there's also these little gift cards that will not give cards but they're like just little blank cards. Actually I have one here. These were inspired by vintage couture gowns. Like for example this one is by Christian Dior. It's an actual gown that he designed and they're on these really cute cards that are completely blank inside and blank on the back. So these are great. You can hand them out you know as thank yous for the many different scenarios she said where she needs a thank you card on hand really quickly or she could frame them and make a cute little design for her sewing room. So there's I think 20 different gown designs in the set. So it's just really cute and fun and very personal to someone who sews to hand out a card that speaks to fashion and sewing and all of that. So all three of these gifts come from a shop called Style Maker Fabrics. So I'll have in the description box below the links to where you can access these three little gifts by one by all whatever you feel. Coincidentally Style Maker Fabrics has really great fabric too so if you wanted to throw in a gift card I don't think anyone would complain about that. So my third and final gift idea is actually a machine that is going to cut the fabric for you. I know it's crazy mind blowing but it's awesome and in the world in the vein of saving time I don't think anything could be more time saving than someone cutting and marking the fabric for you. So it's called the Cricut Maker Machine and it can cut anything from super thin fabric like cotton all the way up to like leather pieces and even things that aren't fabric if you wanted to get into a whole other realm of crafting. But the way that works is it has this little rotary blade that you pop into the machine and because the rotary is like a wheel it can cut corners, it can cut round shapes, it can really cut anything and it's very very precise because it's you know rolling over the fabric to cut it like a pizza cutter rather than dragging it through like a knife wood if that makes sense. There are some limitations to it though because it's a machine and the machine is only so wide you can only cut certain things I mean you can only cut certain projects like you can't cut projects that require a lot of fabric like a dress for example because the skirt of a dress is wider than the machine but there are still thousands of projects that you can cut super fun things to have around the house, things that you can make for your kids. There are things you can make for yourself but they're just smaller so they'd be more like accessories like a headband or bracelet or something along those lines. Let's see oh all of those patterns are loaded into this thing called the Cricut Design Space. They've even partnered with Simplicity Patterns which is like a major pattern maker so a lot of them are already loaded on so it's just a couple of clicks and you're off to the races the machine is cutting the fabric for you. It's really really cool so I'm going to link down below to where you can get a Cricut machine. They are you know more expensive than anything else I've suggested here but it is a machine that they'll be able to use in many many different facets many different ways. It's not just limited to fabric like I said you can cut paper you can cut little pieces of balsam wood you know you could really go all out if your wife or your the mother in your life is not just a sewage but also a crafter she has the Cricut Maker machine on her wish list trust me. So with that then I guess those are my gift ideas this completes the gift guide for Mother's Day. I appreciate all of the friends and family of the mothers sticking with me and watching this stranger tell them what to buy for the sewist in their life but if she has forwarded you this video then she knows that I know what's up what's awesome and what everyone really wants if they are a sewist. So thank you to everyone happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful hardworking bad you know what mother's out there you guys rock. I'll see you all next time bye.