 Hi you guys, it's Lindsay here. A couple of weeks ago I got an email on the McCall's email subscription and every once in a while they'll do like a partner email. Actually it's not every once in a while, they kind of do them a lot. And I got one from Vogue Fabrics and saw in the email that they do these seasonal swatch books and I don't know, I was just really intrigued by that. I loved doing our Stylemaker Fabrics swatch videos and so I thought well this could be kind of cool too and the best part of it was that it was only $5 including shipping. So I was just really intrigued and I was like you know what I want to see what this is all about and I figured you guys want to see what it's all about too. So today I'm filming like what I got. I haven't opened this yet. It comes in a envelope just like a plain white envelope and feels substantial on the inside. So let's see what it's all about. So inside is like a catalog like this. It's just made from like regular kind of semi gloss paper. It's not like hard card stock and oh that's interesting. Okay so you get the catalog which is like this which is kind of just like magazine quality paper and then you get the samples separately and they're about gosh I want to say two inches by three inches or maybe four and there are a lot of them. It looks like there's 55 samples in here but you have to when you get your catalog it looks like you have to open it up and then you have to match the sample to the actual swatch. You have to match the page to the actual swatch. So for example I mean it's still cool. It's still cool. I'm gonna say that it's that it's still cool. It's just a little bit of work. I guess they didn't want to put all the samples together and they're taped together quite well. In fact I don't even know yeah I'm gonna have to get some scissors to get this open I think. All right hold on. Okay so cut this baby open. So this is samples VF 165 number 1 through 13. So it's labeled. It's labeled like this. You get a little card and it has all the sample names and then the sample numbers. So that's supposed to help you put all this together. So I have a Zingeber Navy which would be number one and this corresponds with the Zingeber Navy right here. So you can see they talk about the fabric and then you get your fabric. Can I just say how soft this is? Oh my gosh. I don't know what Zingeber Navy means. Maybe they tell me. Zingeber Navy sumptuous double-faced Vermont suede cloth. You guys that feels so good. That would make the perfect little cascade cardigan. That's what I had in my mind and then they show you like an ideal little outfit that you can make from the fabric. So that's kind of cool and well thought out. I like that a lot. So they're suggesting the what pattern is this. They only have tank top and shell. So I guess Textile Studios pattern number one two zero three is a tank top and also an outer little cardigan and so they're recommending this for that. Oh no no no no no. Okay sorry. See I'm telling you this my first time looking at this. Okay so it's the Sewing Workshop Valencia jacket and pant and so they're recommending the Navy for the pant not for the jacket but they are recommending the same type of fabric in a claret color which looks like well it's my favorite color which looks like this. They're recommending that for the jacket and then for the top there is an exquisite rayon shally print which is this really pretty floral that coordinates with these two. So this is actually pretty cool. I like how they give you the outfit. They give you a description of the fabric and how much it costs. They even give you an accessory like an earring that you can go and buy I guess from like you know someone that they partnered with for the catalog and then you get a bigger photo swatch of the print. So you can see this print is sort of small. The actual swatch is a small cut of the print too but you can see much bigger version of it down here. So that's actually pretty pretty neat. I'm I'm liking this so far and then it tells you all about the Zingerbur collection on the next page because I don't want these to get confused. So I wonder if people staple them into their catalog. That's probably what I would do like double-stick tape or something to get them to stay in there. I don't know. Okay so but on the next page it's recommending this dynamic rayon shally print which is really pretty pink and black and this like really bright yellow color and then this Zingerbur mauve Italian rayon jersey knit for a top. So they're recommending a top and a skirt. This isn't very soft but it is it's okay. It's 100% rayon so it's a rayon jersey knit. Again not super soft but I can see how I make a really great like drapey sweater top. But so yeah I think that this would be particularly helpful for anyone who's a beginner and they and I remember when I first started I just didn't understand the relationship between fabrics, their drape, their weight and all of that and how it would relate to a pattern. I made so many garments that would have been great but I just used the wrong fabric. So I think this is really helpful to kind of steer you in the right direction with the particular kind of fabrics that you're getting. They do tell you a lot about the collection. Zingerbur apparently the Zingerbur collection. Ginger is a rhizome or root packed with hot flavor. For thousands of years Chinese medicines have used ginger to aid in digestion and circulation as well as an expectorant for clearing chest congestion. There's a lot about ginger. A lot about ginger. So our I don't know what that has to do with ginger. I'm really confused. Let me read the whole thing. Spectacular fall 2016 catalog begins with four selections from Tileo and C, CIE, Zingerbur Navy and Zingerbur Claremont are incredibly soft double-faced suede cloths with cross grain stretch and great recovery. Again I'm not understanding how this is relating to ginger at all but there's a lot of history about ginger if you're interested in that. I must be missing something. They're like a winds blow cold and we reach for two things. Warming spices and layers of clothes. So grab some ginger tea or warmed mold wine and flip through our tasty textile temptation. So it looks like they're trying to correlate fall herbs and spices with clothing and Zingerbur maybe the scientific name of Zingerbur is ginger. You guys let me know in the comments about even close to understanding what is going on here. But again a lot of information about ginger and then it goes in to talk about the Zingerbur collection. I don't even know if I'm pronouncing Zingerbur correctly to be honest. But it talks a lot more about the fabrics. It talks about the soft hand and drape of the two rayons. These large prints beg to be a simple tunic skirt or flowing dress where their designs would be best showcased. And then the lovely rayon Italian knit coordinates perfectly with lighter shades. If you prefer to wear solids make a cowl neck top from this jersey to wear under a jacket of the suede. Okay so yeah it gives you a little bit more inspiration than just what's on the page here. So again I don't want to mess up the order of my fabrics here. Let me get these reorganized four and five. So yeah I gotta say I don't love how the fabrics aren't already in the book but I kind of understand why they did it that way. And for five dollars including shipping. Okay fine I'll do the work to get the samples on to the book. I think that the book itself is really well done. I was I'm really surprised to see the drawings with the samples of the outfits you can put together with the particular patterns. I feel like a lot of thought has gone on to gone into this whole thing a lot more than I was expecting. You know when we do our stylemaker fabrics swatch videos we just get the swatches and we just you know you've seen our videos like we just talked about the swatches and kind of come up with our own ideas on our own. But this gives you a lot of different options and it looks to be pattern makers that I'm not a hundred percent familiar with like the sewing workshop. I don't know that I own a pattern from them at all. Lowe's now I'm not gonna butcher this name Lowe's HENCY L O E S H I N S E I've never even heard of them. They have a Bianca blouse that's really cute never heard of it. They talk a lot about so this next page talks about the Cassia collection and again Cassia they go into the kind of the history of that spice. So yeah it looks like they've named each collection after a spice and then they'll tell you a little bit about that. I mean I would totally read through this whole thing learn a lot about spices and get inspired by a lot of the fabrics here. This is really cool. The next one is sort of like sweater it's like menswear inspired I guess so that's really cool. What is this the everyday the Dana Marie everyday hoodie. So they have sort of almost it kind of looks like an advertisement for these two patterns. You know it tells you a lot more about the pattern itself like on the on the fabric swatch pages it just gives you the name of the pattern and like who designed it but on this page it kind of goes a lot into recommended fabrics recommended notions it's sort of like the packaging of the fabric itself so you can or of the pattern itself so you can learn all that you need for that. And then yeah it goes into yeah all the different fabrics this is really inspiring it really is I feel like once I start to feel the fabrics and compare them to the suggestions that they're making it would be even more so and I probably will end up picking up a fabric that I wouldn't normally have chosen simply because I can visualize it in a way that maybe wouldn't have come to me on my own do you know what I'm saying I'm in the little jewelry section is so cute too I think that's really adorable so oh and look you can go old school and fill out a paper fabric order form how cool is that that reminds me of like I don't know magazines in the 80s or like remember those CD subscriptions you could get and you have to write out your you know 20 free CDs that you were gonna get gosh I must have done that a thousand times I lost so much money I ripped off every single time anyways it's there it's also okay so here this is answering some of the concerns that I had how to use your catalog most of our clients enjoy putting their swatches in the catalog while sipping a yummy beverage relaxing at home we recommend using double-sided tape although a glue stick regular tape or stapler can be used as well the swatches in your bag follow the order in the catalog with the exception of number 70 and higher those fabrics were not swatched for our general mailing but samples are available upon request and free to our subscribers sometimes a print is too large to swatch well or fabric is in limited supply whatever the reason we felt is better to include it and we felt it was better to include it and offer swatches to those of you who are interested I don't think they mean include the swatch and they mean include the information in the catalog alternative catalog view we know that many of you enjoy keeping your swatches in a binder or you may have clients who wish to view the swatches we have an alternative format available that will work well for you go to the vogue maverick vogue fabrics by mail section of our website and click on to this issue the link will be there on the landing page read a download and print a PDF of the format shown below and this new format is really oh my gosh it says if you do not use the internet please contact us and we'll be happy to print it in a black and white format for you at no extra charge that's so cute if you don't use the internet anyways so the alternative view is really just one page and it has the photo of the fabric and then the information below it it doesn't have a picture of the the model it doesn't have anything any information about patterns at all it's just the swatches and their information below all in a row that's all that that is so that's kind of cool that's how your brain works I could also see that being a better option for attaching the swatches to paper because you wouldn't be covering up anything that you couldn't you wouldn't be covering anything in the actual catalog you would just have to refer back and forth which is kind of annoying but and then they go into some notions so it is a little bit salesy I totally want to fill out this paper form and mail it in just like to throw back to the time before we did anything online at all I just think it's so cool anyways and then yeah it goes into like some pretty magenta colors oh there's a kind of like a boucle looking oh has some information about French Terry so you can learn about that fabric a little bit yeah this is really cool for $5 I really like this I remember it coming pretty quickly the timing is all off because a lot of this stuff came whenever I was in Canada so I don't know exactly what day it came but I remember it not taking forever so yeah I think it's really cool that's my final word on this if you want to pick up your own Vogue fabrics fall 2016 catalog head to their website I'll include a link below that will take you directly to the page where you can purchase this and yeah super cool thank you so much for watching I am off to read all about this I'm gonna read through the whole thing probably and compared to my swatches and get them all organized I feel like I have a whole morning filled up now if you enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up and subscribe if you aren't already so you never miss an upload you can follow us on social media at inside the hem thanks for watching bye