 Hi you guys, believe it or not, it's November. Yay! I can't believe it. Me neither, I know. I cannot believe it. I just said this in my style maker or my stash folder box video, like where's the time going? It's like once summer's done, August, September, then it just like flies. Yeah, it's flying for sure. But it's November the first, so that means we are here to talk about our November makes. Historically we have discussed how we did on our October makes. It seemed to me that you did really well. Well, I'm having a hard time remembering everything I said I would do, but I know this was one and this was a huge project, so I made it. The hurricane kind of messed with my sewing. Yeah, for like five days basically the whole city was completely shut down. I left. Abby went out town. I didn't have a lot of Christie for about a day, 12 hours, which honestly I was lucky. There were a lot of people who had a lot worse than me. But it was just like a really down time and I wasn't motivated to sew, even though I didn't go to work, I didn't have anything going on. I couldn't go anywhere. No one was open to go. I don't know, I just feel like I'm like down in the dumps with the hurricane. It was kind of scary, stressful too, so there was all of that. So I didn't sew at all during that time. I did cut out a pattern. I did some hand sewing when the power was out. I saw that, I saw that on Instagram. That's an accomplishment. That's true. Anyways, yeah, so it kind of interfered with my making of things, but I'm pretty sure I still did two out of three, which is kind of close for me. Yeah, that's your average. Yeah, I ended up cutting out two patterns and not sewing either one. So you're zero for three? I'm zero for three again, that's two months in a row. This is going to be the month. Yeah, I'm feeling good about these, as I am every time. I'm so bad at committing to something and then I feel like doing something else and so then I just do something else. Okay, so for this month, I do have some really fun projects planned. The first one is a little bit elaborate. I actually started planning for this project in October and ordered all the supplies that I needed to make like a legit trench coat. So I want to make version C that has the belt. It's double-breasted. It has the little cuff bands, welt pockets. So I got all of the interfacing. I got all of the notions. I got a whole new Taylor's clapper thing, but it's more than just the clapper. It's got angles to it. I can't remember what it's called. Anyways, I got all this kind of stuff that I would need to make a very well-tailored jacket. I got the shoulder pads, all the stuff. So I have it all here. So I want to do the tissue fit and then I want to make a muslin and then I want to sew it. So this might not be a project that's ready to go necessarily in this month, but I do want to get started on it and like every week kind of chip away at it. And the fabric that I have for it is the same fabric that I used to make my Kelly Anorak jacket when I tested for closet case patterns. And it's a really fine twill in this like really pretty, I mean, pretty traditional trench color. I mean, nothing spectacular about it. I did think it was a nice tone that would be good for spring and fall because it does have a little bit of depth to it. Yeah, did you see I bought some of that too? You didn't watch my story. I bought some. Those things go away. After 24 hours they disappear. So sad. I missed it. I know. All that work wasted. Wow. That's why I don't rethink that. I know. That's why I'm like, oh, I don't really know about the stories. Yeah, that's a bummer. I wanted everybody to see all the good fabric I got. I mean, people that pay attention to that probably. I mean, I won't always look at something in that time frame. I know. So that's why I missed it. Well, I bought some to make a clear coat, which I don't know if you guys can see her clear coat back there. Yes. Love it. I'm gonna make one of that. Cute. That'll be a lot of fun. You'll have to use some of my jacket techniques, my jacket tailoring techniques for the collar and all that because I look at that one and I'm like, yeah, I probably did a better job pressing in the little corner over there is not perfect. Well, I learned some awesome techniques for this little corner to my Tilly video. It's pretty perfect. Yeah. So yeah. So this is something like I said, I'm going to start on and kind of chip away at as we go. I would just be happy to get the fabric cut out this month because there are, I mean, about a zillion pieces, a gazillion. When I was cutting out the pattern pieces, when the power was out, I was like, this is never going to end. I mean, almost there's 25 in total. So yeah, there's a lot. I think all you do this month. Yeah. I mean, look at that list. Yeah. That's huge. It's gonna be beautiful. Yeah, it's gonna be really awesome. It'll be one of those fun things to kind of just keep picking back up here and there. Yeah. What's your first one? Okay. So my first thing is leopard print. Leopard print is just like everywhere this season. I've always been a big fan of it. But I've never made anything with leopard print. And actually I only have a pair of shoes that are leopard print. But I want some more. So I got this Ponte knit, I believe it is, from Style Maker Fabrics. It's from their Fall, Winter release. And I'm not sure if I want the Elmira cardigan off of Seamwork, which is basically a copy of Alley J. Do you follow Alley J? She made one. She used the different tone of this in her. So at least it'll be a little different coloring. But I just loved how hers turned out with that big tie on the side or I thought just a basic traditional cardigan or a cropped kind of like sweatshirt, but like a dressed up kind of sweatshirt. So those are my three options. If you did the cardigan, do you have like a little black dress or how would you black skirt and black tank top? I don't really thought that far through. That might help you make your decision probably. How did she style it? She looked so cute with hers. I have to go back and look at how she's styled it. Hey, and my take on is the best form of flattering. And she's basically a southerner since she's in North Carolina. So I think that's why we love her stuff so much. So it might be that. I'm not sure though. What do you think? I mean, her cardigan was really cute, but you make sweatshirts like their one-eyed style. So I could see you doing that too and wearing it. I think that would be more versatile because you could wear it with your black ponty pants. You can wear it with a black pencil skirt. You could wear it over a dress, especially if they were cropped. So I just think it's more versatile. Plus the jeans and the usual. Right. That would be more practical, but I'm not 100% so yet. Cool. Good. So my next one is a new McCall's pattern M7468. It has the cold shoulder detail, kind of like a flared sleeve, which I mean, ever since that dovetop came out, all I see are those flared sleeves. Absolutely everywhere. Yeah. I feel like I've never seen them before that. So as a flared sleeve, an elastic back, the back is elastic and the front is just a waistband. And it can be a peplum or a dress. And I really like how she has it styled with the tights and the booties. So I went to fabric.com and was looking at their, is it Telio, Teleo? I don't know how to pronounce it, whatever it is. I think in my mind I say, Telio. Okay. Looking at their Telio stuff. And I found, do you remember I was texting you about it? I found like, I don't know, probably five of them. One of them was this really amazing border print, but it was three times as expensive as everything else. And you know, it's a new pattern and I never made it before. And so I thought, okay, let's be practical about this, get one of the cheaper ones, make it a wearable muslin, and then go back and get that fabric if it really worked out. So I ended up with this black and white dot, kind of like a small scale dot. I thought it would be kind of like a good all over print for something that has, you know, because it has like all these neck bands, arm bands, waistband, so it is broken up a lot. So I didn't want to do a pattern that was to, certainly not a stripe or to geometric because then it just get broken up anyway. So what's the point? So yeah, with this, it was like six bucks a yard or something. Yeah, yeah, I actually went to cut it out today to get started on it early. And I was looking at it and I was like, shoot, I didn't pre-wash this. So I went put it in the wash, took it out of the wash. And as soon as I did that, I was like, I'm having deja vu. I totally pre-wash this, but the, but the cut-ins just don't frown or fray. And I had totally forgotten and whenever I remember, when I laid it out flat to dry, I don't always do that with everything because they don't require that. I'm like, yep, I've totally done this. So you know what, double pre-wash to help myself remember. So what I do right now is I roll it up because most of my fabrics rolled and I stick a pin in the little, so I can see that I've done it, but we ordered that sewing planner and I'm hoping I can just jot down in there that it's been pre-washed. And that's how I always know because I do the same thing. I'm like, oh, have I done it? I don't know. And then I end up doing it again, probably. Yeah. And you know, we printed out those mega Nielsen fabric cards. That's another really great way to notate. There's my stuffie in my suitcase from New York. Anyways, yeah, there's all kinds of great ways to not do what I did today, but I got a double pre-wash, so it'd be pretty pre-shrunk. It will never shrink. Hopefully not. So yeah, that's my second plan. Very good. Yeah. Okay. So I am going to be making Chaitown Chino skirt. I am actually making one right now, but it's October, so I couldn't count that for November. So this is the one I plan to make in November, but the one I'm making now is out of some Army Green Twill. And I was looking on J Crew and they had a camel color corduroy skirt that I wanted so bad. It was like $75 or something. I'm like, I can make this myself. So I ordered this from Indy Sew, but their new, their Fall fabric, Fall and Winter fabric release. It's got a little bit of stretch to it, and I just really, really love the color. It feels nice. It does feel nice. Yeah. Make sure to pay attention to that knack when I cut it out. Yes. Oh, speaking of that, Alina posted a blog post. Did you see that post she did? About corduroy, yeah. How she gave like seven tips for sewing with corduroy. So I read that, and I'm going to reread it again before I actually do anything. No, definitely. But wouldn't that look good with the leopard too? Oh yeah, so cute. See, that's another vote for cropped sweatshirt. Sweatshirt. Yeah. Anyways, so what was I going to say? I had something in my mind, but it fell out. Oh, I read somewhere where depending on which way you have the nap, I don't know if this is in her article or not, is slimming. And the other way is not slimming, never something. I can remember where I found that. Like way, you're way in brushing it? Yeah. In the way that either if it brushes smoothly down is more slimming than if it brushes rough down because it will make light or shadow. I wasn't prepared to have this lesson on this. Yeah, exactly. But I do research. Yeah. I'll see if I can try and find it. And we'll put Alina's link in the description box below and if I can find wherever this random thing I stumbled upon, we'll put that in the description box below too. But yeah, that looks really fun. Yeah. Cool. So how far along are you on the? I cut them out. Okay. Yeah, I'll cut out. Actually, that's what I'm going to be sewing up this weekend. Okay, cool. Yeah, excellent. Yeah. My next one is the is a simplicity pattern. This is actually a Craftsy kit. Craftsy had a sale recently and a bunch of their kits were marked down like 60, 70% off something like that. So I got a really good deal on this one. And I just loved the fabric so much. It has a black background with these pretty pink and blue and maroon flowers and green stems. So I kind of thought it would be one of those like seven months out of the year type of garments you could wear a bunch, especially like, you know, in the fall, you just wear like naked legs and booties. But in the winter, you can put tights on, you can put like a leather jacket over top or a jean jacket in spring. So yeah, I just thought that it would, the fabric would be well suited to wear a bunch. And then the pattern itself has this really cute flutter sleeve detail and you'll know how much I love the flounce. So it has a flounce that goes along the princess seams and then just like a, it looks like a tied maybe elastic, small teeny tiny elastic waistband and with a tie. And that's really it. So actually there's not, it's not elastic waistband, you just tie that thing around, but I'll probably add an elastic because I don't like this kind of bunchy, yeah, slipping around everywhere. And so yeah, I still add one. So yeah, Cropsy, whenever they do it up, they do a really good job at it. Yeah, I always look, but then it always turns me off because sometimes it's like you can only get a certain yardage. So it's like only the three yard is left. And like, I don't want three yards of that. Yeah, well, that's not how the kits work. The kits are pretty, yeah, they send you exactly what you need. Yeah. So yeah, awesome. So my last thing is back to the chai town. She knows. She put out the extension packet for the pants. So I got that from Indy Sew and it's just an add-on to the shorts and another corduroy. So this is a really cool rust color. This is really pretty, rusty, got some orange undertones, like just perfect for fall, winter. I thought it looked really cute with like a chambray shirt. Chambray these days is like a neutral. It is. Chambray is just like black and white. It goes with literally everything. So this fabric is from Stylemaker Fabrics. She has a bunch of different colors of this. This one was my favorite, but. Oh, my actual, oh, they kind of feel the same. They feel very similar. Yeah. Real low whale. Yeah. Well, that's just more modern. Like if you had a really high whale, that would look like 70s, 80s. Yes. But yeah, that color is really cool. They would look really cute. Aren't you planning a white, almost gauzy dovetop? Yes. Yeah, that would be really pretty. Yeah, it would be. It would be really nice. Yeah, I need to. There's so many things I would think. We just need more time. But we're going to have the holidays coming up in November. We'll have Thanksgiving break. Yeah. So if you don't spend a whole lot of time driving back to West Virginia. I'm not going to. I'm not planning on going back for Thanksgiving. It's just a spoiler alert mom and dad. No, my mom already has to be. It's just, I don't know. It's hard because of traffic at that time. It's like, it's just miserable driving. I have to leave early to come back. Yeah, I don't know. So yeah, we'll just be there looking with the holiday coming up then. Yeah, hopefully. For sure. Hopefully. Well, that's it. That's all I have. Yes. So I'm super excited to get working on these. I don't know if I'll get all three of them done. But I hope with your help, especially Lindsey's going to help me fitting my chinos, I hope. I'll show you what I know. Well, that's all we have for our November makes. Hopefully we get all three done, like we said we would. I'm going to be a good girl. We'll report back in December. Oh my gosh. That goes so hard to say December. Wow. Wow. Wait till we're like, our 2017 makes video. Yeah. We'll be crazy. Anyway, so we'll let you know in December how we did. Of course, we'll post what we do get to on our Instagram. So until next time, guys, see you later. Bye.