 Hi you guys! How is everyone? I recently did some shopping and that included six Vogue patterns. So today I thought I would show you the patterns that I got, sort of the line of thinking I had when I got them, what I might make them from, and maybe inspire you guys to make something similar or maybe even the exact same thing. I don't care. We can twinz it out if you want. Vogue is not normally like a pattern company that I like buy six patterns from. My style is not necessarily Vogue. Vogue tends to be a little bit too elevated for my everyday life. Like if I'm going to be going to like a gala or like a really like ritzy glitzy lunch or something. Yes, Vogue all day long but like I don't do those things very often but I did find some Vogue patterns that leaned into my aesthetic of like basic elevated basics essentially. I'm also finding myself gravitating toward like one big statement piece. I'm feeling very called to that right now. I think for a while I went a little bit like I just want to blend in. And not stand out at all. And now I'm feeling like maybe I'm ready to crack open that door a little bit. So some of this stuff is going to represent that hopefully. The very first one is an oldie but goodie. It is Vogue 9258 copyright 2017. Okay. And I just loved the proportions of this one here. You do get the top and the pants. And I especially loved the drama of the top. There's what you can't see is that right here there's actually a gore on both sides. So there's lots of volume but the volume doesn't just come from making it like more of an A-line. It's not just trapeze. It's like trapeze but shape but movement and all of those things together. So it's a really you know advanced drafted, advancedly drafted pattern that to the naked eye most people wouldn't see anything about it. But we know that whenever you draft patterns this way it's going to be really flattering even though there's that much volume. Does that make sense? The fabric recommendations for this are crepe, cotton, shirting, chambray, linen blends and I've got a ton of that. So if you look behind me and all my videos or most of them this is my fabric stash. Shh. Don't say anything about my fabric stash. That's between me and my bank account. Okay. On the left is all my wovens and they go from lightweight down to heavyweight. So you can see in this like middle section I've got quite a bit to choose from and I think that the reason why I'm not grabbing those and I'm buying fabrics instead is because I don't have the patterns that call for that type of fabric. I think I bought those when I was living in Charleston and in Charleston pre-pandemic it was very much fit and flare 24-7. I was wearing fit and flare dresses all the time. I loved making them. I loved wearing them. Yes, they're super flattering on me. But we have grown out of that nearly completely. Like I see them now as being a little bit like young and immature and like I don't know. I just I'm not a fan. Not a fan anymore. I don't know that I'll ever make another fit and flare dress again. Maybe one day. I've made it for the right occasion but I mean I was wearing them every day all the time and so now that I'm not wearing in the course those call for those types of like you know midway fabrics and so now that I'm not making those anymore and wearing those anymore those all those fabrics that those were the ideas that I had for them are just sitting there. So getting ideas like this in my pattern stash where I mean what's the what is the fabric requirement on the top B because I really do like the buttoned version. I mean I like them both but the button version is really cute too. I mean the button version is the cutest I think. B calls for one in three eighths yards of fabric so I got plenty of that with a little scrapbook over to make matching outfits for the dogs or something you know what I mean. So this was a good necessity you know something that fills a hole in my stash. I have a long long long been fan of Rachel Comey and her regular clothes like in her store but also what she does with Vogue and this one was no exception. I think when you guys watched the first impression video of this I said I'm getting that no question about it. I just love the proportions. I love how cool it is. I love like she just looks very trendy without trying at all. She's just like above caring and trying but she looks so cool. It's like the the whole who does this really well like Kendall Jenner. She's like I could care less about fashion but you know if you know you know she cares about it immensely and thinks about a lot of time thinking about what she's going to wear every day but when she steps out it looks like she just casually threw all that together and it looks so amazing. So that's what I feel like this is this is um very loose fitting pull over top with draped shoulders funnel neckline long sleeves pleated into cuffs back zipper and shaped hemline. So there's a lot happening in this seemingly very basic top um and then the shorts are semi-fitted through the hip have patched pockets in the front and back exposed side zipper with button and buttonhole at waistband. So again these little shorts that you can see here have a really cool I mean the shorts ended up themselves alone are super super cool. Love that they did it in a matching set I will do that too. I'm debating on a solid or a print. I think I could do some really cool stuff again well you can't really see the because these call for mid-weight cotton twill chambray and then denim but denim like not chambray not lightweight denim like chambray but lightweight denim like you know six ounces or something but on the left hand this side over here down toward the bottom those are all of those fabrics so I have some cool ones that are like curtains from Goodwill for example um that would definitely make a statement and can you see the orange and white stripe that's right there that would be really really cool. I also have um I don't know just a whole bunch of really fun things over there that I don't know if I got them to make jackets I don't know what the plan was but it definitely wasn't this and now it might be so um so yeah I'm really excited to make this one this is gonna happen soon because it's the time of year to wear this well not today it's like 40 degrees here but um in a few weeks it'll be 50s and 60s on the regular and this is perfect for that so excited about that and then let me make sure that I got all this yeah so if you follow me on instagram um then you know that I have been on a bit of a tear about knits and granted yes my knit column is very full but I don't know for some reason it's not full of the things it's the fabrics are it's the same thing with the woven's really like I got those fabrics very specifically to make fit and flare knit dresses probably um and every time I go to make something none of those call out to me like at all so I thought okay I'm gonna buy a bunch of knit patterns because I was even going through my knit pattern stash and was kind of uninspired by that as well so this is what I got from vogue knit pattern wise first up is this okay this is vogue oh I had to buy the I had to buy the display version I why did they do that that seems so silly even the people in the store are like yeah we don't know why they do that um I guess because they only print so many of those but it's vogue 1 9 2 9 1 9 2 9 go back in and it's it's a statement right like this feels I'm not 100% sure on this probably because the length of the tunic I do like the idea of this pant though just with a different top but I'm obsessed with this like I don't know where this with knee high boots or even my thigh high boots I want to I want to dress it down a little bit which is what they tried to do here um but I'm very much into the like kind of showing off the figure a little bit I'm not really afraid of showing my curves anymore I don't know if that's because I turned 40 and like I'm just like who cares um but I just think this is both very it's chic it's sexy it's all the things wrapped up into one I just really really love that and the fabrics for this are 35 cross grain so that's all of your jerseys ribnets ponty nets that I mean there's just so many that you can wear from them and with the with the amount of like the different types of knit fabrics that we're able to buy online these days um I feel very confident that I could make this in a very suitable fabric I'd probably even have something in my stash already um knits are over here I mean I don't know if you can see that blue and green stripe that would be perfect that's sort of like a lightweight ponty it feels a little early 2000s because I was going to make it into a pencil skirt remember j crew did that remember the green like it's like green and navy blue striped knit pencil skirt remember that I mean like I feel like everybody in their brother had one and you wore them with the chambray button down shirt tucked in and then a big chunky necklace remember um so I got that fabric at that time thinking I would make that and I never did because I was like no I'm not no everybody already has that I want to make something new and different so it stayed there thinking that maybe like it would come back around again like trends come back around so we were creeping up to the 90s or coming back so the 2000s are next so we'll see um what comes of that but um let's see I have yeah I just have a lot of interesting fabrics in there but not all like this one where it's like I don't know what they use this almost feels like a sweater knit so they're not all like sweater knits they're not all this lightweight um I do have to be mindful of this drape but I I think something is gonna there's also like oh you can't see it probably but there's a black and white there's a black it it's like black background with like white like little blobs little but they're similar in shape um all over it that would be really easy I don't know I have to throw some things on my dress form and see what a full you know head to toe almost um not cut up in any way looks like before I cut this one but this feels like what I'm gonna be for the next 20 years like I still want to be like the hot sexy grandma I'm not actually gonna be a grandma though because I don't have any kids but you know what I mean the hot sexy um AARP member okay next is a bodysuit bodysuits are here and they're not going anywhere um so this is vogue's version this was from 2018 one for every season right really easy straightforward you can make this from a zillion fabrics this one is 75 stretch so we are going for the more lightweight drapey but you can always size down and then go with the less stretch wait size up and go with less stretch yeah um let's see so they're just really calling for jersey interlock wait I lied I lied I lied the bottoms are they're super stretchy everything else the top is 35 percent stretch the 75 percent stretch down here all your jerseys like your little underwear fabrics and then this one up here is 35 jersey and interlock so again all the remnants I mean really anything from in the top cubby down those first two cubbies would be perfect speaking of which I also got this bodysuit how stunning is she um this is vogue 1923 and I just love that shoulder detail I feel like that with wide leg jeans that with flares that with um pencil skirts I mean you can really dress it up or dress it down this was around the holidays last year so it got a velvet treatment but there um it's really just any 75 stretch for the whole thing there's no separation here's the line drawings there's no separation between the bodice and the bottoms you could put one you could do exactly like they did here and separate it if you wanted to but oh this one does not have that naturally um so you're looking at rayon spandex cotton spandex um again remnants would be a really good choice I mean 75 percent stretch is pretty stretchy um I wonder why I wonder how are you would think that it would be less stretch so that this stays on your shoulders well I don't know I might mess around with that a little bit and go down to like a 50 percent and see what happens with fit um but yeah it's just really elegant but it could also be dressed down too you know so that's gonna happen and then lastly another sort of out-of-the-box choice for me you guys might think is vogue 1913 I talked about this a little bit in my joanne fabric haul video that I just posted but these little like one piece knit fitted jumpsuits are everywhere like everywhere everybody is grabbing them up and at first I was like I could just never like a cat suit really but I decided you know what there must be something about it or else everyone wouldn't be just like buying them all out of stock so I got one off of amazon its long sleeves has thumb holes and just like a long comes down to the ankle I was like I've never felt better I felt like unstoppable um that said it is a little bit tricky to wear because I'm not wearing it outside just like that I mean if you do if you have that amount of confidence by all means go for it I just don't want I don't I don't no I don't want to wear it by itself I love the idea of it with a long blazer or a long cardigan super easy I love the idea of it with a cropped sweatshirt great and then you can even throw like sweatpants on underneath it or over it and then have like a you know tank top sweatpants situation um in the wintertime you know how people wear like black tights and then like a black turtleneck and a sweater over it you could do that but just one piece instead of the two separate leggings and tank top um and and call me crazy but I love the stirrups I think the stirrups are really cool I saw who was it and where maybe like somebody like Mariah Carey or Paula Abdul someone of that like demographic and they were wearing them and rocking them and I just thought that was the coolest so uh obviously the stirrups you can again dress up or dress down you can you know have them into your your heel if you want that's not the vibe I'm gonna go for I don't think um but even if you warm in a boot it just covers it up and just keeps the legging inside the boot it kind of just makes sense um so the fabrics on this one for b are again four-way stretch knits 75 on the cross grain rayon spandex cotton spandex but there's so many more fabrics that you can use for something like this um even the 75 cross grain is a little bit um flexible because some of these compression fabrics will stretch out that much and have great recovery at the same time so that you feel like super snatched you know what I'm saying so I'm really unhappy with what I got in terms of filling holes in my stash and also staying current and staying on trend that something's very important to me just personally for my personal style um as it continues to evolve I mean you guys have had this channel for like 13 14 years maybe longer than that so you really have seen me if you've been here from the beginning you've seen me go through it okay so this is where we are now and I feel like I'm dressing the best I ever have in terms of uniqueness and also like what feels good and looks good at the same time if you've made any of these I would love to know how it went um how the sizing went how what fabric you used all of that stuff um so that's gonna do it for me today y'all thank you so much for watching and I will see you very soon bye