 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. It's reveal day for my social mashup. I am so excited to tell you guys about this dress. But before I go over every detail, here's some footage I took showing exactly how I altered the pattern pieces to get them to mash up this way. All right, so I have pulled out the front and back bodice pattern pieces from the pattern where the bodice portion of my dress is coming from. I am going to be making version B, which has the tie neckline, not the wrap, and this little sleeve. The sleeve is a little bit irrelevant for this part, but I need to make sure that I am using the pattern pieces for A and B, which I've got A and B, A and B. Okay, so now what I need to do is I need to find the waistline of these pattern pieces. And thank you very much, big four, they always have the waistline marked. This is a bit of a blouson or a blouson design, meaning it like billows below the lower waist where it attaches to the panty. I am going to make a true waistline. I don't want my skirt to start way down here on my high hip. I want my skirt to start at my natural waist. That's also going to make it easier for me to attach the skirt because the skirt waistline is at your natural waist as well. So once you identified the waistline, you need to carry out this line all the way across. To do that, I simply used my hem gauge and I measured all the way across like so. And then I took my styling design ruler. This is from Nancy's Notions and I lined up all the lines and connected them all. I'm going to do the same thing for the front bodice piece. And then I'm going to trace this all out onto tracing paper. Okay, here they are all traced out. The front is very straightforward. I just traced it exactly like the pattern piece. You want to remember to add your seam allowance, so 5 eighths of an inch below the waistline is where I cut the front. Then for the back, it gets a little bit trickier. I did the same thing with the waistline, adding the seam allowance there. But this back piece is actually cut on the fold. There isn't a seam there. And because in the original pattern, you climb into the garment through like stretchy panty, we are going to have that accessibility once we make it address. So I needed to add seam allowance to the center back seam so that we can add a zipper later, making it really easy to zip on and off. Okay, and in addition to the bodice pieces, I also gathered up the sleeve. I need the front facing and the back facing for the top as well as the little tie detail that hangs from the neckline. So that is all it for the bodice. And honestly, the hardest work is done. The skirt is very easy because there are no alterations. So here is the pattern for the skirt I'm going to be using. I'm going to be using this, I think it's like a half or quarter circle skirt, not this more fitted one. And we're just going to attach it. You can see that the waistline is already five eighths of an inch below the cutting line. So that is going to fit perfectly into our waistline. And then the center back here already has the seam allowance for the zipper as well. So we don't have to add anything or do anything fancy to the back, nor do we have to do anything fancy to the front. The only only thing we want to double check. And this is especially this kind of doesn't apply to mine because mine has this blousey effect. But if you are doing a fit and flare where your bodice is fitted to a kind of waistband or waistline that is fitted, you're going to want to double check your finished garment measurements at the waistline. You should have one for your bodice and one for your skirt. Where you'll find those pieces sometimes are on the skirt pieces. Sometimes they're on the waistband pieces. Sometimes they're on the bodice pieces, but wherever they are, you just want to make sure that they are going to match up. And if not, then trim accordingly. But like I said, mine is going to gather and it's going to blouse over the top of the skirt. So if the bodice top, I mean, sorry, the bodice waistline is bigger than the skirt waistline. That's actually kind of part of the design detail. So you can see here, we pull these things up to each other and line up the center fronts on the fold line. You can tell that one of them is going to be longer than the other by about, this is literally guessing, but by about however many inches that is three, maybe more like two and a quarter. But again, I want that lousy effect. So I'm not going to make any adjustments. I want the bodice to be bigger than the skirt. And so now you just proceed like you normally would and you go about cutting out your pattern pieces like normal. So it really was that easy and humble brag. The results are glorious. I'm so in love with my dress. And the best part is that since it's a mashup, I can pretty much guarantee that no one else in the world will have my dress. Well, unless some of you are inspired to go make your own exact version, then we'll just be twins. And that's awesome too. I was just in New York City and chic fabric where I got this fabric, I think last year still has some. So if you're in the area, you should go check it out. I loved working with it. It's a midweight polyester or something or another. They're not very specific in the garment district. I love how weighty it is, but it's still swishy, you know, those technical terms. Okay, now to the patterns. As you saw, I used the bodice of Simplicity 8789 and the skirt of Butterick 6676. Simplicity 8789 is a bodysuit pattern from earlier this year or maybe sometime in the fall of last year. The website describes it as a bodysuit blouse with a knit bottom featuring a snap crotch closure, front and sleeve variations and gathers to give you that perfect tucked in look. If you remember, I made the bodysuit version of this pattern for the Stylemaker Fabric Spring Style Tour out of a rayon shelly. I chose the bodice because I knew I wanted a flared sleeve and a blousey, billowing top. In hindsight, I could have lengthened the bodice a little bit to give it an even more dramatic blousing effect. Butterick 6676 is a dress with an invisible zipper, semi-fitted bodice with or without front neckline slit, side tabs or front ties. View A has an A-line skirt with front pleats, views B and C featured flared skirts with a stitched hem. Separate pattern pieces are included for cup sizes A, B, C and D. I chose this skirt in particular because I wanted one that was only slightly flared. I knew my fabric would not hold pleats or gathers very well because it's so mid-weight and kind of thick, so I eliminated patterns with those details right away. A partial circle skirt like this one is so flattering on so many body types because it floats gently away from the body without being too poofy, big or flared. It's slim without hugging the body. After cutting out the pattern pieces that I showed you, I sewed the bodice per instructions and then the skirt per its instructions. Then to attach them together, I gathered up the bottom edge of the bodice until it fit the circumference of the skirt's upper cut edge. This means the bodice is gathered, but the skirt is not. I inserted some quarter inch wide elastic into the waist seam allowance for ease of movement. Then I threw in an invisible zip up the center back and voila! A mashed up dress. My boyfriend said that this looked like a high-end designer, like Prada, which I thought was really sweet. I love my dress, especially because, in a way, it's my very own design. My partner in crime for the social mashup sewing challenge was Lori from Girls in the Garden. Please head over to her blog to see the adorable jumpsuit she made. She is such a master at pattern mixing and I adore her make. You can also check out the hashtag social mashup on Instagram to see all of the awesome mashups that everyone has made this month. Everything from wedding dresses to leotards were submitted and I just don't know how we're going to pick a winner. If you haven't entered yet and are a super fast sewist, there's still time. The contest closes on August 31st at midnight and all the rules to enter are on my Instagram. Even if you don't make the cutoff for the contest, I encourage you to try a pattern mashup sometime. It's a lot of fun and really taps into a creative side that we don't normally get to use. Imagine a look and make it happen, regardless if there is a pattern that looks exactly like what's in your head or not. Let me know if you have any questions about pulling it off and until next time, I will see you all very soon. Bye!