 Hi you guys! I'm Lindsay and welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. Today we are going to be going over all the things that I've made in January. Is it just me or has this been like the longest month ever? Like as I was pulling out the things I've made I was like I feel like I made this like two or three months ago but no it was just two or three weeks ago. I think because so here in Charleston it's a very not tropical climate but it is hot and humid um and like never snows and then we had this historic snowfall where like five six inches of snow fell and piled up. See I don't even know how to talk about snow um and so the whole city shut down like there were no restaurants no gas stations no school no work nothing like nobody did anything for like five days and even our airport shut down no one could come in or leave for that matter um it was crazy so I had just a lot of free time on my hands where I was just stuck here at home with nothing to do I didn't lose power or anything like that so I just had lots and lots and lots of time to sew so naturally in a snowstorm one makes sun dresses I know it seems silly and like counterintuitive like you would think you'd be wanting to make like warm clothes not me because I knew this was a flash in the pan this was all going to pass and then it would be another 20 years before we saw snow again um it has been really cold though so I haven't been able to film any of them because like I'd get a hypothermia like going outside and trying to film these sun dresses so starting to warm up a little bit I'll go out and I'll be able to get some um photos or some video of me in the dresses but for now you'll have to deal with just seeing them on a hanger okay so the first one oh shoot do I even know what pattern this is eek maybe not um I'll have to look it up and then do like a little overlay so this pattern is whatever it says right here um this is it um it is a really great I want to say rayon twill maybe silk rayon twill I got this fabric from a shop in Montreal that I can't remember the name of right now um who it's almost borderline like an elliott bierman type of store if you're familiar with new york city's fabric shops I mean everything in there is like silk everything in there is really expensive everything in there is really nice um so this actually is the most expensive handmade item that I own but my boyfriend gifted me the fabric because we were there for our anniversary so um and it was nine years which is a lot um so he gifted me this which was really nice so I ended up making just a fit and flare dress it has princess seams and a circle skirt um and yeah I just really love it I put in a green invisible zipper which I thought was really fun and cute little sleeves and yeah I just think this is going to be a really great Charleston dress I did also get some blue suede shoes which are pretty much exactly like this blue color here um so it's kind of like a matchy matchy moment going so I've got a whole like thing planned for this as soon as the weather warms up I now I'll be wearing this one a ton so yeah I'm really excited and when I wear it I'll think of my boyfriend since he got me the fabric they had a few different colorways of this one but I was just so drawn to this bright lime green isn't that just so pretty with the purples I really love this fabric so much and it's really like substantial like I feel like this is going to hold up and last like a really long time which I'm excited about so yeah there's that one we just toss that on the floor for a minute okay the next one is something really fun that I threw together honestly in like an afternoon um I got this fabric most of you saw it on my Instagram um I went to Joanne and this is part of their new line called like Endless Sea or something like that um and basically it is like a cotton-shirting stripe it looks like seersucker but it's not actual seersucker it's just striped cotton and it has this gorgeous like embroidered um border so it's a double border so each selvedge edge has this on there I want to say I got a yard and a half and it was enough for this but not a lot left over like I didn't have a lot of the border left over at all um so I wouldn't go less than that if if I were you um but this pattern is the um Seamwork Loretta and I saw a lot of you picked up subscriptions to Seamwork after my favorites video that I posted earlier this month um and I apologize I don't know why I thought it was six dollars a month it must have been when I started and then they changed it and I just never paid any attention to it whatever it is it's still very affordable I want to say it's maybe eight dollars now a month um for the two patterns and then they have another option where you can just get the one and it's even cheaper I didn't still commit it to memory obviously but um but either way so I apologize if I misled you in any way I did not mean to do that I was just going off memory um which I probably shouldn't have done and I'm still doing it so I haven't learned my lesson yet so basically don't listen to anything I have to say just go to Seamwork.com I'll leave a link in the description box where you can um get there and get a subscription so that you can download this pattern for yourself but I just thought it's really cute so you'll see when you get there you can either wear it up on your shoulders like this or you can pull it down because this is elastic to over your shoulders like so so it can be kind of like a fun flirty little thing and obviously I put the hem maybe I should do on this side there's plenty of room um I put the border on the hem here and then I also did the entire sleeve so when you get this pattern both this hem and the sleeve hem are curved and you just need to straighten those out in order to get them to lay on the hem which at the end of the day you can't really tell when you're wearing it that it's not a curved hem um so it doesn't really matter but yeah it was really quick to sew up guys like I mean I think I did it in the course of like one movie from taking it all together cutting out the pattern cutting out the fabric and sewing it up I think it took maybe two or three hours so really fun really cute top I can't wear it to wear it with like jeans or like white jeans or you know something like that so love it right super cute um okay what else um I also made okay so what's on top here this one's on top I talked about this a little bit in my plans video if you saw that um let me get this out this is half of the Cynthia Rowley 2250 pattern and it's only half because this is a beast of a pattern you guys it's taken me already like three working days like I want to say maybe a total of like 12 or 15 hours that sounds like a lot has it been that many maybe not I don't know but it's taken me a long time like three days in a row of only working on this not only like I also did other work and just in terms of sewing time three days of sewing time um and all I've got is this bodice but it's underlined and it's lined and I added boning to it and you can see there's like a gazillion pleats and darts and there's gathering in the back there's elastic back there there's these tabs like there's a lot going on but I think it's coming together really well and I'm super excited about it so this is like a work in progress but I am really proud of this bodice so I wanted to include it in my January makes because I made it all that's left is the skirt which the skirt has also pleats maybe like two or three on the front and back and then inseam pockets and then a back zipper and hem and then I'll be done so it is like the I'm drawing in I'm finishing it but um but either way wanted to show you where I got to that next up is this also technically still I'm falling um technically still a work in progress but barely like I've got 30 minutes left um I need to sew the lining for the arm side and the lining for the waist band and finish the hem but this is buttery B 5 4 9 0 it's a Susie chin pattern I've made this one I want to say this is my third one and you guys know me I don't remake patterns very often at all but I always get compliments on this one whenever I wear my other versions so I made another one this fabric is from Elliot Beerman Elliot Beerman in New York City um I can't remember what it is but I think that it's a rayon um or viscose because they import a lot from Italy a viscose I have no idea maybe cotton viscose well I'm definitely getting cotton and viscose feel from it but I can't remember what type of fabric it is but anyways this is it um did I put yep I also got inseam pockets it's got a back zipper which as you saw from the front I did a hot pink zipper for which I thought was really cute and it just has these really great like front pleats I guess I'm just really into pleats right now um so the fabric is really nice it is sort of heavy and substantial but I thought that that would be really cute with the pleats all the pleats in the skirt it's going to really create that like bell shape that I think is really cute in the inflair dresses so yeah so that's that and it's monochromatic well it's just like all neutrals you know and honestly I don't have a lot of fabrics or a lot of garments like that in my closet all of my dresses are usually like colorful and bright um and so I'm not sure why I was drawn to this I remember himming and hauling about it in the store and then finally I was like okay I'll just get enough to make a skirt but whenever I got back here I realized you know what I have enough for a whole dress so why make a skirt when you can make a dress that's my motto so yeah so that's this one really cute excited to finish it up hopefully I'll do that like any day now okay the next thing um I have committed to a refashion a month one refashion per month um and now that I mentioned it I didn't include that in my plans video I have the fabric and everything darn oh well you'll have to be surprised um and so this month I decided to do butteric 5181 which is this dress here and really I chose it because I knew the bodice the way the bodice is designed would have a lot of smaller pieces and that's usually best for a refashion because you don't have like yardage and yardage and yardage to work from so this is it I made it out of a velvet um it's actual velvet not the lower I don't think um anyways and honestly the pattern it's very low cut it's really really low cut so I wore it last night we had date night we went into dinner and saw a magic show Adam Trent do any of you guys I guess it's part of like the Broadway tour so he was on Broadway for a while he's been on Ellen anyways he was really funny and the magic was good um it's not like a huge like multimillion dollar production or anything but the magic was really good and you could tell he's like very passionate about what he does which was really nice anyways so I ended up wearing this but I wore like a black turtleneck underneath it I actually took video footage before we went um to create like its own video so you can see what the dress looked like before I cut it all up and what it looks like now so hopefully I'll have that edited and posted maybe next week sometime um either way so stay tuned for that but you know here it is doesn't look like much on the hanger just a gathered skirt has a wide waistband and then has these like shaped cups um with a very very low V um so keep that in mind if you are generous up top um I wouldn't recommend this pattern you'll be falling out everywhere but it works um as like a pinafore or like as a jumper you know with something underneath it I think that's mostly how I'll wear it either the tank top underneath it or maybe I can find a cute bralette or something you know the lacy ones that look like clothes even though it's a bra um anyways so there's that um also I should mention what I'm wearing is a january make this is the somai style january project it is the sunny top from friday patterns if you're not participating in somai style or you are but you aren't a member of the facebook group then you don't know but there this pat oh gosh I don't know I never know how to say bad things about patterns there were a lot of issues with this pattern for a lot of people having everyone in that base group together talking about the same exact pattern you could see some definite trends popping up namely with the shoulders um also just with the fit like I ended up cutting an extra large and it was too small um so I wear medium in the stores if that gives you any point of reference there I ended up having to add like four inches to the waist and like even more to the hip um I ended up like there has a rounded him and I just don't feel like that's very flattering for people with hips um so I ended up taking most of that out um I added a neck band instead of the fold over and top stitch method that was a lot of people were having issues because you want to use like a lighter weight knit and a lot of times you'll get a lot of like rippling if you do that fold over method and you don't have the proper um like what's that stay tape or any of that kind of stuff you get funky looking necklines so a lot of people ended up being really discouraged a lot of people ended up swearing off knits and saying what what did I even get into this which was really hard for me to read because I just know that this is not representative of what it's like to sew with knits necessarily you just kind of have to know a little bit more about what you're doing and a lot of people is their very first time sewing with knits at all a lot of these people I feel like are beginner sewers so they didn't know anything about what a shoulder seam is supposed to look like and how angled it is and so then there's like a set in sleeve which was hard for people anyway so hopefully as we move into well February is like a coat so I don't know how people are going to do with that one but to anyone out there that is part of that train and is part of this group that was discouraged by the sunny tee please stick with it and don't get discouraged if you ever have questions or anything tag me in the facebook group and I'll do my best to help you so I I think it's I think you I'm just Lindsay johnson facebook because you can't use your business account but you can also DM me at inside the hem whatever anyways you know how to find me let me know if you have questions I'll do my best to help you because I don't want you guys to like start sewing through this experience which so my style is great for a beginner so because you get so many opportunities and ways to try different patterns and stuff um so I don't want you guys to start out and think that this is just how it is the very last thing that I made and I feel like you guys have seen this a lot I wore it in some videos beginning of this month um is this lovely here um so yeah so this um sorry about the deodorant um this is a the fabric is a satin from fabric mark fabrics and I just loved working with this satin for whatever reason satin is not something that I was really drawn to in the past I think maybe normally they can be really shiny and this one is not that shiny it almost just looks like um like a heavier weight midway cotton um but but yeah it was it was really great to sew with especially with all these little pleats that you have here and in the skirt um I just love making it so much the only thing and the pattern for this I don't have it out I'll put it here on the screen somewhere um also linked down below but um the way that the pattern had you install the lining didn't allow for you to um hide the zipper tape which is just a personal preference if you want to see oof this is what it looks like whenever you can conceal it um you see the zipper tape is all nicely placed between the main fabric and the lining and it just looks I don't know that looks prettier to me than to have the surged edges with the zipper tape exposed but small detail I only know one way to do that um and so for this pattern the way that they had you put the lining together by the time I got to the point where I would normally do my little trick for enclosing it um it was already too late and I couldn't do it so it had to go in this way um I don't know I think because of the wrap yeah definitely so because it's wrapped um you just couldn't use my way of doing it to enclose it I'm sure there's a way I just didn't really want to take the time to learn another way so it looks like this it's not bad it's just me being picky um also anytime I dress has a self belt that is separate I don't know I just feel really annoyed by them usually like I can't keep track of them and I always feel like they're coming undone and falling down and they're usually just really annoying to me so this time I decided okay well I'm gonna try and attach it so I attached it along the center back seam which in hindsight wasn't a great idea because you the invisible zipper is not invisible it means not bad but it's not perfectly invisible there um and so there's that but other than that um I do like having it attached so maybe I'll try and do like waist um loops I guess I don't know uh I don't know I don't know but I do want some way a bit to like hold itself up a little bit um whenever you're wearing it and whenever you're not wearing it but I was able to get some great pattern matching which I was super happy about so yeah so really really happy with this one I love it a lot it's going to get a ton of wear and yeah just really really great I'm on the hunt for more great satin so if you know of any or if you have one that you really love let me know and I will buy it up because I had a great time sewing with this anyways so that is all the sewing that I did in January again it was a very busy month but I had like a lot of time on my hands um with the storm and everything so hopefully I'll be able to get out get some of these on get them filmed you can see them on an actual body not just on a hanger um but in the meantime leave a comment in the comment section down below and let me know like what you made in January if you've got a blog or a blog leave a link so we can all find it and we can see whatever one's been making I love seeing what you guys make it's very inspirational and motivational and it's just like one of my favorite things about the sewing community so don't hesitate to brag about yourself in the comments um loud and proud and let everybody know what you've been doing but for me that's it today I will see you all next time bye