 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to another First Impression Friday where I review an entire sewing pattern collection. This week we are going to be looking at the brand new collection from McCalls. This is their summer collection. Feels like a little bit late in the season to be releasing summer, but here we are nonetheless. If you are new here, welcome. Please leave a comment and introduce yourself so that I can get to know you a little bit better and give you a formal welcome. I am Lindsay. I sew all my own clothes, a bit obsessed with garment sewing. I'm also a sewing teacher, sewing instructor, and sewing YouTuber. Okay, so our very first pattern we're going to jump right in here. This is a asymmetric pullover dress with cutouts using a decorative ring. Dresses come in two bodice options. One has a draped sleeveless one shoulder and the other has a wrap around free sleeve all in one bodice. This just looks really complicated to get into above knee and mid knee length variations. I also want to point out this is the women's version of this dress. So this is their extended sizing 20 to 28 and then 30 to 38. They chose a model in my opinion that looking at her, you think she looks like the average person, not necessarily like a plus size person. So I'm not entirely sure how that is going to resonate with the plus size community. Like, do you guys see yourself in her? She might even be like smaller than me. I don't know if this is just like a super flattering photo, but like, I mean, I don't know. I'm not getting women's sizing vibes from her. Not that it's the model's fault at all. I'm just wondering if they could have chosen someone who was a little bit on the higher end of the sizing to make it very clear that this was made for the extended sizing. All right, so the pattern itself though, you can see it has that decorative ring that they talk about. And then there is a side seam, but all of this bodice comes around your neck and becomes a sleeve. So getting into this thing, I gotta imagine is not for the faint of heart. But then it has this separated skirt area. So you get a little bit of mid drift showing also. And then a fitted skirt. I'm also guessing this is for knits. So here's the version the girl was just wearing. It looks a little bit different from the front, huh? Here is the sleeveless version. Here is the back. Okay, so this is where the ring is on the other side on the front. This is the wrap around neck. And then this is all one piece. This has got to be a fabric hog. And then the back looks a little bit like is it supposed to be pulling and I don't know creating that this weird like diagonal fold? Is that supposed to happen? And then on the skirt, this skirt looks great. This skirt looks wonderful. I wish we could see it dead on from the front. And this is a great photo. I agree that it shows all the cutouts. But I do want to see it from the front and I also want to see it from the left. Like, I know they take tons of pictures of these things. So I wish they could just put more of them up on the site. But yeah, you can see there's one little seam here in the back neck, but all of this coming into that is one piece. And then all of this sleeve is also one piece. So interesting looking pattern pieces, I'm sure. But it is really cute. And I'm getting like summer nights, you know what I mean? Like, not on the beach somewhere, maybe in a nightclub, like I'm getting all of those vibes. It is really cool. So two way stretch knits only. So just jersey interlock or velvet. And then a three and a half inch ring or purse handle, one and a quarter inch wide elastic, three and almost four yards of that for A and B, which have the sleeve. So I'm guessing the elastic A and B, and then three and eighth for C. So imagining it's done, it's this neckline, I think, or maybe, you know, I'm not sure. But I'm thinking it's one of those things where you use the elastic to help keep the fabric like tight and close to your body like you do when making underwear or bathing suits or lingerie. I think that's what all of this elastic is for. So I like to see that. We have finished, note, these are body measurements, finished with is all they're giving us finished with on the lower edge. So we're not getting any finished measurements. And maybe that's because it's a fitted knit dress. So they think it would be confusing to see negative ease. I'm not sure. But it does go from a 42 inch bust to a 60 inch bust. And then a 44 inch hip to a 62 inch hip. All right, very good. And then the next pattern on the list is just the Mrs. version of the same dress. They put her in the same view. Now this is also something that I have to nitpick with them. I, if you're going to make two versions, one for a Mrs, one for a women's, show us two different views. Give us the sleeveless version so that we can see what that looks like. Maybe even if it isn't like we see it on a body that looks like ours, at least we can still visualize what it could look like better than just having to imagine it. We also are not getting a dead front photo from her. And then there's the fact that still does have this like little wrinkling situation. So I'm guessing that's maybe due to everything being like put around this ring. I mean, that definitely has to create some kind of gathers. So I'm assuming that that's what that is. But yeah, no photos from dead on front. But it is really, really cool and fun and cute. And like, I don't know, I think, I think a variety of different ages could wear it different styles. If you do like a solid or a print or something special occasion, something a little bit more casual, I think it's really cool. And then I also think you could play around with the skirt a little bit and flare it out a little if you want. Yeah, I really like this one. Now, also remember, McCalls is sort of catering to a younger demographic. I always look at them like the Gen Z pattern company. But that doesn't mean that we as older millennials or even older than that can't rock some of these sort of younger person trends. And that's a good example of it. This is another one. So this is a short and ankle length gathered dress with mid drifts and tucks. These include bodice with narrow shoulder straps and a halter bodice. So this has these beautiful, like sweetheart neckline bodice cups or bust cups, almost like a bathing suit would have. And then you have this bodice section here. So you're creating like a defined waist, all the highest point of your waist, which is usually the narrowest part. And then you have all these, they're not layers, though, they're tucks. So these all separate from the skirt, you know what I mean? They create like an actual like fold in the skirt. And then down here is where your ruffle begins. And then that also has tucks, talk about a fabric hog. And then this is the one with the spaghetti straps. That's the halter version. Now this, this and the last one, the last illustration, give me a lot more like movement in the skirt than we're getting from the version that they made. And I don't know if that's because the version they made is out of a little bit stiffer of a fabric. And if you use something more in the rayon family, you'll get like a little bit more flurry, roughly skirt. I don't know. Yeah. And the fact that this is a bit of a mermaid is also an interesting choice. I can't say that I love that about it. I don't not love it. I don't know. This is a confusing one. It could be this fabric. It could be this fabric too. But this is the back. It actually comes down pretty low. You wouldn't be able to wear a bra with it in the front anyways. So you'd have to either sew in some bust cups there for like modesty, like basically nipple covers, or get one of those like low front, low back bras. But yeah, I'm not getting the same like flirty movement out of this one as I see in the illustration. So yeah, maybe this extra tier is kind of weighing it down a little bit. I don't know. I think I'd like it from here up. And then this just becomes like a lot. Yeah, I don't know when the fence on this one here are our line drawings. See, the line drawings don't make it look like a mermaid. It makes it look like one straight continuous line. But you can see here that it's definitely like coming in. This is like not a straight line. This is actually like, you know, got a little pivot to it. So something happened here that maybe the gathers weren't matched up correctly. But I think if it was sewn as intended like this, I would like it a lot more. I also think for what it's worth, maybe I'm trying to think why they wouldn't have done it this way. But I'm thinking you could just extend this even further. Maybe it gets too wide for your fabric. I don't know. And then just continue the same process that you're doing for these talks and just do it one, two, three, four more times and not do the separate gathered piece. Just a thought. Okay, here's the back of the envelope. So cotton blends lawn gingham and shally, some interfacing, and then an invisible zipper for the back. This is sizes six to 24 interfacing. Is this amount? This is an interesting way to chart it. I haven't seen it like this before. So the different interfacing amounts, I'm guessing it's for the bodice. Oh, and what else I didn't notice is that the halter top is not a deep V, but it has the same like deep back. So if you don't want to show any cleavage, you could make the bodice version, but I still think you would have to get some kind of convertible bra for the back. Okay. And then the dress. Yeah, so the maxi version is five and a quarter yards of fabric. Maybe that's why they made their sample out of something that just was very affordable, even though it wasn't like perfect, perfect for the pattern. But then the shorter versions are two yard wonders. So that's good. And then the finished waist measurement, which is really the most fitted part. Certainly the skirt is somewhat irrelevant in terms of hips. The bodice should have a little bit of ease, but not a ton. But yeah, this waistband for sure is fitted. So 48 to 63 and a half. And that puts it at, wait, 48. That's not right. That's not right. That maybe that's supposed to be the, oh, is it though? Because the hip, I mean, the waist is like technically down here in these gathers somewhere. I'm not sure about this. I would measure the, what do they call it? The chute. The midriff. I would measure this part on my body and then measure this pattern piece. And that's how I would choose my size. Maybe one or two inches of ease in there added. Yeah. Okay. Next, we have a little like, I don't know, prairie festival type of number, pullover v-neck dress in two lengths has three quarter sleeve variations with or without cuffs. So they made this in cotton gingham. You have this like front row panel type thing. And then all this, this is all your sleeve, all comes into these gathers here. I, we've seen this, I don't know if it was an indie pattern or what, but we've seen this recently in one of these first impression videos. And then it all gathers into this cuff here. And then hers is a bit of a midi link. And then we have this one is supposed to be giving the vibes of like a fabric that's a little bit draper. And they've added a ruffle to the bottom and then left off the cuffs. So you just have a very wide, flowy sleeve. There's another version. This one kind of looks like a nightgown, if I'm being honest. And then you have this full length version, which I kind of love. I really like that one. I know it's going to be a ton of fabric, but yeah, this just feels so easy and breezy and light and comfortable in these hot, humid temperatures. Perfect vacation dress, like whether you're going to a beach or anywhere. Yeah, I really like this one. Here's the back. I don't know what I expected the back to look like. This isn't it, but it doesn't look bad. It's just not what I envisioned, I guess, subconsciously. But but yeah, so you have the little panel thing mimicked in the back and then sleeve again goes into the side of the panels. Okay, here are our line drawings. But yeah, the line drawings do read a little nightgown-y, but I think depending on your fabric, I don't know. The samples they made didn't look a nightgown. So I think you'd be okay as long as you didn't do anything super pastel, super floral. Let's check out the back of the envelope. Gingham Cotton Blans, Poplin, and Satine. I don't know about Satine. I'd go lighter weight like into the rayon category before I'd go into Satine personally. Alphanumeric sizing on this one, extra small to 2XL. Fabric requirements, yeah, are all in the four to five yard range, but even D, the maxi length version, is only five eighths of a yard more than the plainest version C. So I mean, I'd probably make the maxi version and just have something really like like a gown. You know what I mean? So the waist measurement on this, which I mean honestly, this is a loose fitting garment. So all of this is sort of, it's hard to just look at the body measurements and then this measurement and still know what size you're supposed to make out of this one. But nonetheless, the waist measurements go from 48 and a half up to 66. But I'd still use the Fast Fit Worksheet, linked in my description box, to find out what the pattern ease is, and then use your best judgment. Like I imagine the bodice of this has got to have, I bet they put in like 10, 12 inches of ease. I'd probably be somewhere more comfortable in the six to eight range. So I'd probably be sizing down quite a bit, just because I don't want to be swallowed. Also, you could make a muslin of just this little placity part to make sure that the neckline and all of that was going to fit well. And then the edges of this, of this like front bib should be going over the apex of your bust. So maybe make a muslin of this to determine the width of this between or measure your bust apex, you know, and the distance between them and make your size according to that. It's an odd way to size a garment. But I think so long as this seam here goes over your bust apex on both sides, and your neckline is not super droopy, and this isn't hanging off your shoulder. If all of that is happening, which is all in this little bib, you should be good to go. So that's probably what I would do, either tissue fit the bib, make a little muslin of it, something like that. You also want to make sure that this seam here is going fully under your bust. My best tips for this guy. Okay, next we have, ooh, she's cute. Mrs. Tunic and dress. A lot of these are feeling very early fall also, right? Maybe that's kind of indicative of how late in the season they're releasing these patterns, like their fabrication is reading very fall, you know, and a lot of long sleeves, which we are not really wearing in the dead of summer. So pull over, button front, pin tuck, tunic and dresses come into lengths. These include short sleeve, puff sleeve with tucks and three quarter sleeve with elasticized hem. Tunic has lower gathered ruffle. If you be as tiered with decorative trim, you see is above the knee length, above the knee length with trim, which I think is what she's wearing. Yes, all of this trim here, all of these pin tucks, button front, placket and again, similar situation where it has the bib, but you do actually have like a bodice going around that and then a set in sleeve being sewn into that. Also, this is probably bias bound finishing, a little bit trickier. And then you have this seam here, which is supposed to be at your natural waist for her. As you can see by where her fingers are, this should probably be up here. And then the second tier. And then you can see how short it is. Also, is this supposed to be bracelet length way down here? Or is it a seven eighths sleeve? I didn't say that in the description. So this one I think is supposed to be eyelet, is that illustration of eyelet? And this again looks a little dropped. So maybe it is supposed to be a little bit of a dropped waist. Did it say that? Pull over? No, it doesn't. But we'll look at the line drawings and see how those look. This is interesting fabric choice for the illustration, but you can see the pin tuck sleeve here. And you get a really good view of kind of the stitching that goes into this bib with the trim and the pin tucks and the button placket. And then no other seams anywhere. So all of this is all one pattern piece. Yeah, I think it can go a little, like little girly pretty quick. So just be mindful of that with your fabric choice. I think that's the reason why this one feels a little odd because it looks like it should go on like a five year old, not like a woman. Here's the back nice and plain. Yeah, it is really cute. I love the length. I love the kind of oversized pull over quality of it all. I think because it is a pull over, these buttons are not functioning. I'm imagining I'd have to get into the pattern instructions to tell for sure. But yeah, and this does look like a bit of a drop waste. So I think that how it fit the model is really good. And honestly, I could see myself making all three of these versions. This one, I would want to make sure that the that their proportions were right for me. Like I don't like tunics that go past my bum. I'd like them to hit kind of like, I don't know, like the lower part of my high hip. If that makes sense. But I could see myself wearing all three of these versions. Super cute. Okay. So gingham cotton blends, pop blend satin. Yeah, I'd also throw in like chambray. Probably wouldn't want to do pen tux on anything super lightweight or silky or any of that kind of stuff. So yeah, these make sense. We also make five buttons or you get five buttons, elastic for the wrist, decorative trim, more elastic for C. I'm guessing just more goes into the sleeve. I don't know. And then decorative trim there too. Also new alphanumeric sizing on this one as well, extra small to 2 XL. It fits up to a 48 inch bust, 50 inch hip, two to four yards of fat, two and a half to four yards of fabric, depending on which version view bees the one the model was wearing is almost four yards of fabric for the largest size. Finished bust again, this bust and waist and hip all three of them are going to be very loose fitting. So it's really hard to just look at this number and then this number and know what to make. But it does look like they have, I mean, like 18 inches of ease in the bust. That's a lot. For something like this, I'd probably come down to like, maybe 12 inches. But again, you can use this bib as sort of a jumping off point. For fitting fit the bib and then choose your size based on that. All right. Next we have more ruffled tiered dresses. That's just like what our third one we've seen so far. Pull on open tie back elasticized dresses have gathered skirts view a has narrow shoulder strap bodice and is above knee length views. We can see have drop shoulders elasticized neckline and back yoke and our mid calf length view B is sleeveless. You see has three quarter slaves with elasticized him. Okay, a lot to take in there. Is this the elasticized neckline? I guess so. Drop shoulder sleeveless little waist seam here and then some gathered skirts. Okay, I wasn't getting that strong of a gathering due to the elastic, but I guess it's a casing. So you'd probably be able to scrunch up or let out the elastic as much as you want. But this is the three quarter sleeve with the elastic. I think an elasticized neckline could be cool. This is the one with the spaghetti strap. So or what do they call it narrow straps square neckline. And then this one has vertical bodice seams whereas this one does not. I don't think hers did either. So two totally different bodices if you ask me. And then here's the back very vintage vibes, right? Don't you get like 1940s 50s out of this. There is elastic through here and down here as well. And then you have this big bow, which I think if you did a little bit of magic, you could figure out how to sew this without the bow. Like if you're just not a bow person and just either have this be a strap across the back, that'd be the easiest. You could also have it just be open, like a full circle open in the back. Let's look at the line drawings. Are all three of them like that? Yes. So I think this one is really sweet to have a bow right here. That feels cute and fun, good. Like I'm picturing like a birthday dress or like a bachelorette party dress or either like color blocking, like maybe like monotone colors, but in light, medium and dark, like I don't know, baby pink, magenta and red or something. I'm just seeing that. And then this version I'm seeing just like solids. I like all the elastic, I think. This didn't read, this bow reads bigger in person than it does in this illustration. And I think that's kind of what was throwing me off on this photo here is that it's a massive bow on her. Maybe it's because she's just so narrow as a person that this looks so big. I don't know. So I'm on the fence about the bow on this one. This one, I love it. It feels appropriate. This feels like, I don't know, it's like modern in the front. And then you just like, they were like, we need to figure out a way to get them into this and how are they going to close it? And then they were like, just tie it in the bow. And I don't know. I'm just like, they don't match. Like this person doesn't match a person that would wear a bow, right? But I do like it. It's very unique and different. We don't see a lot of elasticized necklines at all ever. And like I said, these are two very different bodices. All right, let's look at the line drawings. We've got batik. You don't see that as a suggestion very often, but I can see that being stunning. Cottonblends, linen and satin. Yeah, for sure. All of those. One package of bias tape for your sleeve, I think. Wait, yeah, maybe for the sleeve? Also elastic for the neckline, for the neckline, and then for the backs, I think. Sizes six to 24. Three to four yards of fabric, depending on the version you're making, lots of fabric hogs here. So you've got to stock up when you see some of those good fabric sails. And then no real finished measurements, which is again interesting because they've been giving them to us on these loose fitting patterns, but then the ones that actually have a fitted, somewhat fitted bodice, they aren't giving them to us. Like this one has a fitted waist. We should at least have the waist on this one. So I'm not sure what's happening there. Why we aren't seeming to get them when it doesn't matter and then don't get them when it does matter. I guess I shouldn't be too hard on them since we're getting at least some, right? There was a time when we never got any on anything. So because it should be a little bit relieved. But okay, this is a hot mess, but they describe it as pull on romper and jumpsuits, have elasticized waist, v-neck and dolman sleeves, use A and B, have purchased lace trim and ruffle details, you see has elastic him. Okay. Okay. So, okay, I do organize my thoughts here. One, I think that the line drawings on this one are actually going to look really cute. I think that the fabrication here of this like cornflower blue and white lace trim is just reading a little kind of all over the place. And then they put this like woven belts on with it. And I'm just, yeah, I don't know. Plus this looks really low on her, right? The length, like I don't think her crotch is down to where her fingertips are, right? I mean, it's putting it right at her knuckles. I think we all stood up. That's not where our crotches would be. I imagine it's up here somewhere. So that's a little interesting that it's just so long in the rise. Okay. Is this better? It does have an elastic casing. So that's got to help a little bit. Okay. I'm imagining take it back to when I was like 17, 15, maybe, would I think this is cool? If I walked into H&M and I saw this, would I be like, I have to have it? I feel like it's a little bit of like a boutique, you know, kind of design that you'd find in one of those like silly little boutiques where everything's made out of polyester. Oh, and then you have this one when you leave off the trim. Yeah. So maybe it's just like the extra wide trim that's throwing me off. I don't know. But this one, they did elasticize the ankle and then you have the wide. Okay. So I think this one is universally like a lot of people will like this, wear this, look fabulous in this. But I appreciate the fact that they tried something new and different. Let's check out the rise here because you can see where her bust, her seat apex is. I guess that's what you would call it. And there's no way it's what five, four or five inches below her seat apex. No way. I would be inclined to try this trim version. I don't know if lace trim is the way I would go. I would probably also do something monochromatic where this was white and this was also white. I think it could be cool. I think this is just a bad example of it. That's mean to say, but I said it. So there you go. Can't take it back. Truthfully, truthfully, I don't hate it. I think it's going to take a lot of creativity, a lot of like imagination for people to see this in a wearable way. So maybe after people who see the vision start making it, it will be one of those that kind of catches on. But these are very different looks through and through. You could make this version and this version and it would look like two totally different patterns. I do appreciate that about it. The views are different enough from each other. Like when the views are just like variations in length, it's almost like, yeah, I could have just done that myself. Like I could just chop off the hint myself. I don't really need a whole separate view for that. So this one, I appreciate the fact that they all look very different and they were really thoughtful about, okay, we're going to add a separate view. What can we do to make it look different from the one before it? You know, like this one has the angled trim, which makes it very different from this one that has the horizontal trim. And then this one has the ankle elastic, whereas this one has the wide leg. And then you can also like add the trim, but only on the sleeves down here, you know, or even with these versions. I think it could be cute. I really, really do. Um, okay, gauze, stable knits, shally, and crate. Okay. So they're going lighter weights. Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Yeah, fabrication is definitely going to be something to consider for sure. I think that, I think that the lighter weight makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I agree with this. Okay, three hooks and eyes. Literally no idea where those go. You should just be able to pull this thing on. I don't know why you need hooks and eyes. I don't know where those go. Again, maybe up the center front. One, a little bit of half inch wide elastic. That's for the waist. And then this is your lace trim and then elastic for the ankle. Alphanumeric sizing again. Fabric is two and five eighths up to a little bit more than four yards, depending on the version that you want to make. And then finished measurements. Again, very loose fitting, but we're getting bust and hip. The waist is taken in by the elastic. So in a way that's adjustable. So I get why they didn't include that there. Now we have this little number. Oh, good. Okay. All right. You know, there comes a point, there's like a tipping point in these first impression videos where I can be so nice and find like the good only for so long. Then I just like, no holds barred. We might have reached that point with this one. Oh man. I, I, okay, I have thoughts. Let me read the description first. Captain style romper and jumpsuits with sash have front opening with hook and eyes. Okay. So the last one didn't say that, but the description or the back of the envelope said you needed them. So I wonder if those got mixed up somehow. Views B and C have opening for sash to pull through. View C has arm opening at shoulder line for a cowl drapey look and has elasticized hems. Okay. Now pretend that we are looking at Vogue patterns. Would we be thinking of this as a little bit more of a high fashion Vogue-esque kind of deal? And when we give it more of a pass, if we think of it that way, is it because this is in the mix of all of these like youthful, frilly, you know, lots of gathers and tears? Is it because it's just such a stark difference from that? Is why it's so jarring? Not to mention the color and the shine of this fabric is like, I mean, you guys, it's a construction cone. Like there's no two ways about it. She's like, she's like a very ritzy rich construction worker. Yeah. Okay. All of that aside, trying to analyze this for what it is, we have the hooks and eyes, one of the center front, like they said, rounded like necklace collar neck line. What is that called? And then your big oversized batwing, calf-dan style sleeve knit in with this belt, which goes through and through. Like there's a hole in the sleeve for you to be able to put the belt through. It's this for me, like this in particular, this one little point right here. You can just clearly see that this is her leg and then this is the pants. So it's giving MC hammer pants. Like if this were a little bit more tailored and smoother, maybe their proportions would feel right, but this feels like bad pleated pants. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that. The crotch seems okay, but also still really long. You can tell maybe she's popping her knee. So we've got some pulling here, but I think that that's also because there is just, it's just too long and it's kind of pulling from the back to the front. And then you've got your hem. This is the illustration, which looks cuter. This is interesting to me. So it's a calf-dan romper. Imagine a calf-dan with a crotch. That concept is very cool. That execution on that girl we just saw is not super cool, but I think this could be cool. So this is the version the girl was wearing. She just didn't have the elasticized ankle, but this is what she's wearing from the ankle up. And I genuinely, I'm not lying. I swear I'm not lying. I kind of like this. I hate what she's wearing, but this, I can see what they were thinking. I can see the vision on this. See this? What is this? What is that? No, that's a no. That's what that is. And then they're like, here try and smooth it down with your hand. Hold your hand there in this super awkward way, but then how it's like pointy here again. That's not in that illustration. And then you can see just how much extra fabric is living underneath her. Just way, way, way too long in the rise, I think. Or in the, actually not in the rise, but maybe the crotch length. So here are our line drawings. You can see there's no intention of any kind of like bubbling out situation. It's supposed to be straight down. So some things going on in the execution of that orange version, you guys are going to call me crazy. If you've been here for a couple of years, you remember the crinkle rayon jumpsuit? This is going to take you all right back to that, where I think that that was really cute. And I loved that jumpsuit so much. And so many of you were like, this is just a no, Lindsay. It's a no. But I don't know, maybe something about me really likes these kind of like weird jumpsuits. I don't know. I think it's kind of cool. I really do. Okay, so crepes, stable nits, shally and gauze is all that they're recommending? I mean, I guess. Also, can I please just point out where is that silky shiny satin orange fabric in this list? Nowhere. I don't see anything silky. I don't see anything like shiny. None of this is shiny. So I don't know. Maybe after they made it, they were like, yeah, that was a bad fabric choice. Let's not throw that on the list. Okay, so this one, they're saying 10 hooks and eyes. Whereas the other one was just three. So maybe that is correct. And then elastic for the little ankle, alphanumeric sizing. And again, to make sure you're not swimming in this, really truly double check ease. And I mean, size down even two sizes if you're not somebody who like looks good with lots of fabric. There are some people who can pull off lots and lots and lots of ease. And then there are some who can't. So the tie is going to do all the work for you. So you really just have to make sure that the neckline sits at the right place. The the bat wing sleeve isn't too short or too high. Or yeah, too short or too long. Then triple check this crotch length. And maybe even base your size off of the crotch length. That's not a terrible idea. I think this could be really good, but it can very easily be really bad. So maybe that's why it's just a bit of a risky project. All right, so view a is five yards, use be they're both five yards, all these fabric hogs, my goodness. All right, finished garment measurements don't really matter here. Okay, so now that we're through that one, please Lord, give me something good. Okay, not terrible. I can work with this. Open back crop tops have short three quarter and long sleeves. Hook and I back opening view a has lacing back view B ties back view C has crisscross back ties to front separate pattern pieces for cup sizes. This seems like an on place to put that. But all right, I'll take it when I can get it right. So we have a woven crop top bias bound neckline elastic hem set in sleeve long sleeve with a little bias binding there. This must be the crisscross back that ties in the front. This is the three quarter sleeve, I guess they all look the same except for the sleeve so far. This is where they start to look different. So we've got the hook and I in the back which I think three of these you should be able to handle closing that on your own. Right, like it's like a necklace, we can handle that right. This beautiful like scooped design here. And then this is the one so this is not elastic, this is just a casing. And then it crisscrosses and ties in the front. Super cute. Really? That's all you're going to show us? You showed us three illustrations of the front, which literally all look the same and didn't show us any illustrations of the back. I don't understand how y'all's mind works. All right, so this one is the same as the one we just saw. This is the one we saw. This is the one she's wearing. So it still does the hook and I up through here. But this one has little loops and it crisscrosses down. And then this one crisscrosses up. Is that really the only difference? I kind of thought there was going to be more to it than that, but I guess not. That's kind of anti-climactic. Charmous. Okay, I can actually see it in Charmous. Shallie, cotton blends, pre-organized, six to 24 in the sizing, body measurements, fabric requirements, one and a half to just about two yards, depending on your sleeve I think. It's got a very big sleeve. Hopefully they have, here's the finished measurements for the bust, up to 49, 50, 51 depending on your cup size. Hopefully they've made like a little short or a little skirt or even like a little pants that looks really good with this. I do like it with the Elasticized Waste Pants, which I'm sure we all have like 50,000 versions of. For a while there during the pandemic, they were throwing Elasticized Waste Pants in with every pattern. They were like, Elasticized Pants for you. Elasticized Pants for you. Like every single pattern included them. Okay, Mrs. Knit Tops and Shrug. This is taking me back. Pull over. Knit top view A is halter top with ring. View B is an asymmetric one shoulder top with double straps. View C is tank style cutouts and purchased rectangle ring. View D is a Valero jacket with long sleeves. If this isn't early 2000s, I don't know what is. This reminds me of that movie with Cameron Diaz where she's like going across country with her friends to like break up a wedding. It's very vulgar. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? Okay, so it also looks a little like dance leotard-esque. Maybe that's also what I'm picking up on. They threw the Valero on over the tank top. You know what this is? Without the Valero and this extended down is the pretty woman dress. Is the dress that she wears in the beginning of the movie when she's the paid sex worker. Trying to be a PC. With the knee-high white hat and leather boots. That's this dress. So you could make a Halloween costume from this. That's not a total loss. This is like, yes Mandy Moore probably wore this in her candy music video. Like I'm just going right back to that time. Early 2000s for sure. Like I'm pretty sure I owned this at one point. Probably got it from like limited. That there's the tank top without the Valero. Here is the back which is interesting. I kind of thought the back would be just like the front, but no it comes into this actual like seam here. Which is very interesting. And then there it is with the Valero. She looks so unhappy. Yeah wow okay. Yeah this is either like all the girlies. Like all of the people 15 to 25 are going to look at this and go yes oh my god this accused thing is the best pattern I've ever seen. I must have this. Please make it for me or I'll make it myself. I just don't see anybody over the age. Well that's not true. You guys have to let me know your thoughts on this one. Am I being ageist? Am I thinking it's just like just for young people and not for anybody else? I don't know. I just feel like everybody over the age of 25 has already been there done that with this. And maybe the Valero was like a last minute like throw that in to make it like a little bit more inclusive of everyone. But it doesn't feel like this is going to be something every single person sees and wants and has to make. Two-way knits such as jersey interlock and rib knit. Six to 24 on the sizing. One yard wonder. Love that. Except for the little shrug which is one and a half. And then here are your finished garment measurements. It is fitted but it is also knit so we should see a little bit of negative ease which we do half an inch of negative ease on the bust. Here we have I feel like we've seen tops like this a thousand times right? Like are we done with the baby doll tops after this? Learn to sew pen tucks. Okay well okay. Hold on for pen tug blouses. Have back opening. Is this a learn to sew pattern? I'll check the cover. Will tell me. View A, pen tucks are stitched horizontally in alternating directions. Top have ruffle, short and puff sleeves. View C has a lower ruffle. So are they saying learn to sew pen tucks because they actually like teach you them? Because in that case fine I'll buy another baby doll top pattern. This Swiss dot is so sweet. I absolutely love this fabric. And this has the ruffle sleeve. Here is pen tucks just sewn vertically and your standard sleeve. This has the little puff sleeve with the ruffle on the bottom. All super cute. And then this one again was pen tucks but sewn vertically and horizontally. I think is what they were saying. Here's the back is a little keyhole opening. Very simple straightforward little top. It does look like there is like a version of a princess seam and that the sleeve is sewn into that on this version. That's a neat detail. Like it has little side panels. Yeah they all do actually. It's a cute top. Okay fine. I would think I would love it in a gingham. I would love it in a stripe would be super fun because the stripe would get all like messed up in here. Yeah okay fine. It's a cute top. Even though we've seen this kind of like style where it's fitted through the shoulder and upper bust and then flares out at the upper bust. We've seen that a million times. So this one does feel a little bit different. A little bit different. Okay lawn cotton blends shally dotted swiss. Some interfacing hooks and eyes. I came there calling for three of them. I don't know why you'd need three but okay. Single fold bias tape to help with that arm sigh I think elastic and then double fold extra wide bias tape also for C. Not entirely sure where that goes. Alphanumeric sizing extra small to 2xl. Here are your body measurements. The interfacing you just need a little bit. So it must be like for three eighths of a yard maybe. Oh is there like a facing or something? I don't know. And then two yards about two yards about two yards. So roughly two yards for all of them which makes sense because this is so wide. The whole bodice is very wide and then the bodice measurements the finished measurements are really kind of negligible on this one too. Nothing super fitted in this entire collection. Okay now we have a little what do you know tiered gathered skirt pull-on elastic waist gathered and tiered boho skirts and two lengths are finished with narrow hems. You see has contrast tiers. Yeah we're not rewriting the the book on this. This has been done a million times sort of fitted through the hip flares out at the low hip and then you've got all these tiers. Many many tiers elastic waist under that belt like this. Here is one where you alternate the fabric that's very like hippie-dippy festival vibe. That's a lot of tiers. It might leave you in tiers. She's got jokes. Okay cotton blends lawn shallowing gingham elastic for the waistband alphanumeric sizing up to two XL. Two and a quarter yards. Look at this view B has almost six yards of fabric and then view C has three and a half of your main and two and a half of your contrast. That's a lot. That's a lot. But I guess it probably is very comfortable. I don't know that I'd wear it that elastic kind of thing. Would it be cute with that little crop top? I don't know. I don't know maybe. I don't know that I would wear a belt over the elastic. That feels really bulky. But then again I don't know if I'd want to wear the elastic with a shirt tucked in. That also feels like it would create like extra extra bulk where I personally don't want it. Okay we've got a little sarong a little knit skirt. Knit twist knot skirt that's hard to say. With front slit common two lengths view A and B are straight skirts you see is flared. Okay this is a little sexy thing. Imagine this on a summer night. I like this. It's knit. So you kind of have like a yoga band situation but it's got some interest to it. It's basics with a twist my favorite. That's the straight skirt version. A little bit longer length and then that's the flared one. You could totally also make these as swim cover-ups too. Think of like stretch mesh. You know I'm thinking of like those kinds of fabrics you would never wear in anything else other than like leotards and costuming and swimwear. Those kinds of things but this one's really pretty. Here's the line drawings. I love this. A great take on that sort of basic knit skirt that I'm sure early on in your sewing journey you made one or more of. That's really cool. Okay I like this one. Two-way stretch knit such as interlock and jersey elastic for the waistband. It does have only three eighths inch wide elastic. I really prefer half inch or wider the wider the better. So I'd be interested to see like where in this it's sewn and if I could go with something a little bit wider I probably would. Four to twenty-two so they have the same number of sizes in this one. They've just gone one smaller and then therefore removed one of the higher ones for all the petite girls out there. And then one and a quarter to two and a half yards depending on the version you're making. Finished hip measurements for the fitted versions only go up to 44 and a half. The flared one obviously goes up higher because it flares. So that's a little blomp blomp. But it does have negative ease right so you've got to imagine it's knit it's supposed to be fitted so you know certainly not inclusive of everyone of most people probably but oh but there is the plus size version. Okay I take it all back. I take this as the downside of having misses and women separate is that you just think to yourself oh well won't work for me and then you realize oh there's a plus size version so that's this here we can look at it on her is this I wonder if this is the fitted version or the flared version. I'm guessing fitted it does seem a little straight right and they like correct me if I'm wrong but this is a bathing suit right so they have put this on her as a swim cover up but then again she's in a high heel. I don't know where she's going in this. I don't know where she's going or where she's coming from. I'm guessing like one of those like beachfront nightclubs maybe oh god I don't know I'm so not cool like that. Then the same illustrations here she is wearing the same skirt but she's got a little clutch now so now she's going out to like a nice dinner. I don't know I'm so bad at this. Okay Okay excellent here's the swimsuit that she's wearing it comes in misses and women's will flip through them. I don't normally have a lot to say on swimsuits because I just I've never made one before so I don't know like is that bad? I don't know you do get like a high waisted version like bikini version and then that version with the straps I mean I've been toying around with trying one maybe this for two dollars is the way to go because it does have so many options but it's cute I don't know I do get like basically three bikinis in one or three bathing suits in one. Yeah I don't know again I just don't know a lot about swimwear but looks cute to me and then we have what is this doll clothes oh gosh no these are for people no yes oh man okay I know Laura Ashley Colt following I get it I don't really get this but this is from 1980s vintage Laura Ashley ships only to these few countries I guess because it's only licensed there fitted but in top with outside seams front tux lace trim wear peplum and waist line casing with ribbon drawstring like yeah it's a lot this this looks like a costume to me I know Laura Ashley is not a costume it's actual clothing yeah I don't know about that we have another one this feels more like the Laura Ashley I remember vintage reissued sewing pattern gather pullover jumper or sundress have shoulder straps front and back yokes patch pockets button back openings view a has lower ruffle and pocket ruffles short and long sleeve louses have front tux sleeves with gathered caps collars and sleeve ruffles oh my gosh I'm exhausted it is really cute right like this is just like that dress I wore in the video last week um where has the straight band across the front and then straps this one has some gathers here just like that one does but it has these huge patch pockets sewn into like this princess seam situation and then this huge gathered ruffle on the bottom this is it without the ruffle very wearable this is it with the ruffle without the shirt and then you have your little shirt I don't know if that shirt is worth it that that's a lot of work that shirt but the dress is really cute I love I love the big pockets oh this shirt looks really cute in the line drawing I don't know maybe it is worth it maybe not together but it does look really cute all right and then is this another one vintage reissue sewing pattern but not Laura Ashley so it's just an unnamed designer back zipper opening side seam pockets view a and b are gathered skirts view a has belt loops view b has button opening view c has lacing views d and e have flared skirts view e has contrast band they don't make patterns with what a b c d e five views very much anymore do they has that like I don't like the skirts with the yolks personally for the line drawings yeah I mean okay but do we really want this to come back I remember it from the 80s but I don't know that we need all that again all right and then we have an apron and then I think we're going to get into like kids clothes what is this this is that same little robber but for little girls okay why does that look like a million times better than the blue one that we saw so this probably is more what I had in mind when I was talking about like a white on white situation with the trim matching the fabric a little bit better not being as such a contrast look how cool she is yeah like even the illustrations on this girl's version here a lot better I don't know what happened with the adult version adorbs okay then we have we have all the little girls and the babies and the dolls and the accessories so garment sewing wise what do we think it's very it feels very polarizing to me like the things that I really liked I really liked the things I hated I hated but at the same time I'm kind of thinking there are some that look whack in the listing but maybe my imagination is getting carried away but I could see looking better than what they did I don't know I'm interested to hear what you guys think about this one it is youthful it is young and fun summary but like more like a nighttime summary and but also a little bit of fall with all those sleeves I don't know it kind of feels confusing maybe all over the place I don't know let me know what you guys think in the comment section below otherwise that's going to do it for me today unless vogue or someone else comes out with a summer collection this week we'll be back next Friday picking up with our indie sewing pattern reviews so I'll see you guys then bye