 Hi you guys it's Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel Inside the Hymn. Today I am doing something a little bit familiar to those of you that have been watching me for a while and also something new and exciting. So you know that I have been doing these Stash Builder Box unboxings for a while now, maybe a year or so. Recently Amanda ended up I guess selling Stash Builder Box. She had her like 18th child or something 19 maybe 5th 4th or 5th. She has a lot of kids so she was having a hard time managing everything with the business and I don't think she really anticipated it being as successful as it was so she just needed a lot of help. So she reached out to the folks at Cotton Cuts which is a similar but different concept to what Stash Builder Box was and now all of Stash Builder Box is being run through Cotton Cuts. So me and the Cotton Cuts people her name is Kimberly have been working together and decided that the best way to do this would be for me to do an unboxing of Stash Builder Box continue to do that for all of you guys as well as a Cotton Cuts box. So this first video is going to be a bit of a comparison of the two and I'm going to try to do my best to explain what the differences are but there aren't a lot so it might seem the same and that's okay. They're both awesome with slight slight differences so I have three boxes here and they all look the same so I don't really even know which one is Stash Builder Box and which one is Cotton Cuts but hopefully as I open them I will be able to figure it out. The first big difference between Cotton Cuts and Stash Builder Box well first of all I should say it's not even called Stash Builder Box anymore it's called the Modern Maker Box so MMB rather than SBB and the big difference is with the Modern Maker Box you get three one yard cuts of a new modern line of quilting cottons and you get no say in what it is. Cotton Cuts you get six you can choose between 12 fat quarters or six half yards and you get to set some preferences so you get a little more say in what you get you get to you know say whether or not you like bold colors or more simple colors if you do or do not like the teak for example and you can you can set all of those parameters so that you're getting a variety of fabrics that would be appealing to you even if they're not all from the same collection. That said okay it looks like this is okay so this is definitely Cotton Cuts it just looks different first of all it has a bunch of cards in the front so there's a hello and then oh okay and then it has the contents which they've like checked off so the options are batik floral a reproduction a holiday slash seasonal fabric a juvenile or children's design blenders or something from the cotton cuts vault so it looks like I got things represented by floral reproduction and blenders so that's exciting and then the designer cotton cuts designer spotlight meet designs by Sarah J so it talks about Sarah Maxwell um that's cute and a few of her fabric or quilt designs and then it's this is actually really cool if you are a quilter it looks like these are they sort of fit into like a recipe box and they even have the little tab so I assume you're supposed to put these in a recipe box type of thing and help yourself stay organized but there are two different block designs with the instructions on the back like really simple and straightforward um and even indicates if it's easy and really are hard so you know where you fall there and they're cute one is like uh they don't have names or anything I don't think one's like an x and the other one's kind of like a snowflake or a starburst or something like that really cute um then you get two little stickers and then you also get another pattern that you can download and it gives you instructions on how to do that on this little card it looks like the pencils have made their way into cotton cuts which is awesome I love the pencils um this is cut so repeat and stitcher's gonna stitch so one navy and one black I've said before I use these all the time not just for sewing they're all over there at my office they're in my bag they're everywhere love the pens okay what oh it's a box within a box oh what is this oh it's a zipper charm that says I love quilting how cute is that you could put that on your I don't know on a bag that you make or something so cute that's adorable it has like little quilt blocks can you all see adorable okay now to the good stuff so it's like a box with a box how cute is that I feel like this has something to do with the size of this feels similar to this something's got it something's happening here but I just feel like I didn't get the memo so I don't know what it is I'll reach out to Kimberly and find out if I'm missing something okay so the first one I got easily recognizable right off the bat rifle paper company this is the um the la floors so that's cool I can't remember no I didn't when I got rifle paper company from stash boulder box it was the Alice in Wonderland one so this is a welcomed addition to my stash and again I got the six half yards for cotton cuts you can do 12 fat quarters if you'd rather do that or six half yards um this one is shoot now I don't know yeah after that I don't know maybe it's on the selvedge it's this um like pinky purple which I love all it says on the selvedge is studio 37 swirly pearl girl which isn't even on the card see now I'm confused anyways it's swirly pearl girl number 7748 marcus fabrics studio 37 fabric something sarah jay designs by sarah for marcus fabrics a shout a whisper a text so that must be the I'm getting it now that must be the fabric line so this belongs with that is this considered a blender this one is cool kind of reminds me of robots let's see is this yeah so this is going to be a shout a whisper a text yeah so this is going to be another sarah jay design for marcus fabrics that's cute it's like the same magenta and then red and like an orange and like a purple again it looks like robots are like I don't know modern dna or something um this one is really cute has a super bright yellow background with like gray like light gray and dark gray letters or words all over it but it's like those um are they called anagrams like that you would text so it's lol yolo brb ili tgif so many different ones like little emoticons the smiley face super cute this one would be adorable as like a um like a laptop cover or like a ipad cover wouldn't that be fun because like you know take my laptop with me just about everywhere so this is like texting kind of cute I love that one um this one is what did I say oh this was the reproduction one so this is hello jane by cluck cluck so for windham fabrics isn't it pretty has a mint background with like navy orange yellow flowers and some green leaves really pretty that one's adorable again I only get half yards in me so I can't really make a top or any clothes um but I can make like different accessories and gifts you know as the holidays come around um this is a great way to get six different fabrics um the last one is let's see who makes this one if it says um it's another allison harris for cluck cluck so windham fabrics so this one feels like retro I guess that's what the reproduction means and maybe these two kind of like go together a little bit I don't know um but this one has like I don't know are those acorns it's like a like a beige background with like mint and blue berries I don't know something like that on there really sweet really charming adorable okay so that's the first cotton cuts box that was from july this one oh wait this is it says no it doesn't does it say no okay so then let's see what this one is all right this feels like another nope this is snatch builder and I recognize it instantly because it has the little quote card I love that they kept those so every day is an adventure so enjoy the journeys what this one says um this is little town by Amy's cinnabalde for art gallery so we've got um some art gallery cute oh let's see which ones I got I they send a card that has like all nine so they pick nine fabrics from the collection and then everybody gets some combination of three of those so not everybody gets the same three um so I'm excited to see which three I got the pick of the month is a modern maker box exclusive I'm gonna have a hard time remembering to call it modern maker not stash builder um this is called grateful it's cool it's like circles what are those shapes called it's like circles with like squared off corners um and then squares in the middle it looks like that cute huh um or that that's a better picture so you can learn to make this um and then I got a pencil course sewing is my superpower I feel like I've gotten some of these quotes before and I was just saying the last time I did one of these how they never repeated the quotes um blog of the month is digital as always so you can go online and search the hashtag botmsvb so they kept that blog of the month stash builder box botmsvb so check that out you get your same oracle thread with the modern maker box um this one is like a greenish color um and then so they're packaging these the same way now the same way as the cotton cuts so that's cool um before you before they used to come now remember okay so here are my three fabrics and they are like sort of holidayish which I don't hate because they're cute holiday they're not like in your face red and green okay the first one is these little gift boxes like mint green and baby pink different shades of green and there's some gold ones in there how cute is that right with a little dot in the back can you see the dot so adorable so cute that is so sweet really really sweet that's the best way to describe it and again in the mega no in the modern maker box you get a full yard you get three full yards um so this is one yard of this and then you get this dark green background with like you know holly berries or something but they're like coral and baby pink really cute again these fabrics would make great gifts or if you make gift bags for your gifts for the holidays that would be awesome and then this one is like okay so it's christmas trees but it doesn't really have to be christmas trees it can be kind of just like a modern geometric design I apologize about the lighting I don't have my overhead lighting hung yet um and the sun went down so I've only got lighting from one side right now so sorry about that but yeah it's got gray trees pink trees like baby pink medium pink and a dark pink cute very very cute I got some um neutrals from our gallery in the spring so this might be a good compliment to those okay so that's the stash builder box from august so I'm assuming that this is the cotton cuts box from august let us see okay nope it's another stash builder box so maybe this is stash builder modern maker um from July maybe that's what this is and I haven't gotten my cotton cuts for this month yet um always believe something wonderful it's about to happen oh yeah that's right this is the july modern maker box and this is the collection oh it's really good it's called maryweather by amy gibson for windham fabrics cute okay and so the quilt this month is just this one with like little stars all over it super nova stars that's cute I do want to make another quilt for this room so you remember this sofa came from my living room at the old apartment and I put it in the sewing room and I do want a quilt in here I have a plan for like a tv up there for like when I need to do some hand sewing or I just want to like research and just be in the space the creative space you know so I want a quilt to cozy up to but clearly I got so much pattern behind me that I don't really know should I just make like a neutral quilt like maybe from those art gallery prints I'm not sure that's what's kind of held me up um okay the block of the month again online some more stickers another pencil cut so repeat and then the oracle thread this time it's like a moth green so those are the usual suspects here's the fabric cute very very cute okay let's see how fun I love these okay this is the first one probably my favorite definitely definitely this is like totally my speed with like the green and pink I'm loving this one so much and the beige background so adorable that needs to be a top ASAP ASAP and then maybe like the pocket linings if I have any extra leftover so cute I love this one it's a great trend this is like a three season top for me too because it's springy it's summery and it would work in the fall layered with like a card again that's one of these colors yes this is going to happen um this one's fun it's got like a pretty bright coral background and like little I don't know are those cactuses bird feet I don't know what they are but the background is pretty bright but it's really cute these are like modern florals I guess modern takes on floral prints cute and then what is this one so this one says a bunch of different words through the mountains be shaken though the mountains be shaken and the hills wonderful joy ahead in the multitude of anxieties within me your comforts praying be shaken ton I know the plans you have delight my soul count it all joy are they supposed to be like like real sentences I feel like maybe someone out there knows what I'm saying this must be from something anyways it's sweet it's got the text with like some words are like bigger and like a different text and then these little flowers although it doesn't make any sense to me it is really cute it reminds me of an apron for was that upside down I'm sorry it wasn't upside down on my side sorry people are thinking what has happened to her she's lost her mind so there we are cute sweet this little collection together is really adorable if you look at them all like this and there were some other ones that were really really cute I think I got the best ones though if I'm being honest although they have a print like this one that has a pink background all right well there you have it so to recap if you weren't able to ascertain from kind of what I showed you from them um the stash putter box now known as the modern maker box hasn't really changed at all like some of the packaging has changed a little bit like you don't get those little paper um envelopes that the everything used to be stored in and the fabrics delivered in a different way but other than that like it's just what you always expect really great modern quilting cotton designs um all from the same line mix and match and then the cotton cuts is and those are all one yard cuts so you get three one yard cuts in the modern maker box and then the cotton cuts is six half yards or you can also do 12 fat quarters um and those are kind of random designs not all from the same designer or the same fabric line or really the same anything um but you pick things that appeal to you you pick the kind of colors that you like the kind of designs that you like um and then they will you know kind of curate a selection just for you so there's a lot more variety which can be good it really does help you build kind of a more complete stash that you can pick and pull from from different things um but at the same time like nothing really goes together if that makes any sense so it just depends on really what you're what you need these quilting cottons for if you're quilting you might need them for a certain thing if you're a garment maker like me you might prefer one or the other um we'll see how i end up using them if i find a use for the half yards or if i really just need the full yard cuts um we'll see how that goes but i'll be getting a um cotton cuts and a modern maker box every month for the next few months so you'll get to see and compare what's coming in each one um they have been super nice and generous and continued sort of their relationship that i built with amanda um able to pass that on to you guys so the three dollar coupon code that i've been offering this whole time is still good and also translates into the cotton cuts a subscription as well so again it's three dollars off your first box use the code inside the hem to get that and um and yeah go head over to cottoncuts.com and they have um it broken out by section um the i think it's called classic cotton cuts or cotton cuts classics something like that and then below that they have the modern maker box so you can kind of compare the two for yourself um i'll have links in the description box below here's how you access the description box in case you don't know or you've missed one of my other videos lots lots and lots of helpful information there so be sure to check that out below and until next time i'll see you guys soon thanks so much for watching go get some fabric