 Hi you guys, I'm Lindsay. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hem. I hope you're excited to get some inspiration and motivation for sewing this month because I've got a few plans of things that I'm going to be working on. So I'm going to jump right into it today. I took a trip to Hobby Lobby and I don't normally shop there for fabric, but I had noticed on social media a few people finding some pretty decent looking good quality fabric there. So I thought I would go check it out. Largely, I was not overwhelmed. I was underwhelmed, but I did find a couple of things that I did really like. And the first one is this knit. It's a bit of a jersey knit, but kind of on the more stable side. 100% cotton, I believe, well cotton jersey. And I just thought the print was really adorable. It reminded me a little bit of art gallery or something like that. So I picked that up and I plan on making simplicity 1613 out of this. I want to try this version. I'm trying to find some knit shirts that aren't basic t-shirts that are knit. So they're comfortable and they're cool in the hot temperatures, but they aren't just so basic. And I thought that this was a really cute option. So I'm excited about trying that. And I just think out of the floral, it'll be a really sweet looking knit top. So that is my first plan. Also, while I was there, I found this and they've done stuff like this in the past where it's literally, you know, hemmed for lack of a better term on the bottom. And then the top is, um, what is that sheared? I guess it is. And then they just cut off your yardage here. And so literally it's a one seam skirt or top. I haven't 100% decided what to do with it yet, but I just thought it was a really cute color and the embroider in the bottom is really sweet. And that if it became what it obviously should be, which is a skirt, that would be good. But if I can find a fun way to make it into a cute top, I would try that too. So yeah, I just picked up one yard of it and it's a bit on the pricey side. I feel like it was like $13 a yard, which isn't a ton. But I mean, it's not fantastic quality. It is pretty see through. The light definitely shines through. So yeah, I'm not 100% sure on what this is going to be, but I want it can't take long. So I'm going to try and get this sewn up in May as well. Um, and then I've been working on a little black dress. I've actually already cut it out and started on it. Um, it is a Lisette pattern Butterick 6168. It's the one, the dress version, the one the woman is wearing here. And I'm just making it out of some black satin. Um, like I said, I've already started cutting it out. So there's not much to show you in my little bin here. Oops, actually that's for another project. Hold on. This is what the bin really looks like. Just a bunch of cut up black fabric. I am finishing off the seams with bias tape. Not all of them, but like the facing. This is what I've gotten done so far. Um, this is the inside. The facing has just this little black and white dot on the edge rather than just searching it. I thought since it's black might as well try and make it as special as I possibly could. So again, that is Butterick 6168 Lisette out of black satin. Um, also they finally released the so my style pattern for May and it's a deer and doe pattern. Myostosis or something like that. I can never ever pronounce their pattern names. Um, so I'll be making that. I really love the version with the bell sleeve and then like the ruffle hem. I really love that version a lot. So I think that's what I'm going to be making. I'm tempted to just knock off their cover art and make it out of like a white shirt or something. But ironically enough for as basic as a white shirting or any kind of shirting would be, I really don't have fabric like that in my stash. All my stash fabric is prints or not the right weight. I don't have a whole lot of really good solid shirtings. So I'm going to go try and find something good for that. And I might end up getting a gingham. I think that would be really adorable. Um, I've also toyed around with like some special kind of trim for the hems. I have a lot of ideas floating in my head for that one. It's just such a great cute little pattern. Um, I'm just really excited about all the different options and just how just unapologetically summer is going to be. You know what I mean? I just, it felt very airy. It felt very light. It felt very comfortable. I'm really excited about it. So I still have to go shopping for that one, which is kind of disappointing because for some of my style, I really try not to buy fabrics. I try to sew for my stash. Um, but that one's just going to be too good to just randomly pick a stash fabric. You know, I really want to be very intentional with it. So I'm excited about that one. My refashion for this month is going to be made from this. This is a gigantic, um, denim button up dress. Ah, this has got to be from the 80s, 90s. I'm not sure it's got huge sleeves. I mean, it is like mid calf length, um, heavy ish denim button up. It's a lot, but that means that it is a great canvas for me to do some magic. So I hemmed and hawed about what to do when I was in the store. I would really thought, oh, I'll just make it into a shift dress. And the more I thought about it, the more I said, you know what, I want to make this into an overall dress. Um, so I got the Talena Buttons Cleo pattern, which is adorable. There are some amazing versions of it online that makers have made. Um, so I'm going to be cutting this up to make the Cleo. I'm going to maintain the center front. So my Cleo will have buttons going down the front, um, which I think will be a cute little detail. Um, and then I do want to use the overall buckle rather than the button, um, option that she has. I just need to see like if I can find some that look okay. I mean, this is a pretty standard antique brass button, but I just want to make sure they don't clash too, too much. Um, push comes to shove since it is button up and I don't actually need those to function. I could take them from the sleeves, the buttons from the sleeves. I know that once I pull the post apart from the backside, I know that they aren't going to be functional anymore, but I could figure out a way to like, I don't know, rig it so that this looks like it's the button piece. Again, there's still a lot to sort out there, but, um, I do think that this is going to end up being, um, the Cleo and I'm really excited about it. Not so excited about piecing all that together. Um, cause it's a PDF pattern, but at least it's just mostly a skirt and a bib and, you know, not sleeves and it shouldn't be that much of a pattern to put together paperwise, you know, from the PDF. Um, I just don't prefer that. Like when I got the deer and doe, I just ordered the paper one. It's going to take like all month to get here. Probably be something I saw the last week of the month. Um, but it's just so much better. I think I don't know. I just don't really like piecing together PDFs and I don't like patterns being out of paper. Other people don't have this issue, obviously, or they trace them and they don't have to work with the paper. I know that there are solutions. I just, just want to get right to the sewing. You know what I mean? Um, let's see. What else? Okay. Um, is that it for, let's see. I have a little list over there. I got that, that, that and that. Okay. So the last thing actually I'm going to be sewing some stuff that's not for me. Um, and I'm really excited about it. A little hint is here is one of the fabrics. Um, it's Sunny's birthday this month. He is going to be 12. He's not in here. Otherwise I would show him to you guys. Um, he's going to be 12. So I thought it would be really cute to make him a birthday suit. Um, which is kind of like ironic because for humans, a birthday suit is your naked. But since dogs are naked all the time, their birthday suit is when they actually wear clothes. These are the little things that I daydream about. Anyways, so I saw on the cricket design space, um, you know, for the maker, they have a collaboration with simplicity where simplicity patterns are already loaded into the design space. So literally all you have to do is cut out like a rectangle of fabric, slap it on your mat, stick in the machine and simplest, the machine will cut out the simplicity pattern for you. And they had some little dog clothes. So I made a muslin because that's what a professional sewist does when they're working for their client. I was on the floor. Um, and I wasn't sure. Like I'm trying to like measure his little like waist and his little neck. And of course he's like fussing around and like, what are you doing? So I made a muslin. Here it is. It's so stinking cute. Um, this would be his head goes through here. And this is his body of his legs. And he would be walking around like that. Um, and it was a little bit too small. Um, through the waist, I guess, and then these two that are supposed to overlap with like Velcro just barely touch. So I needed to add something here so that those will attach. And then I played around with adding just strips of fabric, which I think is actually a really good solution because he's a boy. Those of you that have boys, you know, they aren't the best with keeping their, um, number ones, um, aiming in a good direction. And a lot of times when he wears clothes, he gets them dirty very quickly just by going to the bathroom. So I think this would be a good way to prevent that because it's just such a thin little strip and he doesn't pee on his stomach, you know. So this should be a good solution for that. So I went to Joanne and I got a bunch of fun dog fabrics. Like this one has like a cartoon type dog with tennis balls and bones and hearts. Um, this one just has dog feet. Um, and then I got some that I thought were representative of his personality. Like this one is Monsters, which I thought was really cute. And then I got some that I thought would be kind of like what a human little 12 year old would wear. So this is like a little pretty like denim floral. I don't know. I just got a bunch. I was kind of going crazy. Um, so my plan is to sew up a bunch of these. I'm not going to do the little leash tab because he is litter box trained and he does not actually go outside on a leash. He, we don't really do that. And when we go on walks, he has like a collar that we use. I don't need to have this little thing on there. So I'm going to leave that off and I'm going to have the cricket also cut out some iron on vinyl and I got a ton of cute little sayings from Etsy. Um, things that are intended for little boys like onesies, but I'm going to put them on Sonny's clothes. So we'll see how many of them I can make. Um, and then we'll give them to them, give them to him for his birthday. And I think that he will really enjoy them. I hope he does. I enjoyed brainstorming about the idea of making my dog clothes for his birthday. Um, but you know, that's what you do. When you don't have human children, you have furry kids, or I only have one. Um, but you know, our ears are numbered. Don't get me talking about it. I will cry on camera. Um, so I just, you know, really want to cherish him for as long as I can. Oh my gosh, I told you, I cry about it every single time. Anyways, that is it. Those are my plans for May. I'm going to go get myself together here and not think about my dog passing. Um, but yeah, I'm really excited about them. I think it's going to be really fun month of sewing. Is me May May. So I am posting all of my, um, outfits that I'm wearing every day. I'm doing the weekends too. And then I'm going to post a compilation video of the previous week here on YouTube as well. So each and every day, they'll be on Instagram and then once a week, there will be a weekly roundup for lack of a better term, um, here on YouTube. So look forward to that. Um, in the meantime, let me know what is your big plan for this month. Um, is anybody out there sewing wedding dresses, like actual wedding dresses? I know that wedding season is coming up or bridesmaids dresses, anybody working on that? Um, I would love to see, I don't know, to me that concept is just so crazy to make a wedding dress, to make a dress that is so meaningful for one day. I don't know that I could mentally get myself there, but anyway, let me know what it is that you're working on this month. Um, I'd love to hear about it. And I will see you all very soon. Bye.