 Hi, you guys, it's Lindsay here. Welcome back to Inside the Hymn. Today, we are going to be talking about my plans for February. I've got a really exciting month planned of sewing and even though February is only 28 days and that's like the shortest month of the year, still going all in and overplanning like I always do, which is fine. There's just a lot of things I've gotten really excited about this or leading up to this month. So I'm going to try and squeeze in as much as I can, but I've got a bunch of stuff to show you today. So let's get started. Okay, so the first thing is inspired by my boyfriend. He got a kind of classic trench coat from Cole Hawn and he's been wearing it a ton lately and every time he wears it I'm like, I really wish I had a trench coat too. So I dug out Vogue V8884, which is a classic trench coat pattern and this fabric, which ironically was in my stash, I had this idea probably a couple years ago and never got around to it. So this is a fabric from Stylemaker Fabrics, no longer available. But it is like the quintessential trench coat fabric. It's got great weight, great, you know, the right amount of drape and it's this, you know, beautiful like sandstone beige color. So I'm really excited about that. Obviously, this is a little bit more of an involved project. It is fully lined so, you know, you're making like two coats to put together to make one coat at that point. But overall, I'm really excited about it. I think I'm gonna make Vuc that has the belt and then the little cuff belts cuff bands. I don't know what they're called. The little things over the over the cuffs and Vuc also has like double princess seams. So I think that'll be really flattering and cute. So that's project number one. Classic trench coat. Do y'all have, do y'all own trench coats? Do you wear them a lot? I just feel like in the weather down here, it would just be the perfect layering piece. You know what I mean? Anyways, okay, the second one is also something that I've had planned for more than a year easily. It is this Cynthia Rowley dress. Simplicity 0881, but it's also known as also known as Simplicity 8086. I don't know why it has two numbers like that, but 8086 is what is written on all of the pattern pieces. So we'll go with that. Simplicity 8086. And basically it's this really cute like thin flare dress with like an overlay, like an overlay that's not attached at the waist. And I want to make Vuc which has a contrast overlay over the dress part. And the fabrics that I have chosen, super exciting. I want to do an eyelet for the overlay, this white eyelet, with just a cotton underlining for the overlay. And then this striped chambray, which I think I got from Joanne. Again, it was a long time ago. I can't remember where I got it. Anyways, this striped searsucker actually for the skirt and the body. So it'll look something like this. Won't that be so cute? And I want to keep the scalloped hem for the hem of the overlay. So I got some details to work out there, but it'll just be a really, really cute springy sundress. And I am really excited about it. I love whenever combining fabrics like comes together. And just, I don't know, like you have something in your head and then you see the fabrics and you know, you get all excited about it. I don't know why I put off making this. Maybe because it's a little bit more involved with, I mean, there's like a ton of pieces. I already kind of got started on it and I wrote it. I put this on Instagram. So if you've seen this before, my bad. But I went ahead and wrote out like, you know, the blue fabric, the eyelet, the white, like solid cotton and the lining and then each of the pieces that I need to cut out of each one of those because it is sort of complicated to like get it all straight. So I started a little bit and it's overwhelming. So I keep going to it and then going away and then coming back to it and then going away. But yeah, I'm gonna finish that this month so I can wear it. I mean, it's gonna be 70 degrees today. So in theory, I could wear it pretty much any time right now. Okay, the third thing is so my style for February. So this year, they're doing something cool for a few of the months. There are more than one option. Last year, it was like January. One pattern. February, one pattern. March, one pattern. This year, a few of the months, you have two choices to choose from on your pattern. So one of them is the Rumana coat, which is like a calf length wool legit winter coat. And as y'all know, like I just said, I have no need for a full length wool coat here. So I was really excited whenever she announced that they would also be offering the Estelle Ponti jacket from Style Arc as an option. This is just much more wearable for me and I was just, you know, a waterfall, cardigan jacket type thing is, you know, very wearable here. And at this similar timeframe within a few days of that, I got an email from Fabric Mart Fabrics. So you guys know I'm a member of their Julie's Picks and as a member of Julie's Picks, you also get like exclusive opportunities to buy fabrics that aren't sold on the regular site and kind of are only available to Julie's Picks members, but also does not come in the catalog. If that makes any sense. And so they were doing a whole bunch of Ponti nits. They had gotten in and gotten their hands on a whole bunch of different Ponti nits. So I got pink, obviously. It's like a really pretty like baby salmon pink. Um, not quite bubblegum Not quite ballet pink Kind of somewhere in between those two. Um, so I am really excited. I think a cardigan or Waterfall jacket or whatever you want to call it out of this pink Ponti with really nice drape I want to say it has rayon in it, which also made me excited because I just love rayon and anything. Um And I just think it's going to be I'm trying to find an end to show you some drape To show you some drape going on. But yeah, see that So out of the waterfalls, I think that's just going to be so pretty So I'm really excited about that. That'll be a style maker for, um, oh, there's A stain. It's on the selvage. Um That'll be so my style for february And so it gets posted on the last sunday of the month. So you guys will get to see that On my instagram that day Okay, what else? Oh, okay, so, uh, work in progress that I started. Um Oh a few weeks ago this pattern I knew it would be involved. I didn't know it was going to be this involved But this is another Cynthia Rowley. It's simplicity 2250 And it's a really cute sundress With a whole bunch of seeming details in the bodice So this is the bodice Let me try and show you guys We throw these things over my shoulder So you can see on the bodice alone. I think I counted and there were like Oh gosh, was it six darts four pleats It was a lot and then this band is a lot and the band has gathering and it has elastic in the back And these tabs and it's fully lined. So just this bodice alone has taken me Hours hours and hours, but I'm really taking my time with it. Um, and if you're wondering I did do the straps different on purpose. I just wanted to play up the Just everything going on with the strike situation here. So That's where we are on that. I still have to Um, uh, obviously sew up the skirt which has inseam pockets Um, and then attach the skirt and then him and I'll be done So I'm really in the final stretch, but um, I was just becoming like kind of burnt out with it after spending I think like three days not all day every day, but spending a lot of time on it So, yeah, that's that Um, so yeah, I'm really excited to get that finished up in february Um, and then the last thing I kind of just threw in hold on I kind of just threw in last minute because I went to joanne to get something small like elastic or pens not pens but needles or something and then I just started looking around and then I actually found two Really great fabrics that were right now my joanne store is a little bit Baron there's like not a lot going on there right now So in my first walk through the fabrics, I was like, uh, I'm not really inspired by anything And just moved on but after I got my needles or whatever was I walked back through again and I was like, you know what? I was like, this is actually pretty cool. Um, and so I ended up getting two things One of them was okay So I never go in that special occasion fabric section where they have like all of the tool and all of the glittery sparkly Stuff like I just never go down that aisle because I don't feel like I don't make gowns or anything like that. So I just thought that all that fabric was kind of Not anything I would ever wear. Um, but since there was hardly any other fabrics in the store I went down that aisle this time and I found something called Shoot, it's called like Shoot, I think it's called like Sanded satin I'll leave a link down below so where you can find it and it's a hundred percent polyester But feels really great So this is um, a color that's kind of like a navy but with a little bit more green tones in it Another example if you remember the ballet dress that I did That product photo that they had on joanne.com Like just did not do that fabric justice And this is the same situation if I saw the product photo That's on their website right now for this color of this fabric. I would be like no pass It looks like turquoise and this is not turquoise. I mean it does have like a greenish blue Teal to it, but um, it doesn't look like it looks on the website Um, anyways, they have a ton of colors. Um, mostly your Like neutrals like black a lot of grays Some beiges, but judging from this, I don't know that I would buy a color other than black, which everybody knows what black looks like Um, I don't know how to buy a color without seeing it in person first just because the the product photos are so Are so off with this fabric And I don't know if it's because like the satiny part is reflecting the light in a different way or I don't know Maybe it's just hard to photograph. Honestly, I don't even know what it looks like on camera right now But um, hopefully my description is is helping you guys understand it. Anyways, you can see the drape is really nice It's super soft you guys. It's like butter. Um, it's not silky like the polyester linings are It's got a little bit more grip to it than that, but it is still very very smooth. I guess that's the best word smooth So I've had this this must be the month of simplicity patterns not on purpose Um, I've just had these and never some of them, but I have simplicity eight four two five Which is this really cute on train pattern that has like the little neck band detail And I've been trying to find a fabric that I thought would work for this because to me This fabric has to be the right combination of weight and drape Um, even though I'm only making the top I still feel like it has to be a little bit more substantive than just Uh rayon shali. Um, so at first I was looking at peach skin and then I was like, no, that's not drapey enough But I found this and I think it would just be perfect. So I'm really excited about this It should be a quick little top um to make and then I was walking through Another section. I don't even remember where and it was actually folded around the bolt like this Where you couldn't see what it was, but I saw a little teeny tiny peek of it and I said, hey, what is that? And turns out it is this Cute right and these two The background of the floral is I mean a pretty much a dead ringer for this Say it is satin. So I'm thinking of an outfit where these two things can go together. So either Brace yourself a cigarette pan Or a skirt or um, I don't know. I'm trying to still figure it out I can't remember What kind of fabric this is and I went online and it's not online. Um So you're just gonna have to screen cap this and take it to your store and ask them where to find it or look for it yourself Um, but it is a thicker. It almost feels like crepe backed satin That might actually be what it is that would be my best guess where the satin is the printed part And the crepe side is the white part, um So, yeah, it might be crepe backed satin That would be my best guess. Um, but it is very it's heavy weight Um, but still has some really beautiful drape to it So I think you would make a really great skirt even like a circle skirt. Maybe the veronica skirt. That's a free pattern by Maggie Nielsen Maybe I'll leave a link down below um So I think you make a really pretty circle skirt, but I got enough to to make even a whole dress if I wanted to Or maybe I could use the leftovers of that for aligning or something. I don't know. I don't know So but I did pull out this pattern um Not totally my style But for some inspiration for you guys if you wanted an exact pattern to maybe try and Make this something with this. Um, it's simplicity A Cynthia rally pattern again eight to six four And I just think that that is really cute either as the mini dress Which again, isn't really me But I could take the top and add like a pleated skirt to it and that would be cute Or I love the idea of a matchy matchy two-piece set out of the same fabric Um, I just think this fabric in particular would be really great for these neck pleats And these arm pleats and has the structure you need for like the boxy type top So maybe I'll make separates. Maybe I'll make the top and then a circle skirt out of the floral and Usually never wear them together, but maybe wear them together. I don't know. What do you guys think? Is that a good idea? Did I just talk like did I just brainstorm my way into like a really good idea? Maybe Okay, well either way circle skirts take like five seconds So maybe I could whip this up in january after all not much to do with the standard satin, but I will have to think on this a little bit Um, I have a dress that I started in january that just needs a hem So I do like I am trying to not add projects to the work in progress Pile um, but some of them are kind of Carrying over just for a matter of time like that dress needs a hem and I need to um, hand stitch the arm size closed and the waistband lining um But other than that, I really don't have a lot of works in progress Well that dress and then the one that I showed you with the complicated bodice Um, but other than I've been doing pretty good at finishing what I start So I'm really excited about that. So I'm going to film my january makes video Like right now. Um, so you guys will see that Shortly, so you'll get to see everything that I've been making so far this year Very exciting. Um, let me know what your big plan is for february. Um, if you've got Something specific in mind or you're just trying to find inspiration. Let me know what um, you're thinking about for February and if you're making if you're participating in so my style, let me know are you doing are you team rumana? Or are you team estelle? We should start a hashtag team rumana team estelle. Um, and let me know, um, which one of those You will be making so I can be sure to follow along Anyways, thank you so much for watching and I will see you all very soon. Bye