 Hi you guys! Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. I am pretty excited about the sewing plans that I have for March. I feel like I have been more realistic and critical of myself in terms of what I can actually get done in a month. You'll see in my February makes video, like things just completely off the rails, which is okay because I still made some really beautiful things, but I want to really kind of use my plans as like an actual like guideline for the month rather than just like getting caught up in a whim here and there. It kind of goes back to my a little bit of my resolutions video and a little bit of the like how to save money. I feel like when you get real spontaneous then you just start spending money like crazy and then the things that you bought the previous month or even the previous couple months just kind of that's how your stash builds right whenever you have a plan to do something and then you just change your mind and go in a completely different direction. So I'm re-focusing, re-centering myself and my March plans are all things that I'm really really really excited about so I think that that'll help me stay focused. So where should we begin? I have my whole stack here. I guess let's start with so my style. This month's pattern is the Cali shirt end or shirt dress from Closet Case Patterns. Love Closet Case Patterns patterns. I feel like she always does a really great job and I also feel like her designs are a little more unexpected. They're a little bit more not fashion forward. I mean they're not like avant-garde or anything but they aren't your basics you know and the shirt the Cali shirt dress is a really good example of that. It has like a gazillion different options for you to kind of really make it your own but basically it is a like I said shirt or shirt dress. It has three different lengths like kind of like a cropped top a tunic length and then like a dress length then you can do a full exposed button placket a hidden button placket or a half placket then you can do a collar band or a full collar and are there sleeve options too? I can't remember. I'm going off memory. A ton of different options so what I think I want is the cropped shirt maybe not as cropped as she's designed it. Her design I want to say the crop top barely covers like a high-waisted pant or skirt or something and I just don't really wear high-waisted stuff so I want it to be able to cover everything comfortably in like regular height pants and skirts but I do want it to be kind of a neutral kind of something that I can wear with a bunch of different things um and I also want I think Sunny thinks someone's at the door Sunny come here um but I also do want to kind of fall into that trend of the denim on denim which I think can be really cute and kind of perfect for spring so this is the color of my denim for the ginger jeans that I'm working on still working on but this is like the back yoke piece anyways this is the color of my ginger jeans that I'm making or really any really super dark denim and then I have this chambray and I thought that if I made the crop top version with and wore it with the dark denim that would be really cute together and chambray is like pretty perfect for a short dress because you know holds the irons and presses really well it's really easy to sew um so for those finicky collar bits or placket parts um the chambray is gonna be really really really great so I'm kind of excited and it's gonna be a cute outfit and then I can also wear this top um with white jeans um or even like pattern shorts or I mean like a ton of different things so I'm just really excited to have like a good neutral surprisingly I don't have a chambray spring or summer top I have like button-up chambray ready to wear honestly they don't fit very well so I don't really wear them that much um but other than that I really don't have a ton of chambray I think it was just like so popular that I was like resisting it was like it's too it's too normal I need something not as like mainstream you know I think I was resisting it but I I mean I've had this in my stash forever I don't even remember where I got it um but it's like a really nice cotton chambray so excited about that for the cali dress or shirt um the next thing that I am going to be working on is like is this going to be the month of like the solids I don't have a single print except for one I have one print in this whole party this month that's interesting that's so not like me maybe I am feeling like I need some more staples um in my wardrobe because you know as you change into the seasons you're like what do I have to wear and like nothing's really going together maybe that's it anyways so sneak peek little heads up in my makes video is this dress this fabric was a moo moo like this huge shapeless dress that I got from Goodwill and I refashioned it into this and I chose buttock 6 3 1 9 for it um because again when I do my refashions I like for them to be made up of smaller bodice pieces because it's easier to fit them on an existing garment um and oh surprisingly this is meant for so oh no no no that's just like okay sorry digress anyways and so I chose this and I made it up and I was like I love this pattern this is like really really great I love the super wide I don't know if you can see it in the shop but has like um probably three or four inch wide waistband princess teams in the front and the back half lined and then a simple pleated box pleated kind of a line flared skirt and I wasn't really thinking much about it because it's kind of just like a simple you know fit and flare up made a thousand times but I don't know I just really love it's very very comfortable it just fits really well I didn't have to make any modifications so I said I need to make another one of this and you know for me remaking something is pretty rare like I am normally a one and done type girl um so yeah I want to remake it and I found this beautiful um like uh slob linen from joanne and it's very soft I think I'm 99% sure it has rayon in it if I remember correctly I'll put a link in the description box if they're selling this one online if not then I'll just put as much as I can remember about it so you can take it to your store and try and find it yourself if you want but it's um I want to say cross woven black and then like a topi grayish beige color um so it can read well with blacks but it also reads well with like khakis and neutrals and things like that which I thought was really versatile so I want to make the dress out of this and I think that'll just be super cute a linen dress here in Charleston is basically like a go-to uniform because it's just so hot and humid here that um you need something like super breathable so yeah I'll be making this um in a dress and then to go with it and also with lots and lots and lots of other things I picked up this new vogue pattern vogue 7 9 7 5 and it's this really cute set of jackets with different trims and so they have a cropped jacket and then a longer I think which like E is longer with cute little patch pockets again with the princess seams um but I love this one with the bow ribbon detail so the ribbon comes up the center front and then ties into a little bow I think that's so adorable um and so for that again I picked up a neutral because I wanted to be able to wear it with a bunch of different things so I grabbed a black twill again from Joanne simple black 100 cotton twill oh no it has stretch in it so it has it does have some kind of lycra or something in it um but just your basic black with black grosgrain ribbon so not super shiny um and a little bit of texture I thought would add like a nice touch to the black on black you know so they from far away maybe you can't tell but up close you know there's like some visual interest going on sounding so designary um but um but yeah I just thought you know obviously these two together but you can wear a black jacket with just about anything and I don't have a little black jacket I have a navy one I have a pink one I have a beige one an olive one but not black so I want to make a black one at for this as like an outfit but also with many many other things so yeah I'm excited about this little duo um okay and then speaking of refashion as I mentioned the dress pattern for this dress here butter x6319 here is my lovely before um for the refashion in March this is the before obviously um but it's just a basic I don't know like a shirt dress with a half placket a little collar band collar um long sleeves with cuffs it has a split hem and you know what I'm looking for garments to refashion I love to find them like this because it's basically like one big piece of fabric you know what I mean like there's really not a lot to cut around um and that gives you like a lot of space to you know reposition other pattern pieces to make it into something new I do kind of feel a little bit obligated to try and work in the half placket with the band I mean because that is like so much work um but I don't know what's going to happen to the rest of it I don't have a plan yet um for what's going to happen below the half placket I mean obviously some shaping around the shoulders and you know cinch in the waist but beyond that I'm not I'm not too sure what I'm going to end up doing with this but it's a beautiful teal turquoise color and it has like it's almost like a um swiss dot kind of I guess I don't know there's not a lot of information on the tag at all um about I mean there's not even any um fabric info anywhere there's like I don't know if this was like I don't know what happened oh and also it's I remember now that I went from when I bought this check out these super weird pockets okay so you have the dress like this and then you put your hand into the pocket here and it's flat with the with the side seam like you know how normally they go into the like your pockets go into the front of your body these go straight down the side of you how interesting is that right um so I don't even know how they did that maybe I don't know so that's the that's the pocket which is just I'm not very fun and interesting but yeah so there's no like tags or anything in here that say anything about what it's made from but I'm thinking polyester maybe some cotton in here but it feels pretty polyester-y which is fine so anyways so that's my other plan um and the beauty of that is that those don't take super super long they're usually not that involved um and then the last thing you guys might have seen this if you follow mccalls mccall pattern company or simplicity creative group on instagram or facebook but they are doing a royal wedding so along and I am one of the hosts um I was given new look six five two six which is this really pretty fit and flair dress like similar to this one in that it has like a really wide band the band on that one is a little bit higher up more like an um pier waist um with two bodice options you either have a v-neck with like a pretty like almost like a scallop to it or a crossover with some pleats on the side and then different um variations for skirt lengths um and so I have a fabric picked out for what I'm going to use um it is a cotton sateen so if you guys saw my video that I posted um was it I don't know last week sometime with the navy and cream wrap dress um that was made from cotton sateen as well I had a fantastic time making that dress I loved working with cotton sateen so I'm excited to use it again um but since this is for like a royal wedding or like a springtime wedding I wanted to do something really big something kind of bold um very romantic feeling um so it's basically like a huge pop poppy the flower poppies and their bright red set on like a creamy white background um so it's very big very bold and I just think that those huge poppies are going to set off really well in such a dramatic like fit and flair dress so if you don't know about the project um there are five of us bloggers each sewing a different pattern that was chosen by the fans of mccalls and simplicity social media accounts which is just super cool and then each of us are going to be doing a sew along with our project with our pattern and the fabric that we chose so I think I want to say there are eight videos in the series so you'll start seeing those roll out this month and hopefully you like the pattern that I will be sewing and you want to join me in sewing this for the royal wedding there are going to be giveaways there's going to be a contest all kinds of fun stuff so head to um either mccalls mccall pattern company or simplicity creative groups social media accounts and there will be lots of information there that they can get out to you probably faster than I can but so that's all part of March and also April 2 so that'll be a lot of fun I'm really excited about um the opportunity and just sewing that dress is going to be so much fun I think it's going to be really beautiful and just to kind of participate in all of the hullabaloo of Megan and Harry and the Royals you know it'll be a lot of fun so that is it believe it or not I just had those few things like I said I'm kind of trying to regroup and stay focused I do have a couple of works in progress leftover from February that will be sprinkled in as well so you may see me working on those on my socials but let me know what you guys are planning on sewing in March let me know if you're going to be participating in the royal wedding so along with me or anyone else and I just can't wait to hear what everybody's working on until next time I'll see you soon bye