 Hey guys, Lindsay here and Abby. Today we are finally finally able to share with you the Tunic Bible book. This is a book written by two South Carolinians. One of them actually lives here in Charleston, Julie, and Sarah lives in the upstate which is about three hours from us. But they have come up with a really interesting concept for the Tunic Bible where it's basically one bodice piece and then dozens of modifications that you can make to that piece for different neckline, for different sleeves, and for different lengths of the garment of the tunic. So today I am wearing the scoop neckline with the ruffle hem sleeves and mine is the full knee-length tunic and I am wearing the ruffle neckline the full frill version sleeveless and mine is just the top. Full disclosure when I first saw this book this is the version that I was drawn to the most and I have made three versions of this already and every single one of them includes ruffle. Those were the first ones that I went to was this ruffle the ruffle sleeve here and then there's another version that has a smaller ruffle that's really cute that you'll see in here. But yeah the book itself is really great they did a great job styling all of the models in the book and took a bunch of really cute pictures that really help you get an idea for all the different variations you can make. Yeah the book is really inspirational that's the first thought I had when I opened it up. Well we opened it up first on our computer we didn't get to have this beautiful hard copy in our hands but just scrolling through my computer just all the inspiration the ideas that they came up with their trims and all the things they added is just amazing. Yeah they use a lot of ready-to-wear designers that we already know and love like Lily Pulitzer and Elizabeth McKay and Kate Spade and just so many of these southern type of designers that we have known almost our whole lives really. They took a lot of inspiration from them to come up with the different neckline variations for sure and then you can tell that the trims are kind of inspired by those looks as well which is really cool. There is also the pattern piece in here works for knits as well as woven and also something really interesting the pattern piece for the bodice has a different cutting line for sleeveless than it does for one where you attach the sleeve which I really appreciate because that makes a big difference. It does definitely and it's nice once you get your tunic fitted to your liking then you can use that same piece and just well actually they recommend cutting for certain ones you can cut it just to that regular tunic the original version and then take their pattern pieces and lay on top of your cut fabric to make those modifications so you don't even have to redraft the pattern right to make all those changes which is what really can be nice with time saving yeah redrafting yeah and I feel like sometimes when you get a pattern that has multiple variations you can kind of tell like it's the same pattern but I feel like with this one some of these look completely different like I feel like the ones we're wearing today completely like you would never immediately assume that these were the same so I think that that's really cool um something that I also wanted to note was um sort of the skill level required to make this although a tunic in terms of fitting is very easy to achieve the instructions for all the different necklines can get a bit tricky and I feel like their instructions aren't super detailed so I don't know that I would recommend this for someone's very first pattern it's not like the Tilly and the Buttons book in my opinion which walks a beginner you know through step by step I think if you if you have a couple of garments under your belt if you've done um some different neckline facings for example and things like that you could work your way through this book but the the instructions are pretty brief and they are I think in a way there's a lot of assumptions made that you would already know know before you tackled a certain step right um so that would be the one thing that I would that I would want to caution um not to dive into this if you just if you're just turning on your sewing machine for the first time you might get a little frustrated with the lack of detail in some of the narrations but I think just the basic tunic yeah with no additions like this ruffle yeah I think could be very beginner friendly yeah I didn't just I didn't choose to sew that so I can't say for myself well this is just the the the I mean this is pretty basic but the sleeve is is difficult I will say because the underside of the sleeve is not ruffled it's actually a facing it's really really cool the way that this was designed um but yeah the basic tunic sleeveless is just a tunic with bias binding yeah a beginner could totally tackle that if you wanted to to go off and do some of the other variations though I think that you might have a little bit of trouble making that leap from the basic tunic with just a basic neckline to I mean even the well you didn't do that version so another version that I did has the facing with the V and so you know you have to sew it on and then you cut through your fabric all the way down to the stitches and then turn the facing to the inside that whole process I don't know I mean maybe you could if you're a brave adventurous beginner you could you could work your way through there but again a lot of assumptions I think are made where you might not feel very confident like is this what I'm supposed to be doing like I don't know yeah so yeah I guess that's kind of where where I stand on that right right exactly take your time if you're a beginner but if you've been sewing for a while I think you're really gonna love this book a lot of the finishings are really really great they feel like ready to ready to wear clothes are constructed there no shortcuts are made you'd make extra steps just to make sure that everything comes together really well and I think that that makes for a great long lasting garment and pattern that you're going to love yeah yeah so this is our review on the tunic bible the best part is one of our viewers is going to get a very their very own copy awesome for free yeah I didn't know that lucky you guys Sarah and Julie have given us a copy to give to one of you all you need to do is subscribe to our channel if you're not already that's how we are going to pick our winner and then comment below with the variation that you would like to make the most and that's it we'll pick a winner from there and you'll get a free copy of the book nice you see that yeah so hopefully you'll enter the contest good luck to everyone and even if you don't win honestly this is a really great book to pick up I think it's something that you'll go to again and again I know I have already and will continue to throughout the seasons yeah definitely love it thanks so much for watching see y'all next time bye