 We are on our way to New York. Just four days of rain. Everything's on time. Everything works to be good to go. We've got tons and tons of awesome vine land. So this is day one. Hopefully you'll stay tuned and see what we're up to. But it's not there yet. We're flying to New York so that we can take the impact of this day. It costs like 13 dollars to wait here and then come back. And it's really easy to sit and enjoy the scenery. So we are starting. It is 12.30. We need a little snack. But our first order of business is probably not even our first shopping. And we'll be eating instead. So we're going to go get checked in, grab a bite to eat, and then get down. Not beautiful, but it's convenient and cheap. He made it to the hotel. And it's one of the river's really cute little artsy kind of buildings. And then there's lots of like creative types working over here. So the guy with the drafting paper. I'm sure he's loving me filming him. But like, I don't know, really cool stuff happening over there. Anyway, so we're going to head out. We're going to get lunch. We are going to do some shopping. So here is the before of my bag. And I'll show you. It is. You need to get it quickly. It's apparently not coming off. Right? And it's $18 loop panel. I'll do it, right? Absolutely. I'm not going to get caught. I'll do it. There you go. Very excited. I did end up getting the Carolina Herrera panel, which I'm really excited about. And then two other things. So we have about an hour and a half to kill for our soiree this evening. So we're trying to find somewhere to pop into. See you soon. Amber got her first fabric. I got more fabrics. I kind of can't see them, but I got some good deals. We are at Sheik. New location. Lots of good stuff. I think we're at Sil thread now. The one next to the new Sheik. They kind of all look the same. But I'm pretty sure it's Sil. It's definitely not Pacific. Definitely not. Oh, look. Oh, okay. We're at Sil. Now, YKK mesh number two invisible zippers. And they are awesome because the tape is really for this. Light weight, sheer, and just perfect for all of those rayon chalet dresses and lighter weight fabric dresses. So I'm stocking up, getting all the basics. Getting white, black, navy, and cream. But honestly, they have so many colors. Many colors. So I'm pretty sure you can call them this number and they will order them for you. Can you all see that? Oh, please. Okay. There we go. So you can call them and order your YKK mesh number two invisible zippers. Well, we made it back to the hotel. We survived our first day of shopping. We are headed to the New York social hour. A little event that goes down the last Tuesday of every month. We're going to meet up with a bunch of local sewage, which will be a lot of fun. But while we are chilling out here before that starts, I thought I would do a quick little fabric haul with all the things that I got today. So today we went to mood. We went to chic fabrics and we went to silk thread. But they also have a lot of zippers, silk thread and zippers. Anyway, so we'll start with mood. I have it all laid out so you can see it really easily. The first one is a beautiful cotton satin, I think. I don't know the exact blend, but it is a Carolina Herrera fabric. It has this really beautiful mint green background with these little splotches of like periwinkle, navy, kind of like a muted lime green and yellow. They're not really flowers, maybe abstract flowers. And it's pretty lightweight, but I think that it's going to be a gorgeous little sundress. Kind of similar to what I did for the Royal Wedding Sew Along, something similar to that. Clearly I'm into the blues these days with my blue nails and now my blue fabric. The next one, you guys saw this. This was the one that I held up, it's the panel. A little hard to show it all folded up like this, but I did want to show you the PK. Kind of like a waffle design or knit, but it is a woven fabric. So it is a little bit heavier, but not much. Still 100% cotton, very breathable, very conducive for the hot temperatures in South Carolina, but it does have that really pretty panel floral thing. So I'm thinking another fit and flare for that. I just got to try and figure out the orientation of the design that's on it. And then the last one, actually Amber found this one and pretty much insisted that I get it. It's got a pretty like peachy blush, I guess, background. And then these flowers with navy and cream and gray. Again, it's a cotton, shoot I can't remember if this one had satin or had stretch in it or not. Yeah, it does a little bit, but it's lighter weight than the Carolina Herrera one. So actually this was Carolina Herrera too. I just had like a whole day with her. But anyways, the color way of this is just really gorgeous. They had one that was also like more natural colors, neutrals like tan and white and black, maybe. I can't remember, but saw this one and we just thought it was so cute. And Amber said it looked just like me, just like something I would make. She could picture me wearing it. I figured it had to be mine. All right, let me put these away and pull out the chic fabrics. Hold on. All right, so here is my chic haul. We're going to start over here. This first one is like a jersey. Amber says it's like an ITY. She knows the knits really well. She's like an expert on knits, but it is a border print with this really pretty like paisley design on the bottom. And then kind of blends up into this more of a geometric tile like design. But I thought it would make a really cute maxi dress and at 4.99 a yard, you know, I really couldn't pass it up. So I got enough to make a maxi simple tank top elastic waist maxi dress, you know, nothing too complicated there. But I wasn't really looking for knits, so I really had to love it and I just really adored this border print. The next two came from this like remnant bin is the best way to describe it. They were 2.99 a yard each. This one is a cotton satin. Isn't that great? It's olive and white. Not really animal print, but it's kind of like zebras. I don't know. But they only had a yard and maybe a yard and a third or something, maybe a yard and a half. So I took what they had, probably just make it into a circle skirt or a pleated skirt. I'll try and eke out a bodice if I can, but probably not. Maybe I could like block it and do the skirt out of this and the top out of like a solid white or something. I don't know. So there's that one. And then this one was just really sweet. It feels a lot like a rayon shelly or something. It's lightweight. It's drapey. It may not be 100% rayon, but it is similar to that kind of fabric to me. It's got this great gingham in the background and then these floral designs kind of all over it. Red and yellow mostly. It might be a little picnic-y, but that's okay. So they had a four yard cut of it and I begged him to cut it in half and he did. So I ended up with two yards of this guy at $3 a yard. And then this next one. So Amber again found this one and she thought that it was silk with good reason. I wouldn't be surprised if he were mistaken or something. I mean it feels amazing. He swore that it was polyester, but anytime I've ever had a silk or felt a silk fabric had this kind of like creepy back. I don't know. It feels really, really good for a poly. It's one of the best quality polys I've ever come across if it is polyester. But she liked it for me. She thought the design was really good. Honestly guys, it was kind of on the fence. So I texted a picture to my boyfriend and I said if he likes it, then I'll get it. And if he doesn't, then I'll leave it and he loved it. So I ended up getting two and a half yards of this. I'm going to make some kind of dress with it. Definitely a fuller skirt. And I'm not quite sure what to do with the top. I really want to utilize this drape. So it might be like a faux wrap or crossover bodice or I don't know about flounces necessarily because it is a little bit heavier weight than like a rayon or a shali or anything like that. So we'll have to see what this becomes. But I do really love it. The colors are beautiful. And I think in the fall it's going to be a staple that I reach for all the time. So other than that, I got those zippers at what was that? And then I got we hold this and then I got just some thread. But I'll show you the zippers in case you couldn't see them and show you which thread I got case you want to know about that. So the thread is the Gooderman Mara M-A-R-A. And it is the 120 size is that I don't know. There's like Mara 60 Mara 30 and this is the Mara 120. This is the thread that I just ran out of. If you follow me on Instagram you saw that I was like running really low. So I figured instead of like rushing home and then having to wait to order thread online, I would go ahead and grab this. The prices there are so good. All of these zippers were $1.85 for a for a 24 inch invisible zipper. I mean the prices are really so good. But you can really see in this sunlight look how sheer and meshy and lightweight and wonderful the zipper thread is. And because they're number two size, the teeth are really small. They really are just the best zippers for lightweight fabrics. I'll probably use them on this for sure, totally for something like this. These like heavier weight cottons would be okay. This one on the fence, it could go either way. But any of these like lighter weight fabrics, they're really so good for. And I got kind of just a bunch of neutral colors. I literally could have gotten one in every color and probably used it. But I restrained myself and only got a couple in all of the neutral colors. So that I am going to bring the vlog camera to social hour. But I'm not 100% sure how everyone's going to feel about being on camera. So I got to feel them out first. If anybody's like weird about it, then I won't bring on the vlog camera. So maybe there will be footage from there, but maybe not either way. I will check back in to say good night when we get back. Or I'll see you in a little bit at social hour. Bye. I forgot to show you guys what I was wearing today. This is my travel outfit. You might recognize it from Me Made May. This light is really offensive. Is that better? Oh yeah, that's a lot better. I also have my Seamwork denim jacket that I brought. The weather here is absolutely perfect. We actually got a bit of a chill walking back to the hotel just now because we are used to 110 degrees, not 70 degrees. But anyways, the goji shorts were really great. Super comfortable. The knit top, very comfortable and lightweight and perfect for the plane. I gotta say these weren't a super great choice, but they weren't terrible. So I'll show you what we're going to wear to social hour after we get changed. Okay, I'm ready for social hour. I'm wearing a brand spanking new number, butteryx 6554, I think. I did the flutter sleeve. We broke the window shade. Otherwise, they would be like plenty of natural light, but since we broke it and they haven't fixed it yet, this is all you guys are going to get. But yeah, it turned out really cute. And I love it. Hopefully the wrinkles will come out as we walk over there. But I bought them on with my corks. Super comfy. And yes, ready to go meet everyone. Amber, what are you wearing? This is a Vogue dress from last year. I think it's like 1935 something. Golly, if you remember that, more power to you. Oh, did you? I don't think I remember it. Super cute. Joanne's clearance fabric. I thought it would be a muslin, but I liked it. Wearable muslin turned into actual garment. Oh my gosh, we made it back to the hotel room. We partied at social hour, which was really social four hours. Extra social. Yeah, we got there like a little bit after six and we didn't leave until like a little bit after 10. But I was telling Amber at dinner, like I really do feel like my heart and soul is so full after meeting everyone that was there. Apparently they had like an unusually large turnout. They were like... Was there a one year anniversary? Was there a one year anniversary? Yeah, they had like 20 people there. So when we first walked in, I was like, I kind of thought this was going to be like a more intimate thing. And there were so many people, but they all were so nice. Some of them recognized me. Some recognized Amber. Some of them had like no idea who we were, which is totally fine because they do now if you're watching. Hello. But yeah, they just really welcomed us into their little group. And yeah, just were really, really nice. Honestly, if you live in the area and you're not coming to this event, you're really missing out. We talked a lot about sewing. We talked about movies. We talked about boys and Taylor Swift. And I mean, it was just like talking, talking, talking, talking, talking. I felt like emotionally drained afterwards because I just didn't stop like having conversations and talking with people. So it was a really, really good night. And I'm so glad I went. I didn't film any of it because A, there were so many people there and B, like I didn't really know any of them. So I just didn't want to make anyone nervous. So no footage, but if you can picture the basement of a restaurant, a big long table in the middle, and like tons of girls, like groups here, groups there, like groups around the table. And then like as the night went on, it was kind of like smaller and smaller and smaller. And I think at the end, there may be like six of us, but just visualize, visualize that. And that's what it looked like. So it was just such a pleasure to meet everyone that I met of people that I had already had conversations with online, but also people that I just discovered. So I just feel really full. Like I made 20 new friends tonight. So it was really great. But I'm going to wrap this up because I've got to undo this face, get in my pajamas and edit this video and get it up so that you guys can see. But tomorrow we have, what's in store tomorrow? We're going to Simplicity tomorrow. I don't know how much they're going to let me film. That's on the agenda. More fabric shopping. And then we're going to the Met Museum. Again, not sure how much I'll be able to film there, but I'll take you along for the ride as much as I possibly can. So stay tuned and hope you enjoyed today's video. Bye. Do you want to say bye? Bye. Good night.