 Hi you guys! Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. In November, everybody, it's the beginning of another month and I cannot believe we are almost at the end of the year. I feel like it has flown by but I am going to be sharing with you my sewing plans for this month and this video is going to be a little bit different. So every, I want to say every year, maybe every six months, I start to take stock of all of the works in progress that I have and this year there's a lot and I think what happened was, so I moved to Charlotte from Charleston last December and so all of those like fall projects that I had started in Charleston, I just kind of put away, packed it up, moved here and then started on new projects whenever I got here. And so all of those have been sitting in a lovely little organized pile in the corner of my sewing room for all of these months. So now is the time for me to tackle them. If you notice the past, you can start to tell like a little bit of a trend. So the past couple months in my makes videos, it's always been like I planned on making this thing but I didn't quite get to it. Some of the projects that I have wanted to work on like the navy and black boucle sparkly jacket got cut out, haven't even started sewing it. This project back here wasn't even in a plans video. I just got a wild hair of my butt and was like I want to work on this so I think I will. So I have this half, well it's all cut out and then like half of a bodice done so that needs to get finished in addition to this array, this buffet of unfinished projects. So I'm going to be showing you them today but I just kind of want to hold myself accountable a little bit by putting all this out there and hopefully I won't feel too shameful about what I'm about to show you because there are a lot and some of them I don't even remember cutting them out. I don't remember what they are. I don't remember anything about them. So there's that. All right so the very first one is a black jacket. This is one of those that I'm not entirely sure what I'm what I'm doing. Um actually I know exactly what this is now. Okay so this was a refashion fail. So I had okay little pieces flying everywhere. I had cut apart. I don't even know what's happening in this bin. This is not a good one to start with. I cut out something. There's pattern pieces in here. This is simplicity 1652 which is not what this is. 1652. I have like a McCall pattern in here. I have for some reason this Vogue wardrobe pattern in here. That's not what it is. 1652. I have no idea what this is supposed to look like. I don't even know where the instructions are but I know that I tried to make it. Oh here we go. Maybe this is it 1652. Yes okay so I tried to make this simplicity dress out of a black like Moo Moo type shapeless black something or another. And I think I went wrong in cutting it out because this one has all the princess seams and everything and I couldn't quite get the pieces all cut out from this. So this might be one of those things. It's really easy to just take a look at what's going on in here and then just decide am I throwing this away packing up the pattern and putting it away or am I going to try and salvage this. I think I remember when I put this away I was like this is a fail. So we'll see and obviously in this little bin I also have other random patterns. So I need to probably I was just so proud of myself for being so organized. Okay so I also have what looks to be Seamwork Danny who remembers what Seamwork Danny looks like. I have this terrible lining fabric polyester and also leather. So Danny might be a dress. Danny's definitely a dress with the bodice facings. Here is the bodice. Wait here's the bodice. So it's a cute little faux leather. It's not even leather. It is like a coated, I don't think it's denim coated twill. I'm not even entirely sure where I got this fabric. Either way that looks like it's going to be super cute. I don't remember cutting this out. Not one bit. I don't even remember Seamwork Danny. Nothing. Here's a pocket. Okay so Seamwork Danny in a black coated leather looking material. Great. That'll be fun. Then I have this. This was just a couple of months ago. So I do remember this one. It is Simplicity 8417 and it is this middle top here and the fabric looks like this. You guys probably remember this if you even if you've just been following for a couple of months. I just talked about that. So this is a cute little fall to spring top that I wanted to sew up for when the weather is like it is now. So this is very timely and that'll be really cute I think. And then I also have McCall's 7538. This is kind of like a tried and true for a lot of people. So I'm excited to try it and it looks like I cut it out of two different prints of this double brush poly. So without getting it too unorganized, one of them is this larger stripy looking thing and the other one is this little one here. This is partially sewn. I have some serger seam. So this has already been kind of getting started. Maybe I've done the bodice but you can see this is a really good illustration of just how it's sewn together. So I have some version of that sewn up. So I'll have to go through and figure that out. Then I also have my beige rayon twill trench coat. You guys might remember this from the location that I went on with two of my friends. This is very close to being done. I think I just needed like the belt or the buttons or something. I actually have it in my coat closet. Hold on one sec. It actually looks a lot better than I remember. Okay so here it is and I did the burgundy piping like all around. It's really nice. It's got the welt pocket. It's got the little like I don't know wrist belts. How do you call those? I don't know. And it's got like belt loops sewn on and the lining is completely done. So it looks like it needs a hem. It looks like no the hem is done. The hem is somewhat done. The middle part where you where I turned it out is not done. The sleeves are yeah so I've just finished bagging it I guess. So yeah I just need the belt and the buttons. So this is super super close and it's gonna be really cute um Andy fall and spring. So again this is Vogue 8884. I've had a lot of fun sewing it so far. So yeah I'll definitely I mean that's got like a couple more hours left you know. Yeah well I could have done a little bit better on the sleeves. I don't know anyways cute. Okay it's kind of heavy but I guess for full length coat that makes a lot of sense. Okay we did that one we did that one. This is okay so this is another coat that I started last year not Vogue 9157. I'm pretty sure that I'm making this version and the fabric is a gray melting wool like this gray wool and then the lining is this that I got from Joanne. You guys probably recognize that print they did it in a couple different substrates. I know they had a knit version and then this kind of like lining silky types version um that they have there but I went through and I did like thread markings and like I was doing it right. I was doing it right. So I've got the buttons for this already. So again that was Vogue 9157 and that's like more like a winter coat. The other one is more of like a lightweight ish coat and this one is full on like wool. So nice and warm and cozy. Speaking of warm and cozy I also have this fun little project. Okay so last year McCalls came out with this pattern not uh seven six nine five. Do you guys remember that one? And so I wanted to make this best. Joanne came out with this like quilted um gingham quilted gingham uh like flantily type fabric a little lumberjack now that I'm thinking about it. The wrong side is this gray and so I thought I would make that vest and do all of the trim like you can see they have all that bias tape on hers. I thought my trim would be this leather bias binding and I remember that I got started on this and the pockets are the first thing that you do and turning the corner on a with bias trim is not as intuitive as you would think and so I started to do it and I was like oh this looks awful and so I just put it all away until I could learn how to do that. Um so so I'm sure there's like a blog or a video somewhere I'm sure the quilters of the world handle that all the time all of you quilters out there are probably like I know how to turn 90 degrees with bias um so yeah I've just got to find find what I need there but yeah so I've got the trim in here I've got my zipper here's my zipper for it um and I've got all the fabric cut out it's unlined so it's pretty straightforward to sew and I feel like I have the whole body done I just the trim is all I have left I think um so yeah again McCall's seven six nine five the cute little vest that she is wearing with the bias trim fun okay and then the last one that I have here is a real mystery because I don't even have the pattern um all I have is this traced off version of the pattern so this is McCall 7610 apparently I have an arm hole but there's a hem so that makes me feel like it's I'm certainly not making crop tops um and I have it cut out of this black knit right doesn't that look like a bodice of some kind um oh wait here's another one uh this is a pocket I don't know side front so side front side front that looks like a pocket side front that doesn't even make any sense um um what is this piece this is back this is the back oh these are shorts these are shorts definitely shorts look here's the front of the shorts and the back of the shorts okay so these are cute little knit pajama shorts I guess um that was fun and here's the waistband right yeah here's the waistband so whatever 76 is it 7610 7670 7610 one of those 7610 um is a little knit shorts pattern no wonder there's a hem on the bottom I was like it kind of looks like a bodice with an arm hole but the hem was like right under what would be the bust so it's like I know that I did not make any crop tops so yeah okay so so cute little knit shorts that'll be really fun and super simple to sew and I have black thread already in my serger so I should be good to go but either way I also have this this is what oh it's on my cutting table uh so this is uh butteryx 6514 I have just the bodice pieces cut out and plenty of fabric to decide if I want this little sleeve or if I want like an actual sleeve and I'm using some fabric that I got from the Ankara and lace subscription box um I like the colors in it I'm not a huge fan of how this got paired together but I'm wondering if after I get all the panels sewn together if you won't even really be able to tell that that's kind of funky you know since the print's kind of big and busy and all over anyways so that's where I'm at on that you can see the little fit and flare is really really cute here's how the um style lines are so you can just see they're just like a bunch of different little panels that flare out at the bottom and you sew them all together and it creates a really cute little fit and flare dress I actually have a ready to wear dress um like this I want to say it's Maggie London or somebody from like a department store and I love it and always get a lot of compliments on it so I was excited to get this pattern and this is my first time making it um so you know the Ankara fabric is perfect for it's going to flare out that skirt really beautifully um but like a cotton sateen I was thinking it would also be great um so there's a lot that can be done with a pattern that is designed like that I've also got a ton of other fun little projects that I'm working on for the channel um you guys probably saw last Saturday that I posted the first of my weekly series in November where I am sharing some quick and easy and affordable gift ideas things that you can make for the loved ones in your life and so those projects are also going to be happening um the first one that went live on Saturday with all the pom poms I'm obsessed with how all those projects turned out so if you haven't seen that video go check it out it's really addictive and a ton of fun and as I said I will be using those pom pom makers like they're going out of business like they're going out of style because I have a lot of ideas like year-round on ways that we will be able to use those pom pom makers so I'm excited about that and then this Saturday's project is equally as fun equally as cute very fashionable very stylish um which is a lot of fun so I'll have those there's um five Saturdays in November so you will get five project ideas um to get started on and they're all stuff that you can do like in a couple of hours um and very affordably so that's that's always really really great um I think handmade gifts are just the way to go and if you can do it and not break the bank you make such an impact on someone else's life and they love that gift and they remember it forever and ever but it didn't really cost you much at all um which is really nice anyway so I have that going on um so I will be a busy little bee here in my sewing room I'm not planning on getting all of these done in one month don't worry this isn't like a sweatshop or anything um but I do want to tackle um a bunch of them and maybe by the end of the year get them all done I don't know I do have a holiday dress project that I will be sharing with you guys very soon as well I got the fabric from fabrics and fabrics in New York City it is going to be my holiday dress for this year um so that will be a ton of fun and I can't and I'll wait to tell you guys more about that so stay tuned and I didn't mean for this video to be like a giant teaser for everything that's happening but just in talking about things that I will be working on things that I'll be sewing this is all what's buzzing around in my mind at all times I have some fun craft projects some fun holiday decor projects you guys really responded so well to my halloween decor so I thought let's just keep that going I'm gonna try and anytime I do something that's not on a sewing machine I'm gonna try and always keep in mind that you guys are all sewists and so the DIY like more crafty type projects I'll do will almost always include fabric somehow because Lord knows we've got a ton of scraps and a ton of fabric and we don't always sew to keep all of those things to use up all of those things so I am being very conscious of who's watching of you guys but also trying to share some more of that side of my creative process as well so stay tuned for all of that stay tuned for any progress that I make on my works in progress let me know in the comment section below what your work in progress status is like am I alone that I let things like pile up for like six months to a year and then all of a sudden it's like when the dishes in the sink pile up I know there are people out there who always wash a dish and put it away or clean off a dish and put it in the dishwasher after every use I'm not that person mine pile up and then when I am so disgusted and I'm like I can't look at this anymore then I deal with it so that's what's happening here this is like very indicative of my lifestyle in all areas of my home but anyways yeah let me know let's commiserate in the comments about our work in progress status and by all means if you are one of those people who stay on top of your products projects you cut you sew you finish you cut you sew you finish every time preach in the comment section raise your hands say I am that person because you know I think we can all strive to be a little bit more like each other and somehow end up in a happier place anyways thank you all so much for watching I will see you all very very soon bye