 Hi you guys, it's Lindsay here. Um, what was it? Last week? Two weeks ago? I'm losing track of time. I posted a video reviewing the Vogue Fabrics fall catalog that had all their swatches in it and you guys seem to really really love that video so many of you commented on YouTube as well as Instagram saying that after watching the video you went and purchased one of the catalogs which is so so cool. I think that's awesome that so many of you found it as interesting as I did and went and got one for yourself. One of the comments on YouTube from one of our subscribers. I can't make out her name from her user or her handle but she asked if I was going to try the fabric mark fabrics one as well so in all honesty I had not I wasn't putting it together that I had heard of the fabric mark fabrics one before but once I got to their website I was like oh you know what I have seen this it just never thought to like look into it and see what it was about but if you've ever seen anything on their site about Julie's Picks that is their version of this swatch program and it's really cool there is a girl that works for a fabric mark fabrics named Julie Shocker who goes to apparently the garment district in New York City sources fabrics specifically for this program so this isn't just fabrics that you can find on their website this is kind of extra fabrics just for anyone who's a member of this exclusive club Julie's Picks and then every month you get a kind of like a catalog of the fabrics that she has picked out so that's the way that Julie's Picks works it's a little bit different than the way that the Vogue fabrics people do theirs but so I ordered it I signed up for a full year which actually was really cool because I signed up in October for the 2017 membership which is all you could buy that's all they had on there was the 2017 membership and when I did that I get October November and December of 2016 for free which was really cool so technically I get 15 months for the 12 month price so by the time this video goes up I'm not sure if they'll still be sending out October's mailing but you might probably get November and December's for free so keep that in mind the program itself the the year's worth of membership is $50 so it's a more of an investment than the Vogue fabrics will but you get you know a whole year's worth of stuff you commit to the full year and you get something every month instead of something every quarter and you get the coupons and so the price kind of ends up balancing balancing itself out a little bit I think but you know everybody's got their own budget so that's how the Julie's Picks program works so I ordered it and I got it in really quickly I thought so I thought that was neat but anyways okay so this is the actual mailing this is what you get it looks just kind of like a newsletter it's just printed on regular printer paper nothing fancy Julie's Picks and then she kind of goes in and talks about the picks for this month I picked out a lot of fun things for you this month and I can't wait to share them with you and then she goes into um on page four is this on page three is this on page six is this um by the time you get this mail or I'll be going through the Palmer Plesh pants fitting class with Patty Palmer so it's kind of like a little bit of a personal insight into Julie's life as well which is really really cool um so the fabrics in this mailer go live on our website on the first of the month the email newsletter will also be sent to you on the first of the month we send out the mailers early so that all members have it by the first of the month um if you're not receiving a newsletter via email okay that's just nothing okay so then you open it up on the first page and this is how they have done theirs on page one they just show um how is this yeah so I guess one two three four five one two three four five yep okay so it just corresponds the first one on the list is the first one stapled to the paper here and it just goes through um kind of what they are it talks about um the colors the content of the fabric the price per yard the width and the care instructions for each of the fabrics and then similar to the vogue one it does recommend a pattern so new looks six three oh two an a-line dress and jacket combo works perfectly for the flower bunches on ottoman's suiting which is one of the fabrics mentioned on this page and the bouquet sweater knit the sweater knit has enough body that'll act like a woven so yeah it kind of goes into what these fabrics would be good for which is really cool the fabrics themselves are um I would say not necessarily something I would you know be drawn to myself um I do like feeling them though that tie-dye jersey knit is really nice um there's two of those and there's a bouquet sweater knit which has like some gold flecks going through it which I think online you might have a hard time really seeing that so that's really neat to have in person and then there's a solid wool trichotine um which is a hundred percent worsted wool um so that's kind of cool um just kind of classic you know black page two has another set of five fabrics um again notness ooh now that's something I would actually like um oh there's even a pleather oh leather looks scuba knit that is really cool really cool and then again it had um some recommendations for some patterns include including the clear coat which ironically is on my dress form it's Judy's wearing the clear coat so that's really interesting um so yeah that's what's on page two and then on page three has five more fabrics um it looks like a 100 silk it has um a three ply stretch silk a skull a solid scuba knit in a garnet red color which y'all know is my favorite um a suede grape duchine oh my gosh that feels so amazing um and then a green wool sweater knit the sweater knit it's actually really nice um and then again it recommends a vogue pattern for one of these um and then this page is all about denim so that's really cool it's kind of like organized that way this one has four fabrics it looks like one two three four no it has five oh yeah one's hiding down here the first one is a water repellent jacketing in like a denim color how cool would it be to have a water repellent like a trench coat that looked like a denim trench that would be so awesome um so and then the next one is like a denim terry knit not the most um flush terry knit i've ever felt then there is a stretch denim that's great for jeans and then a heather floral print shally in like with a denim background and then like a plaid shirting um in those denim colors so that's really cool page five has these don't look to be are these organized by a certain theme i don't think so what is that the mask jacar double knit from new york designer so she doesn't say who it is but that's really nice more ponte knit yeah so to me this is just very seasonal um like the types of fabrics that are in here are perfect for fall and winter there's a lot of wool ponte coating suitings things like that and even the colorings are very fall winter um they're not all like super heavy sweater knits though um there are a lot of really great jersey knits it looks like this whole last page page six is all about jersey knit and it looks like okay so this is pre-cut jersey knit pieces so this is something different than what's going on everywhere else we got a huge load of pre-cut fabric pieces from a company that was clearing out their fabric kit inventory beautiful first quality fabrics pre-cut to specific yardages you can see other prints here so you get like six dollars for two yards of one of these so these are it's a really really good deal the next one is nine dollars for three yards twelve dollars for four yards so it just varies depending on what the cuts are there some of them are really pretty there's a um heather jersey knit in my favorite eggplant color so naturally i love that one um and there's like a navy and white stripe which is really pretty twelve dollars for four yards so yeah there's a lot of cool stuff in there and then the back page just talks about renewing your membership i guess that's for everyone who is nearing the end of their 2016 membership um so yeah it says the first 250 people to sign up for julie's picks and place a fabric order when signing up will receive a free coupon book um so i got a coupon book now i don't know if this is the same coupon book that that's talking about or if it's just like a new member coupon book i'm not exactly sure but let's see what it has in here julie's picks coupon book okay so this is like if you've ever gotten the calendar from chick filet um if y'all have chick filet are there places that don't have it like all of you guys in europe and australia you'll probably have no idea what i'm talking about that just makes me really sad for you anyways there is this fast food restaurant here that it's gonna sound it's sounding silly in my mind that sells these calendars with cows on them this is sounding silly anyways on the bottom page of the calendars they'll have coupons that are good for just that month and that's how this is set up kind of like a calendar and each month has its own coupon so like in january free all four educational swatch packets with any order so i don't know what the all four educational swatch packets are but those are free with any order when you have the all of these have individual coupon codes which obviously i'm not going to reveal here sorry i'm not going to give you guys the free coupon codes you'll have to go to the website and order that yourself um february is five dollars off any order march is a free craft bundle with any order um wow june is a free six yard bundle with a 50 yard or 50 dollar order that's a good one there's free shipping on here 10 off um october free 10 yard bundle no minimal purchase or anything so yeah some of this sounds like a really really good deal july has 30 off patterns um 40 off full price items on their website so yeah the coupon book is really cool good lord i hope i don't lose this it's just a simple piece of paper i'll have to jot these down in my planner so that i don't forget anyways i digress okay so that is the julie's picks program from fabric mark fabrics i will have a link in the description box below for where you guys can learn more about this there's a video on their website that i thought was really helpful to kind of give you a feel for who julie is you can see her in the video um she is a younger gal probably close to my age um and you know you can get a vibe for kind of her personality and stuff which i thought was helpful because she's the one picking up the fabrics you want to know the style and the kind of person that is doing that i don't know is that silly is that i don't know that i that's why i enjoyed it but she kind of goes through the program a little bit there's a lot of information on there like i said 50 for the year but i'm pretty sure it works like it works for me when you sign up now you'll get the remainder of 2016 for free um for the same $50 price and then i'm assuming you get the coupon book as well so yeah i like this one a lot it's it's different than the vogue um catalog the vogue catalog has you know patterns for every fabric it has a lot more swatches this one only has five 10 15 20 20 up 30 so i think the other one had 60 so this has half the number of swatches um but again very specific to the season to the time these are fabrics you're going to want to buy and so right now which is really cool i think so yeah i can see myself really using this too there are a couple in here that i'm going to go check out probably which means i'm going to go buy them now as soon as i'm done filming this video um so yeah y'all go check that out if y'all liked the vogue one hopefully y'all will like this one too if y'all know more of these kind of swatch programs that exist um let me know i'm kind of addicted to them i think it's just because i'm addicted to fabric feeling fabric learning about fabric um seeing it i love all of that so um the more of that that i can do um i think the better kind of sewist i would be the more i would learn about fabric and how things how the fabrics move and how they drape and different types and things like that um i think that would all make us a better constructor of garments if you will so yeah really cool all righty i'm going to go shopping i'll see you guys next time bye