 Hi you guys! It's Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hem. As you can see, I've got a huge pile of fabric in front of me, which can mean only one thing. This is my plans video for October. It's all the things that I plan to work on for the next month. So without further ado, I'm gonna jump right in. The first thing is the one pattern one week projects. One pattern one week is this initiative or this like, I don't know, just fun event on social media where you wear the same pattern all week long for one whole week. So that can either be one pattern, halved into different variations. It can be different ways that you style a pattern, like you could take something like a black skirt and style it many different ways. However, you want to do it. You just take one pattern and you wear that same pattern, regardless of how many different versions of that you make into garments, and you wear that all week long. So I have chosen to make seven different garments, which seems crazy, but I did choose a fairly simple top to make those seven garments. And I'm doubly challenging myself to only use fabrics in my stash. I cannot under any circumstances go out and buy fabrics for this challenge. So it's not as hard as it seems. I've got a rather large stash, which is the point of making myself use it up. But you know, it does limit me a little bit. So I'm going to be using M7660. I'm not going to make all seven of them this month, but I have already made one and a half of them. So I'm wearing one now. This is basically like a shortened version of F, give or take. It's like a combination of F and E. Anyways, and then this is version A with those sleeves, with those really fun sleeves. I'm having some fit issues. The sleeve was too long. And so I took it all apart. And I also took in this part of it because I felt like it was really big. And then that posed some problems with this little bubble part. So I'm not 100% sure how this one's going to turn out. I mean, it's going to be wearable, but it might not be like my favorite top ever, if you know what I'm saying. And then some other versions that I have planned that I want to get done this month is to make, um, let's see, a dress. So you can take any bodice and without too much pattern hacking, make it into a fit and flare dress. You just have to like taper in the bodice and add a skirt. Or you could just add a skirt that's the same width of the shirt already and then add an elasticized waist. That's also a really easy hack to do. And that looks really great in sweater nits. So I might take this sweater knit and make an elasticized waist dress with, I don't know, one of the necklines, whichever I'm feeling. I do like this one. I feel like it's very flattering and really it was easy to do. And then for this one, I might actually put the work in to make it a fitted fit and flare with like a, you know, a fitted waistband. So those are the two that I want to do for this month, um, fabrics. This came from Joanne's clearance section like last year. And I don't remember what I was going to make with it why, which is why it's still in the stash. And this one came from fabric mart, I think fabric mart or fashion fabrics. I don't get them confused all the time. I can't remember, but isn't it cute with this like gold bows? I just could not resist that. So once I do that, I'll have one, two, three, four of them. And then the week that it, um, that you post your seven garments or seven, wait, seven ways you are using the pattern, I think is the very last week of November. So I'll still have those few weeks of November to knock out the rest of them. Maybe I should make three in October. Hmm. Okay. We'll see. Either way, that's the plan to make, um, different tops and dresses. I even have an idea to take the, like one with the funnel neck and add a zipper and make it like a, like a workout jacket. And you know, do the extended thing with the thumbs. I don't know. We'll see how much time I have. Otherwise I just might end up wearing the same top or dress twice in one week. Okay, so that's that. Next is so my style. I am still trucking along with so my style. Um, if you saw my makes video, then you know, I finished the darling ranges dress. Um, which gets me up to, I think the only ones I'm missing now are the briar tee, the valley blouse and the Yona coat. Well, and then October's is the Hampshire trouser. But I looked at that earlier and her sizing, her extra, extra large is still like three inches too small in the waist and the hip for me. Um, according to her sizing, I would be a four XL in her pants, which I mean, if that's, if that's what it is, that's fine. The numbers and sizes don't matter to me, but I don't know. Something seems off about that. And I just haven't had a lot of success with pants patterns in general. Um, but especially indie companies. So I might skip the Hampton trousers. Would that be bad? I just don't want to spend the money on fabric or even if I decide to just muslin them, like I don't even want to spend the time on something that I have like 20% confidence that it's going to come out right. You know what I mean? I don't know. So we'll see what I decide about that. But the briar tee, I know last month I had that blue and silver stripe and a lot of you commented that y'all all liked it. But the more I looked at it, the more I was just like, I don't think I'm going to wear this. That might go in the donation bin or I don't know. Maybe you'll just, I don't know. Maybe I'll make a briar tee, but I didn't want it to be my like official make for so my style. Instead, I found this in the stash. It's this really pretty dusty pink color, which is like the color of the season. So I thought it would just be more trendy and more wearable. So I'm going to make the briar tee out of this one this month. I promise. Also the valley glows. I haven't made that one yet because I was struggling to find fabric. And although I really only wanted to sew from the stash for so my style, I have straight away from it for a couple of things. Well, actually it's about half and half. So I don't know. But I ended up finding this really pretty, I don't know what it is, something from Joanne. It has this like diamond pattern on it. So I'm going to use that and then underline it with just this like crinkly gauze. So it'll be a white, you know, valley blouse, but that's okay. The pattern is like kind of boho anyways. So I figured just don't fight it. Just go for it. So that's what the bodice will look like layered together. So I think that that's really cute. So I got those things specifically for the valley louse. So that'll get made this month as well. My friend Amber and I, she's so, I sewed this on Instagram, if you have Instagram. She is my real life friend. She lives here in Charleston with me. She and I are going, well not with me, but she also lives here in Charleston with her husband in like a separate place. She and I are going to the ballet this month. So we went shopping at Joanne together a couple of weeks ago. And for whatever reason, we were in the fancy, shiny, like event, ball gown, whatever section. And she and I were like, you know, it would be really fun to make something really fancy, something we wouldn't normally just wear, but something for a special occasion. So we said, hey, let's make something for the ballet. So she got a really, really pretty. It's like metallic gold and black. Is it jacquard? I think it's jacquard. And then I picked up this metallic brocade. And I spent a lot of time over the last few days muslinning, like I muslin one pattern, two different bodices from there didn't like it for this fabric. Then I muslinned this pattern, two different bodices to decide which one I wanted and ended up going with this one. So I have already made the shell of it. And the shell is really, really cute. But as explained earlier in my makes video, what turned something from a work in progress to a year old work in progress and prevents it from being an actual make is that I never have lining fabric. I don't understand why every time I'm at the store, I'm like, Oh, yeah, I've got lining for that at home. I always think I have some and I get here and I either don't have enough or I don't have the right color or whatever. So here we are again. I have ordered some it should be here this week. So I will be able to finish this for the ballet does have a deadline, you know, so that'll help me get it done. But it is really pretty and I'm excited to wear it to the ballet. But also, it would be a really great holiday. If I get invited to any holiday parties, like for work or if my boyfriend and I go out somewhere, I think it'll be really perfect for lots of different things. The weather here in Charleston last year, I feel like it barely dips below 60. So with like a jacket over this, I should be able to wear it like through the holidays, fingers crossed, that's the weather I like anyways. Okay, so there's that that is going to get finished this month. And then again, if you saw the makes video, then you know that getting through some of these work in progress projects is like paramount. It's my biggest goal that I have for myself right now. So I'm committing to one a week. And we'll see how that goes. I got two done in September. So we'll see what I can do in October. The first one is this. Well, it's inside out. I don't even know if it's in a state where I can flip it right side out. Okay. Basically, I was feeling I don't know ironic or something. And I decided it would be really cool to have a cold shoulder sweatshirt, which I know seems like those are complete opposites when you want to be warm if you're wearing a sweatshirt or when you want to be cool if you're wearing cold shoulder top. But I don't know. I guess I just thought that juxtaposition of those two things would be cool. So this is where I've landed with it. It was a total hack job pattern hack job. I took some McCall's pattern that had like the workings of a cold shoulder and did a bunch of pattern hacking to come up with this. So all I've got left to do is to get this neck band on and then him everything and she will be done. So, um, or am I going to do bands? I don't know. I got to make those decisions. So I'm really close on this probably just a couple more hours worth of work and this one will be done. But the sweatshirt place is so cute. It came from Style Maker. It has like, I don't know, it's like Hawaiian tropical flowers on it. So maybe that's what made me think of cold shoulder when I saw it because it was like sweatshirt, but had like tropical vibe. I don't know. I just think it'd be really wearable in Charleston. I think it'll be really cute. So I want to finish that. And then I pulled these two out because they're in my work in progress bin, but I don't know why. So I think it must be a fitting thing. I mean, this looks completely done to me. Um, and I just have no idea why it's in the bin. This is, I think, the seam work, a story out possibly that I turned into like a ballet wrap, but I don't know why it's in the work in progress bin. So I'm going to figure that out and it'll either be a make or it's going to go in the garbage one or the other. I don't, I don't know what's wrong with it. So we'll have to wait and see on that, but the fabric is really nice. I don't even know what the fabric is or where I got it, but it feels great. I hope it's not stretched out being on this hanger for so long anyways. So there's that. I must not have very much of it because I put a seam in the center back of the, this is an old work in progress. And then this one is this super cute coat. The fabric came from, oh lord heart maybe? Hearts fabrics? And like I think I'm done. I think all I have to do is some of the finishing work on the inside. I think what happened was is the pattern called for shoulder pads. And so it's like, okay, I'll get some of those and see what it looks like. And then I did and I didn't like them. So I just need, I'm literally just need to attach this facing to the sleeve and she will be done, but it's so cute. So this is like literally 30 minutes of work and this one will be out of the fabric stash as well. And then for the fourth one, I am going to choose one of those, one of many, many patterns that I have that is all cut out, but not actually sewn. Like how does that happen? Do you guys do that or am I alone on this island? I don't know if, because in the old sewing space, you know, I had to set everything up and then put it all away. Like as needed, you know, if I needed to cook, then I had to move everything out of the way. So I think that's why that was happening is because I was like, oh, yeah, I need to cook something. So I've got to pack all this stuff up. And then I just got like, you know, distracted from the project or like another more exciting thing came up. I don't know, but I have like lots of projects that I've cut out and I have never sewn. So I'm going to choose one of those. I've got so many, but there's a lot of really cute things in there. So I'm going to do that. So it sounds like a lot. But if you think about the works in progress being like either most of the way done, halfway done, or like at least the cutting done, you know, you can knock out several projects in a couple of days. So that's the plan on that. My biggest concern is the so my style projects. September's was a coat, the Yona coat. And I've been going back and forth back and forth on whether or not I was going to make it because so my styles all about adding things to your wardrobe that you need. And we just don't wear coats that often here, you know, it like doesn't get that cold. So I don't need a closet full of coats. I really only need a couple and that gets me through. It's the same thing that's held me up on the Hampshire trouser. It's like I don't really wear pants a lot. And I haven't had a lot of success in making them, you know, but if it doesn't really fit into my wardrobe anyways, then doesn't let defeat the purpose of so my style. So I might try and adapt so my style for my lifestyle and the climate we have here, meaning I might make like a second Saunio cardigan, or maybe I'll find another like lightweight coat, like the trench from deer and dough, the Lucerne trench that seems totally wearable here. And then for the trousers, like maybe instead of making pants, I'll make a skirt or I don't know, something else so that I'll have 12 garments at the end, but there'll be 12 garments that I'll actually really want to wear and fit into my wardrobe. So we'll see. This is how plans go, right? Like you think about them and then you work on some and you don't own the others. So we'll see what ends up happening. But let me know what you're planning in October. If you have an event you're sewing for, or if you've got a big project you've been working on, or if you are making the Hampshire trouser, let me know how it's going. I'd like to know, especially from those that might not fit into the size chart, what is, what's the verdict on pants? Um, anyways, but that is it for today. Thank you so much for watching. Sunny, the superstar of these videos, and I say bye-bye.