 hi you guys welcome to our next first impression friday this one is going to be a big four we've got macaws early spring and just judging from this little banner image here we are in for a real treat lots of cutouts lots of ruching lots of trends everything that macaws has been known for in the last i don't know year couple years um they're really going after you know youthful sewists people with uh of any age with just like fun trendy um type of style so without further ado let's jump right in we've got mrs dresses uh two piece lined dress is joined at the waist with a decorative ring view a is sleeveless view b has puff sleeves view c has classic sleeves and front slit on skirt cutout style dress has flared skirt and comes in two links above the knee and lower calf thank you for a very detailed description macaws all right let's take a look at some of this so you've also got this sort of like high neckline which makes sense to balance out the cutouts here and of course you know girlfriend has some abs but that doesn't mean you have to have abs i think this is a very flattering cut line for all body shapes um i don't know that you know necessarily there is gonna be like one style one design for apples and then another one for pairs i think nowadays we are in this place where you wear what you like that's what i'm doing no matter i mean obviously we're not all gonna look like she does in this dress but i don't think that means you shouldn't wear it if you like it um we do have a lot of fullness in the bust and it comes together into this little ring which is just a fun fun fun detail kind of reminds me a little bit of the 80s when we had those little rings and we you know attached them to our t-shirts at the bottom but you've got this really cute cute cute sleeve um and then i guess this is the flared skirt right at the knee length here is the lower calf length skirt with the front slit and the more standard sleeve so you get even a little bit more coverage this way here's the sleeveless version full skirt there this must be some version of a circle skirt but i mean tell me you wouldn't kill it in miami in this or on some tropical vacation or i mean heck like even to your local fun like picnic you know what i mean like you don't have to go anywhere they did do some things here that how do i say will aid in kind of like cheating a good fit and one of those is this elastic through here um so you do not have to worry about it fitting super well you can kind of cheat it a little bit you know you get the front to lay nice and flat you get the back to also lay nice and flat but with the help of elastics you can pull that in really tight and get a close fit to your back the low back here or the back of the skirt is interesting because it does swoop down quite low and i think that that's just kind of gravity doing its thing um it i don't not like the back view but i don't love it as much as the front view i don't know how they could have the front and anything else in the back i don't know you couldn't have the front and then this come up a lot higher or else the front here would also have to come higher you have this dramatic cut because it's scooped so low in the back so if you're willing to compromise some of the you know skin showing in the front you could have a higher back and that could be a good compromise i think there's a invisible zipper here and then just a little keyhole here the elastic i will say also aids and getting it on and off so you didn't have to have a zipper here too which is hard to just fasten by yourself so maybe there's some practicality to it and then there are all three views together and then here are our line drawings i wish it looked a little bit more like separates in the back but i just don't think it does and that's fine and that's fine okay so there's line art oh no where's there back of the envelope no that has to be an accident so we'll have to look at this one tell me that this is not going to be it i can barely read this okay gotta zoom in a bunch all right so cotton blends poplin tapeta satin um i think even a hundred percent cotton's i mean you do want it to be pretty structured because you know it can't be too drapey or else this will just fall down um it does need some structure i think the structure aids and kind of the flare of a skirt and certainly the bubble like the fullness of the sleeve um but i think you could do a hundred percent cotton's here as well and then this longer version you could go a little bit lighter weight you could do like some seersuckers or things like that that would be such a cute juxtaposition right to have like your classic demure seersucker combined with this like wham bam pow fun cut out dress all right so the notions are going to be interesting um to see because these are sort of cut on the bias i want to know are we reinforcing this in any way or we're just relying on this um ring to kind of hold everything together so one package of single fold bias tape that's for a b and c i'm assuming for the skirt uh one nine inch zipper we talked about the zipper being in the back um three eighths inch wide elastic and then two hooks and eyes that's it so i don't they're not calling for any stabilizer in here they're not calling for twill tape they're not calling for really anything um to stabilize this which i might reevaluate if i were going to make this but the sleeveless dress only requires two yards of fabric and then if you add your sleeves it's an additional yard there we do have finished bust line measurements of 33 and a half up to 49 inches finished measurements or remember i told you this is a little bit roomier um because it does have all the kind of like gathered into the ring um so it is a little bit fuller through here so that's good i think this is a great start certainly very indicative of spring which is fun next up we have eight two five three mrs and women's dress similar but different i think this one must be knit yes uh three views for ruched cut out knit dresses including functional drawstring at bust and ruching on skirt sleeveless half sleeve and long sleeve options are also included pattern comes in above knee midi length options view a bodice is contrastive or color blocking or print mixing how stunning does she look they did so many things here to kind of help not necessarily trick the eye but to help the eye see all the beautiful curves of her body so we've got the beautiful center front ruching which really just elevates the bust line so much um gives like her like the middle of her bust i guess like some definition in shape so it's not like a mono bust situation then we've got this stunning ruching anybody who has a belly puts some ruching over it and it just disappears it just disappears so i will say that there is not a ton of support here you know so i think she probably has a bra on i think the back is probably full coverage so you can wear a bra with it but just keep in mind that if your bra is not super supportive you could have some issues with under boob here because there is there's there's nothing structural here keeping this seam like close to the body um this is just a hemmed hemmed fabric you know what i mean but man this is really pretty i don't know exactly how i feel about this rope trim would i have preferred it in the self fabric would i prefer if it tied up here instead i don't know that might be something i would play around with um if i were to make this just swapping that out and seeing i don't know i like it because it kind of you know covers it up covers the skin up a little bit more of an illusion but also i don't love it because it seems kind of sloppy i don't know but then you have this beautiful skirt high low hem and then here's the sleeveless version same exact everything just no sleeves oh and then a straight hem that's also shorter there is the maxi length that looks really long and then you also eliminate the sort of ruching at the skirt here which means it's just straight across so less skin is going to show here um and then a shorter sleeve than what the model is wearing yeah okay so it is full coverage in the back so you're able to wear your bra but that's it like you can't really do a lot of shapewear or anything like that because it would show in the midriff um you'd have to wear separates and shapewear this is a learn to sew level two so it's pretty simple and then they give you lots and lots and lots of extra details and spend a little bit extra time um before you ever even start sewing just kind of explaining some of the basics of sewing so if you're getting into garment sewing start with a level one and then you can upgrade to a level two from there that's the that's kind of the point of their levels here are our line drawings i would have loved to have seen the color blocked version made up but alas all right so knit fabrics two-way stretch knits 50 stretch such as jersey interlock and novelty knits this is not going to be your rayon jerseys this is not going to be your you know super thin sweater knits by the same token it's also not going to be like your more structured panties they really are looking for like middle of the road mid-weight cotton jerseys i think would be best so two yards of your draw string and then also for the sleeveless version single fold bias tape and for a and b the elastic for the ruching on the belly super super super easy skill to get this ruching here maybe even much easier than it seems i will dare to say okay so uh fabric requirements up to two and a well actually yeah two well this is the contrast to so up to three and a half yards of fabric a bit of a fabric hog even a because it is color blocked it color blocking takes up more fabric than just cutting it all off out of one fabric but maybe you have like a scrap here that you could use for the bodice and then you'd only need a couple yards for the skirt something like that did they also show the back of a is this so the back of a is all one fabric it is all the one of your skirt okay so finished garment measurements they left those off of this pattern maybe because it's nits they didn't want to freak people out i don't know yeah it looks like they are moving that back of the envelope information only to the images so interesting i don't really know why by that token why even have this you know weird weird interesting decision okay here is mccalls a 255 mrs and women's tops if you liked the tops of the simplicity early spring collection this is giving me a very similar type vibe this pattern features lined princess seam lined princess seam what does that even mean scoop neck tops i guess supposed to be a comma here lined princess seam and scoop neck tops woven top has a back separating zipper a back separating zipper yeah i guess so but how do you can you even do that by yourself well and cropped and hip length options view b and c have a scalloped hem finish which you can see here puff long sleeve and sleeveless options are also included in this pack i'm calling them packs now i guess all right so you've got your little scoop neck there is a bit of an issue here here just where there's a lot of extra fabric in the center front for her not to say that's definitely going to happen to you but there is a little bit of extra fabric here for her you've got the puff sleeve that comes down into this little cuff really pretty and then here is your scalloped hem which kind of you know extends from the princess scene okay there it is sleeveless that must be the cropped version with a short sleeve and then a longer sleeve option without the scallops and then there she is what is this oh come on guys you literally so you couldn't have him these for her you are a sewing i don't know i don't know i don't know but this is cute with it i love how the backgrounds match okay here is our back and i am unhappy i mean maybe she's short-waisted i don't know there's just a lot of extra fabric here the zipper certainly doesn't help it's also one of those zippers that's like oh shoot centered zip center zip is that what it's called but this separating situation i mean i guess i guess we had to do that but look how sloppy it is like maybe we should have done a facing or something oh i don't know i don't know that just feel i guess that's how they did i mean i'm guessing they're kind of inspired by like maybe vintage type woven tops that were this close fitting and that's how they did it i can't really think of another way to do it unless i couldn't have zipped on the side maybe that might have been a little bit better i don't know and seriously can she zip herself into this i'd like to like do an experiment to see if that's even possible i don't know that i've ever had a shirt that zipped all the way down the back it's hard enough to do those separating zippers on a jacket in the front much less in the back all right well there she is those are her line drawings the scallop hem is a cute detail i just i don't know if it's for me all right so cotton blends gingham would be adorable linen satin and then remember it's lined so you've got to get lining fabrics or some kind of like cotton ball and then lightweight interfacing here for the zipper tape maybe one separating zipper one oh a different length of separating zipper and then single fold bias tape for c the sleeveless version and then d also gets elastic for the sleeve it doesn't take very much fabric you know one and a half yards at most depending on your size same amount well a little bit less for lining because you're not lining the sleeve oh the interfacing could be for the cuffs too or the facings oh probably facings also yeah um and then finished bust measurements are 34 up to 58 finished that's not body measurements it's finished measurements so it is a pretty close fitting top so i imagine those that the finished measurements and the body measurements are within one or so inches of each other so if you're close to that 58 mark you could make this in your size okay now we have this little cutie this is just like another version of i guess the 2022 version of uh pillowcase tops maybe a little less susie homemaker because you have like an actual finished binding here but let's get into it this is only missus sizes um and they come in alphanumeric sizing extra small to 2x so learn to sew binding and gathering on this easygoing pullover top with a gathered neckline and binding that have raglan sleeves with options for a puff sleeve and a long sleeve with elastic casing view a is tank top and view c has flowy flutter sleeve all right so you do have the neck binding you do have the neck gathering right very boho very easygoing like they said and it has a raglan sleeve so there's a seam here and then this is all one piece for your sleeve and then you can attach some elastic there there it is like sleeveless that's the long sleeve version and the flutter sleeve version i wish she would show us her version untocked what is this did they rip off one label and add another one i can't read what it says i just want to see how big and how billowy it actually is but they are not going to show us that um this is the learn to sew level one so we already talked about we saw level two before so this is kind of like where you would start um and there's some of the things that you would learn from it so really straightforward easy little top that i think is still pretty um cute and attractive certainly you see these and ready to wear all the time and the bonus about tops like these is you can make them out of so many different fabrics so they've only listed for here lawn cotton blends poplin and stainless but i definitely think the flutter sleeve and any of these versions you could easily make out of silky fabrics um you can make them out of polyesters silky blends lightweight drapey up to midweight sort of stable um wovens as well you could could could could make it out of a knit it wouldn't really matter um but depending on the drapiness of the knit you might want to size down and then just forewarning this little bias bound neckline would be just a little bit more challenging in a knit as well as a drapey woven too but up to one and three quarters of a yard of fabric and then no finished garment measurements that are very helpful yeah i gotta imagine it's got a ton of ease just kind of threw out um just maybe why they didn't include those here very forgiving in the sizes as well so choosing the right size is a challenge for you um this one could help or then again you go a size too big on this and you're swimming um this thing is falling off so just get my fast fit worksheet is the best advice i have for you it's on my website um it helps you pick your pattern size closer to the right size the first time okay so boned corsets we talked about corsets in vogue this one's coming off berry berry mary had a little lamb uh and i don't know why they had to go so kitschy with it like the corsets that everyone is wearing and the cool girls are making them look cool aren't this nor were they really the vogue one if i'm being honest but maybe that's why they went this like milkmaid direction because vogue's was sort of like more classic i don't know bone corsets with ribbon and lace trim have spandex side panels spandex side panels for ease of movement and comfort back opening has faux lacing that conceals separating zipper separate pattern pieces for eight for cup sizes and then we have two size ranges six to 14 and then 14 to 22 now i'd like to also point out that this is just a mrs size but this is the same model that they used for their women's pattern a few patterns back so it's a little bit misleading um having the sizes go up to a size 22 and not calling it a women's pattern i know that they use different blocks for women's and mrs but if you are a plus size sewist would you know to look at mrs you'd have to answer that for me i'm not sure i'm kind of like an in betweeny well that's not true these these days i am fully sitting in the middle of this little section here so i've never had to consider women's patterns before but i mean if you're a size 22 you can shop both right i don't know just thinking okay so we have this corset princess seams with this extra little thing i don't even know what that is uh this boning through here boning through here you can definitely see that it definitely has a curve to it and then this is where the little side panels are then it is adorned with freaking shiny ribbon bows ribbon this thing that isn't even sewn down and then ribbon cascading through this if that wasn't enough they've also added lace here is oh god oh man um another version i think a hard time like processing what i'm seeing um she they kept the bows here kept the lace trim here is is a little bit narrower and then instead of the zigzaggy situation they did do some more bows here and then this is more of a more of a cupped shape versus the pointier shape i don't know that i like either one of them to be honest um and then you can see her little side panel here as well here's a third version i mean that i think this is too big on her even with the panels i just i don't i don't know about this this is giving me major i mean i'll if i'm able to kind of come to terms with this i don't know i can come to terms with this maybe that's more of like the traditional like renaissance style and i just am not familiar because i don't sew costumes but i mean maybe this is like a version of a corset that is calling back to a specific time period and not necessarily as modern as what i have seen like i i don't i don't know that i would see somebody walking around in this outfit and think yes she looks like somebody who knows what she's doing in when she gets herself dressed i would think i would think what costume party is she going to later that's what i would think and i am someone who was like team corset you know i am i am supportive of the corset idea this this is not it even if you were to take all that stuff away can you make this straight across because in that case i mean can you just chop that off i don't i don't get the point of that plus can you sit down with boning going like that this is the oh this is the faux lace that they were describing which i gotta admit is not a terrible idea so typically i think you would have a zipper going up the back right and then you would do this lace over top obviously that's impossible to do by yourself so they almost just like threaded the lace through like you would a shoestring wrapping it around the kind of lap of the zipper that's gonna cover the zipper teeth itself so when you zip it up it looks like you've also laced up a corset you laced it up but you haven't you just zipped it closed also this is another example of a separating zipper that you have to do by yourself so in addition to these model photos i would also like to see the model zipping up the top by herself then i would be convinced that that would actually work that's funny but you can tell even though they did this the spandex inset here it's still too big on her um you know in a lot of ways there isn't enough curvature through here for her or or am i getting that backwards or there's too much curvature and that's why it's coming away from her body maybe that's it i mean i think we're all gonna be honest here it looks best on her right she looks the most snatched out of everybody um which is not to say anything about anybody's bodies it's just about i think the corset design is meant for a curvier figure that's all so here they are it looks even crazier in a line drawing but i think this is like a separate panel so i don't know that you could just lock that off i don't know like i think what i'm coming to terms with is this still is not the corset for me i do want one i do want to make one but the vogue one wasn't it and this one's not it so we'll have to wait and see what comes down the line but corsets are having a major major moment so hopefully there will be more and they will be a lot more wearable in like everyday regular life okay so your fabrics satin cotton satin and silk they've gone very traditional with the fabric recommendations here um and then the contrast for the side panels are four-way stretch knits like spandex and then it's also lined in spandex those side panels and then lightweight sew-in interfacing and then you need a ton of notions um notably separating zipper boning um and a lot of ribbon lace trim all kinds of different stuff clearly does not take a lot of fabric and then your finished garment measurements bust and waist you have both of those here so 30 and a half to 44 inches finished bust measurement which as we saw was very close fitting and then your waist measurement is 22 to 35 and a half but there is also some wiggle room here because you do have that spandex side panel so this is probably it at its smallest and then you can stretch it out depending on how much stretch your spandex has to add I don't know a couple more inches to your waist and your bust too because I think it goes all the way up to the underarm so interesting I'm glad that they've included it again this is not for me um but I'm glad that they are at least aware of the idea that corsets are having a moment okay so this is just the skirt that we're looking at here are we not seeing the vogue skirt remember the vogue skirt that had the blue they had like two different fabrics it definitely ties up just like this has the same swoopy thing maybe not so much of a little flounce here but it's got it's a it's a circle skirt that ties on the side so this must be like the cheaper version of that um because they look a lot of like like a lot of like um okay so learn to sew it's another learn to sew pattern a true wrap skirt with waistband and self-tie views a and b ballet skirts are above the knee view b has a flounce which we can see here view c has a curved shaped hem and hits below the knee which might be what she's wearing view d is lower than calf length all right so we can zoom in and see the flounce a little bit better here so the vogue one it's all one piece you don't have a separate flounce okay so this must be the longer version straight not curved right that one has a little bit of a curve to it okay these do look a lot different once you get into the other views in the line drawings from that vogue one this one just happens to look a lot like that vogue one i quite like this one too i like the little flounce detail i don't know why this is coming up in the middle right or is it just how it's falling and it's learned to sew level one so super simple super straightforward i mean so is the vogue one to be perfectly honest um i bought the vogue one it does take a lot of fabric this one because it has the flounce would take well it depends on how you look at it could take more could take less i'd have to get into it because the flounce depending on if it's cut like a big donut could take up a lot but if it's cut just like a subtle curve maybe not so much i'd have to see how the pattern pieces lay out um the ballet skirt is really sweet this one with the flounce is really nice i'm not so sure i'd make either one of these though i mean depending on fabrics right because again this is one of those that you could make out of a ton of different fabrics i mean maybe these two are more suited for more drapey fabrics obviously but you could make these out of weightier ones this could even be you know like a lightweight wool of some kind so yeah i guess if you kind of think also the box in terms of fabrics you could definitely utilize all four of these and get four totally different looks so but for spring they're recommending crepes lawn cotton blends and lightweight satins so i definitely think that this is another one of those cases where some of these fabrics work for different views and others don't so like the lightweight satin for example is more of a structured fabric that would work well for c or d but i wouldn't recommend it for b i wouldn't recommend it for this floutsy thing you could make it out of this it would just instead of falling close to the body like it did on her which we can see here see how it's kind of just falling in on her it would stand away from the body a little bit more and all of this would create like a little bit more like that emoji with the red dancing girl a little more like that okay and we also need an itty bitty amount of lightweight fusible i think it's just for the waistband and the ties maybe but it's alphanumeric sizing again they're making the sizing very easy this is not one of the things that you even if you really only need your waist measurement for this because you can just well i mean i don't know maybe you only need your hip measurement and then you can just tighten the ties to adjust to your waist but nonetheless one and three quarters of a yard of fabric for the short one the flounce does take a little bit more one and a quarter yards more and then depending on the length you have these one and a half two and a half yards for that so yeah finished government measurements they're only giving us the hip because they think that the waist is you know adjustable which it is so finished hip is 36 and a half to 54 and a half yep and there is a you know there's a big jump here four inches between the two but you could easily grade between these and make a large plus and fall somewhere in here the the the side seams you're going to be able to see a big there's probably like an inch gap between each one maybe maybe a little bit less than that but you should be able to finagle it a little bit or if you're using a lighter weight fabric air for the larger size and a more structured fabric um try and get closer to your actual size you know alphanumeric sizing is nice but it is more of a kind of estimate so all right now we've got some pants shorts yeah oh and a skirt okay so melissa watson for palmer plush if you're not familiar palmer plush has a kind of tissue fitting method so when you get your pattern you look at the tissue paper you're going to see like all these lines and you can add like for pants for example they'll have full tummy adjustment full busted i mean sorry full seat adjustment of course lots of length and shortened lines the idea is that if you follow their method you will get a better fitting garment right out of the gate but you have to fully understand what those adjustments do how much of those adjustments you need and that's sort of the part where i feel like we aren't getting educated on that from them which is why i've never fully you know been a big cheerleader for a palmer plush i've gotten their patterns before i've tried to do them but i and i see all the lines i see where i'm supposed to cut and i get the concept of it but then it's just like well now what you know like how much do i do do i even need this alteration i'm not sure so that's a little bit of the i will say though there is a pair of coolots that i made from them where i did the full seat adjustment i was kind of just guessing and it is one of the better fitting crotch garments that i have so maybe i should be a better cheerleader for them than i am maybe i just chalked that up to luck when really it wasn't it was drafting and i should so maybe this maybe i will grab this and give it a go and see what i think okay all like to say skirt shorts and cool lot have softly pleated front and back darts all of yous have shaped waistbands with button openings on side and inset pockets you can also see this is hitting just below her waist so a shaped pocket i mean i'm sorry a shaped waistband makes perfect sense it also has kind of like a yoke shape to it um and then clearly a very strong center front pleat um and then these are also pretty deep pleats as well i love the idea of how this turns into the pocket i think i hope they show us that um and the style of it just looks great with this little high neck halter rib knit and then all this like um kind of vintage evocation vibes i'm getting there's the short and i'm assuming she's wearing the cool lot right is that what we think but it could very well be the skirt i'm not entirely sure to be honest i think this the stopping point of this seam here could be reevaluated this feels a little bit low maybe it's just on her um but even in the front view for her i felt like it was a little long right doesn't i think that's where this whole fold well that could be from her knee because she's got her knee popped out so maybe not so much that maybe this one it just feels like it's pointing right to this little point here i feel like if this stopped up here maybe this would get some of the relief that it needs and then same thing in the back you do have these and i feel like these are pointing right at this thing i also love this fabric that she chose i want to say it's probably a linen blend so they also still aren't telling us which is the skirt and which is the short and cool lot but i'm guessing skirt short cool lot i'm guessing all right so wool blends maybe that's what she had some kind of wool and linen blend maybe gabardine crepe i mean i could see it in 100 linen even i could see it in some kind of like lightweight suitings um i'm trying to think like twill i don't know i think it needs a little bit of drape so maybe like a ray on twill would be nice something along those lines lining fabric and lightweight fusible two buttons and one hook and i the skirt is a so just like i thought um and then only the waistband is interfaced then the shorts be the shorter of the two couple yards of fabric and then the pants the coolots need three and a half yards but i think that model was very tall i wish they i wish they would tell us information like that but she seems like a tall person to me excuse me and this is hitting closer to her ankle than it is her knee so i would bet that most of us average size people or even petite uh could lop off a lot of length here and get this down to maybe a three yard maybe even a little bit less than that and then finish garment measurements just the widths okay all right i mean like i said i should probably give this another go and see if because i mean i also said that other garment a couple years ago maybe three or four years ago so maybe i've come a long way in terms of fitting on my own and also would appreciate their method a little bit more specifically regarding pants okay unisex shirts and hats unisex camp shirt has tux with and without patch pockets and short or long sleeves view c has decorative trim includes bucket hat and four sizes i'm guessing that's the fitted band part choose a fun print for beach day yeah i mean i think it looks exceptional on him on her i feel like maybe it's with the khakis maybe that's what's throwing me off she feels like a like vintage bowling alley team member he looks great i don't know about the hat but his shirt looks wonderful right i mean maybe this one was illustrated to give us a masculine vibe but it's feeling masculine to me i mean that one especially there's your bucket hat hmm i don't not like it i just think it looks a little bit like you know dowdy on her where on him it looks really cool and modern and hip i guess because guys fashion like being vintage is modern and in women's fashion being vintage is just vintage it's just you know so hmm and i'm having a really hard time envisioning this this feels like a tuxedo shirt but these definitely are not so i guess it's just illustrating that you can make it in a long sleeve and is this like some kind of special trim or something and then have more of a fancier vibe to it all right poplin cotton blends linen and lightweight denim like chambray all of that makes perfect sense to me they probably should have added shortings i don't know why that seems like the most obvious but then d has oh the hat has a lining so lining fabrics like a lawn or you could just double up on whatever fabric you used um eight buttons twelve buttons and then there is trim in view c this is some kind of um one half to five eighths inch wide trim so maybe if you made this version put a little bit of like eyelet trim in there i don't know i'm trying to like modern it up a little bit alphanumeric sizing from small to 3xl couple yards of fabric shirt c does take a little bit more because of the sleeves and then here's your hat requirements and then i mean the lower edge of the width could be considered the hip measurement um but i think you're probably going to be basing this off of your chest size so i wish they would have given bust measurements but 43 and a quarter up to 63 and a quarter yeah i don't hate it i love it for a guy for me i don't know i think there's a lot of a lot cuter ways to use these kind of like lightweight cottons than than this for me okay now we have okay so you guys have talked me into at least looking at the line drawings of the vintage patterns so here we are um this is a 1976 reissued sewing pattern and i'm getting all the vibes of this late mid to late 70s for sure um both in how she is tan and the midriff showing and the elastic and the flowers and yes all the 70s feelings yeah i mean that's very faucet right for her one of these two girls maybe these are trolleys angels all together it is feeling a little bit costuming i will say if i were to make this today and wear it out to target would people think she's going to a roller rink 70s party later and that's why she's wearing this outfit um we do have a basic sort of elasticated pants super wide leg super high waist this i think is a skirt here's your little top you know that ties up to give your midriff and then look at these i don't even i can't even make heads or tails of what is happening here your sleeves are just i guess these are like all rectangles if you've been quilting it looks like you could probably use some of your quilting skills to make these little things um and then here's your the back of the envelope yeah i don't fully understand what that means those when you see the girls again oh are they just like i think it's three rectangles and they just get top stitched onto each other i don't know i don't understand that construction but they look great i can get behind some 70s fashion but i'd want it to make i don't want to make sure that it looked like not a costume so this is a dress in top 1975 where you should sewing pattern this is not meant to be a nightgown is that what they're telling me so you have like this little square neckline which is cute flutter sleeve very modern this little like is this a belt or was it a sewn in waistband hard to tell but you've also got lovely princess seams i mean this looks very modern they said i think that's a separate belt i can't tell if it's sewn in and why does she have such bad posture girlfriend stand up straight okay so it is a sewn in belt so it's sewn in like a waistband to the side seams and then it's loose from there to where you can tie it so in a lot of ways this is adjustable um which is nice for those of us that have fluctuating fluctuating waistlines like myself this one's cute i like this one i think you could make it out of all kinds of fabrics and you know not look like i mean of course you know baby pink with you know whatever this is supposed to be looks like a nightgown um but i think you could make it out of something similar to this and have it be a cute little sundress for sure or even like this with some kind of like embroidered cotton or something it would be like a nod to the 70s but not like it's still like a modern version of it i guess i guess these don't feel you know sometimes the vintage patterns when they harken back to like the teens and 20s and 30s that's when i get real lost because i just don't have a good understanding of those patterns this feels like that wasn't that long ago i mean i wasn't born yet but um but still feels sort of recent okay so now we have this sleep set and you guys know i am a sucker for a pajama romper if i'm not the one who has coined and trademark and registered that name i should be because i've been talking about pajama rompers for a long time um this one is no different yes we're gonna talk about it in the realm of sleepwear but i would wear this out okay so with that said romper and wide leg jumpsuit have deep be necklines with front pleats at shoulder straps and i'm assuming we'll see that yes um robes have sash and flowy or blouson raglan long sleeves robe link options are above the knee and lower calf length which is her pink version here all loungewear styles have side seam pockets perfect wedding and bridal party ensemble interesting that they're giving us like little suggestions of how we can wear them for special events like remember the other one said something about beach day and this is now telling me i need to make this for my bridal party so v-neck center front seam romper side seam pockets the robe is pretty straightforward it does have the raglan sleeve like they explained maybe like a yeah there's like a front um it's not a placket but like a what's it called like a little panel here and this is a very wide drapey open sleeve on the robe here's the romper um without the robe on so you can see the the straps are sewn in separately like they're attached right here this is that pleat detail that they're talking about it's very hard to see right here but there is a little pleat going up into here which just gives you like it more room for your bust really um this though looks really low like i think that's the bottom of the arm side which i understand the drapey loosey flowy pajama situation but it should also still fit right i mean you turn over the wrong way and your whole boob is hanging out don't you think maybe not your whole boob depending on how big your boobs are but you know what i'm saying like this just feels even in the drawing really low we do have a shorts version here is the robe you can put some elastic at the cuff to give it that blouson sort of vibe like they were explaining and then there she is with a tight up a little bit yeah you can see a little bit better how the sleeves are here not a ton better though i also would like to see a better understanding of these side seam pockets i guess they're just literally in the side seam of both options which means they're floppy teardrop pockets so i would pass plus who needs pockets when you go to bed maybe in the robe maybe in the robe but i think i would rather put on some patch pockets maybe i don't know but it's cute she's really really cute they had another um last season last season remember the pink loungewear set with a romper i got that one so maybe i should start collecting them but if i were to fix this sleeve issue i would make this out of a very similar fabric as this and you better believe i would be sleeping waking up going to run errands at target and coming back home all in my pajamas um yes i would not hesitate to do that for one second yeah okay so here we can see the the seams a little bit better it is just a side seam pocket so floppy teardrop pockets um you might could redraft them to go to the center front seam since there is this seam here just to anchor it in place at least at the top but the robe you could not because the robe has no seams to it whatsoever i mean but this looks like any other romper it doesn't necessarily give me pajama vibes they just threw in this robe with it and so now it's like oh now it's pajamas but i think it could be either okay charmeuse crepe shally jersey knit even um very comfy elastic for that one sleeve and that's really it there's not any notions there's no interfacing no buttons no zippers none of that two yards of fabric for the shorts three and one eighths for the jumpsuit you could probably again fudge that just to get um it right at the three-yard mark by making the pants shorter not to mention i'm finding that more often than not i'm having to shorten the bodices of mine so i could probably even eke that out of two and a half depending on how much of this i have to shorten um and then your robe yeah the robe's gonna take a lot i mean it's just a lot of fabric you know big sleeves loose fitting bodice all of that finish links are all they're gonna give us but it is pretty loose fitting everywhere so i can kind of see i think this is gonna do well for them i like this one okay now we have a little menswear pajama set drafted for men i believe when it's unisex it uses a different block than menswear right and unisex is also a different block than women's wear does anybody know the answers to those things um but it's a men's lounge wear set this is similar to vintage and undergarment type stuff where i just don't fully understand it so we're just gonna quickly like take a look but it is your classic pajamas right like they added some piping i mean it's carolin pajama's big four style um yeah i mean not to say a woman couldn't wear this i just would wonder if it's because i think a woman's would be straight down right and a mens would cut in is that correct the side seam would go straight down or out for a woman and if for a man it either goes straight down or in is that right i might be making that up here is another menswear pattern it shorts i'm so happy to see the guys getting like their own love i think in the past um simplicities have i taken care of with me me g and norris they've pretty much got the menswear covered but if we've seen any menswear it's been in the unisex category so it's nice to see that they are getting their own here it doesn't look like oh no he is wearing them okay so they it's more of a cargo pant with the coffin buttons i mean i don't know the shorts are probably pretty cute yeah you can tell that they don't do a lot of menswear because this stuff's pretty basic i mean you take off all this la di da and you've just got a basic mens trousers uh mens jean even um this is growing on me though if you want to be a cool guy i can see you doing that you know an it guy all right so now we're getting into accessories so we've got a little purse here all purses have an inside pocket all right just a little oh stop that purse is this pattern remember when i said i thought that that was really cute well no wonder you can make it yourself here are all the designs this little design of purse who is it that is doing is it chanel somebody has this purse and i'm seeing it all over tiktok and it's like black satin so um yes they are saying cotton cotton blends twill synthetic leather synthetic suede yeah even like a crate back satin and then you line it with cotton blends lining fabric interfacing heavy weight uh craft weight sew in yeah 100 um zipper magnetic snap and also maybe a chain if you want to add like a shoulder strap to it who gets a chain see oh this is a chain length of your choice and then e is a zipper so a c and d get a zipper how fun i mean isn't that so cute i want one i'm getting that i'm gonna make that i wonder if i have fabric in my stash um now we have a tote and pouch um rope strap totes have inside pockets man look at that grommet that's huge how do you even install that have you ever seen a grommet so big oh i kind of love the cheetah the stripe that's really cute big giant ropes oh that's it just the two so either an outside pocket or not and then color blocked or not but yeah the little um the little uh where did it go tassel thingies are really cute or feathers or whatever it is they're using um this is caught my eye headliner utility fabric for your interfacing headliner is what is on the roof of your car not the roof but like the inside top of your car um fusible fleece and then you can make your little pouch out of chenille or cotton and cotton blends i imagine like all kinds of leathers and stuff too because it looks like it's sewn wrong sides together so that could be a big fun project how big are those grommets one and nine sixteenths of an inch grommets so almost one and a half a little more than one and a half and then a grommet tool yeah i think i wonder where you get a grommet and a grommet tool that big couldn't you also instead of buying the grommets couldn't you also do like hand embroidery like all the way around it would that be stable enough trying to have a way to make it doable without having to spend a lot of money on all these tools and stuff yeah fun okay this is little girls clothes i mean freaking adorable always look at this baby and then you have your little stuffies which are equally fun okay mccole spring i mean i feel like it was one of those even for me like super polarizing collections where the patterns i either loved or didn't really love it all there were none that were sort of just like meh in between it was yes i want this or no i don't want this um i am appreciating you know again their attention to the trends i feel like they're they're on it with that um and the learn to sew patterns i think were really great additions this time too sometimes those can feel very like basic and in in the terms of sewing they are basic but in terms of design they don't necessarily have to be the melissa did a good job with polymer flesh pattern this time sometimes on my opinion those can be a little bit of a throwaway as well but yeah the standout for me is probably the pajama sets or the like pajama romper and the bag for sure and then i'll probably grab melissa's pattern and the knit dress the with the cutouts just because i want to give melissa's pattern a try again and the knit dress is not like anything that i have in my wardrobe where was it this one here um i feel like i could make that wear it a million places this summer i didn't wear that to target um so maybe with the flat and the jean jacket or something but um but yeah i think it was a really cute collection let me know what you guys thought in the comment section below let me know what you're gonna be adding to your shopping list there is no sale at joanne um that i know of and through at least march second i just put the post up on instagram today so um maybe with this new collection coming out they'll do a sale in early march which we could all hope for um but yeah that's gonna do it for me today i've linked uh here in the insulate to last week's first impression friday video which was for indy powder and company petite stitchery um and if you like these videos please subscribe click the bell give this video a like but thanks so much for watching and i will see you all very soon bye