 working on in my sewing room. This is my monthly makes video where I kind of go over all the things that I have been sewing in the previous month. This makes video is sponsored by Sublime Graphics. They print large format pre-DF patterns on a variety of different papers. They have a lot of options and put the sewas first in my opinion, which is amazing. I will be telling you a little bit more about them later on in the video, but let's talk about what I've been making. Okay, so first things first. Let's start with the top that I'm wearing. I did make this. I have not filmed this yet, so you haven't seen it in all its glory, but it is super, super cute. McCalls and look, I already got a little juice on it, so I'm gonna have to get a little stain pen, but it is McCalls 8180. You might remember it from the pattern review video. I am sort of like cautiously optimistic about the large collar trend. There's some of them where the collars like drip down like little saggy boobs, which I'm like, I don't really understand that at all, but then there are other collars that kind of fall somewhere in the middle and I feel like this is that. So it's kind of like a safe option to take on that trend. I ended up making Vue A, which actually uses purchased trim for the collar instead of self fabric. I got my trim and fabric actually from Joanne and this is the eyelet that I chose. So it did come with like bias binding on the end and it was kind of like gathered into it and I just seam ripped that off and pressed it out in order to get like a flat trim in order to...do I have another stain? Oh no, that's the only camera. I was like, is that another stain? Maybe white shirts are not going to be a large part of my future if I can't seem to keep my drinks of food in my mouth. What was I even saying? Something about the collar. Either way I had to like hack the collar a little bit in order to get it sewn into the top, but other than that it was super simple. I will talk to you guys a lot more about this pattern. I have a lot of thoughts on fit. I have a lot of thoughts on construction, more so than usual, so stay tuned for the pattern review video on that. It will be up sometime in July for sure. White is just like quintessential July top, right? Okay, so I also made, so so together 21 for this month was the seaside coolots. You guys have seen them from me already because I did them for the Spring Style Tour for Stylemaker Fabrics back in March, April. So I made them again. I do love that pattern, so I made them again, but this time I also made a matching top. Now the top isn't totally done yet, but I just wanted to give you guys an idea of like the fabric and pattern situation. This top is simplicity one, two, five, three. I think it's older. Oh, looking for the copyright real quick. I don't see it. I think it's from like 2015 maybe if I could guess. No, 2014. Pretty good guess, but it's just a simple, you know, lightweight drapey top that I knew I could make out of what was left from making the seaside coolots. So I made this view here. Again, lots of thoughts on construction of this guy. I still have the arm side to do on one side and the hem to do at the bottom, but the top is nearly done. And once I have the top done, then I will be able to film kind of the separate set that I made to go with the seaside coolots. So I wear the coolots with this and it looks like a romper. I wear them as separates and I have like three whole outfits. I'm just loving that concept so, so, so much also because you can cut out both projects at one time with your fabric and it's, I don't know, it just feels like a time saver. So very close to finishing this and we'll be able to get that on the channel. I also thought this was just such a great little summery fabric. I feel like I got this from Joanne's clearance section probably the same time I got that pattern years and years ago, but you know, if you're not checking out the clearance section, really everywhere you go, you're really messing up because there's some really cute stuff. So this gingham with the floral printed on top of it, I just think is so, so, so summery. So I'm happy to have like a cute little summer romper to wear with it, but I can also put this with black jeans in the fall. I can put the coolots with the long sleeve turtleneck, probably a black one, and have, you know, three seasons worth of outfits out of this one clearance fabric. So I don't even know what the price per garment is, but it's probably very, very, very low. So happy to bring you guys that one along with the seaside coolots. Speaking of the Rad Patterns seaside coolots, that is one of the patterns that I had printed by Sublime Graphics, today's video sponsor. 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They digitally tape it together for you, and then print it all out on one big sheet. And that's exactly what I did for the seaside coolots. So you can see these black lines here are what would be where the tape is, what would be where the little printer papers are taped together. I know this is such a small little piece, but it's really all you can see on camera anyways. But you can see, like, this is an eight and a half inch wide little section, and then there's another one. And then you can imagine the other one going off here. So if you come across those patterns, mood, that only does the print at home option, you can have them tape it together for you. And I know there's a good jillion different reasons why you wouldn't want to tape them together yourself. There are those of you that love it and find it therapeutic, more power to you. There are others of you that have, like, physical conditions that prevent you from being able to do it, time constraints that prevent you from being able to do it. So now you can send it off and have someone do it for you, which is great. The other amazing, amazing thing about Sublime Graphics that when I found out about, I was like, okay, this is legit. They print on tissue paper, you guys. They print on tissue paper. They actually print on three different types of paper. So you get them to print it on your regular 20 pound paper, that's the same paper you have in your printing machine, same paper they use at copy shops, all of that kind of stuff. You can still get that if you want that. You can also get it printed on an 18 pound paper, which they call tracing paper. And when I heard 20 pound, 18 pound, what's the difference? Like, that seems so nominal. I actually really, really like the tracing paper for projects that I know I'm going to be cutting out on kind of like stable fabrics. So if I'm going to be cutting out like some kind of jacketing or cotton or denim or something like that, I find the tissue paper can be a little bit cumbersome to work with because it's so lightweight. But this tracing paper, which is what this is, is actually really, really smooth to the hand. It still has kind of that, you know, crispness that the regular copy shop paper has, but there's something about it that is just, it's just really, really easy to use. It's super easy to cut out with your scissors. And laying it out, it tends to want to do what you tell it to do, which is what I really, really like. On the other hand, they have the lightest weight paper, and I can't remember the weight of it, I apologize, but it is their tissue paper. So you can see it here. 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And I just love, love, love companies that are putting the customer experience first. Yay customers! Then I also cut out another Love Notions Sunday Romper. The first Sunday Romper that I made was a little bit of a wearable Muslim. It is very, very close, but it's definitely not perfect. And so I made a few other adjustments only to the crotch area and have cut out another one of those. But I had enough fabric out and while I had that fabric out, I was like, you know what? I should go ahead and cut this into something. So the fabric is a border print. How pretty is this? I got this in New York City. I think that I always wanted to make like Palazzo pants out of it and wear as that's a great idea and a great application for it widening it like this. I don't really wear the one pair of ITY Palazzo pants that I have now. I don't wear it as much as I should. So I just decided to go ahead and abandon that and make the romper. And then I had enough left over to make this little self-drafted skirt. So basically all I did was take whatever width of fabric I had left for this, you know, border and cut that into two rectangles. So those together put elastic in the waist and called it a day. I did have a little bit of fun with a drawstring and I even put little wooden beads on the bottom. I thought that was like a fun, cute idea. So this is a very basic beginner skirt that if you've only ever sewn like a couple of things in your life, you can definitely, definitely make this. So I'll probably do like a real quick and dirty tutorial for it. I'm not sure that it warrants a whole like pattern review style videos simply because well, there's no pattern to review. I would just be modeling it and I can incorporate that into a tutorial. So that's why I'm thinking more of a tutorial for this one. But I was really proud of myself. Instead of just folding up this excess fabric and saying, oh, we'll put it in the scrap bin. I went ahead, cut something from it. I have no scraps of this left over and I have a skirt that I can wear and a romper coming soon. So that was fun. I also made three swim cover-ups. So as you know, I'm doing the tutorials in July for swim cover-ups. So in order to do the tutorials, I had to actually make the garments. So I made two of them. Well, one of them was like a fixit or nixit situation. I'd had this swim cover-up. It was very poorly made. So I kind of reworked it into something else. Talked about that all on my Instagram stories. The second one was the remake of that first one. How the first one should have been made all along out of this really, really gorgeous kind of like ombre tissue knit. So I know that I got this fabric in New York City. I know I fell in love with it because of the ombre effect. And I know that it's at my stash because it's so, so, so thin. I just could never imagine what I was going to make from it. It's too thin even just for a t-shirt. And so when this concept of the swim cover-up came to mind, I said that is perfect. And don't tell me that I could not go to a night club in Vegas, LA, New York, Miami and wear this as an actual dress because in a pinch, I could and I would. So don't tempt me with a good time because I will show up in a super thin swim cover-up as a dress, right? Yo-ho. Okay, so I did that one and then I also got this fabric is in Joanne's right now. It is a double gauze box plaid, gingham plaid. I got this super bright yellow color. And so that one I made into like a little calf tan. I got a pom-pom trim just with the whole nine yards with that one and had a lot of fun with that. So you'll be seeing tutorials for those in the next three weeks. You'll also be seeing them modeling me, modeling them more in those videos as well if you want to see like, you know, more angles and stuff. So stay tuned for that as well. But those are so super quick, so super easy as you can tell. They're all pretty much self-drafted. I mean, there is somewhat of a pattern for the calf tan and I guess for the wrap one too. And then the other one was just a matter of throwing it on my ditto form and like, okay, we'll put this here, but that there I'll show you all how to do it in the tutorials. I also have been speaking of fix it or nixit. I've been doing a lot of that here lately. When I went through all my clothes for Me Made May and decided what I was going to keep and what I was going to donate, there are few things that ended up in what I'm calling a fix it or nixit pile. And these are clothes that I had gotten at Goodwill or that I had made like that swim cover up that just was kind of falling apart and I either needed to decide to re like fix it obviously or nixit, which means just like give it away or throw it away to be honest if it's really that bad. None of them are in that bad of a condition. So I've been doing that a lot lately. I'm having a lot of fun doing it on Instagram because people are having an option to kind of like weigh in on how they would fix it and people love to give their opinions and I love to get your opinions when they are solicited. Some of them truthfully are things that I would not have thought of and are happy to get them. So this situation is perfect for that because it allows you guys to kind of you know be a part of the creation process and I am in a space where I can welcome it. So we're just collaborating and we're jiving over there in Instagram stories. So there's been two of them. One was a red dress that was pretty much just too big. So I came up with a clever way to kind of take in the side seams a little bit. I also added a tie to the back to kind of you know give it a little bit more waist definition and then add a little tie detail on one of the shoulders. Super fun. And then the other one was a oversized uh half-placket uh linen-y type of shirt which is very very on-trend these oversized shirts. And so that's why I got it but I think it was a little bit too big but maybe now it's not as big because I've gotten bigger. I don't know. When I ended up like going back to it this past because I've had that for probably a year um when I went back to fix it or nix it I was like you know the oversized trend this kind of this proportions are okay um but I ended up having to like I shortened the sleeve on that one I think and cropped it. Yeah so I just worked on the proportions a little bit because it was so big. So that one was fun. And then I tried to fix a third one but everybody on Instagram was like no it looks good just as it is so I just left it hung it back up in my closet. So I've got some more of those coming I think I've got a denim dress I'm gonna work on this week and just gonna clear out that rack of like goodwill refashiony type of stuff so I was able to work on those too. And then I wanted to throw in one little quick I guess tip um so as you guys know I've been on my pants fitting journey and a lot of these uh changes that I'm making to the patterns now are all pretty much relegated to just the crotch and a lot of the changes that you make in a crotch are very minimal like quarter of an inch three eighths of an inch and so you know it feels a little bit like how many pairs of muslin shorts can I possibly make so what I've been doing is buying sheets at Goodwill and then making them into pajama shorts. So I have a whole new collection of pajama shorts some fit better than others um but tweaking that crotch in like a pretty decent stable woven is really makes it really easy for you to be able to tell kind of where the issues are um so I just make all the issues to the crotch put an elastic in the waist and then I'm assessing fit like from the high hip down um so if you're on your pants fitting journey as well and you're trying to find ways to like how can I make a million muslins without feeling super wasteful maybe that is a tip you would like as well the my sheets at Goodwill are all pretty much in really good condition they're two dollars for any size um and they have some really really cute prints too so one set I ended up when I cut out the shorts I ended up going ahead and cutting out a matching top two same thing as I was talking about with the other set um so that I can have like a matching PJ set and I might just keep doing that as we go forward I just have a cute collection of like vintagey looking you know repurposed refashioned sheet pajamas um anyways but yeah so like I said I was pretty busy um getting some sewing projects done which felt really really good um I've got a bunch of stuff cut out to you so when I get to sewing again I'm just kind of ready to hit the ground running and I'll have to think about things too much I have another set of projects where the fast fit worksheet is all done that's my little system that I use you can get it to on my website inside thehem.com um that I use to kind of decide which uh size pattern I'm going to cut out it helps me determine um kind of basic alterations that I would need to make to those too so that's a lot of the brain power that goes into sewing before you even cut your fabric and I have that done on a couple of projects as well so I'll just be able to look at that sheet I can see clearly the sizes that I want to cut just go ahead and cut them out and get sewing too so I'm in a really good position for July um but yeah I have a lot of fun makes and I can't wait to show you guys them I can't wait to get them on the make it Monday playlist and show you them in all their glory please let me know what you have been working on have you just kind of been taking it easy because it's summer I get that that uh during the summertime people spend a lot more time outside um and less time in their sewing room so I get it if you have kind of been you know neglecting I don't I hate to use words like neglecting or in a slump or whatever it's not necessarily that you're just prioritizing things differently I totally get that um but if you have been in your sewing room too I'd love to know what you have been working on um I read a comment recently someone's already working on their fall stuff so if you're there let me know that too but before you go do not forget to uh head to the description box check uh get the link to Sublime Graphics don't forget the coupon code it's an amazing amazing deal um where you can save some money on getting your pdf patterns printed exclusive to inside the hem viewers thank you so much um and try them out you're gonna love the tissue paper I promise but that is going to do it for me today you guys thank you so much for watching and I will see you all very soon bye