 On the day of my, it's so easy, filming, film shoot. No, not a film. Segment shoot, I don't know. What do people call this? It's been good so far. So in case you're wondering, I, we have got to find a better solution for this hand-holding situation. Okay, that's better, right? Well, better for me. I can't really speak so much for you guys. It is a little shaky because it's all my bed. Okay, so I left Charlotte yesterday morning and flew from Charlotte to Cleveland direct. I got there in like way earlier than I normally would, like an hour and a half early, just so that I could like take my time and not be stressed out and be really focused and intentional with my choices of where I was standing and waiting and just not being rushed and, you know, all of that. And waited to board because I checked my bag. I could just like literally be the last one on the plane. Because I was the last one on the plane, I asked the flight attendant, if there's an open row, can I just go sit in that row and not have, because it was one of those planes where it was like two seats and aisle and two seats. And he said, yes. So the very, very back row by the bathroom, like not ideal, you know, in a perfect world, but all four seats all the way across were completely empty. So we landed it to super quick flight, super quick. Landed, went to baggage claim. By the time I got down there, the bags were already coming out of the thing. So nobody was having to wait around for very long. Got my bag, got an Uber, Uber driver, super clean car. He had a mask on the whole time. I had a mask on the whole time. The weather here is cold. They had a big snowstorm here. None of it is melted. So like the roads are fine, but like any grassy area or anything is all covered in snow. So it's kind of like pretty in a way. But I am outside the city technically in a suburb of Cleveland. So there's like not a lot around here. This is like mostly for business travelers. I guess they have a big Nestle corporate presence here and stofers, you know, all of those like manufacturing food, manufacturing places. So I think that's what most people come here for. But this is where the studio is where we film. So came here yesterday, checked in. I got to check in early. It was no issue. Went right up to my room. It's great. It has like a bedroom, a bathroom obviously. And then also has like a sofa desk and even like a little kitchen. Pretty cool. So did that. And then one of the production assistants, I guess, I don't really know their titles came and picked me up, went to the studio, checked it out, met the two other ladies that I will be not filming with but that will be filming their segments today as well. Supers were nice. Their projects are really cute. And just kind of got a way of the land then came back here and did all my prep work for the segments. So the way it works is you basically bring in what they call step outs. You bring in partially done, a little bit more done and then fully done projects so that you're not stopping filming so that you can sew a whole bunch of things. You know what I mean? Like the idea is that your segment will run for 12 minutes straight and you don't stop and start in between which is a little bit different than how I do it for the YouTube channel. But so I had to make, like for example, doing the how to convert a teardrop pocket to one that's sewn into the inseam. So I can't just show up with like just a fully sewn garment. I have to show up with a plain just cut out pocket. I have to show up with the tracing paper like new pocket draft done but also a plain piece of tracing paper so I can show people how to draft it and then like all the steps for doing the thing. So you know, it's a little bit more involved than anything that I normally do but it's supposed to be super, super efficient and I can like go in for a couple of hours and film both segments, knock them out and be done. So I came and prepped for that. I also had to like prep. So I have two, for that same segment I have two garments that I'm gonna have on mannequins one with the floppy pocket and one with the one that I'm gonna be illustrating to show the difference of the not favorable option and then the one that I'm teaching everyone to sew. So I had to make sure those were pressed and clip all the threads and make sure they were like super presentable and also I'm showing them inside out. So that was even more like there was a lot of threads to think about all your garments and how many on the inside have like little threads that you've just never bothered sniffing because nobody can see the inside. Well, now people are gonna see the insides of two of my garments. But I feel prepared. I've done all my studying. My other segment is about different types of seams and I'm not doing things like up flat belt. I'm not doing French. I just assume most people watching the show already know how to do those things and also if they don't, there's like already 1,001 tutorials on it. I'm doing really interesting different seams that are ideal for specific types of fabrics. So like sheer fabrics, furs and like synthetic leathers or Ponte. So those are the three kinds of seams that I'm gonna be doing. So I'm excited about it because I'm learning something new and also demonstrating something what I feel like is new to an audience. So that one should be fun, but I've never done it before. At least with the pocket one, like I'm very familiar with how to do that because I do it all the time at home. But the other one, it's kind of like, I technically never done this before. But it is still at the same time in my wheelhouse, you know what I mean? Like I get the concept. It's just a matter of executing it, which should be fine. But I get to use a really fancy brother machine because I guess brother is a big sponsor of the show and they have like a brother representative there. They have like a lot of brother sewing machines. They have like the super, super fancy embroidery ones. I'm not gonna be doing that. I'm gonna be sewing on just kind of like a basic, not basic. It's a little bit nicer than the one that I have and the one I have is like a low mid-range one. Maybe this one costs like $1,000, $1,200 or something like that. I don't know, I didn't look it up, but it only sews, it's not embroidery. So that'll be fun just to try out a new machine. But yeah, it's shower time because this is not TV ready. No. Shower time, makeup, get ready. Thankfully, I get to be really comfortable. They actually ask you to wear like quiet shoes, which AKA sneakers. So I have these little boots and then I'm gonna be showing you guys later what I wore in a separate video. So you guys will be able to see that. But yeah, I'm excited. So I am in the green room working on my projects like so. And we can watch who's recording in the studio at the same time. Pretty cool. Got all my embroidery hoops done. So you can see the right side and the wrong side of the scene. I've got all of my sample garments ready to go. This has been pressed so I can wear it. We're almost there, almost my turn. Okay, this is me on the set of It's So Easy. You guys might recognize it. Who recognizes that background? I thought I would give you a little bit of a behind the scenes tour. You can see all the cameras and all the lights. If only I could fit all of that into my apartment. That would be awesome. Let me flip you guys around so I can show you some of the decor stuff. It's really cute. Okay, so first off, we have this gigantic whisk, which is hysterical. But then look at all these cute little vintage things with like little notes and stuff. So cute. And then we have our window bench in front of a forest. Cause you know, nothing better than a little sewing cottage out in the woods and a little room divider. We've got this little sewing machine. Architectural drawing, what are those called? And then the safety pins that you guys all know, but what you might not be able to see on TV are all these little setups. So cute, right? With the thread and the thimble. So, so sweet. Then we've got even more thread over here. Little dress form. Look how cute this is. I have no idea where they got that, but that cube is adorable. And then on this guy, a little clock, some fabric, of course. Look in here, some buttons. Old patterns, like borderline vintage patterns, which is cool. And some really old books. Cute, right? And look at this little guy, so sweet. And then last I forget to point out our other double door, French doors, leading out into, again, our little forest wonderland here in our sewing cottage. It is the cutest little set. I just got done sewing my segments. This is the machine that I got to sew on. I'll have to flip you around again. So this is the Brother PS 500. Honestly, it's very similar to the one that I sew on at home. It might just be like one step higher than that, but all of these buttons are the exact same. You can just kind of tell a little bit of a difference when you're actually sewing with it. It's just a little less clunky or something as mine is. This one seemed really smooth and really nice. If you're in the market, I liked it. I liked using this one a lot. Just want to take a quick second here to give all my thanks to Coats and Clark for sponsoring my appearance on the show. I will have lots more information on the products I use to fill my segments, but a heads up, you're going to want their dual duty poly thread, their fine thread, their buttonhole thread, and LO Flex stretch thread in your stash when the episode premieres. So thanks again to Coats and Clark. I can't wait for you all to see how great their threads are for some of these techniques that I was teaching during the show. Back in the hotel room, as you can't tell, back in my robe, does anybody else do that? As soon as you come back home or wherever you've been all day, you just like put on something comfy. That is me. I am surprised how exhausting it was to do that today. It was basically like a whole bunch of sit around and wait, a whole bunch of like preparing little pieces. And I'm gonna show you what I worked on today. And then like it's your turn to go. And so you go in and you basically run through the whole thing one time. The first one I did, we stopped once because, oh, I picked up the wrong, I did something. It was my fault, I did something wrong. So they stop you and then say, okay, we're gonna pick you back up right after you said this thing, whatever it is. And so then you just pick back up again. You don't start from the beginning, you start from where you stopped. So it took me maybe 90 minutes to do both segments. And that includes a portion in the middle where they had to like reset the set. So they took away the mannequins from the first one and all the fabric from the first one and changed out the thread and everything. They swapped it all out. And it was like 90 minutes of actual work. And your girl is wiped. I think also too, just like being here, being in the studio all day, you're just falling in a different way, hanging out with people that you don't really know in real life. I've actually never met any of the people that I was hanging out with today well, I met them yesterday. So it's just a different kind of relax. Like you're relaxed, but you're also like, I don't wanna say something stupid. So there's that element of it. But back in the hotel, and I wanted to kind of walk you through how it all works because it's actually incredibly efficient. And if I could get my together, I would utilize more of what they do on the channel. It's like more prep work to do it the way they do it and less camera work. Whereas the way I do it is less prep work, but more time in front of the camera. So I don't really know how that balances itself out yet, but I'm willing to give it a go. And then also I wanted to show you this awesome goodie bag I got. Hold on one second. So you may or may not know, but Coats and Clark rebranded. If you have any other stuff that has the little logo with the chain on it, like this, that's not correct anymore. They have new ones now that have a flower on them instead or like a kind of like a version of a flower. And so because the studio does all these sewing videos, they have so much thread. Basically she had half of a picnic table of stuff that they were giving away because they had gone through and purged a whole bunch of stuff. And you know, things that were older or things that they didn't use anymore, they were just giving away to anybody and everybody who would take it. They had like clear rulers and cutting mats. They were just like, whatever you want. And so since Coats and Clark sent me here, I thought, well, I will do them a favor and take some of their thread home. So basically what I got is a whole bunch of serger cones in neutral colors. So I got beige, I got white and these have been used before, but that's okay. I got gray and of course I got black. So basically it was able to stock up on serger thread. I got four or more of each of them. And actually I was getting ready to run out of white. So that was really helpful. And then I can't remember if I've talked to you guys about this or not, but when I got that Coats and Clark, the 50 piece thread assortment that is featured in my gift guide, they had a couple of these with the multicolor. And at first I was like, when I first saw it, I was like, oh, okay, that's gonna be like a cute little design, like extra kitschy kind of element. But then I used it to top stitch that athleisure capsule that I made with the leggings and the sports bra. So for the sports bra finish the neckline and the arm holes, you basically do a bias finding and you have to top stitch the top. And I used this in a coordinating color. So that fabric is like orange and pink and whatever. And so they happened to have one that had similar colors. It might be this one, exactly this one. And it turned out so good and just kind of like blends in with all the tie dye. So for Black Friday I ordered a couple of tie dye fabrics and like waffle knit and something, oh, not a rib knit, waffle knit and something else. And so they had this whole bag of all of these different multicolored ones. So I have them, I mean, every color I can possibly imagine, maybe not green, but I do think I have green at home, but like really, really cool ones. And then also this like neutral one too that has just like gray and pink and stuff in it, which would be really pretty like on a blanket or something, you know, I don't know. Anyways, I got all of this, which was really nice, which made me happy that I didn't overstoff my bag on the way here. I also checked it on the scale when I went to check it in and it was only at like 30-something pounds. So even though this is heavy, I will go over my weight at check-in. But what else do I wanna tell you all about today? It was just really cool and fun and honestly, it's not that much different than what I do already. The director was like, so have you done TV before? And I was like, what do you mean? And he's like, you can just tell. And I'm like, I didn't even answer you yet. He was like, no, you can tell because you are like talking normally and then the cameras come on and then your voice, like your voice just becomes stronger and you like project yourself differently. And just as soon as the cameras come on, he's like, you can tell. He's like, so what have you done in the past? And I was like, well, I studied broadcasting in college and yada, yada, yada. And then I told him about the YouTube channel and he was like, oh my God, just like me. He's like, I wanted to go to school and be the next big like NBC, but I didn't wanna go to Topeka, Kansas and live there for two years and report on whatever that is and work at their station in order to work my way up. He's like, I thought you could just show up in New York City and they would be happy to take you in. So it was funny that we shared that story together but also funny that he could kind of tell a little bit which I wasn't sure if anybody was gonna, I mean, I don't see myself as someone like a professional TV, like anything. So it was just kind of cool to have someone in the industry kind of be like, yeah, you're like professional. But so I hope that I'll be invited back again and I hope that I'll be able to do it again. The segments will come out in March. It's like a three month turnaround. So of course I will keep you guys updated as I know more. Obviously if I go back out there, I don't know how often they are doing the filming portions, but if I go back out there, I'll be sure to let you guys know that too. So, all of this, every opportunity that I get is because of you guys and I do not ever, ever, ever lose sight of that. So I have to thank you and everybody else that's helped me along the way get noticed and if it weren't for my relationship with Coates and Clark, then I wouldn't have gone to do this thing today and make relationships with all the people there today. It's just one big ripple effect. Dan said that I could be the next Anthony Bourdain and it'd be sewing confidential. I wish I thought it was hysterical. So, listen, I am very much still well grounded here, here on earth, here in my sewing room, in Charlotte, all by myself, doing all the camera work and all the editing and everything else, all by myself. Don't you guys worry, I'm not going anywhere. Yeah, after one, after one TV segment, all of a sudden I'm like, discovery, HGTV, here you go. Yeah, no, it doesn't work that way. So, yeah, but thank y'all for everything always, always, always and I am just so happy to bring y'all along with me because I feel like we're on this journey together a little bit. So, let me know if you have other questions. So, yeah, that's gonna do it for this vlog style video from Salon, Solon, shoot, they told me how to say it and I forgot, Salon, Solon. From just outside of Cleveland, Ohio, that's gonna do it for me today. Back to you in the studio, Fred. No, I'm just kidding. That's gonna do it. Thank you all so much for watching. See y'all soon, bye.