 Let's talk about our collective obsession with sew-alongs. We love a little bit of hands-on instruction. Am I right? I hear it from you guys all the time begging me more, more, more, more. If I could do a sew-along every single day somehow miraculously, you guys would eat it up every single time. And I love that I'm able to provide that for you. But as I am just one person, I can only do so many. But what if I told you you could get a brand new sew-along every two weeks for two years? Do I have your attention? The lovely folks at the Taylor Academy, which is a V&E's tailoring business that have been around since the 1700s. They are currently on their ninth generation master Taylor and their the 10th generation is well on their way to carrying on that legacy. They, the story is really interesting. So obviously they're very into sewing and handmade garments and tailoring and the like, all the same things that we are. But they're a small family owned company. They were getting applications for the tailoring apprentices. It's more than they could handle. And they could only take on like a couple every so often. And so they said, well, what if we took our apprenticeship and we made like an online e-course out of it? What would that look like? How would it work? So on and so forth. So they did it. The current Taylor for the business, Stefan Wimmer is your host in these sew-alongs, which is just a term that I'm using because I think we all kind of understand how sew-along works. It's like an over the camera shot. He's showing you step by step, giving you tips along the way. So because you have a ninth generation Taylor teaching you how to sew these garments, you are getting, you're getting sewing tips. Definitely. You're getting them in a way that is like more concise than when I learned to sew because I mostly self-taught. It was like, I'd get a little tidbit here and there and everywhere, like every so often. There's no rhyme or reason to it. Like I would be on Instagram and somebody would say something like, oh, that makes sense. Or I read a book and it would be in the book or I'd see it in a YouTube video or whatever. But whenever it comes to like a Taylor Academy or an e-course, you're getting right down to business, right? And he is just spewing all of his pro tips at you as they come. Things that really, really stay in the test of time and not just like fleeting little trends or silly little tricks that we learn along the way, but things that actually really work and have worked for years and years. So I'm using this term sew along a little bit loosely. I don't know. I don't know if they even fully realize what that term means, but you get these sew alongs and they are going to teach you a different garment every two weeks. So you start out a little bit basic with just sort of like this swing dress, right? Where the fitting is really only happening from the bust apex up and everything else is kind of loose and flowy. And then you move on to like a waistband with a gourd skirt. So now you're fitting a waistband, but everything below kind of like the high hip ish area is loose and flowy. Then you learn how to make a shift dress. So it's nice and fitted top to bottom. And each lesson that you get is building upon the lesson prior. Okay? So you are going to learn a lot about fitting, but you're also going to learn a lot about sewing because he is showing you how to sew these garments step by step. And you know, so they gave me access to the first three lessons, those first three garments that I just told you about. And I'm starting the first one and I'm like, okay, this is like 101. This is a very simple design. Like I could sew this in my sleep. And I'm thinking a little bit cockishly, you know, I'm probably not going to learn too much. Well, you know, I actually did pick up some tips. I was like, okay, wait, if I am learning something from this very first lesson, I can't imagine what it would be like if I were watching this five years ago, 10 years ago, or what I might learn as we get deeper into the program. That first little dress you do a little facing, you know, it is a very nice, well made garment at the end of it, but it's also going to fit great. And you're going to sew it beautifully. I just think that in this day and age, and you know, being as you guys absorb this video media so much, it isn't so much that you want me to do a sew along for that pattern. It's that you want to learn those skills. And Lord help us if after two years of getting a new pattern every other week and learning how a professional V&E's tailor 10th ninth generation tailor does it, you wouldn't be able to learn every single skill you could possibly need to know whenever it comes to sewing. You're looking at some screenshots now, some screen recording of some of the patterns that you're going to learn. There's also a lot of bonus content. Like for example, with the first little pattern, there's how to measure. So they're going to cover where on your body do you take measurements. And for a tailor, you can imagine they probably take measurements very accurately, right? And they probably take more measurements than we're used to at home. So you can get an idea of how to measure, like how they measure clients. There's also a little video on how to set up your sewing room, how to set up your space. So if you're somebody who's just feeling like very overwhelmed by, you know, what all do I need, you can watch that video. Or if you are sharing space with someone, what do I need and what do I not need? You know, if you're sewing spaces in the dining room, you know, what do I really need to have around me while I sew? As we look at the patterns, you can tell that a lot of them are a little bit basic, but also timeless, which I think is important because two years from now, you don't want to be sewing something that was super trendy today. You know what I mean? So they're all pretty classic, all designs that have stood the test of time. But also, like especially in these first few that we're sewing, this little swing dress, for example, very hackable, right? You could easily turn this into like a tiered, long, flowy dress. You could use a lighter weight fabric. You could add a waist seam or elastic casing in the waist. You could add a little sleeve. So you could really take each pattern and make multiple garments from it, especially if you're spending all this time investing and learning how to get that one garment to fit. You might end up using it as kind of like a sloper. Like when we get to the third lesson on this shift dress, that's going to be a great fitted bodice. That's going to be a great fitted skirt. You know what I mean? So you'll be able to use that as like a jumping off point for future makes, knowing that you've spent the time to get that one to fit so well. So as you are going through the program, you are more than welcome and encouraged to use these patterns however you see fit. The whole point of the Wimmer family doing this e-course is so that more people can learn the art of tailoring. They don't want you to learn it just to make stuff for yourself. They want you to learn it to maybe start your own tailoring business, maybe give you the confidence that you need to apply for a tailoring business at like a wedding shop or, you know, a men's store or, you know, whatever it is. They want you to be able to make your own clothes from this and sell those clothes if you're so inclined. So don't feel like just because you're being like the traditional setup for patterns is that you buy a pattern and then that pattern design belongs to the designer. That is not the case with this. As you're going through the program, you are encouraged to do whatever you wish with the knowledge that you attain, including the patterns themselves. You could take this flowy dress and just start making and selling them. They really don't care. That's kind of the whole point of what they're trying to do here is get more people sewing, more people learning the right way to sew, how to tailor, how to do things like couture-ish we'll call it so that they can continue for more and more and more generations. I mean they're really banking on this training their 10th generation to continue on. And just like with all of my sew-alongs and any other e-course that you guys buy and download, you have the patterns and you have the instruction for your lifetime forever as long as you have a login. All right, so if I have tickled your curiosity enough and you want to check it out, they have a free 14-day trial. With the 14-day trial, obviously you're only going to get the one pattern. But if you sign up, you have a six-week money-back guarantee, so you would end up getting the same three patterns that I have access to. You would have access to those as well and you can cancel money-back, no questions asked, none of that. So you can really give it a go, get an idea of if this platform is going to work for you, if the two-week schedule is going to work for you, if you're going to like, you know, just the ebb and flow of it all. If you're actually going to end up learning anything, you know, you could find out all of that stuff within the first six weeks and no risk to your wallets at all. So I have a link in the description box for the Taylor Academy. Go there, the 14-day trial is right there on the homepage. You can't miss it. I hope you guys will check it out. I'm really eager to start making the three patterns. Like I said, I kind of was humbled a little bit by the first one, thinking, oh, it's just a basic dress. What do I know? You know, but actually, I ended up learning something. So I'm excited to move on to the next couple of lessons and see what those have for me. And I hope you are too. So any questions that you have about this in the comment section below, I'll do my best to answer or get an answer for you. Otherwise, just click the link and go check out the Taylor Academy. That is going to do it for me today, y'all. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you all very soon. Bye.