 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. So hard to believe but it is freaking July which is insane. Half of the year is gone and passed and we are in the thick of it with summer here in North Carolina. I will say though I can already tell the difference between South Carolina weather and North Carolina weather mostly in the summer months so far. It has been way less humid and it's hysterical to me when people here complain about humidity because I'm like you guys don't even know the half of it. Like in Charleston I would wake up in the morning and my windows of my apartment would be fogged up. That's how humid it is there. I mean that happens here a little bit but not nearly as regularly as it happened in Charleston. So I am planning my sewing projects accordingly. I have a lot of really cute summery plans for the month of July but before I get into what I'll be making I want to talk to you guys about today's video sponsor. It is Ankara and Lace. You guys might have heard of them before. They are one of the leading suppliers of Ankara fabric and Ankara is one of those things also known as African wax cotton, Holland cotton. It's a 100% cotton fabric with these really bright bold prints that have really taken fashion by storm here in the last couple of years. So I'm so excited to be working with them and I can tell you about their really awesome subscription box. How elegant is this right? It's beautiful. So this is their sewing subscription box and the sewing subscription box you have options. I love a subscription box with options. You can choose between three, six, and 12 yards of fabric for your subscription box. Every sewing subscription box comes with fabric obviously. It comes with a sewing pattern and it comes with some notions and gifts. You also have options in terms of shipping. You can either get a monthly subscription box or a quarterly subscription box. So depending on how many projects you make a month, how many Ankara projects you want to make, you can determine frequency. And then in addition to the sewing subscription box, they also have a fabric only subscription box. So if you want to just get fabric and no pattern, no notions, no gifts, you can do that as well. I have a link in the description box to their subscriptions page that kind of explains all your options. You even get to take this super cool, like they call it a style quiz and it allows you to pick like what kind of prints you like. If you like florals or more geometric and what kind of colors you like and that way they can source a fabric for you that pretty much guarantees that you're going to like it. So we are going to see what they sent me this one. It's the fabric. I told you it was very bold, very, very bright. I guess the prints, look how pretty that is. My gosh. Because the prints, they say it's real important for the prints to be super, super unique. So Ankara and Lace does a good job of sourcing a variety of African wax cottons so that you do get a lot of variety and you get a lot of unique prints that aren't like heavenly inundated in the market already. But just to give you an idea, this is what it looks like. Kind of like a video game kind of. But I think that is, I mean, certainly not something that I would necessarily go to the store and pick out for myself. But I can already envision it being made into a garment. I mean, it's basically like a plaid kind of. Anyways, so go check out Ankara and Lace. Go try some African wax cotton or Dutch cotton, whatever you guys want to call it. And if you are into bold prints and bold colors like let's be real for summertime, this is the only time you can get away with something that's as wild and crazy as this. But they have tons and tons of prints. If you're not into the subscription box for whatever reason, you can just buy the fabric in like one-offs if you want. That's an option for you too. You have until July 15th in order to order your box to get delivered to you. So I will have a link in the description box for you guys to go check them out. Alright, so now we are going to get into my plans for July. I can hardly believe I'm saying that. Okay, so if I showed you this, would you know what I'm going to make? If you follow me on Instagram, you might. So I'm obsessed with the home edit. The home edit is a blog and social media site account of two women from Nashville who do home organization. They are known for making your home organized in a beautiful stylish way. So I am so attracted to that. And they love to organize things in rainbow. So Roy G Biv. Everything from like crayons to like your produce bin to cereal in your pantry. I saw an Instagram story where they literally pulled out all of the purple marshmallows or something of some cereal so they could have a purple bin in their Roy G Biv cereal collection. They're very, very extra like that. But one of the girls was wearing a dress. She said she got it from Madewell. I will show you guys what it looks like. And quite honestly, if you saw this, you were probably thinking the same thing I am like, that's a cinch to make. That's like literally no big deal. It's $168 for a cotton dress with some rickrack. Like that's insane. That's just insane. But I did love the dress. I thought it was super cute, super fun and kind of like a subtle, playful way. You know, it's not super loud. So I sourced three types of rickrack or colors of rickrack. I have, are they gonna have the colors on here? They don't have the colors on here? Oh, no, they don't have the colors on here. That's insane. Okay, so I have like a pink one, a red one and a burgundy one. That's so bizarre. How do you know? How do they organize it in the store? Just by sight? Anyways, going off on a tangent. So I got those three because I felt like they were most closely representative of the inspiration garment. And then for the actual fabric, I was a little bit thrown off because the Maple site says the fabric color is called Islet White. But I looked real hard at the images online. And it looks just like plain smooth cotton. The dress is not available in stores. Otherwise, I would just go over there and take into the dressing room and look at it and take pictures and video for you guys. You'd have to ship it, you have to pay for it, ship it to the store and then go pick it up. And that just felt like a lot of trouble for something that really didn't matter. I didn't want a super plain cotton dress that felt a little too plain to me. So I got this embroidered cotton. This came from Joanne and it has this really beautiful like floral embroidery all over it. So it's going to add a little bit of subtle dimension. See how when I hold it up, you can barely even tell that it's there. But then whenever you add the rickrack on that will you know, pop out on the white just like it does on the inspiration dress. For the pattern, I'm going to use McCall's 7774 or something like that. It's right here. I have made this dress before. I love it. It's in the red, white, and blue linen that I used to make the stripes go in all these different directions. And I have a video for that dress too. If you want to see it, I will link it. I can't remember which corner it goes in. The little card things in one of these corners. So I think that dress will be super easy to manipulate in order to replicate this dress. I really just need to take the skirt portion, chop it in half and make some tears and I've got I've got the inspiration dress. So I'm going to be working on that in July. I think that'll be super, super fun. Next up so Vogue fabrics has their summer catalog out the swatch catalog. And when they sent me the catalog, I picked out a couple of fabrics for a really cool fun dress. So this first one is adorable. It is another rainbow stripe. Maybe I'm on to something. I don't know. Maybe the home edit is just heavily influencing my life right now. But it's just like pastel rainbow seersucker. I mean, seersucker is quintessentially summer. It's as summer as barbecues and convertibles. So I thought it'd be super cute to make. I can't remember the number up top of my head, but I'm putting it in here, right? With the little straps with the bows, I thought that would be so cute and so fun. So that's what this stripe is going to be. And then I got this gauze. So it's a double gauze, but it's solid white, very, very lightweight. My thought behind this was to make something that would act as a cover, but not be as heavy as a jacket. It's almost like an open front shirt. Does that make sense? But here's the gauze. You can see that it's not super, super sheer, but it's definitely kind of got a little bit of drape to it too, which is what I loved about this fabric in particular. They had a lot of really great linens, like jacketing in the catalog too, but I didn't want something like a jacket. I just wanted something like, wait, almost like wearing a scarf, but in a jacket form, if that makes any sense. So I'm going to be making this McCall's pattern with that. I'm sorry, I didn't write any of these patterns down. I just have them in my head and they're actually not here yet. They're on their way. They're being shipped because I ordered them online because my Joanne is incredibly unreliable. And even though there was a $1.99 sale last week, I couldn't be sure that they would even have these patterns and I don't want to drive all the way out there for nothing. Okay, that's a whole other soapbox. But anyways, it's not going to be super cute. These two are going to be worn together, obviously, but I could even wear this gauze like jacket thing over my made well inspired dress. So that will be a lot of fun as well. And then I'm only picking, well, this is four now, one, two, three. I'm only picking four makes for this month simply because I just want to set myself up for success. And so the last thing is my refashion. This is a super cute summery gingham dress in its original form. It has, it's super long. It has this really pretty embroidery on the bottom. It's black and white gingham with this little scalloped embroidery on the bottom. So this is a size 10, which I am not. So I think I'm going to just make it into a top, and I'm going to move this entire hem up to like a shirt length, or maybe even like somewhere between a shirt and a tunic, something like that. And maybe just use something like the willow tank to just knock it out. I mean, I think whenever you have a very, very interesting fabric or a very interesting application onto a fabric, you really don't need to do a lot of hoopla with the pattern. You could have a very basic pattern and the fabric will help the garment stand out and look really special. That said, there were a lot of really, really great top like woven top patterns that came out with the simplicity McCalls butter. I remember all of them having really cute tops. So I'll poke around a little bit and see because, you know, I do have a lot of fabric to work with, you know, I mean, it's a maxi dress size 10 maxi dress. So yeah, I don't know, but I'm definitely thinking a top maybe with a little bit of embellishment, but maybe just plain. So yeah, so those are my plans for July. Like I said, I'm kind of trying to pair things down and not take on something super, super ambitious. And then at the end of the month, either feel like I'm scrambling to meet my goal, sunny. He knocked the tripod, either scrambling to meet my goal or not meeting it and like ultimately hashtag failing. So you know, summertime is the time to like, relax, take easy, go to barbecues, go to the pool, like, you know, you don't want to be cooped up inside all the day in the summertime. So yeah, but let me know what you guys are going to be making for the month of July. If you have any big plans, anything on your cutting table, and be sure to go check out Ankara and lace and get yourself a super cool African wax cotton subscription box. That's going to do it for me today. I will see you all very soon. Bye.