 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. So I kid that half the month is already come and gone and I haven't even posted my plans video yet but if you haven't noticed I've been antsy bit busy this month. I don't know about you guys but like does your birthday month seem to just completely take over your entire life? I've had a trip with my boyfriend. I've had a birthday party with all of my friends. This thing with Taylor Swift on Good Morning America which I'm flying up for suddenly kind of came up and fell into my lap. It just feels like so many kind of like big events are all happening all at one time and so it hasn't really afforded me a ton of time to get in here and wrap my head around what I want to make. So I pulled a bunch of stuff that I know I want to make and the timeline of making it all may or may not happen within the last you know two weeks that we have in August but it will be added to my queue with the things from like June and July that I said I wanted to make. I remember that really cute double gauze like almost like an over shirt. Still definitely want to make that but I hadn't gotten around to it yet so it's kind of just like in my queue. The cute little dress with the rickrack still definitely want to make that so I actually have a pretty big queue as it is. I did pick what I think was a little bit selectively today because a lot of them are just simple quick little tops. Famous last words. I did throw in one dress because I love dresses and most of the stuff that I'm talking about today is going to be a really great like seasonal transition as we start to cool down here in Charlotte and you know looking for a little bit more of a sleeve action tops to wear with pants or jeans and stuff like that so tons of fun good stuff I have picked out. First out I cannot have a plans video and not tell you guys what I'm making for the social mashup challenge that I'm hosting on Instagram with girls in the garden. If you haven't heard of this yet there's still plenty of time to enter. We're hosting weekly challenges and the grand prize is a faff sewing machine so if you have an Instagram account head over there go to my feed go to Lori's feed you should find some information within the you know past few posts and it's very easily identifiable as social mashup. So what I am making is a mashup between Simplicity 8789 and Butterick 6676. Basically I want to take the bodice from this version and attach it to the skirt from this version to make sort of like a blouson dress is that how you fancy French people say it blouson is that how the Southerners in the United States say it look at my blouson dress um anyways where it creates that kind of like billowing effect of the bodice that I'm going to add like elastic to the waistband and then have a cute little kind of slim a-line skirt the fabric is this I don't have like obviously I've started working on this already um but the fabric is this really pretty kind of like mid-weight mid-weight what I don't know what maybe twill no I'm not feeling like it's twill I don't know what it is I also think that I got it at chic fabrics in New York City I'm actually 99% sure that's where I got it I'm pretty sure it's uh some kind of polyester it is printed on uh that's about all I know but what I wanted was something I mean I could have gone a lot lighter weight with this too but I wanted something that was going to really highlight that sleeve um really highlight the blouson effect and but still give some structure to that uh a-line skirt where I didn't feel self-conscious about the thinness of the fabric on my bottom half so this is what I chose um I'll have a big reveal for this dress at the end of the month um but you should be participating in social mashup because there's a lot of really fun prizes still left to win I promise um we're getting so many fun ideas someone's doing their birthday dress someone's doing a wedding dress for their daughter like big life milestones um all part of social mashup so it's really fun and kind of an honor to be a part of that okay so here's the dress that I had in mind excuse me for September it's simplicity 8551 I mean I fell in love with this as soon as I saw it oh do you like my Taylor Swift nails you can tell I'm getting ready my 13 year old self is coming out um anyways I really love this tie up detail I love kind of how oversized it is I love her sleeve where it's like elbow length with this big kind of poofy sleeve but I kind of also like this one that's a little bit more simple because the fabric is amazing so I got this at fabrics and fabrics last year uh check the description box if they still have this online I will link to it um but basically what it is it is a oh what's it called when it looks like a basket weave shoot I'll think of it eventually anyways polyester version of that it's navy and white stripes but it has a border of these really adorable pink flowers like all in a row how sweet and adorable is that so I got enough to make a dress but it can't be that fitted of a dress because as you can tell this is somewhat see through like I can totally see my light and my camera through this so that's why I thought something more loose fitting would be better okay my first top is butteric 6662 again relatively recent release I'm gonna say maybe early spring and I just fell in love with the simplicity of this pattern um and just you know how it was sort of a basic with the pop um so I love all the versions I love this little ruche version here I love the tie bodice a lot I love this little sleeve after my refashion that I posted last week I'm obsessed with these like sleeve statement sleeves now and then this one down here just has kind of it does have a pleated sleeve was hers pleated hers might be pleated too but it's just hard to tell um and this is for a woven fabric too which I thought was nice to have kind of like a fitted top that was woven um so the fabric that I chose for this is like oh because I want to make um this little tie version here with the little flouncy sleeve thing I thought that would be really cute to wear with blue jeans white jeans black jeans dress it up dress it down you know so this is the fabric that I chose this came from Joanne's clearance been when I lived in Charleston so sometime in 2018 maybe even 2017 I'm perfectly honest with you but it's a round shali and it's a gingham with all these little flowers on it and I just think that'd be so sweet as a top but kind of like too much as a dress you know so I'm reserving it for a top and this one calls for yeah like a little bit more than one and a half yard so I think I probably got two of this so I'll have just enough and then maybe I can make a sweet little like matching headband wouldn't that be so cute is that too matchy matchy would that be weird no I think that would be awesome okay well I've just added another little project to my list but um but yeah so 6662 beauty in this little round shali is next um then I have my refashion okay so I'm trying to do a monthly refashion as you guys know I feel like I haven't done eight refashions this year I feel like I've done like three have I done more than three I can't remember so I'm really trying to like stay on the bandwagon with these um I got this during my shopping trip to Goodwill that I filmed for the how to shop Goodwill for refashioning video that I posted um I'm still going through that stash of clothing that I got in that one trip so I mean I think I spent like 30 or 50 dollars that day and I know that I've gotten at least three garments from it that I love and I think this one's gonna be really great too so we've got this really fun pop of color solid twill something or another like sheath dress it features a lace up top uh kind of like uh straight elbow length sleeves it has a back yoke it has uh angled these called french darts french darts that are angled on the bodice and it also has um fisheye darts in the back for some shaping it's pretty long it goes past my knees so what I'm thinking is to kind of like maintain a lot of what they've got going on with this already I'm gonna keep the skirt kind of its regular its shape that it is now its size that it is now um to help cover like you know the bum and have some wearing ease and all of that but then from the waist up I'm going to take it in like a whole like as much as I need for it to be not fitted but not like I want to add a waist seam you know to have some waist definition there so we'll see I don't have a pattern necessarily I think technically I could probably use I mean honestly what I'm describing is my mashup again but using their uh lace up bodice instead of uh whatever bodice this has you know what I mean just cut off the sleeves size it down and the underarm size down the sleeves maybe even make them a little bit shorter and then do like a drawstring waist or something like that something like that is what I'm thinking so you know like I said or like I've always said refashioning is really just kind of like going for it and then making it work as you go it's much different of a creative process than just sewing straight from a pattern with full yardage so we'll see that will be a fun afternoon of sewing but honestly like half the work is done for me all this is done the hem of the skirt is already done the facing the yoke you know all of that so I'm really just cutting up it's really just the side seams sleeves and waist I feel like I can do that pretty quickly anyways okay and so then one more and it's another top and this is simplicity 8 4 1 7 and for this particular project I'm thinking view d with the pretty flutter sleeves but honestly I want to make one of all of these I think all of them are so cute and I just love how just relaxed they are casual but also dressy excuse me I'm still getting over this chest cold um I just yeah I just think a lot of them are super super cute I don't know now that I'm looking at it I kind of like a also a and d are similar but I don't know about this now that I'm looking at it on her I don't know that that would bode well for my figure but this might be a little bit better but is this what she's wearing no she's wearing b because the sleeves is that the only difference a yeah I think a and b the only difference is the sleeve so it's a little long so yeah all I would um somehow try and get the length of d for version a maybe I don't know something like that but the fabric super cute fabric again it's one of those that I honestly I think that I it's like a ditzy fabric with like little I don't know bird heads on it I don't know what it is but I honestly think that I won this in the Elliott Berman fabric giveaway that I was just telling you guys about in a video last week they do this giveaway on Facebook um every week I think it's on Thursdays and all you have to do is like their Facebook page and then like that post not a lot of people are participating so your chances of winning are high and all of their fabrics are very high quality it's one of the more expensive stores in New York City a lot of it's imported from France and Italy and they make some really they sell some really really nice fabrics there so I feel like this is like a rayon chalet but what do they call rayon in France or Italy I can't remember um it's some kind of like imported rayon chalet it's really nice quality it feels so soft and again it's one of those that I feel like I can wear with lots of different outfits lots of different pants lots of different bottoms you know and it make a bunch of different outfits out of it so um so yeah I just have to decide on the version I have probably two yards of it and all of these fabric requirements are two yards or less so I can really I have my pick of the litter here I don't know we'll see we'll see which one this one's feeling a little bit like maternity to me it's a little too big so maybe I'll size down make it shorter and then then I'll be happy yeah no something like that um okay so that's it those are all of my plans for the rest of August yeah my August plans weird to say because August is half over but like I said I feel like the tops are gonna be really easy and quick to sew up the refashion is gonna be you know a one day kind of thing and then that dress even you know it doesn't have like a ton of style lines on it you know so I think I should be able to do that in a weekend maybe so we'll see how much I can get done we'll see if I'm able to pick up any of the projects that I've mentioned in past plans videos that have not made it to the makes videos the ones that I described earlier and I don't know we'll just see summer is kind of one of those it's just the time of year where you're just like I don't want to be beholden to any schedule or anything am I right who's with me on that um anyways there's gonna be a lot of information in the description box here's how you access the description box it's very easy to get to from mobile device or a desktop I put a lot of information in the description box every single video so it's nice to get in the habit of just checking that uh every time you watch one of my videos anytime I'm wearing a me made that information where I got the fabric with the pattern is all that is in the description box so it can just save you guys a 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