 Hi everybody, welcome back to my channel Inside the Hymn. Today is my November plans video. Hard to believe I'm saying that, but yes, it is the penultimate month of the year, November. And the exciting part about November for me is that here in the States, we have Thanksgiving at the end of November, and most companies and people have that day off and then the next day, which falls on a Friday. So that would mean a five day sewing extravaganza, but I usually end up taking the whole week off. So it's a good time for me to take a location. So I'm really excited about that. I know I'll get a lot done, which is why my plans video this month is super extra special. I always over plan, always without a doubt, but this month I might have over, over planned, but it's still a lot of really good ideas for you guys and will maybe help you navigate some of your plans. So I wanted to start off with one pattern, one week. I think in my last video, I was calling it one week, one pattern. So sorry that I got that backwards. Or is it one week, one pattern? Oh, I don't know. I get it confused. One of the two. Either way, it's the last week of November, November 25th through December 1st. Something like that, does that make sense? And it's where you wear the same pattern every day for the whole week, either the same garment styled differently or different garments all throughout the week. So I have been using, oh Lord, did I even have it here? Yes. I have been using M7-6-6-0 as my one pattern, one week, one week, one pattern, whatever it is. And I have gotten through three of them. Anyways, so in order to wear that pattern every day for a week, obviously you need seven of them. So that's my plan. My plan is to sew up four more of those garments before November 25th. I have a dress planned. I have a little zip up jacket planned. I'm trying to get really creative and hack the pattern now that I've got the basics done. So yeah, so I'm really excited about that and excited to share with you all of my makes. And then I might have an itty-bitty giveaway. McCalls is helping me with this and they wanna give one of you one of the patterns or a copy of this pattern. So stay tuned for that. That'll come at the end of the month. I'll do like a whole video just on that and I'll give you all the details on how to enter the giveaway. But yeah, that means four garments just for this in the next, well, 20-ish days. So we'll see how that goes. The next thing is, the next two things are really kind of my solution for Sew My Style. I talked about this a lot last month and many, many, many of you commented and made me feel a lot better about deviating from Sew My Style. So that's what I'm gonna do. I'm still going to have 12 garments at the end of the year but they're not gonna be exactly what was outlined in the plan. Just because those, are they called Hampton trousers? No, that's the jean jacket. Whenever those pants weren't gonna work for me and I've seen other people skipping that one too. So I know I'm not alone and thinking those are like, that's a weird pattern with weird sizing. And then the Yonah coat just is way too hot for our climate here. I mean, we're still in the 70s, so. So to sub out those two, I am going to be making a trench coat out of some Robert Kaufman twill and this was all inspired by Allie J or Allie Jackson. She made the Lucerne trench from Deer & Doe, which is adorable. I truly do love that pattern and she vouched for it a lot, saying how well drafted it was. But I already have McCalls, oh, not McCalls, Vogue. Vogue 8884. I already own that pattern. I've already planned on making that. I wanna say I got that last year or maybe two years ago with the hopes of making a trench coat but never did. I even have fabric for it that I got from Style Maker but just wasn't feeling it for one reason or another. So I'm thinking the twill might help me feel a little bit more inspired. It's more traditional, more classic. So an Allie's is like a baby pink. It's adorable, but that's not that practical for me. I wanna make like the traditional beige trench but I wanna turn it up. You know how I like to do with little details. So maybe like some burgundy piping. I think that would be really cute and fun but still totally wearable all the time. It would still match everything. So I'm leaning toward that to replace the Yonaco. And then for the pants. I actually, after all that talk about pants last month, the irony is not lost on me. I actually won a contest where I won a ginger jeans pattern, a hardware kit to make ginger jeans and like a bunch of cone mills denim all to make ginger jeans. So it feels like the universe is telling me now is your time to figure this out. And they have the ginger jeans party hashtag on Instagram and it was really inspiring to see people making the ginger jeans, them not fitting out of the gate, having similar issues that I have had and then figuring them out. That made me feel really good. Like I'm not alone in the pants fitting world and that it can be done because a lot of them ended up figuring out and they have great looking jeans. So I think I'm gonna sub out the ginger jeans for those trousers that were on so my style. Again, I have the fabric, the pattern, the hardware is just a matter of making the, I know I need adjustments because I've tried to make ginger jeans before and they didn't work. So I think I'm out of the gate gonna do a full seat adjustment, a front thigh adjustment and a large calf adjustment. I think those three things should get me going on the right track and we'll see where I land. But I got to get some like cheap denim from Joanne or something to make some muslins. So yeah, that'll be like, you know how you're saying, oh, I'm making one pair of jeans but you really end up making like five because you make so many muslins. So it's gonna be a little bit like that but I think that I'm ready. I think that mentally I'm there, emotionally I'm there, I'll have the time that Thanksgiving location week will be a great time because you could chip off a little bit at a time. So yeah, so that's what I'm gonna, that's the plan, that's the plan, we'll see. I would just love to have a pair of jeans or jeans pattern that I know I could make over and over and never have to worry about it. And for those of you that are gonna suggest taking a pair of jeans that I already owned that fit really well and using that, the problem is I've never, ever, ever in my life probably owned a pair of jeans that fit really well. From the store that I've made, none. There's always been something wrong. I've had something that I've gotten close but none that have ever totally fit the bill. So, and now especially, like I don't think I own any jeans that fit really well. I don't own any jeans that look good. I don't own any jeans that look good and are comfortable. Like they don't exist in my closet right now. So it would be nice, it would be really, really nice. Okay, so onto the, what are we on the fourth one? Yeah, so how many of you saw what Brittany Jones did with the bodysuits? I mean, if that's not the most inspiring little project, I don't know what is. I was thrilled when I saw that she was doing, basically if you didn't see, she's doing a bodysuit a week, a bodysuit a day. She took Simplicity 8513, which has like five or six different variations on a bodysuit and she made one of each of them. And every day she posted a video of one of the versions. So it's like a whole week of bodysuits. And they all are adorable. They're all super cute. They're also wearable. I can imagine incorporating them into my wardrobe like a thousand different ways. So I might be on the bodysuit train. I might need one or more of those. So I'm waiting on a Simplicity sale because I'm not gonna pay full price. Fun fact, did you know that Simplicity had printable patterns on their website? I didn't know. They are still like the $11 price range, which is cheaper than some indie patterns, but for all that trouble of printing and everything else, I don't know, I just much rather go wait for a sale and get them for like two bucks, you know? I feel like Joanne has those sales like every five seconds anyways. So I don't clearly have got a lot of other sewing I can distract myself with in the meantime until that sale pops up. But yeah, I just was like, I saw that and I was like, yes, I was like, that is such a great idea and I want all of them to. So go check out her series that she did. It's really, really cute. I'll link it right here. What else? Oh, my famous Sew My Style. Sew My Style. Okay. So we talked earlier about the coat and the jeans, right? And I bet you're wondering how my Briar T and my Valley Blouse have turned out. Yeah, because I was totally gonna make those last month and the month before. They didn't get made. They didn't. And honestly, I think it's just because I've got my head stuck on kneading sweaters, kneading like warmer clothes that a short sleeve top and a really flowy light weight top were not going to get worn. And so I was like, well, why should I wear them? Or why should I make them? And then you got getting pushed further and further down on the to-do list. So they still aren't done, but they're on my plans on my list for this month again. And I guess so long as I just keep putting them on the to-do list, eventually they will get done. If anything, you guys will just get sick and tired of me talking about it. So I'm gonna try really hard, really, really hard to get them done this month. Let's see, Briar T, Valley Blouse, talked about the pants, talked about the coat. So November's is the by hand London, by hand London Anna dress, which is actually stunning. Like I really do love that dress. Someone, now I can't remember her name or her blog, made the maxi version out of what I think is like a crepe or a shawly or something. And I mean, y'all, it is gorgeous. The slit mid thigh and I guess correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like that dress or any maxi dress with a slit, no matter what the fabric print is, if you make it in a flowy fabric, it would be great for like a more casual holiday party. I mean, I can imagine like a dark background fabric with like flowers or I don't know, something, some print on it, full length with that huge slit. That would be gorgeous for a holiday party, for like your office or if like your neighborhood has one or it's school or I don't know, whatever, you know, you have going on in your life. I just think that it would be great. And it's a not so obvious take. You don't have to wear glitter and sparkles and you know, you don't have to wear like a gathered skirt or pleated skirt or anything like that. I think that this is like an understated really pretty maxi dress that would be great for the holidays. So that's what I think I wanna make, the maxi version with the huge slit. I'm really honestly excited about it. I've already reached out to Stylemaker Fabrics and asked her about some fabric that she has. I have something in my stash but I might not have enough yardage. I mean, maxi dress takes a lot. So we will see how that ends up shaping up. I don't have the pattern or the fabric yet. So we'll see. But the year is coming to an end and I've gotta get wrapped up on these projects. So yeah, the in address is next on the list. And then finally, the work in progress project that I have set for myself. I did such a good job in October, you guys. I mean, I killed it. I killed it. I'm so proud of myself. And I got it out of the way early too. So I could like have fun making new things and not just doing hymns and all that all month long. So I can't wait to show you in my makes video killed it with the works in progress. I'm so excited. So I pulled out another bin of works in progress. I have, I guess I had one, one of these I emptied out in October. This is my November one. I have another one plus like two or three smaller ones. I have a lot. I have a lot. Anyways, so, but we're getting there. We're getting through them. And this one I feel like is all, I don't know what's in here. This looks like a skirt without a waistband. So just attach the waistband. Look how cute the skirt is. I mean, adorable with that little center flap. Perfect for fall. Swade came from Stylemaker Fabrics last year. So cute. This one, so cute. Just needs a like something happened here. Can y'all see that? It's like all ripped up, but it also needs a clasp. And that won't happen anymore. I don't know what I was thinking with this whole mess. Anyways, I gotta fix that. Super cute. Don't remember where the fabric came from. Maybe girl Charlie. This one is a ready to wear dress, but doesn't fit me well anymore. So I wanna make it a top. So that will be easy. Again, ready to wear. That's too big. Gotta take it in. This one, you remember this. I just posted this not too long ago, earlier this year. This is the Charleston fabric from Art Gallery. And I have put in two safety pins. You can see those there because the front is too big. So I just need to go in and like take up the front some. And I'm hoping I can just do that within the gathers that's already there. So we'll see, I gotta figure something out for that. But anyways, it's just a bunch of little itty bitty stuff that I haven't gotten to. What is this? This is like a completely sewn, oh, it's a dress with half a lining that I probably need to just hand stitch. But how cute is that? I don't know why I do this to myself. Anyway, so those are the projects that, this is the bin that I'll be working from this month. We'll see how many of them I can get done. Some of them as you can see are like really quick projects and some of them probably be more involved. But that's the work in progress portion of my sewing plans for November. And that is it. Those are all my plans for this month. So I wanna know what is like the biggest, most exciting project that you are planning to make in November. Are you making something for Thanksgiving? Are you making something special for the holidays? Are you making a bunch of gifts? Let me know what the big thing is that you're making this month. And if you're participating in one week, one pattern, let me know what pattern you're using. If you're participating in Sew My Style, let me know what fabric and version of the Anna dress you're gonna be making. And if you've ever made ginger jeans, I just want you to leave a comment with thumbs up to encourage me that I can get through this and that I will be fine and I'll have some great fitting jeans. So thanks so much for watching. As always, I love you guys and I'll see you soon. Bye.