 Hi you guys, I'm Lindsay welcome to my channel inside the hem if you're new here and just joining me for the first time for The Royal Wedding so long then welcome I hope that you like everything that I have to bring to you over the next eight weeks I believe Today's video kicks everything off and I am so excited to show you what I have found We are gonna be working on a new look six five two six, which is a really gorgeous fit and flair dress It has two different bodice options as well as an option for a lace overlay And then has three different skirt options. We have a knee length where the mini length and then we have a high low hem so today's video is all about fabric and Ready-to-wear inspiration that I have been able to source all across the internet So we are going to kick things off with some fabric inspiration. I hope you like what I have to show you All right, so according to our pattern Onbelope we do have some options for suggested fabrics So on here they recommend Brocade, chins, crepe-backed satin, damask, dupeonis, satin, satin, shantung, and taffeta They also recommend border print fabrics to achieve a look like this one where the bottom of the dress is Kind of a different pattern than the top of the dress This is all one cut of fabric and it's just you know printed that way and then also lace for VUB bodice and sleeves and waistband can all be done in lace as well So I thought it would be neat to take a look at some different swatches and to kind of get a look at some of these Fabrics that they suggest but I also wanted to give you guys some options as well So we'll kind of go through a bunch of different types of fabrics here that I think would all work for this pattern Okay, so the first few I have here are all what is called jacquard and jacquard is really just Named for the loom that it's woven on It's named after the person that invented the wulum. I can't remember their name, but it's mr. jacquard um and basically the Identifying factor of that loom is that instead of the fabrics being woven and then the pattern being printed on top a jacquard wound loom actually Weaves the pattern into the actual fabric so you'll notice on all of these the pattern is Woven in and it's not just printed on top, which is really neat because for some fabrics Made on the jacquard loom for example the mask It can be two-sided so it's reversible So you have this one here with the blue background and then on this side you have the more beige background And this can create, you know a really beautiful Kind of garment like our dress if you were to for example put the bodice in one version and in the skirt In another you could really play around with one cut of fabric using the mask Which is really fun and interesting This is what they call brocade Brocade usually has some metallics woven in and again it can be reversible So this one has a lot more of the the white cottony part and this side has more of the metallic part So again, you could you know combo this on your dress and do one side for the bodice and another side for the skirt Which I think is really fun and obviously very versatile And these are also a type of brocade, but this one is like Textured in a way I guess this one's textured too because it's metallic and the metallic part does feel different than the cotton part But this one's actually raised like you can feel a bit of you know Texture whenever you run your hand across it And so these all let's see this came from joanne I this is the same fabric that I did my ballet dress in if you guys remember that around the holidays So you know what that went? I mean and the pattern that I used is kind of similar to this one so you could get an idea of what this looks like This one I got from fabric comm Here is the information if you want to jot that down pause the video But I'll have it linked in the description box below as well And then both of these came from style maker fabrics So if you go to their site and you type in the search bar 12021 or 12011 You'll be able to find both of these, but I just thought all of these prints were beautiful for a Wedding type event or any kind of springy event Obviously these lighter colors may not be great for a wedding because you don't want to upset the bride and being in something you know this this white But if you're doing a graduation or you know, maybe even a baby shower or something like that I think this would be perfect This your card with the light blue and taupe background. I just think is so gorgeous this to mask And then these two I mean you can't go wrong with like a big bold red Wink wink hint hint to something later And roses and florals, you know, they're just so perfect for a wedding But these could also whereas I feel like this one is more of a daytime Event this one too. I feel like these are nighttime events maybe because of the black background I'm not sure but so here are some options for you guys that cover a few that were mentioned on our pattern envelope So we've got a whole variety of jacquards here, including to masks and brocades So those are some fun options some others that I pulled are um What are they they are satins? Satins are usually a hundred percent cotton with maybe a small percentage of Lycra or some kind of stretch in them because they usually are stretchy hence the name stretch satin And that just makes for a really comfortable dress, you know We have this this midriff bodice here and let's say you were going to a wedding where it was being served And you wanted to have some extra, you know room to grow for your food A stretch that team is a really good option because you know, it'll move it'll grow with you So here are a few options that I have This one is a really beautiful print the thing about satins is that I mean you can find them in so many different Beautiful beautiful and versatile prints. So this one is a huge Floral print you can see the the width of that flower is almost as big as the the Screen here, but it has, you know huge huge floral print, which I think would be beautiful For our skirt because it is so big and voluminous and even D that has the longer skirt in the back You just know that you're going to get such a beautiful swatch of this Large floral print on your skirt back, which is really nice. This one is style maker fabrics 1 1 2 2 4 She also has these lemons, which are really fun Maybe not for a wedding, but you know for some kind of garden party or daytime event Even with a jean jacket. This would be very, you know, just regular old daytime wear even to the office Maybe 1 1 8 6 2 is your item number on that one again Has some beautiful stretch to it, but you can see that The backside is this is printed on, you know, it's not woven in like our jacquards are so You will be able to see this white on view d whenever you're walking So that's something to keep in mind For sure certainly the reversible jacquards that I showed you earlier would be perfect for view d because even If you saw the wrong side, it's still pretty and it's just the reverse of the front side So that's something to keep in mind This is one that This is the one that came in second place for me And this was like my runner-up that I almost got to make my version in I'm still not convinced that I'm not going to make A version in this. Um, I just love the navy background with the bright pop of the floral I just think that that is so pretty But they're ultimately the reason why I didn't choose it is because it felt like so many other dresses that I have And I really wanted this one to be special So I opted for to not get this one, but It may still end up in my stash Um, and then oh and the item number on that is 1 1 8 7 1 From style maker fabrics. This one came from joanne or I'm not sorry. Not joanne. Um fabric.com And I just loved the beautiful blush pink background In a lot of the inspiration photos and images that I found This pretty blush pink color being as it was last year's pan tone color of the year There's just a lot of ready to wear in this color And so I thought it would be neat to draw some inspiration from that But it has like these very large cranes on it. So it's kind of got like a bit of an asian vibe going um Which may be your thing. Who knows? Um, but I just thought this one was really really beautiful again stretch satin And all of these are gonna give you the item number Here's the information on that if you want to grab a screenshot go ahead Otherwise, it'll be linked in the description box But all of these I'm not sure how much it's gonna. Yeah Have a subtle little shine to it, which is really nice for you know when you're outdoors Um, and you're doing an event outside, you know, the sun is definitely going to pick up on all of that sheen Which is really really beautiful. This one has a lot less than the pink does Um, this one also isn't super shiny, but you can still see the light catching it ever so slightly Um, maybe the darker colors it just blends in more But there is some some sheen there and if you remember me talking about my um that navy and cream striped dress that I made That I loved working with so much that was Cotton stretch satin. So this is going to be very beginner friendly fabrics to sew with it's going to be easy to press You know easy to make these, you know gorgeous pleats and everything is going to hold its shape really well for like the bodice like this So I just thought that satin was a really good option as well um, another one that the pattern Um suggests is crepe black satin and crepe back satin is exactly what it sounds like It is two fabrics kind of molded together One is satin and one is crepe So you can see here that there are kind of two different shades This is our 2018 pan tone color of the year. That's kind of royal Violet and I just thought that would be Stunning for a royal wedding. I just think that you will stand out so much The thing about this color is a lot of people are kind of like, oh, I don't know. It's like great Like I'm going to look like you know baruchas all from from charlie and the chocolate factory But I think it looks gorgeous on so many skin tones. So that's why I swatched this one and again similar to our Um the mask and the first brocade. I show you it's reversible So you could have a little bit of fun doing Maybe the bodice and the skirt in the crepe and then the um the midriff and the um belt In the satin I think that that would be really nice or you could do the entire bodice In the satin and the skirt and the crepe or vice versa. You know, you could have a lot of fun You know mixing things up With a different using both sides of this and again like I pointed out before with view d um the the Wrong side of the fabric is going to show So it will be nice to have you know one of the other still be beautiful whenever you're walking or the wind catches you or whatever It'll still look really really nice so something that the um pattern envelope did not suggest but I thought was a really good option Actually is ponti knit So ponti knit is a knit. Um, but it's a very structured and stable knit I mean this is just about as stretchy as that um Stretch satin is so if you want something really really comfortable to wear um, I would highly recommend a ponti knit and you know similar to the um The stretch satin's it comes in a variety of colors and tons and tons of prints So you would be able to find something for whatever it is that you are making this garment for whether It's a wedding or you know any other kind of event that you have you'd be able to find a print or a solid color That would work really well and unlike the stretch satin. This looks good on both sides So you'll remember our satin is printed on one side and not the other So this side, you know, you really want really would not want to show that Um, but on a ponti, you know, even if it's printed on this side This side of it is still going to be woven in that solid color So it would still look okay if you had to see the wrong side of it And then I also grabbed just a swatch of lace that I had so that you could see what it would look like if you layered Some lace on top of this and I mean red and black is like Pretty quintessential romance love. I even get like a kind of a south american vibe going with it um But I just think that, you know, those look really good together. It's a floral lace I can't remember where I got it. I just have a a small piece of it But um, if you layer these on top of each other, you get some dimension and you just it really can transform The fabric so you could do um like I've suggested before the bodice just like view b the bodice Um in the layered part the sleeves would be just in the lace and the skirt would be just in the ponti knit So that is something that um, I think would be gorgeous for an event You don't have to use ponti to make view b obviously you can use any solid um with the lace um over the lace overlay over top of a solid but um But here is, you know, a gorgeous red and black So I also wanted to show you what I am using And it is this Oh my gosh, right? So it's a little bit outside of my comfort zone, but I just fell in love with the red and the white It just felt so fresh to me. Um, this is a cotton satin. It's from style maker fabrics I will leave a link in the description box because I don't have the item number on me right now Um, but um, it's already been washed up. It's ready to go ready to be cut and I really just Love it. You can see with my hand how big these poppies are And I just think that this is going to make a beautiful yet romantic Um, yet totally wearable dress, um, I have some plans obviously to dress it up And then I have plans to dress it down and for me and my lifestyle That's what's most important is that this isn't just relegated for one event for me That it is, you know wearable in many different situations in my life So This is what I have for our fabric inspiration for new look 6526 So hopefully with all of this that I've pulled today, you can get some Idea of kind of what direction do you want to go in? Do you want to go in the super fancy direction? Like with the jacquards or the crate back satin or do you want to go in sort of a casual direction? Or you can even go in this totally wearable Ponty direction, which I think um is just really really really versatile So here are all of my fabric recommendations Coming up next. We are going to have some Inspiration photos for you that I found On the internet so you can see kind of what these look like whenever they're made up in a dress That's similar in style to the one that we will be making together So stay tuned for that So first up is our jacquard inspiration. Here are four images that I found Just so you know, all of these inspiration images are posted on my pinterest page Under the board For the royal wedding so along so you can find them all there if you want some more information about them But I included the one on the far left because it felt like the most like our Style lines of the dress that we would be making And I loved how they did the ribbon in a contrasting fabric. I thought that that looked really really nice Um, the second one reminded me a lot of that damask that I showed you in the fabric portion of this video So you can get an idea of you know, just how special and unique damask looks whenever it's sewn up into a fit and flare dress The third image here, I chose because I think Um instinctively I would have thought to not do the sleeved version of the pattern Out of jacquard, but after seeing this one I think that it can be made in a really cute and modern way mostly by Raising the hemline of the skirt So I feel like if you're going to do a longer sleeve in the jacquard Then you need to have a shorter skirt to kind of balance out the absence of skin showing Um, you can see here too that this one is made into a crew neck. So it's not even a v-neck I'm not so sure that's as much of an issue as just you know making sure to make it in a mini skirt length and I just think that that's adorable and I wouldn't have thought Um originally so I wanted to throw that one in there And then the fourth one looks almost exactly like That brocade that I showed you the version that had the black and red one and then the Gray and black one. It looks just like that. I would be surprised if they weren't the same fabric, right? Um So I just thought that that one looks really elegant and beautiful as well I love the gray and black Version in a dress more so than I did in just the swatch So I wanted to include that here so you could see what that looked like sewn up But in general the things that you're looking for If you're going to sew a jacquard dress is really the the shine of it The crispness of it and then the fullness that you're going to get in your skirt I don't think any of our other fabrics are going to provide as much structure and fullness as the jacquards will So if that's what you're looking for then go find a a jacquard that you love Okay, next up we have our cotton sateen inspiration And I pulled these four pictures because I just wanted to show how completely versatile cotton sateen prints And solids were I wanted to show just how you could use the pattern Of the fabric um to your favor and even create your own pattern So that's what I that's why I chose the first one because those white stripes are very easy to Hack into your skirt pattern pieces to kind of create your own Striped pattern and sateen is really great to use for this because it is so easy to sew with and so easy to press You're going to get beautiful crisp seam lines, which make that really beautiful The second one I wanted to show because a that fabric is gorgeous But also because you can see in the skirt How they decided to inset a piece of mesh and that is very very on trend right now Um, and so I wanted to show you how you could make it work for a wedding type event as well Where it's not too much, but just enough um and provides a little bit more visual interest for an all over printed dress uh, the third one I chose because They were able to get a bit of a fuller skirt in this one And I would not be surprised to find out that they had some kind of crinoline Underneath to kind of Help the dress billow out a little bit But you can see from the other versions just how the sateen likes to lay closer to the body than the Jack card does that we saw in the previous collage And then the third, I mean, I'm sorry the fourth picture there is a Border print and I like how instead of how the pattern envelope did it from him To neckline. I thought this was nice to put all of the visual interest into your waistline Especially if you have an hourglass figure, this is going to be a really beautiful figure Figure flattering look for you. So here are four inspiration pictures using cotton sateen Here is our paunty inspiration You can tell from the four photos here just how Comfortable and casual paunty fabrics really are Um, I was surprised to see that I couldn't find a ton of printed panties because I feel like when we go fabric shopping They're kind of a dime a dozen But in ready to wear not so much, but I did love the sleeved versions One and three and then also the fourth one So I felt like that was a good use of view I guess be of the pattern Where you could use the sleeve that make it look really nice the floral version in In the first picture there is is really beautiful and really perfect for a wedding You could dress it up with some gold accents and you would be ready to go But still very very comfortable The second first the second picture there I chose because I liked how they added the little bow embellishment To the neckline and the collar detail bows are like all the rage right now You're seeing it on all the runways and even in the Oscars that were on on sunday Um, you just see bows everywhere. So I thought that was a really cute detail And then I chose the very last picture the fourth one because it just was so Versatile I mean that's just the perfect little black dress Some people say black dresses are bad luck to wear to a wedding. So maybe you want to keep that in mind I've never heard that before but then again, I don't attend a lot of fancy weddings So maybe that's why but I just love a simple chic little black dress and think everyone Deserves to have that in their wardrobe And here are our gorgeous lace inspiration dresses, aren't they all just so Beautiful and perfect for a royal wedding. Um, I had a hard time again finding Dresses inspiration dresses where only the bodice was done in lace Um, the only one that I could find that was even close is the third image here And it looks like the bodice is done out of a stretch bonded lace where the lace is already adhered to a fabric Rather than an overlay like our pattern is is instructed So you're gonna have to kind of use your imagination a little bit here But I loved the one on the left the very first picture because if you look really closely you can tell That the underlining of the dress is actually navy And then the lace overlay is this beautiful burgundy. Again, the sleeves are left completely Bare underneath with no underlining, which is exactly how our pattern is constructed And it's thought that was a really neat fun Kind of youthful modern way to do lace with the contrasting fabrics That is very inspirational to me and I will have that in the back of my mind for a long time. I think Um, the second picture there I chose because they shortened the sleeve and I feel like that adds another Design element that you know, you might make it look a little bit younger than with the the full sleeve And I also love how they did the satin ribbon for the belts or for the sash instead of the Self fabric like our pattern recommends. So I wanted to show that to you as an option The third one I mentioned kind of before it's going to get that's more of what our pattern is going to look like When you do the lace only in the bodice the midriff and the sleeve and then do the skirt in a separate fabric For what it's worth that skirt fabric and bow belts there are made from shantung So if you're wondering what shantung looks like that's it. It's kind of like similar to a Dupione or something like that It's solid and kind of shiny with the sheen to it But kind of drapey earth and some of our drake cards that we've seen earlier And then the fourth picture I thought was really beautiful again They're doing that inset on the skirt With the mesh and I liked the solid Belts done on the outside of the lace that I'm sure that that's the same fabric as the underlining there You're not going to get the same neckline design with our pattern But you can achieve a very similar look to this one and that color is just Gorgeous. I love a baby blue for a wedding or for any springtime event And here we are at our last collage of inspiration pictures I couldn't think of a more creative name So I'm just calling this collection other But it's really the mixed bag of everything else that I really loved that I thought would suit our pattern really well But didn't belong in any of the other categories. And I think that's because this one The dresses here are really all about the embellishments in a way and also tweaking small little details to create a standout garment So we have the first picture there where they use the lace trim along the center front neckline a little bit of the Midriff and also on the hem and I just thought I mean yes That one's a lot more low cut than our dress is going to be But I still think that if you did lace trim on our version That you would still be able to achieve a very Stunning look just like this dress here. I love the classic black and white But if you are going to make this dress for a wedding you you would definitely want to stay away from white But you could come up with a combination of a ton of other colors Even a black dress with white trim would be would be better But I just loved the simple addition of that lace trim and how that elevated the look of that dress so much I also want to say based on how those pleats are done that that's a pontine knit the Or a scuba knit more precisely So if you're into that kind of look then check out scuba nits I chose the second one because it's color blocked and also it was one of the few dresses I could find that had that high low hem of view d in our new look pattern So I love the idea of doing the bodice and midriff and one color and then the skirt and another bold Color and how they match the shoe to the skirt. I just thought the whole thing was very very elegant So if you're going for something a little bit more black tie a less Like daytime garden type wedding. I think this would be a stunning stunning look The third picture I threw in because this is also a border print similar to the cover of our a pattern envelope as well as the Print that I showed you a couple of slides ago But this is done in a way where the bodice has the border And then the skirt has the border and then the middle of your body is the solid So I just wanted to show you another option there This is also a unique border print because That is some kind of satiny probably polyester fabric And then the border print is actually like a bonded velvet or something um, so it is much more elegant and less um novelty print like Then the other versions that you have seen this one feels like an elevated elegant border print Which you don't see very often And then the fourth option you're probably thinking what the heck lindsay that's just like a little black dress But if you look closely you can see that they scalloped the hem of the skirt Again, a very very simple detail an easy hack to do for your dress But adds a very sweet sweet detail That will elevate your look and help you stand out at whatever event you're going to Well, there you have it Those are the fabrics that I love for this pattern as well as some really great ready to wear inspiration that I was able to find So hopefully through seeing both of those you are able to narrow down possibly Exactly what kind of dress and the the end result that you want to go for for your particular event So I'm going to be posting videos for the sew along every single wednesday noon eastern standard time So join me back here next wednesday where we're going to go over making a muslin and assessing fit So that your pattern is perfect before you ever even cut into your fashion fabric So until next wednesday. 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