 Hey you guys, it's Lindsay here and today I am sort of doing something new. It's a video that I've never done before. Abby and I didn't used to do them but I had such a successful January that I thought I would share all the things that I made in January. Some of these things I've already done videos on so I'll be playing some of that footage throughout this video to show you what it looks like on other ones that I haven't filmed or I don't plan on filming. I'm going to throw on my mannequin and you can see what they look like there but I thought it'd be a fun way to kind of recap the month and show you all the things that I have been making. So the first thing is the top that I'm wearing and you can't see because the the shot is so tight but it's got the amazing sleeves that I am just so in love with and this is McColl's 7542. It has one, two, three, four other versions and honestly I want to make all of the other versions. They're all so cute. I don't know if I'm brave enough for B which has these very dramatic sleeves but I think it could be a lot of fun in the right fabric and if I'm going to the right place like I probably couldn't eat dinner in those because your sleeve would just be in your food the whole time but this top also can easily easily easily become a dress or a peplum top so don't feel like it's just going to be a top. I might make one of these into like a sheath dress. I can see myself combining the tunic bible tunic dress with these sleeves that would be a lot of fun but anyways we're not talking about plans we're talking about what I actually made so this fabric is I think I don't I'm so bad about writing down the fabrics that I get at Joann's. I got to get better at at least taking a picture of the end of the bolt but I think it's like a poly lycra it does have some stretch to it but this was in their clearance section so I got it for like 250 a yard and made just like something that I can wear to work with just black pants and some ballet flats super simple quick outfit that has like some pizzazz to it because I love those sleeves so so so much. The next project you guys have all seen by now it looks like I've got makeup on it darn it is the toaster sweater by sewhouse seven in cable knit from cali fabrics so yeah I sewed up this project early early this month it was the sew my style project for january so I got a head start on it I'd gotten this fabric from cali fabrics probably in december it's sold out by now you cannot get it anymore but it's a nautica cable knit and it's backed with like a cotton so it's very very stable um so yeah I love this I've worn it um a couple times obviously because the makeup got on it um and yeah it's it's been really great I haven't got a ton of compliments on it but I think that's because it sort of just looks so ready to wear that people don't assume that I made it you know what I mean like it just looks like some look so much like something you would buy in the store that they that no one really says anything about it I will say the downside to the toaster sweater and a knit like this is that when it rolls over your neck just the friction of it rubbing against your neck there is causing it to pill a little bit and like I said when I because I put my makeup down this far on my neck I have to remember when I wear this to not do that that's why I've gotten makeup on it um but other than that it's incredibly wearable and I really love it it's very very warm which I haven't needed a ton of lately because we just haven't had any cold weather but for those couple of days that we have it's been really nice um this one I've just worn with jeans I might have worn it with like some navy there's like a it's like a navy print um pant that like ankle pant that I got from and tailor um next up is my blank slate patterns project um it is the tulip top basically literally 100 stolen um from sobon diversion except mine has short sleeves so it was the theme for blank slate was recycle so um I took an old top that I didn't like um it was one that I had made and just wasn't very flattering and I turned it into this um with so I used that top and then I also used some scrap fabric I had about half a yard maybe a yard of fabric left over um this fabric came from Joanne's originally it was maybe fall of 2015 I doubt they have it anymore I feel like a lot of people went out and bought this though whenever it did come out um but yeah this is a fun project I got to use um all three of my sewing machines I got to use my regular sewing machine my serger and my cover stitch um so I always love getting to use the cover stitch I got a lot of good practice on it um and yeah this top comes together super super quickly and easily um I want to make another version um you can get the tulip to go in the front or in the back and then there's also like many many sleeve versions so I could make another top and it totally wouldn't look like this one at all so yeah loved making this project for blank slate um the next project comes from so art gallery fabrics was super super kind and they sent me um a couple of fabrics one is the voile that I've been talking about um lately actually I have it right here this voile here um that is the the name is escaping me oh but um and the designer is Katrina Rochella voile bird songs moon from art gallery so they sent me that I'm gonna make um a kimono top we've talked about that before but they also sent me some of so carolines new fabric and at first when I got it I was like what the heck am I gonna do with neon flowers like I don't know this just it was like I didn't know about wearing this out in public I didn't know about making it into a garment even I was trying to think like what I could even turn this knit into like okay I can make it a skirt but would I ever really wear a neon floral skirt I'm not sure it's no it's not something I would have picked up for myself but when I came across um M 7517 in the new um McCall spring catalog um I was like okay I can make that into some really cute pajamas so I actually made a pajama romper and some of you out there might think that's a little bit weird um to sleep in a romper but I'm telling you it is so comfortable I mean it is a little weird getting up in the middle of the night to have to pee and you're basically completely undressing um to go to the bathroom it was a little bit cold I remember but other than that it was super super comfortable I lived in this for a whole day and a whole night um and just really loved it I even ran and I had to go to the pharmacy which is like a drive through so I just put a coat on over this and wore this to the pharmacy drive through I didn't actually get out of the car but um but yeah it was great to just like throw a coat on and go out in it it was fine um because you're all covered up but yeah it's just really comfortable it's really cute the pattern was really easy to put together it's just basically like a knit top with like binding and you have your sleeves and then you have your sleeve um um cuff and then you attach the top to the shorts and the shorts have a cute little pocket in the back which is impractical for sleeping but it's just a cute design and then the front of the shorts also have pockets so this isn't a pajama pattern it's like just a regular kind of athleisure type of pattern but I made it into pajamas so this isn't something you'll see a video on simply because I'm not going to do a video on my pajamas I don't even know like I'm not going to go outside to film that so um I thought I would talk about it here so here you go love this I'll get on the mannequin so you all can see too and then the last one is the stash builder box pajama set that I made which I am obsessed with um it's these adorable shorts with the ruffle so I used all three fabrics um I used one for the bodice one for the shorts and then another one for all the different like accents so the bindings um there's a little pocket on the front and then the ruffle hem on the short and also of course the sleep mask because you can't have pajamas set without a matching sleep mask um this is pattern in six eight four eight and yeah this is super cute and comfortable I will say though the top is too big um I got the large or pattern size for the shorts and I should have gotten the smaller pattern she's bought both patterns the smaller and the larger and made a medium top instead of a large top but I was thinking that I could you know alter it and make it work but um the arm size like gigantic I mean it's not horrible it's just especially for bed it's no big deal but if I do make it again I think that I'll spring for the two dollar macaw sale at joann's and get the medium size as well so yeah so those are my projects from january like I said it was a very successful month and I had a ton of fun making all these things I had a location so I actually had a week off where I could do nothing but sew and cut out things and all of that so um that's how it's able to get so much done but I want to know what you've been sewing this month so leave a comment um to let me know I don't know if you blog or vlog but um leave a comment with a link to that or um tag me in like your on your facebook picture um or you know leave a picture on the inside the him facebook page or tag me on instagram show me what you've been making I would love to see like maybe your favorite project that you've made from this month that would be super cool so yeah thanks so much for watching and I will see you guys very soon bye