 Hi everybody, welcome back to Inside the Hymn. Temperatures are on the up and up down here in Charleston, which means summer is here. Memorial Day was just a few days ago, which is the official start of summer. So we thought we would share with you guys some of our go-to summer sewing patterns. And we actually have 10 of them collectively, five each. So let's get started. Alright, you want to go first? You go. Okay, so I am starting with my, this is my all-time paper pattern. It doesn't matter if it's really summer or anything, this is the one I've made the most of and I just love it. I still love it. It is the Soholich Salt Spring. I think I've made three or four of these now. It has blasting in the front, tie, spaghetti straps that I just love. Also makes it nice because it's easy to adjust. You can just tie it tighter. You can make it knee length or maxi length. I like the maxi length the best. Couldn't you also make it a shirt? Yes, so I, this is my next of my sewing list. I will probably make another dress, but I really want to make a tank out of it. I saw on their blog that they did a bit of a hack where they added like a ruffle to the bottom. So I'm going to do that. And I've got a couple other things in my mind that have pinned on Pinterest that I'm going to try to change the pattern up and make some tank tops for that too. So, love this pattern. Yep, that's a good one. My first one is actually what I'm wearing today. It is McCall's 7118. I do have some pictures of this on our Instagram and Twitter at inside of him if you're not following us already. But basically it just is a pretty basic, I don't know, like swing dress or just kind of like a loose fitting dress, but the back is super cute. This one has like double crisscross strips. Let me try and show you here. You can see those, which is really cute. And then there's also another version that has like a really long extended keyhole back. It goes all the way from the top of your neck down to like just past your bra lines and you do need kind of like a fancy bra to wear with it. But it's just so nice and loose fitting and it just to me, if you pick a beautiful floral fabric like this one, it just really screams summertime. So this is my first one, McCall's 7118. And I have that pattern too, so I'll definitely be sewing it up now that I see yours. I love it. Yeah, it's only like three or four pieces pattern pieces. It was super easy. Yeah, very good. All right, so my next is a shorts pattern. This is the Colette Iris. This is one of the first patterns I ever sewed up. Maybe the second. Yeah, it comes together really nicely. Shorts might seem a little intimidating, but this sews up just like like a skirt really. I mean, it's just this really no different. It's got an invisible zipper on the side, so you don't have to worry about a fly, fly-facing. That can get a little tricky. And I also feel like the side zipper helps with shaping, too. It helps not have that gape in the back for whatever reason. Yeah, there are these slip pockets in the front. I put these pockets in just for the detail, but they're not very functional. If you put yourself under the front, you have this like big massive thing on your thigh, which isn't very cute. But other than that, I really, really like these shorts. They're like, you can make these in about three hours, so it's kind of easy to sew. Yeah, if you've never made shorts before, Colette is really good at their instructions and talking through things for the first time. So if you're nervous about how to like make a crotch, Colette's a good one to start with for sure. Yeah, and these take like no fabric at all. If you have 60 inch wide fabric, it's a yard. So really, really nice. I've made them out of a heavy linen before. I like this one. Yeah, great shorts pattern. My next one is maybe not something you would consider initially, but it's a really cute tote bag. I think in the summertime, we are headed to the pool. We're headed to the park. We're headed to the beach. We're headed out and about. And having a really cute functional tote is just a lot of fun. And why not make your own? This one has a few different style lines. You can have a horizontal line. You can have some diagonal lines. And I just love that they used what's that stuff called. It's almost like mattress ticking. Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean? Like the underside of a mattress. If you think about that, it's really cute. And it looks like they have corduroy and maybe some different kinds of burlap, but they've gone in like kind of the neutral scheme, which is really durable. But you can also brighten this up and use really fun, big lily polizer tight prints too. And it would be really cute. I wonder if you could use oil cloth for it, make it like a pool bag that wouldn't get so wet. Yeah, I totally think like version C version A is a little bit boxier on the bottom. So I think I would kind of just sunk sink in the middle. But C is like a thinner one. And what is D? Is that an insert? Oh, like those things they sell, I've seen on TV. Yeah, it's like a room pocket. Yeah, it's like an organizer that goes inside. Take it out of one bag and put it in like a docket kind of. Yeah. And then look a little, is that as we all it? It's like a little envelope looking. Anyways, this is apparently much more versatile than even I realized. But so yeah, try and make a tote this summer. I think it would be a lot of fun. Yeah, thank you. Alright, so the next one I picked here is the Soaholic Cambie. And I picked this one in case you guys have any plans for summer weddings. I've made this myself. There's two versions. I've made the one that doesn't have the gathered skirt. The gathered skirt calls a lot for a lot of fabric. But I saw one, I don't remember whose blog I've seen this one. I'll try to look for it. But they, they just had one bridesmaid in their wedding and they made the dress out of like a silk dupione. And it just looked like the most gorgeous bridesmaid dress. So I think it's, even if you're not a bridesmaid or gonna be in the wedding, just the perfect kind of really pretty feminine dress to wear to a wedding. And their directions are really great. The dress comes out beautiful. It's got this little sweetheart and then the gathering of this. I mean, the bodice of this just screams romance. Yes, I definitely want to make another one. We have a friend that actually made the gathered skirt version. She out of polka dot and she worked with pearls. She just looked adorable. So I really want to make the one with the gathered skirt too. Yeah, super good. And it has just the vertical darts, no side darts. That's interesting. Mhm. Yeah, cool. Back to that one. Yeah. My next one is a knit pattern. knit easy, comfortable, nothing too constraining. This one is actually either a tank peplum, a tank dress or a little short sleeve peplum or short sleeve dress. So it's actually pretty versatile. You could make depending on what fabric you chose, you could make the short sleeve version and wear it, you know, several months out of the year here in Charleston or throw a cardigan over it. I have made this out of like a scuba knit, a really lightweight scuba knit and I really love it. I get a lot of compliments on it. Super, super easy to make. You just fold over the edges. There's barely any hemming to do. Um, I don't know, which is really easy to come together. So, um, yeah, a knit top or a knit dress for summertime. I think that those two things kind of go hand in hand. Yeah, I'll have to look at yours because I actually have that pattern. Oh, you do? Yeah, I've never sewn anything. Yeah, this one's cool because it has princess seams and also raglan sleeves, which you don't see that combination very often. So you could if you wanted to really emphasize that do some piping or even do like contrast fabric on the side. I'm not feeling like you could have a lot of fun just making this, but the wearability of it for the summertime is is pretty perfect. Oh, and it's um, Nicole's 6754. Alright, so this next one here, I actually have not sewn yet, but I was just on um, I get a lot of my inspiration for what I make from anthropology. So I go on there and I look at their stuff and I pin it out to my Pinterest board. I was just on there this morning and they had a top out of this version um, version a where it's um, just an overlay in the back and and it's open. Um, I think I'm going to eliminate the ties um, to make it more look like the one I saw on their website. Um, but I'm thinking about doing maybe a sheer overlay or I just love layers. I'm seeing it everywhere in stores right now. Layers over layers. So I'm going to give that one a try and see how it comes out. Um, it's also nice and cool. It's a take top for the summer. So you would do sheer on the underneath part? No. Oh, sheer on just this back. Okay. Um, and then the front, I don't know. I haven't even opened it to look at how it's constructed. Um, so I imagine it's a combination of this shortened and open more. Probably. I've got plenty of fabric to come up with something that looks like this. It could be even pretty with like some maybe some eyelet on that bottom layer. I think so. I think it could be really anything. Really anything. True. Okay. My next one is one six, six, three. And this is a shorts skirt, skirt with an overlay and also Palazzo pants, which are those like really easy, breezy, wide led pants. All in one pattern. I have made the skirt with the little overlay and I don't know. It's like a mini skirt underneath and the overlay on top. And when you walk around and the summer breeze comes through the skirt, I don't know, you just start to feel a little bit more fabulous than maybe you normally do. And I mean, Palazzo pants, it's basically pajamas in public, depending on which fabric you choose. If you get one that's nice and really silky, but still has some drape to it, like maybe a rayon chalet or even a crepe maybe would be good. Anyways, I don't know. I just love this as a separate, you know, with the multiple options and just really light and easy and just summertime. Looks like a quick so too. Yeah, it was actually the overlay though does have either one slit or two slits. And I remember that being a little bit tricky, but that was a few years ago. Well, and you also did that have a very sheer finicky kind of fabric. So, well, it's supposed to be a sheer overlay, but it's always harder to hem something. Yeah. Make it look good. And like I said, it was a couple of years ago. So, maybe my skills have gotten a little bit more advanced since then. I hope so. Okay. So, my last pattern here is McCall 7093. I'm actually wearing it right now. Really nice for, you know, if you not everybody loves wearing tank tops. I know my mom doesn't wear tank tops, but she still wants to feel cool in the summer. So, I like that it has a really short kind of sleeve. So, it doesn't cover up too much more than a tank top would, but I really like the piecing on this one. It's a raglan sleeve. Then the back actually wraps around to the front. So, I think it's just really fun to pick a different couple of fabrics and pair them together because if you mine, I chose the fabric that's on the front is on the back. So, then it wraps around to the side. So, it ties it all together. And it comes together really nicely. I really like this pattern. This, people wouldn't see this even from the pattern, but this, there's a seam from here to here that creates like a cap for the sleeve. Yeah. It's like a dart actually. That's to me that I've never seen that. Yeah. That's so genius. Yeah. I think it was like an open dart. I can't remember. I've made this last spring I think. Yeah. But yeah, it's like creates a little kind of sleeve. Yeah. It just seems more flattering than a regular because if you just did a regular raglan sleeve, this would be like all pokey out like this. Yeah. I just wouldn't be cute, but this actually makes it flattering to the arm, which I think for some women could be difficult. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be making another one of these. This is also this morning on anthropology. They had a top. It was a swing top. So, I'm going to try to swing it out and like slash and spread it and see if I can recreate the same kind of effect, but it had the same kind of seam that wrapped around to the front, but it was more of a swing top, which may even brazier for some or so. True. They try to do that. Is that your last one? That's my last one. This is my last one. So, I had to pick a romper because again, comfort, easy, breezy, light. Of course, you can make rompers out of a ton of different fabrics. I've seen them ready to wear and everything from really, really light like poly rayons all the way up to like chambray and things like that. So, depending on the fabric that you choose, I mean this could be a pretty versatile pattern too. This McCall 7366 has an option for shorts and an option for pants. So, again, depending on your fabric, depending on where you want to wear it, if it needs to be for work or whatever, you can make it out of suiting. If it's just for the weekends, you can make it out of really anything you want, but I just really love the shorts version with a little wrap. This is this little slit down to the belly buttons a little much, but you sure would be a little cooler in it. Yes, talk about easy breezy. Yeah, but there's a really cute wrap version and I don't know, wrap seems summery to me too for some reason, even a faux wrap. So, so yeah, but any romper, any romper for summer is going to be, is going to be great. Very cute. So, there you have it. Yep, those are our 10 go-to summer patterns. Obviously, we will link all of the patterns down below so you can find the ones that we mentioned in this video, but if you've never sewn any of these types of garments before, try them out. Wear them this summer and see how wearable they are and how many times you actually reach for them in your closet. I think that, you know, you would grab for them a lot more if you sewed for the season. Yeah, so, give them a try. We'd love to know what you're sewing up for the summer. Please leave them in the comments below if you've got any other great ideas that you think we need to hear about. 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