 Hey y'all welcome back to Inside the Hymn. Catherine Hepburn said, if you obey all the rules then you miss all the fun and in sewing there's no shortage of rules, but as creative people our minds don't always want to listen. So we came up with a fun game to test how obedient we are to the sewing must do's. This is always sometimes never. I'm going to give Addie and Amber a well-known sewing rule and they're going to say if they always do it, only do it sometimes or never do it, ready? So I have some cards here for you guys, some for you, some for you, and some for me and they just say always sometimes never. So I wrote down some sewing must do's and y'all are going to answer honestly. I feel like I already know the answers for most of you guys though, but anyway, okay. So the first one is pre-wash your fabrics. Sometimes if I know the brand sometimes I know I don't have to pre-wash it, also depending on the type. Well then I guess technically I'm sometimes too. I know I've sewn with certain cottons that just don't shrink, so sometimes I'm lazy. But if I don't know, or it's in it, then it's always. I learned my lesson the hard way, so I'm in always because I had a shirt shrunk up and I can't wear it anymore. And you're so talkative because that's so funny. The next one is trace your pattern pieces. Sometimes, yeah. I always do mine because I don't know, I guess I started getting the PDF patterns and they are so bulky and I don't have a lot of space here, so I would trace them just to kind of save and put them in like a little binder easier that way and everything, so yeah. I'm in always. Alright, transfer pattern markings. Abby, Amber, all of us, you would be in always. It depends on what I'm sewing. Sometimes if it's just a long straight seam and they have notches, I kind of feel lazy. Really? That's so surprising. There are patterns like the jacket I'm working on right now. I had to go back and make sure that I had all the notches perfect because when you get to the collar, it is really cool. Yeah, those collars, you're right, that's a big point. And then sometimes I'll transfer the markings and then I don't transfer them to my item that I'm going to sew. I'll put the markings down and then I interface over top of it. Yes, I hate that. I'm going to put the markings back down. I hate that. I do that all the time too. It doesn't work. What about pressing your seams? Yes, of course. And I think that's mostly just because it makes a better looking garment. It makes it look so much more professional. I feel like sometimes I'm even like, I don't know, and then I press it and I'm like, I don't know. This is nice. I'm feeling this. Okay. How about use a pressing cloth? It depends on the fabric. I feel like if we're online with what Amber says, then we're doing the right thing. You don't want to mess with something because that's not good. Yeah, it's true. It's true. Yeah, air on the side of caution, I guess. What about, this is a really good one that clip your thread tails. I have all the intention to think every single one. I don't want to say always, but I think at the end I go up and clean everything up. I tried to even hung the little thread snips on the side of my machine, so they're right there easy and even still. I might say directly in front of the machine, even when I'm sewing it, it still doesn't happen. All right. What about just even pinning? Do you always pin every... Now that I've been sewing for a long time, I'm not pinning much at all. Oh, so you're rarely... I've even rarely pinning now. Wow. But still sometimes. Yeah, no. I kind of feel like I sometimes but lean toward always. Like I'm almost always. I think it depends on what I'm sewing. Yeah. If it's a sew... For sure. Lots of sew pin. Yeah. Cool. Well, oh, this is the answer to this one. Sew over your pins. Try not to. It happens. What? I want to say I've done it maybe once or twice, but I'm really careful. Like I always take them out. Or like I use those clips. Yeah, those have to go. I just, I really don't want to hurt my machine. Well, I still sometimes do it, and that's even after I broke pin and it flew up my face. I'm sewing over it. It happens when you're just sewing with a silk. I just leave them in. Yeah. I leave them in always. But then again, I have the same machine I started on. It was like $100, so maybe that's why. It's because I don't feel like there's a... I'm going to like mess myself up and jinx myself, but I don't feel like there's like a lot of value attached to my machine anymore, so... Value to your face. Yeah. That's true. Which brings me to my next one, which is surging with pins. Because if you all remember, I had an incident where the knife broke and flew at me. So now that's a never. Yeah, I learned from your mistake. Yeah, yeah. That's why I always use those clips. Yeah. And full disclosure though, that pin was left in there in accident, and it was in the crotch seam. And so I didn't even know it was theirs. I wasn't totally being bad. But you know how some people will wind them up parallel to this raw edge, and over like an edge? I kind of sort of maybe started to do that. I know, I know. All right. What about rip out every single mistake and do it again? 10 times. 10 times is the longest mistake. That surprises me about it. You know, I've gotten relaxed on it. Yeah. Oh, that's good. But I bet if it's top stitching, you're whipping that out. Yeah, if it's contrasting. It depends on how noticeable the mistake is and it's going to bug me in the future. Oh, yeah. Do you have older projects that you notice something? Actually, no. I think I'm more critical while I'm working on it, and then you forget all of those little things that you've never noticed. And nobody else knows, yeah. What about when the pattern calls for it, doing the hand stitching? That's not. I'm in between sometimes and always. I'm never. No. I always find another way. I hate hand stitching. I don't know. The only place I really hand so much is at hem, which I will do because it looks so gutting as much anymore. I think I try to practice a little bit more so that it's more even stitches because I think before I was biting it just because I know my stitching like that. Yeah. That's what it's definitely what I'm doing. I even went and bought the blind stitch foot and alt, and that makes it look worse. No, that doesn't look good either. I just have all top stitched hens, I guess. Okay, last one. Follow the pattern directions exactly from the beginning to the end. That would be never that easy. I know. Sometimes. There's always some sort of deviation. Yeah. Maybe minor. Because when you feel like you know like little tricks. Yeah. Some of them I will follow to a tee, especially if it's something I've never sewn before. I've never sewn a jacket like that so I follow that to a tee. I'm glad I did because she had some things in there that I wouldn't have thought to do, so that was helpful. But yeah, especially because I've had enough already made, too, that I'm just like, yeah, I don't need this. Yeah, sometimes if I'm sewing a new knit top and it's just a basic knit top, I don't need the directions at all except to find out seam allowance and I just, yeah, do my own way. Well, that's it for our always sometimes never game. Leave in the comments your always sometimes or never. I think any of these were really glaring for you. Leave them in the comments. We would love to hear what you guys have to say. And don't forget to subscribe to our channel so you never miss an upload. And we are also on Facebook. We're on Twitter. And we're on Instagram and Pinterest. So if you want to just completely download all of us, go follow us everywhere. Otherwise, we'll be back next week with another video. Bye.