 Hi you guys welcome back to first impression Friday where I review an entire collection of sewing patterns whether it's a new release from a big four like today or an entire indie pattern designers collection. New look has released some new sewing patterns although you wouldn't know it because the homepage of this simplicity site doesn't even mention it so I'm not entirely sure what's what's up with that I'm gonna try not to overthink it like I tend to do there's not a ton of patterns as you can see only 10 so this is gonna be a quick one but I really really love new look patterns I think that they are my exact style they're not too young not too mature um so I hope it doesn't mean more than I'm making it out to mean in my head okay so the good thing about new look too is like when you go to your joe an store they're the ones on the back wall and they're always 399 always so you don't ever have to wait for a pattern sale they're just always ready to go which I really love and then also they're doing a buy to get one free sale which includes new look um so you could actually get like what would that be 33 off of one of these so that makes it really affordable as well okay enough of that we have new look mrs dress balloon sleeve mini dress has plunge neckline faux button tab with non-working buttons drop waist tiered skirts have two lengths and side seam pockets sleeveless maxi dress has bias take finish and arm holes back bodices have invisible zipper closure so let's take a look so this whole panel here is just basically like a placket with buttons sewn all the way through like they don't actually come undone so it's just like an adornment just like a little bit of a detail um it looks to have a little bit of gathers at the sleeve and then that also comes down into this side of the princess seam now is this all one this might be all one piece kind of like a giant dolman that could be kind of cool um so we have a princess seams we have a waistband we have princess seams through the top panel of the skirt and then this maxi version has two tiers on it long sleeve elastic at the wrist very boho yeah it is all one piece that's pretty cool and different i really like that here's the sleeveless version so in theory you could make a sleeve that is set in not grown on that's your invisible back zipper man they always look really long like why are they going down this low you can see where i mean okay you can see her underwear which we're gonna let that go um but like the zipper doesn't really need to go past you know right around here somewhere um they always have them so long but i guess this one might be sewn into this first tier of the skirt and that's kind of cool actually because then it makes it okay okay i'll give them a pass on that this time but you can see the facing here this fabric that they used must have a lot of rayon in it it's got to be some kind of blend or something like the draping is of is it of it is perfect for like the sleeve and the tears and stuff but it's obviously creating like some kind of wonkiness with the waistband maybe that needed to be well actually now that i'm looking at it it almost feels like i was going to say maybe if you interfaced it it would be different but it almost feels like this is too big i bet if we walked up to her and like yanked at the back of the waistband this would all pull up to be completely horizontal like this so it might just be a little bit big for her in the waist all right here's the pattern back but we're actually going to look at this instead this is the line art so yeah we caught all this pretty much already the faux buttons i don't mind they seem you know not weird um you could leave it off the buttons i guess but i don't know i kind of like it it gives it a little bit of something to balance out all of this and then here's your three tiers here's our sleeveless version again with the three tiers but as always you can leave some of these off if you would like yeah i like it okay so now is that the only line art oh well that kind of sucks okay so we have to look at it this way which is not ideal but okay here we are um so oh yeah the other thing about new look that i love is always all the sizes are all in one now that doesn't mean they have a ton of sizes they definitely don't but if you are in the middle here and you're normally having like split between a 14 and a 16 you're gonna love that because they're all in one it makes it really really easy to blend i think when i first started sewing i was in like a 12 16 situation and so the hips were always getting cut off or the bodice was um and so that's why i think i fell in love with new look to begin with these days though i'm a little bit more over here on the higher end of the of the spectrum but um okay so there is interfacing i'm assuming with just half a yard it's for the button placket um you might consider adding it to that waistband too and then you know double checking the measurements there but we do have finished garment measurements for the bust um it looks like about three two and a half three inches of ease in the bust and then they only give us the lower edge so i kind of wish we had a waist finished measurement because i think that would explain a lot as to why it was drooping so much on the model if there's too much ease there you know you have to have ease you have to you won't be able to sit down it'll be super uncomfortable like you have to have ease i get it um but maybe there's just a little too much then our suggested fabrics are shali charmous cotton long cotton blends crepe machine swiss dot it's an interesting choice double gauze and linen blends and wall um okay so a with the sleeve can only be made out of 60 inch fabrics but for b you could use the 45 inch one as well so important to call that out and then nine buttons oh you could even do the um cupboard buttons that's a cute idea um invisible zipper and then elastic for your little sleeve it's nice it looks comfy it's cute perfect for lots of different things that you could be doing in your life lots of different occasions okay so this is a mrs knit dress view a has crisscross straps bust darts and side seam pockets view b has front drape overlay both variations have back waist darts and side seam pockets i love the knit maxi and the spring and the summer they're just so super comfortable easy breezy to wear so this is the crisscross situation that's actually super nice and it would definitely shock people that i think that you made that at yourself yeah i don't know how hard that is to pull off but that looks like really cool now that does not look like this let's look at this again so this one they have pulled over her full bus but this one is a little bit up higher which i guess i that's the part that i thought was super cool about it i think if they were both over the boob i don't know it might i don't know i don't know what it would look like that i'm not that looks kind of strange but on her it looked really good then this is the other view it looks completely different i think this whole piece here is an overlay that's gonna be a lot of fabric um yeah okay i wish we could see both versions on a body this i'm having a hard time man i don't know this is gonna be one of those things where i'm gonna have to like see it made up this i can get behind i don't know what this would look like on made out of fabric i don't know i don't know have you guys ever seen anything like that and ready to wear i'm trying to think of like examples where like i'm trying to think even sheer or if you did like a lace would that be weird i don't know i have to yeah i'd have to see it i'd have to see it my creativity does not expand into what the what that pattern um requires okay so same sizes as before um dress b yeah dress a takes four yards of fabric that's kind of surprising but i guess because all of this is one you know there's no waist seam or anything that's really where most of your fabric is being eaten up and then for b even though it's shorter you have that overlay which makes it kind of a fabric hog so find some good knits um on sale or clearance at fabric.com or you know we just talked about in the mother's day gift guide fashion fabrics club has some super affordable great quality fabrics that you can buy four yards of and not break the bank all right so finished garment measurements we have negative ease negative half-inch ease love to see that the waist has positive five inches of ease and then the hip has 10 inches of ease so fit it through the bust and then loose everywhere else that's gotta be like the quintessential like plan for summer garments especially down here in the southeast where it's just like hot and muggy all the time okay fabrics like inner knock jersey ity bamboo knit um i personally don't love a polyester knit in the within the summer it's i'm not a fan so i'd be looking for a jersey blend maybe a jersey rayon maybe something like that and then you need bias tape as well i think for the arm size maybe but make sure you're getting stretch bias tape um sawmaker fabrics has a bunch of them or you can make it yourself all right so that's six seven one seven i wish i could visualize this better but alas i cannot all right now we've got a cute little set broad tops and wrapped skirts so separate set includes broad top and wrap skirt top has center back zipper oh already know i'm gonna hate that and princess seams with the variation for elastic back smocking thank you that's much better i'll explain why when we get to look at them skirt has waist tie sightseeing pockets and elastic waistband all right let's take a look at this so i'm imagine i'm assuming these are for woven fabrics so you've just got a basic little crop top with a beautiful really nice squared neckline like i am in love with that thin straps but it goes out wide to the shoulder um this one might be a little bit big for her in the upper bust but i also imagine this is fully lined um this is our skirt they used a gauze for it um there is elastic waist underneath this uh tie that's here i love this let's see there's the broad top she's wearing with the princess seams they you know you can nip and tuck princess seams really easily it's really easy to fit there's our skirt here's the back okay so this is why i hate crop tops with um or any top really with a center back zipper i am not super flexible i don't know many people who could zip this by themselves like this whole thing comes apart i think that a center back zipper on a top where the zipper doesn't extend like down to here the zipper needs to be in the front like you just that's how you have to get into it so i appreciate that they did offer a solution with the smocking in the back because then you just at that point pull it on and it becomes like super stretchy it becomes like you know a lot more comfortable also too because it does have a lot more ease of movement in there and then here's our elastic in the back you can see um how that looks nice big wide casing love that yeah and they're calling it easy i imagine it is so um okay so broad top yep little one-yard wonder um and then it is fully lined and there is also some interfacing here you can see the smocking here um broad top b same little one-yard wonder situation and then the skirt takes three yards of fabric also with interfacing finished garment measurements of the bust we have roughly two inches of ease that seems appropriate to me um you might want to size down though if you're doing the smocking i don't know if they're going to tell you that or not but um because the smocking like stretches out you could probably remove you know maybe an inch all around um and then what else was i going to say oh i wish we had a waist measurement for the skirt but i guess because it's elastic waist they're kind of just like what else all right batik chambray cotton blends double gauze gingham linen blends poplin yeah gingham are you kidding me like i love gingham anyways i love any kind of like big box plaid but this would be such a cute set in gingham love a poplin for this linen blend yeah all of these are great options great options and then you need separating zipper which hopefully none of you will actually do that option and then so the way that they teach you to do smocking is make a gajillion casings and then put in this quarter inch elastic through all of them just look up how to do actual real smocking with the elastic thread like it's not hard if you need a video on it let me know um i'm happy to make one there are a million but if you want one just from me then i'm happy to make one um and then for c you need one and a half inch elastic for that super nice waistband i love that i love a really thick elastic at a waistband okay cool that's a winner to me um next we have i think the skirt yep a little asymmetrical situation bias cut you guys do i have to keep telling you how amazing bias cuts skirts and dresses are handkerchief hem starts below the knee ends at mid cap and can be made in one or contrast fabrics shorter view has straight hem and falls above the knee tie belt can be self or contrast so bias cut meaning this is the green of the fabric it's going this way so this little thing is not going to grow out and get longer which would happen if it weren't bias cut um and you can do the the two tones which two tones are still having a moment um black and white is really having a moment i can see that in this or like crazy colors like purple and yellow you know like things you wouldn't normally put together um something like that would be fun strikes are obviously a great option anytime you're doing bias cut and then there it is in like two tone that's really pretty idea too um with like the nudes here's the shorter version still cut on the bias um but cut straight across and a little tie belt and it does look like they have actual belt carriers so i appreciate that styling here leaves a lot to be desired even her like somebody else commented recently but wait my mind is like racing there's a lot of thoughts at once um about how you can look at the models faces and tell if it's really like cute and in trend on trend and if they're like they would actually wear it um i'm getting a vibe from her that she's like what am i doing here but she looks like elizabeth olson don't you guys think that she could be one of the fourth olsons with olson sister for sure okay um here are our line drawings yeah nothing new or exceptional there um so this one actually starts at 10 and goes up to 22 so that's interesting so our waist goes from 25 to 37 hip goes from 34 to 46 lots of um fabric because it's cut on the bias for a for b because it's the contrast fabric it's been split up but it's still the same three almost four yards of fabric and then skirt c takes two yards but it's worth it you guys i promise promise um cotton's crepe linen silky types rayons yeah all of those lightweight drapey beautiful and then one invisible zipper to get in and out of it and if it has teardrop pockets you guys can use my tutorial to switch it out into pockets that are kind of like stabilized into the waistband and let me know if you have trouble finding that if you're interested in it i can link you to it oh look how cute this little top is well i love this i feel like i kind of sort of have a top like this and i made that dress out of the bed sheet out of it and didn't love the neckline remember i had to do the bra carriers and it was falling off and the area around here is like a little bit tight on my bicep so this could be a good like let's try again same style but you know different pattern square neck button front top has tucks on front yoke and self ruffles scoop neck sleeveless top has contrast yoke and optional purchase trim so okay so you actually have like a deep shoulder the one that i have now i want to say the sleeve where it's like this bubble sleeve like that's it there's no actual shoulder seam so this is what's going to help it stay on it's got this cute little ruffle detail all around this square neckline don't know how difficult that is to sew but man it really is cute big nice puppy sleeve then you have an elastic at the bicep as well button front with pin tucks through here and maybe a seam here which might be a little bit high on her i feel like is it supposed to be empire waist and then it comes down and it's actually quite long hit somewhere between the high hip which for her i think is around here and her low hip yeah is this supposed to be your under bust line that's one thing i would double check because on her it hit right across the fullest part of her bust which if you're full busted that's not the most attractive look oh there it is sleeveless and they added some lace trim to it yeah it looks pretty good all around i don't see any issues really with fit other than not seen being a little bit high so on your pattern piece they should have like bust line waistline you just want to make sure that all that lines up with your actual body okay so this is an eight to 18 so they actually reduced a size and only six sizes in this one um two yards for top a a little one yard wonder for b great use of scraps and then just oh wait you need another wait contrast front and back i didn't show that b had a contrast hold on hold on oh i see that's why i was like wait what um so yeah the top and bottom are different okay gotcha so it's actually not a one-yard wonder it is still two yards finished bust measurement still has that two and a half is that what that is yeah two and a half yard two and a half inches of ease which is perfectly fine for a woven top like this batiks calico chambray cotton blends cotton long gingham linen blends poplin shirnings ball yeah all of those great little kind of like um maybe lightweight but structured fabrics for sure six buttons elastic and then trim if you're doing b she's cute now we have this guy a little wrap front wrap top with optional lace trim and three quarter puff sleeves has hip length peplum gathered into waistline seam with self ties second option includes cap sleeves self ties in short peplum tops short peplum that stops at the high hip okay so gathered sleeves or cap sleeves hip length or high hip length right those are the differences okay so really fun use of trim if you find a trim that you absolutely love this would be a great option for that kind of gives you a shawl collar effect here's that big kind of puffy sleeve it ends in like a bound um hem right below your elbow peplum with like little gathers and it ties I don't love like the naturalness of it all but it could be really cute and like uh chambray I was just gonna say um especially if you got like a really cool like natural eyelet trim would be so pretty yeah there it is in like a really cute printed version and this is the shorter um uh link but the description said cap sleeves and this is still gathered so does I've always assumed cap sleeve meant the sleeve cap was um flat but maybe it just means the length that would be something new that I've learned today yeah cute easy to wear great to throw on with jeans of course for any kind of like pencil pant great transitional piece if you're going back into the office a lot of offices are more casual than they were before the pandemic great fit through here like really really nice fit through the bodice for sure a little bit of a facing here yeah see what I mean no look I don't know it just hits different than the other ones than the other um big four pattern companies and then so we're reaching the end here we have like these pictures little baby clothes a little like oh I don't even know what you call that age range girl not a toddler a girl dress and then this is like a bit of a toddler and a little bit older dress and then you have this top that maybe is unisex yeah um so his and hers relaxed fit button front shirt with collar and band features oversized pockets long sleeve with coughs and back yoke with pleat I don't know how many more classic button down shirts we could possibly like put on the market but here we are again this is like a spring version of a jacket they've used chambray I think this detail here with the pocket is the only thing that separates this from every other well I mean the oversizedness of it all on her on him it kind of looks about the same but on her you can really see it's a bit of a drop shoulder but everything else is the exact same the deep pockets do you know it's a vibe that did they what's with all the white is that piping you could make it in stiffer fabrics for sure and save it for the fall and do a flannel you know whatever that would be really cute too especially if you did the pockets on the bias that would be really fun pockets on the bias this little placket on the bias your under collar on the bias all that would be fun even maybe your cuffs on the bias yeah I mean it's a great shirt great great shirt if you need you know another one here you go but you could probably take another button down that you have in your closet already and just draft gigantic packets for it make it in a couple sizes too big and there you have an oversized button down all right so like I said not a ton of patterns I was going to see if they have a look book for this but I mean really genuinely I would buy any of these patterns I they just speak to me I they're all basics with a twist and that's just really really what I love I feel like they're dressed up they're dressed down I love a new look pattern so not many to choose from take advantage of the online sale or you can go into your joanne and they're always 399 there as well so let me know what you guys think in the comment section below if you missed last week's first impression Friday I have it linked here it's for any pattern company winter wear designs and it's a long one too so if you're looking to have a little buddy in your ear that'll be me click the bottom right hand corner of your screen to check that out but that's gonna do it for me today y'all thanks so much for watching and I will see you all very soon bye