 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. All right you guys, so last week I promised you a whole first impression Friday just on the new Rubik's collection from Papercut Patterns. If you aren't familiar with Papercut, I wanted to show you this little part of their website that kind of is there about section. So they are a New Zealand based pattern design house that celebrates the combination of women's individuality and eco-friendly fashion. And they focus on a freedom of expression and body, positive body image. They are dedicated to creating fashion with a consistent premium quality and unique signature style. So Papercut has been around for as long as I've been sewing and they always have really unique designs and something that really stands out from the rest of the indie world which I really love. I know that we've been talking a lot about indie patterns lately and I think our biggest complaint in the comments and sort of what I see as well is just how basic some of them can be basic but then also expensive which is really kind of odd. So you can see that their patterns are probably the most expensive that are out there, $30 just for the pattern. I think that that is for the actual paper pattern that's mailed to you. The PDFs will look at in a minute to see what their pricing is but they do have really beautifully designed paper patterns. They come in almost like a cardboard that disassembles so that it can hang. It like almost has a little hanger on it. It's kind of hard to explain but it is very thoughtful and the paper that it's all printed on and everything is very nice so I don't want to say that $30 is like totally reasonable. It's still crazy but at least you get a little bit more than maybe what you're used to especially with the Big Four patterns. Okay so next we have the Slacker jacket. Real quick before I forget let's go to the PDF version. So the PDF versions are 20 bucks so just to get something that you have to print at home is still only $20. For that $10 difference I don't know I might just get the paper one. Anyways okay so this is called the Stacker jacket. A jacket of all trades. This is your everyday utility button up in a cropped boxy fit with a choice of flapped inseam pockets or oversized patch pockets to carry all your essentials. The Stacker is fully lined and features a dropped shoulder and a classic collar. It's as versatile as a Swiss Army knife really. Okay mid to heavyweight cotton linens, corduroy's, wools, and blends. And here are our line drawings. It's interesting that it's fully lined. You would expect for kind of a utility jacket to not be lined so that's kind of nice. I really love this. What is that? Cheetah print with the pink that's really cute. Here are a bunch more pictures but I think that they weren't they rotating through them. Oh here we go. Wow that part that one looks very oversized. Almost too big. Cute from the back. Yeah so you can see it's got the drop shoulder and then it's really full through the bust but actually kind of semi-fitted through the hip which is an interesting proportion that they are building on. She is looks to be like smaller through the hip so hers looks a little bit baggier through the hip. It's just a straight cut so if your body is you know more curvy on the bottom then you know it's going to fill that out a little bit more. It doesn't look like there's a cuff on the sleeve so that's interesting. There's that really cute picture again. Alright back to the beginning. Alright well there you go. So here are the sizes. Let's go two inches. It goes from a 30 inch bust to a 46 and a half inch bust. The waist is pretty much negligible and the hip is 32 to 48 so you can tell that there's not a lot of ease in the hip at all. For reference I'd probably be like a four in the bust and like a seven that's one two three sizes different. So I think what happens is if you make if I were to make this straight size seven this is what I didn't up with and that looks just a little bit sad and frumpy kind of like her expression and look how long the sleeves are too. This is just way too big for her. So I would try and I don't know what I would try and do. This is whenever I get real frustrated. It happens in big four patterns too but yeah I don't know. I guess it being oversized in the bust already isn't going to help it look a lot more tailored on me. That's just not the look that this will be. Here's some finished garment measurements. Finished bust so you can see that the bust ease is like nine and a half inches and the waist ease is what would that be 15 inches? That doesn't seem right. Some of these girls do not have a 15. This is not a 15 inch waist ease or heme ease or hip ease whatever you call it. So yeah you might have to play around with this one a little bit but it is kind of cool. All right next up we have something called twist pants. Our take on the cigarette pant a classic with a twist quite literally. These slim fitting mid-rise tapered leg pants are a true wardrobe staple featuring a twisted side seam fly front inseam side pockets and flattering back darts. The twist pants will be your loyal companion for business meetings as well as everyday adventures. So you can see the seam that they're talking about here and this is a really good photo of it although it's in white so that's hard to see but there is this is the side seam so it goes from the slash pocket down to the center of your leg and then back toward the front of your ankle again that's the only seam that there is. So that's really cool and interesting white on white oh and now we have black like that's any better. Yeah I can't really see much of anything here. Okay here we go here's some gray ish ones so of course on a slim figure they look lovely um yeah I just don't know how I would even begin to alter these. I mean I guess you do a full seat adjustment like you normally would and then for everything else I'm not exactly sure do you just treat this as if it were yeah that might be difficult to grade between sizes. So here's our body measurements um are these the same as yeah they're the same as the last one I don't see how I guess I guess this is their standard size chart okay that makes sense. The finished garment measurements we have a waist here and a hip here so actually I would fall pretty close to the same so I might not have to grade this seems to be kind of curvilicious already which is great um and then here's the length and then here's the inseam interesting you know a lot of my fullness around the hip is in the backside though so I don't know if that would create a lot of bulk in the front and then kind of tightness in the back but they are recommending two percent stretch woven so that does help a lot in terms of comfort when you're wearing pants so there you go the twist pants all right next we have the nexus blouse the versatile long-sleeved blouse can be worn with its v-neck button up feature to the front or the back so it's like reversible uh choose between a shirt tail hemline or a cropped straight hem and select your favorite sleeve option a wide area shape or a cuffed and gathered sleeve with a button fastening whichever you whichever your preferred style the nexus will be your go-to blouse for any occasion so yeah the little like reversible flip around blouse that's kind of cool I love this sleeve here it is at uh tied and cropped the sleeve length is a little bit odd and then there it is twisted around again I'm not sure about what I think about that cute in the back I guess all right there's the full cuffed sleeve which actually I really do like that and then there it is turned around again uh gosh I don't know do we have to turn everything around like can we not just like wear the front of the shirt facing the front like I think that I like all the versions of it where the buttons are in the front and I don't really like any of the versions where the buttons are in the back so I guess if I made this I would just wear it like a regular shirt where buttons in the front but I mean I guess good to know that I could flip it around if I wanted and it allows you to do that because the shoulders drop there's not you know an inset sleeve really so your shoulder you know and your your back shoulder and all of that that normally needs a lot more fabric isn't really coming into play with this design so all right so finished garment measurements here they give us the length and the sleeve length so nothing for the bust or the hip which I mean this again on her looks very full and like lots of ease but when I saw it on the brunette this is not a lot of ease and this is a problem that I have with ready-to-wear tops is that they are cut sort of straight with a longer shirt tail hem that just doesn't never fits over my bum so I would have to look into that you know circumference to see if it would if it's wide enough all right but in general I think it's a really kind of cute design pretty simple and straightforward to sew I'm sure folded under hems you know a few buttons maybe elevate your skills with this little cuffed sleeve but other than that pretty straightforward stuff all right we have the array top or dress a statement dress or top that offers many variations to suit your personal style for the sleeves you can choose between a big bell sleeve with elasticated hem and a wide straight shape then make your dress with the straight cut body or add in the extra long wraparound ties to cinch in at your waist you have the same options for the top but you can also add an elasticized hem to turn your array into a cute jumper like top okay let's look at some of these here's the line drawings here's the elasticated sleeve again with the drop shoulder and then here it is with the belt and the bell sleeve and then there it is without the belt and here it is with the belt and they're recommending lightweight woven knits cotton silk linen or blends or even medium weight jersey knit fabrics so here's the dress this is actually the most flattering thing i've seen this model wear again with the sleeves they're like always just a couple of inches too short on her um so yeah a little on the basic side i mean the sleeves do elevate it a little bit but everything else is pretty much a beginner basic there's the top in all white here's a black version of the top this is kind of discerning why is it's pulling away from her neck even in the back it's pretty much standing straight up so that's interesting maybe the fabric was too thick um and then here it is in like a chambray really are we gonna get to see any of the dress without the belt no which is interesting um huh okay so there's that we don't get to see it styled without the belt i would want to see what kind of shape it was naturally how much of an a-line it had but they're not going to show us that so okay um all right so here's a bunch of finished garment measurements the hip measurement is what i wanted to see it's actually fairly generous in the hip so yeah well it's pretty generous all over actually um i mean seven inches of ease in the bust and six and a quarter inches in the hip on the lower end so it's a lot but also not i mean it's a lot for the bust but actually not that much for the hip it's a pretty slim fitting skirt all things considered especially given how the luminous the bust is so that's something to keep in mind all right that's the array top-end dress now we have the excess dress and skirt cute neckline all right our timeless ode to Audrey Hepburn features a vintage inspired straight neckline and waist ties that can be wrapped around a tie at the front or fasten at the back to form a plunging back that's cool you can choose between a figure hugging pencil skirt with front split and an equally classic flattering a-line silhouette with the option to make either the entire dress or just the skirt from this pattern you'll have plenty of outfits for your own breakfast at Tiffany's okay so here is just the skirt just the skirt excuse me not quite a line when you have a fuller hip um it's definitely pulling in a little bit here's the dress which is really cute let's see the back that's really fun i can't tell exactly how it's like a wrap a backwards wrap but i do love this squared off neckline with the little skinny strap i like that a lot oh here's an alternate way to tie the back instead of wrapping it around you can just tie it in the back and also this is the difference between the a-line skirt a-line skirt and slim skirt slim skirt so maybe that's the slim and not the a-line both slims nobody's wearing just the um a-line skirt so thoughts on this thoughts on this um i think it's very cool and interesting uh and thoughtful i i do like the concept of this uh i would obviously be an a-line skirt girl um yeah i think it could be really great i kind of dig it um lightweight to mid-weight woven fatter bricks linen cotton silk or blends okay and here's our finished garment measurements so yeah close fitting bust waist and hip really uh again i am between like four sizes so that's really annoying just because it's really hard it's really hard to grade between that many that many sizes so but it is cute so i think if you have more of a hourglass or uh boyish type shape straight figure um you'll have an easier time getting it to fit but i mean the wrap has got to give provide a little bit of wiggle room right yeah i think so cute though okay next sequence blouse and dress whether worn as a dreamy blouse or dress the sequence can be styled in multiple ways wrap it at the front for a timeless classic or wear the crossover at the back for a surprising silhouette the flutter shape adds some fun to your classic three-quarter sleeve and you can wrap your ties to the front back or side for an instant style update okay so this is a wrap dress with flutter sleeves okay wow so it's like a crop top this looks really short there's the dress we actually finally have some version of a set in sleeve although i feel like hers there is that her shoulder is too wide but still we are trying to have a real sleeve here so that's good and the flutter isn't really the flutter that i think that we all are thinking of this is pretty much like a bell just an elbow-length bell sleeve um they definitely had to tack it here you can even see where they did that right there um and wavy seam here i don't know i mean that's kind of pretty there aren't any darts or anything back there so that's all just built into the side seam yeah so that's this is whenever it gets tied to the back i mean that's a little bit better but still not feeling it and i can't tell if it's the fabric yeah here's a lighter weight one do we like this more it also seems longer now i don't know how that happened yeah i mean i don't know this is probably a fabric situation just like you know the linen or whatever it is they're using is just really lightweight and you know that's what it looks like whenever you do a little rolled hem you know on a lightweight gauzy linen type fabric that's fine um the style of it i think the sleeve is really throwing me off um and the the really long ties i'm not really understanding i don't not like it but i'm not spending thirty dollars on it you with me so we have that i'm guessing the size chart is pretty roomy all around yeah although we only get a bust and lengths so there's also that okay and then here are the pdfs so yeah those are six new patterns from paper cut pretty much right on par with what i expected from them like i said a little bit of like a funky take a little bit of a elevated design especially from some of the stuff that we've seen um from the indy pattern companies you know here lately especially the really really small ones um but i do think that if these kinds of styles are your style you're gonna get a really quality um pattern i just there's a lot of drop shoulder which i don't really love and then the two that had like actual sleeves or or sleeveless without the two that did not have a drop shoulder um just didn't really stand out enough for me but i'm dying to know what you guys think of these six patterns i'm curious to know what you think of spending thirty dollars on a pattern um and oh wait let's see okay well that makes it a little bit better my bad so it's actually nineteen dollars and fourteen cents and once you convert it my bad i didn't realize that it wasn't any u.s dollars so still twenty bucks for a blouse what are you guys thinking about that the pdf is twelve seventy six so right at thirteen dollars um so yeah i'm curious to know what you guys think of the prices uh and just what you think of the designs and if the two kind of go together does one justify the other and i don't know let me know what you think in the comment section below um hope you enjoyed my first impressions of the rubik's collection from paper cut patterns i will be back next week with more of my off the cuff thoughts hopefully we'll have something from butteric or simplicity or bird a style i think there's the ones we're waiting on winter collections from so i'll be back very soon but thank you so much for watching this video and i will see you all soon bye