 Hi guys, welcome back. We are here together again today to talk to you about our February favorites. These are the things that we have been loving this month and we want to share them with you. So Abby's going to kick it off. All right, so for you, I have something that stems from my tendency to be a perfectionist but to also be slightly lazy. So I have the Gouderman thread chart and the YKK zipper color chart. So this is really awesome because it is like 700 different, yeah check this out, 700 different threads and it's not just a picture of the color, it's actual thread. So you can take your project that you're getting ready to sew up and check which one it matches with. If you don't live close to a store where you can go pick up a thread then you can easily order it online and have it sent right to you or if you just don't feel like running out to Joanne's then you could still just order it online. I really like my thread to match. I'll sometimes even buy three different ones for my serger so this is great for me. And then of course with your zippers which I find there is no selection at Joanne's handcocks. For zippers you have pretty much your standard black white cream so this is really, really helpful for ordering zippers online because it's impossible to just look at a color online. And even with the invisible zippers where you don't see the tape, this is also the color of the pulling tape and that you can see on every single one. So those are very helpful and these really weren't that expensive. They're around 30 bucks and I mean if you live somewhere in the middle of nowhere and you really don't have access to a shop then I think that these would be really beneficial. Also for planning ahead you know like if you're gonna just you bought a bunch of fabric at the store you can go ahead and knock out all the notions. I don't want to lug all my fabric back. Yes I'll sometimes cut swatches. Sometimes I don't want to cut a swatch because I'm like that's gonna be the amount of fabric that I'm like oh if I hadn't cut that swatch. Yeah or sometimes a swatch isn't even big enough you know you don't get all of the colors in there. So mine is a find that I recently came across on Instagram and it is a company called Stately Type and they make t-shirts. They screen print t-shirts and they recently came out with a whole sewing section on their website. It's a whole collection of just sewing themed t-shirts and they're really cute. They have some of them just say like sew a needle pulling thread and it has like thread going through it. One of them says no regrets and it has seam rippers crossed over each other. So I'm really creative and cute sewing t-shirt designs that I haven't really seen before and I just thought it was really cool and cute and I love them. I wish I had one to show you here today but I haven't ordered them yet. So yeah they're really adorable so I'll leave the website down below for you guys to go check them out. Awesome okay so my February favorite is kind of sewing geeky. It's interfacing but not just any interfacing. I've somewhere someone recommended this fashion. SewingSupply.com has amazing interfacing and so once you use this you really won't want to go back to using anything that you could just buy at a store. I've been using I've got a couple different ones that I ordered. This is the Pro Tri-cott. Is it Tri-cott? Yeah Deluxe and it's a knit interfacing which is really awesome. I might need to buy some of them. Yes definitely. So I've used that on I was working on this knit blazer and it just gave it the perfect amount of structure but it kept like the drape of the knit fabric. It just feels so much nicer. It makes you feel like you're at work. Yeah that one you get at Joanne's is almost like squishy. Yeah and then they've got a whole bunch of different types. I've got also this is their sheer elegance which is good for like a drapey like a rayon or something. If you've got like a placket that needs interfacing it just adds the perfect amount to one of those drapey fabrics. So this would be comparable to the SF-101 probably. I guess I haven't been using the ones from this store. I like I love these so much. Like I don't even think I bought like the proper type before this. Yeah. So this is a huge step up for me. So that one and then I've got this light crisp one which I'm going to use for like a button down shirt for colors and cuffs. That's going to be perfect. Yeah. They've got a slightly heavier one if you're doing like a men's dress shirt but I think that one's good for like the fabric that I've got. And then the actual first reason that I bought this was um this is the pro weft supreme and so I bought some really nice wool from Mood to make a little coat and I'm going to interface that with the pro. Oh wow. So I've also used some of this to interface the flies of my jeans because that only takes like a little bit and the prices of these ranges from around seven dollars a yard up to 15 or 16 and these are for their fusible. They also have sew-in interfacing as well but it a little goes a long way like unless I'm interfacing all the pieces of my jacket it really lasts while if you're just interfacing like colors and cuffs so that kind of makes that yardage price worth it. And they also include like a list of instructions on how to fuse it best so you know that you're doing it right and then just um she really goes into detail about which interfacing works for which fabric so it's really handy so that is my sewing favorite. We also wanted to share a few things that make our sewing a little more enjoyable during the month of February. I've discovered recently more sewing podcasts which I really love to listen to while I'm sewing because I don't have to watch it I can watch what I'm sewing but I can still listen to it. So I've got a couple and I've just got this app on my phone that's podcast which I didn't even know that app was on the phone so I'm looking forward to it. That's the Apple podcast and that's great. I'm sure they have other podcast apps for other films but so I've just discovered I've got the Sewing Out Low podcast which is fun. I've got um Raina Lane Designs she has a lot of great interviews with sewing professionals and even fashion designers and fashion illustrators. Seamwork Radio that's the Colette one. And then I've got like archived ones that I've missed since I've just kind of been getting into this. Threadcult the Sewing Affair podcast and Sew Forth now they haven't been putting out any new episodes I wish they would but it's still there are a lot of great episodes in the archives that you can kind of go back and listen. Cool yeah I see about um getting Amber's playlist and sharing that with you guys. Yeah if you guys have any ones that I've missed I'd love you know you could leave that in the comments and I'll definitely check those out too. Perfect. Well for me I when I sew I like to sip on something lovely and it's not what you think it is not alcohol um but it's hot tea. I have really jumped on a hot tea bandwagon um you've probably seen a lot of people talking about um hot teas. So this one is the tea forte single steeps they have some really unique flavors that I love like cucumber mint and leechy coconut and cherry marzipan. I mean don't those just sound so delicious um but they're all tea and they all have their own benefits. This is their skin smart collection so it's all beneficial to help you have radiant skin from the inside out. I mean who doesn't want that um so yeah exactly to hydrate during these dryer months um but yeah I also have lots of yogi brand teas um and really love theirs. I mean there's you know there's come in the bag so that's nice and convenient too but yeah I love to sip on tea whenever I'm sewing you just make sure you keep it far away for anything case it spills. I have had one accident but it fell off the table not onto the table so that was actually better. I've referred that but um but yeah it's nice and relaxing. Did you want a tea stain some fabric? No we did do that in your house not a long ago but um yeah not intentional. Yeah no and some of these aren't even like the brown they're like red or I mean maybe you're coming? Yeah exactly so yeah I love tea. Very cool so when I sew I'm usually not the type of person just show sew for an hour I'm usually in it for the long run so also for a day I like to really get a project done so I usually like to really get into it I usually have lawn order on in the background and I like to light a candle and just make it very enjoyable. So this is a candle actually that's made locally in here in Charleston it's called Rewind and they make it out of old glass bottles wine bottles which is I think really super cool and they're all different scents of wine they're all related to wine so my favorite is the rosé does have a hint of roses in it they do say what the description is I think on the back yes it's a rose petal white peach pink peppercorn and they're just really amazing and I love that they're made locally but you guys have ordered these online so if you have any friends to give gifts for that are big wine lovers or not wine lovers I don't love wine yeah I don't actually love wine. She's a great that one's my favorite I highly recommend the rosé. I like the champagne one. Champagne one yeah yeah the really unique yeah good for them that's what I have just don't get your fabric in the way yeah these are nowhere near my fabric that would be bad so those are our favorites we would love to hear what you're loving for the month of February if you want to leave it in the comments below we love hearing new things so if you like this video please give us a thumbs up subscribe so you don't miss any more videos and of course we're all on all social media so you can follow us there so until next time guys see ya bye