 Um, hi everybody, we are finally publishing our seamstress tag video. If you're not aware, um, this is something that's been going around YouTube for the past, I guess, couple of months at this point, um, all of the other, well, seemingly all of the other sewing YouTube channels have, um, done this seamstress tag. And so finally we are contributing. So Abby doesn't know much about this, but it's really just a list of 12 questions that we answer so people can get to know us and then. So you know these questions, but I don't. That seems I haven't read them either. Okay. I mean, I watched some of the videos, but that's it. Um, so the first one is easy. It's who are you? So as a team, we are inside the hem, um, individually. I'm Lindsay. I'm Abby. Yeah. I feel like a lot of you guys probably know this, but I think the idea is that if you follow the tag around YouTube, you get introduced to people that you don't know yet. Yeah. So yeah, we are a YouTube duo. Most of our videos are us together, um, or we collaborated on an idea or we help each other with something. So two for the price of one. Yeah. Um, okay. The next question is when and why did you start sewing? We kind of answered this a long time ago. Yeah. When and why? How many years has it been now? Cause we, did we start the same year? Mm hmm. Do you remember how many years it is now? Hasn't it been four? When did you get married? 2011. It was that following summer. So 2012. That's four years. Four years. Mm hmm. Yes. Four years. Why? I'm a summer's off from work. I'm a speech pathologist. I work at elementary school. So I get those nine hours of summers off. So I was just sitting on my porch one day and feeling a little bored, but not really because I like being bored at times. Um, and just suddenly out of nowhere, Googled sewing lessons in, out of nowhere. Out of nowhere. Out of nowhere. I really don't. I mean, it must have been something, um, commercial or something must have happened that I didn't even know. Subliminally. Subliminally. Mm hmm. Um, but yeah, I just, out of nowhere, Googled it. A shop, um, popped up five, eight scenes and I went there. Um, you just bought a sewing machine, brought it there and showed you how to set it up. So it was literally what I did. I just like bought a sewing machine just like that, took it there and was hooked ever since that. Yeah. So for me, I had just moved to Charleston. Um, I didn't know anybody here and I was looking to meet new people. So I went on that website, meetup.com and found a crafting meetup and so I joined that. And then the very next meetup that they were going to have was at five, eight scenes where they were going to have like a one-on-one sewing lesson. Mm hmm. And sort of for many years, I'd always had the back of my hand and back in my head like, oh, that would be something cool to learn. Mm hmm. So that, um, craft meetup, sewed a little tote bag. The next day went and bought a machine and then brought it in just like you did and said help me, I don't know what to do with this. I don't even think I like took the tape off my back. No, yeah, mine was completely sealed. Yeah. Um, so yeah, they, and then we both ended up taking lessons there for a while. Do you remember when we met through there? No. But we ended up in the same class after a while. And then just got together and sewed together a few times. Yeah. I remember that there was a foursome. You and three other people were like a little group. And then because I was in another class on a different night, there were four of us that were in a different group, but I was always kind of like eyeing girls group. Like, what is there a little group about? Yeah. Um, and so then I remember they asked me to come over to our, now our friend Sarah's house to sew. And there were five of us that day. One of the girls never showed back up to one of our sewing circles ever again. No. So then it became the four of us sewing. Sarah ended up having two children since then. Um, Amber, as some of you know, I'm still sews all the time. Um, so yeah, that our little foursome is down to a threesome. And then Abby and I started this. Yeah. So yeah, I wish, I think we had to talk to Amber and see if she remembers more about how they remember. She seems to have better memory for the kind of random stuff. Yeah. I feel like we should have like a, it wasn't that far in to me learning how to sew. Well, I started in the spring, I feel like, and you started in the summer. So June, maybe a couple months after that. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, um, what is your most disastrous make? I know right off hand. I mean, obviously. No. Because I show you, but I show you my disasters. I have a recent disaster. Remember that, um, Megan Nielsen posted that off the shoulder tutorial dress. Yes. And I just picked not the right fabric for it. And it was just like this giant tint like thing. It was a cue. It still looks like that. You told me to chop it off. Make it top. Yeah. Yeah. It kind of looked like this. Yeah. I thought it looked better than she did. Yeah. I'm not so sure that's necessarily a disaster because it's salvageable. A disaster is something that goes in the garbage. Well, I guess one of the, my first knit project, that went in the garbage. I am. He's like one of those free tutorials online. You'd like no, he's just like, you know, draw. And it was super cheap knit fabric. Um, my first kind of experience. So knit fabric. Oh, that thing was nasty. It was like wonky side seams and pulling a thing. Yeah. Not wearable. Mine was a knit skirt too. I was trying to do like the fold over knit skirt. And I was doing all on a sewing machine with a zigzag stitch. And the fabric was really thin. I remember that. And it was going wrong from the very beginning. But you know how you just keep it at the beginning? You're like, I can make this work. So I tried to cut it into a high low hem. And then it was too short. And the hem was like not, cause you know, when you DIY a high low hem. Yeah. They're not perfect. So that one was pretty bad. Remember that pleated skirt I made that was like green and white on the outside. And then in the pleat I put a pink one. Yes. That was awful. That was wild. That was really, really bad. Gosh. Yeah. I could think of so many, someone commented, maybe on Instagram, maybe on my personal Instagram about how I was a brave sewist. And I think that is true, which is why I have so many disasters. Cause I really just go for it and don't look back. And if it doesn't work out, oh well. Look at that two tabs. I guess. Okay. So what is your favorite place to go fabric shopping? I think hands down, we're going to say New York's law ministry, right? Yeah. It was amazing. We've been there twice now. We make a whole little girl's trip of it and just fabric shop for hours. And no shows. No shows. No dinners. No sightseeing. The first time we tried to eat better dinners. We went to like special restaurants and stuff. The second time we were like, oh, here's a restaurant. Let's stop and eat. Right. I think so. I don't think we left the garment district. Those four or five blocks we didn't leave. Yeah. We even stayed there that time so that we just go swing by, drop off some fabric and go back out again. So yeah, that was amazing. Did you hear that Perrin closed? I was called it Perron. I don't know how you pronounce it. I did not know that. They were there for like decades. I know. I think he was older. Yeah. I guess the rents are going up really high too. Anyway, so yeah, we have to say New York probably. Yeah. Awesome. Everybody needs to go there at least once. Yeah. It's true. Yeah. It's true. Bring an extra bag of luggage. Yes. We always end up. Yes. And then you can just pay to have that. Because we do carry on. And then you can pay to have that luggage checked. Yeah. Detro will ship for you. Yes. Which is helpful. That was super helpful. And he doesn't even, he should charge me more than he does. I put that on the internet. He doesn't like these. He never knows. Kashi, Kashi will ship. He was shipy. Okay. What is your most used pattern? Hmm. Probably the Linden sweatshirt. I've made lots of Linden's. Although gosh, this is the Laurel first. This is number five for me and I've made one for my mom. So that one's pretty up there too. The Linden and the Laurelhurst. They're taking too long to count how many Linden's to backtrack and think about it. See, I'm the complete opposite. I'm a one and done. I don't know. I will remake. I mean, I won't remake a project that's like a special dress just because it's like the same exact thing but a different fabric. But like kind of these basic pieces. Yeah, I make again and again. Yeah. I think that if I had to pick one, probably one of my more recent ones, which would be the Tunic Bible. I made three of those. The versions of that. That's probably a record. And only because they end up looking so different. Yeah. So that would probably be it for me. But I guess for me, it's like making the garment for the first time and you know, following all the instructions and figuring it all out. Once I do that, then like the allure has worn off. Yeah, I guess the difference between us two is like I make a lot more basic stuff that I can wear to work and I work at an elementary school. So, you know, you can dress up if you want. But most people just dress a little more casually. So I could wear this laurel hearst as long as I, you know, I've got some nice pants on some nicer shoes to work. So I'm more likely just to make a bunch of these because they're comfy. Yeah. I can wear it to work. Yeah. And like the one and done dress is like, well, I don't get to wear it that much. Right. Yeah. Maybe I could be converted. Okay. So your most dreaded sewing task. Buttons. Oh, totally buttons. My, I've got a really nice sewing machine. But I hate the buttonhole, but it's like this fancy little sensor thing that's supposed to sense the thickness of the fabric. And then so all the buttonholes evenly. It does not sew each one the same. It's supposed to. That's the whole point of it. And the sensors is further over. So you can't sew the right side of the buttonplacket because the sensor is off. So you have to flip it and go the opposite way or put fabric on the other side. But it doesn't work when you do that. You could put the same fabric on the other side and it gets all confused. And you've like looked at the manual. Yes. Yes. I actually, because I was so, I made the Rosa shirt dress and it's got those little tabs. And the tab obviously is way too narrow to reach the sensor. So I put the other tab underneath it and, and you know, so it would go evenly through. It was on the one side and then it would keep on going for the other side. Yeah. So I ordered. Why don't you just get out your basic. That's what I was going to do is, and I've done it in the past, but I just really wanted to work. Like, you know, I keep trying. Like this is going to be the one. This is going to be the one that wears. You can't move the sensor. No, it's the special fancy little foot. It's too fancy. It's like too fancy to a fault. Gosh, but it seems like fundamentally it's not right. Oh, that's a point. It's so frustrating. So I actually ordered what I thought I was going to get the one that looked like on my old brother, you know, the little white one. And it came, I don't even know what it was. It was on eBay. It looked like it was going to be exactly the same. I put it on. I'm like, I couldn't even use it. Yeah. So yeah, buttons are nerve wracking. I guess dreaded also would be like just you don't look forward to it. I don't know. What else? I kind of, I mean, I like zippers, even invisible zippers I like. I don't love zippers. I don't mind. I mean, I guess it depends on the project. But hemming rayon chowley isn't the most fun. Hemming silk isn't great. No, but I usually cheat and just like surgeon turn once. So which makes it so much easier. Nobody else knows. Maybe sewing. I kind of like that too. I don't know ripping things out. I would say. Yeah. It is my most dreaded. Yeah. Yeah. I'm still working on my little game that I play with myself where I try and get through the project. I know. I know. I didn't think at the end like, oh, I didn't have to rip. You've done it before? Yeah. I've never done it. You make things over and over and over again. Yeah. I mean, I don't think I had to get this. I have literally never done it. And it's like sometimes it'll be just the stupidest little thing that I have to pull it out for. And I'm like, no, I was so close. You should like put it out in your car so that you like take the extra time to do it correctly. I do that. I mean, I'll put it in my car, but I do take the time. Yeah. But maybe if you need to walk up. I know. That's true. That's true. Okay. So on the other side of that coin, what's your favorite sewing task? Um, fabric? Yeah. But that doesn't really count. That's not really sewing. That's not really sewing. Mmm. That kind of like, it's not even the finishing techniques, which I guess most people would say, because it's like finalizing it. For me, it's like getting to the point where you can try it on. Yeah. Like a traditional baseband or. So I guess the side seam. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good point. Yeah. That's fine. I know. I always look forward to that point where I can try to win. Yeah. Okay. Great. That was quick and easy. What is your favorite sewing entertainment? For me, probably it is Instagram. Yeah. I'm not always going through Instagram. That's my main. That's really the only social media I do is Instagram. Yeah. I love to look through and see what people have made. And I'm always searching it. Hashtags for finished projects. Like I'll hashtag Laura first and see what people have made. Gives me ideas for what I want to make. Mm-hmm. So I use that a lot. And I do find that entertaining. Yeah. Some other ones that I do would be like flipping through sewing books. We just talked about in our more recent favorites video about going to the library and getting into sewing books. I find that to be entertaining podcasts. Are you listening to any sewing podcasts? No. Did you watch The Great British Sewing Bee? No. Do you watch Project Runway? I watched the first two, but I haven't caught up on the other ones. Project Runway? So those are all things that I do. And shopping. I was going to ask you to just that count. I think shopping is totally entertaining to me. Yeah. That is like an enjoyment. Yeah. I agree. 100%. Oh, here's a good one for you, Abby. Printed or PDF? PDF. Well, unless it's a really, really big pattern, like lots of different pieces than PDF. But I do go back and forth. Sometimes I'm like, oh, I really love a printed pattern because you don't have to print it out and tape it together. But then I have to trace it because I will ruin it if I cut into it. So PDF, I don't trace PDFs. Lindsay traces PDFs. I just cut in. I would rather reprint it and tape it than trace it. Maybe that's your most dreaded sewing task. I don't mind because I will do it in front of the TV. Like I'll have shows saved. And then I go and sit in my living room floor and put on like the view or you know something mindless and watch it, listen to it while I'm taping together a pattern. So I actually don't really mind that much. Yeah. But no, I'm actually really told you it's a good question for you. I've got different reasons why I like printed and why I like. You have to pick. You have to pick one. There's different categories. It's not that simple. Oh, that's simple. I think I prefer. I guess I'd have to say PDF. And I prefer printed. Really? Yeah. Especially like McCall's stuff when you can get them for like 99 cents. Well, yeah, those for sure because I'm chopping that up. I'm not. I am not tracing. You don't trace those do you? Mm-hmm. Okay. My sense is not worth tracing time. Yeah. Yeah. When you talk about that, I guess because I'm more, I don't sew a ton of the before. Right. I'm more independent. Yeah. With indie patterns, which are a lot more expensive. So for me, that's, you know, cost. So PDF, I can always be print. Say I get way or something. Who knows? I don't know. But then I always have it forever. Mm-hmm. You know? But. Okay. The next is just two more left. What sewing machine do you use? I have a Viking Sapphire 930. It might be a D after it. I might be making that up. I don't remember. But I got it from where I took lessons from 5-8 seams. They started carrying their machines. So I got it from there and I liked that I could use them for repairs and they knew about the machine. So I've really been happy with my machine minus the buttonhole foot. Yeah. It does a lot of cool things that now that I have it and if I ever, well, I would hope I never need to replace it. It was an investment. But it does cuts your thread, which yours does that too. But the biggest thing for me on my machine is this, I think it's called pressure foot release. And so it will, it'll allow you to pivot as you sew without raising any type of pressure foot. So it just, you just take your foot off and it goes up just enough to turn it and keep sewing. So that's really nice for curves too because it just automatically, you just go like this and it just perfectly goes so that it right amount of pressure. Senses it. And yeah, automatically. You can also turn that off. I don't, I have never wanted to turn it off. I don't know why you would want it off. I guess we just sew a lot of straight seams. I don't know. But for garment sewing, it's amazing. I like, really could not imagine living without it now that I have it. Yeah. Yeah. I have, I don't know the number, a brother, Laura Ashley edition. I can't remember the number. We'll leave links down below for our machines. But I only sew on brother. My first machine was brother. Then I replaced, after that I got a cover, not a cover stitch, a serger, brother. Then I got a cover stitch that's brother. When it came time to replace my first machine, I kind of, I did all the research, when looked at all the things, and everything was telling me just to go back to brother again. So I did. And I, I, you know, invested in one of their more expensive ones, not nearly as expensive as Abby's is, but it's sort of like a step up, but not as far as you can possibly go. And I feel like mine has a lot of the features that Abby and Amber were saying to look for and saying that they liked about their really nice machines. So I feel like it's comparable, even though it's not like super high end. But mine has, which neither of theirs have, is a knee lift. Which mine doesn't need it because of the, the sensor thing. You can take your fabric out completely. Well no, I hit a little button, and it just lifts it up. Yeah, so all I have to do is move my knee like this to the right, and it lifts the foot for me. And then when I'm ready to put it back down, you just pull it all the way back out and it releases it and puts it back down. It's the coolest thing. I don't know why it's like so weird now to put your hands in, into the machine. That's not that cumbersome or anything, but yeah, I love the knee lift. I love the thread snips. That's very helpful. I think too, just upgrading my machine, one of the biggest thing it felt me, I felt more confident with, was sewing with like knits. Great, and now I use my serger for most things, but some, there's points where you have to use your machine, or if I'm sewing like a thick French terry, or a double knit, or there's just certain patterns where you couldn't use your, your serger on. The, my brother, I love that great, and the viking just, especially with that press, that thing I keep talking about, I hope I'm saying the terminology quite perfectly. I don't know if I am. But it just makes the knit, he's just kind of glide through the area. And how about adjusting the needle, all those, Oh, thank you for saying that my needle, I have like so many different new positions, I mean it just moves the teeniest bit, so it gives you like the perfect amount that you need for like understitching, or for your hem. Yeah, that was huge for me. Yeah, I love that too. Yeah, I love that too. Okay, last question. Do you have any other hobbies? Um, I don't know if you'd call it a hobby, but I really enjoy pampering my dog. So when I'm not sewing, we're doing, we're doing something with our dog. I mean, my husband, we're either going out to dinner with the dog. We always get Lindsay last. We like don't go to a restaurant unless they have outdoor eating, and you can take your dog. Which in being in Charleston, you know, you can be out the side so many months of the year. I mean there's very, there's many restaurants over there. February, right? January, February? Those are the only two months, or probably. Yeah, so all, there's one restaurant I know up to now, a new one in Charleston. Yeah, so we won't be eating there. Um, the Don't Well Dogs, and everybody brings their dogs, like all the restaurants. Like if you're outside, somebody's got their dog with them. It's just kind of such a dog-friendly town. Like you can go shopping, our big street. If you've ever been here before, you might know what we're talking about, King Street is our big street of shopping. All of the shops let dogs come in, and most of them have biscuits behind the counter for your dog. So Piper, who's down here on the floor, knows all the little shops. So my other hobby would be spoiling our dog. Yeah. I have a couple of other hobbies. One of them would probably be planning. So I, you guys may or may not know, but they're just like the sewing community has this really kind of underground vibe to it. The planning community is very similar to that. So there are these people, like myself, that invest money in a planner, and then they invest even more money into decorating that planner. So there are tons, dozens, many dozens of Etsy accounts where people are designing sticker kits for these planners. And the stickers are cut out to fit exactly in all the squares. And people do YouTube videos. If you look up Plan With Me, you'll see a little bit about what I'm talking about. And outside of sewing, it's what I spend most of my time doing, thinking about, entertaining myself with. I mean, these Plan With Me videos are like at the end of the night. It's what I put on to help myself relax and go to sleep. Planning helps you relax. But to me it's like, all the things I've got to do. Watching other people plan. These Plan With Me videos are so relaxing to me. I don't know what it is. I might feel. But I just love watching other people plan. It's just, maybe because their lives are more fizzier than yours. It's not even that. I think it's watching the page and it gets all filled in. I don't know. It just calms me down. And the videos are usually pretty long. 20 or 30 minutes. I don't know. I love them. So if you scroll through my Facebook or my personal Instagram, it's like sewing, planning. Sewing, planning. That's all that there is in there. That's funny. I had no idea that you fell asleep to planning videos. They're thoughts. And the way they speak it is also very organized. Their voices are soothing. They have this mindset that there's such planned people that they communicate is just very... Their lives are not chaotic. You're right. It's very organized and you're planning the week ahead so you feel in control of that. And their voices are so sweet and calm. I'll put a couple... They're all moms. They're students. There's a lot of students out there. I'll put a link to a couple of my favorites and y'all can help yourself or do hobby. Just keep scrolling. It is pretty expensive. These kids are like $20 or $30 for one week worth of stickers. Wow. I do one every week and I also do the monthly view which is another $10 or $15 depending on where you get it from. You've been sticking to that planner for that price following all the things you said you were going to do. Oh, no. You can tell. The weeks that I plan and the weeks that I don't it is so different in terms of productivity. What I get done and how focused I am and how calm I am with everything. Things that I forget or don't forget. She knows. She does not. So writing things down. That's where it all started, just writing things down and then I thought this could be prettier and now it is. I can't wait to see what you do with our new collect sewing planner. Oh, yes. This sewing planner I am over the moon about. I'm already buying more sewing stickers. I'm already looking for ways that I can decorate that planner. I'm really excited about that. The seamstress tag. Very fun with not what I thought it would be. I don't know what I thought it would be. I thought like hashtags or something when you said tag. No, it's like. So the idea is one person posts a video and they tag someone else and say you do it. Are we going to tag somebody? Yes, we're going to tag people. Everyone else has done it. So it's kind of at the point now where it's like if you want to do it, we tag you, whoever you are. You're watching. You haven't done it yet. If you have a YouTube channel and you so, then we tag you. And let us know. But you didn't. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, this was a lot of fun. I liked it. Hopefully y'all learned a little bit more about us and the new viewers have already clicked subscribe because it was so awesome. Anyways, thanks so much for watching all this was a ton of fun. We will see you soon. Bye.