 Hey you guys it's the beginning of May which means we have our April favorites ready for you. These are the things that we have been loving in the month of April. For me one of them is sewing related and one of them is sort of just like a helpful little trinket for while you're sewing and Abby's got a sewing related item and then just a fun sewing themed item so let's get right into it. I will start so I have been trying to find an easy full proof way to attach snaps. I made the seam work dress what's it called with the buttons down the front a little bit. It has buttons all the way down the front and I thought it would be really cute to do purl snaps down the front. Also you've probably seen a lot of skirts have snaps these days. They're not just for baby onesies anymore but unfortunately I've had a really tough time finding a tool that will set them perfectly without any errors until now. I finally came across and it's the most the most inexpensive the least expensive option that's out there. It's by Dritz and it's just a little metal washer and then a little dowel and you put one end of the snap in the flat end and hammer it down and then you put the other end of the snap in the like beveled edge and you hammer it down and it worked perfectly every single time. Do you use an actual hammer? Yes you use an actual hammer to hammer it down and I feel like it really it was easy to get the snap exactly where you wanted it and it stayed once you put it there and then the snap actually held after snapping it. You can see my test my test run of this did not go well at all. I had been trying to use a tool like this the pliers but what I didn't realize is I was using a snap that was too big for this particular set of pliers which is why it wasn't working. When I got the right size of snaps for this this what this one is here it worked perfectly. So I realized I couldn't use the pliers and that's when I went out and found the other set. I will say if you're doing a lot of snaps this tool is really helpful and I can see why people would like it over the hammer method. First of all it's quieter. You have babies in the house you know me hammering things but secondly you do have a little bit more control over actually pressing the snap. So if you're going to be doing a lot of snaps I would recommend getting the pliers set but if you're just doing a couple here and there for a garment go out and get this. I want to say at the Joann's that I got it at it might have been seven dollars and it included the snaps with it so nice really affordable and it's a foolproof way to get snaps on to all of your garments. Would you say it's easier than buttons? Well yeah in a way I mean it's more than anything it's just a different look that you're going to get but I have a still sewing on my very first sewing machine and the button hole maker isn't always great so for me buttons really make me nervous. But I think if I had a nicer machine stay tuned for that. I know I have a nice machine and I just finished a dress yesterday with buttons all the way down the front and they still every button hole looks like holding my breath like is it going to be perfect? Am I going to have to get it out? Yeah I don't know I'll always be scared of eyeballs. Yeah I think so too. I mean I think it depends on the fabric. I was trying to get the snaps onto a corduroy skirt and that's a see I just lost the snap right there just fell right off completely. Anyways so yeah it just depends on the look you're going for and obviously consider the kind of fabric that you're using. All right so my first thing here is elastic by the yard. I was buying just those little packages of drifts you can buy at Joann's and you know it's like three yards for around four bucks and then I was finding I have these silly amounts left over. I like to make a lot of Hudson sweatpants. I make them for myself and for my mom elastic shorts elastic waist skirts so I actually used them a lot and felt like I was spending so much money elastic so I went on Amazon and they had it by the yard for so cheap this is quarter inch elastic for 144 yards I believe quarter inches what goes into the soft spring dress which I've made so many of um $12 144 yards and you just can't beat the price and I just quality is yeah the quality is great I compared um the quality is good I really really like this it saved me a lot of money and then I also have the two um two inch width which goes into the Hudson pants so I've used quite a bit of this already I did have one inch which I've already used all of that up I used to make a lot of baby clothes and sell them so you know baby clothes use a lot of elastic so if you have little girls at the house I highly recommend going ahead and getting it on a roll you will save so much money and not waste silly amounts of elastic left over which I saved for some reason I don't know why yeah I'll probably never use them have you seen the invisible zippers that are sold like that no we'll save that for next month so did you know I have some yeah five okay yeah we'll check in for May's favorite so I will I will use up some of those zippers and show you all exactly how they work okay so my next item is actually a piece of jewelry and if you're like me and you have long hair as we do um you find yourself starting the day with your hair down and then maybe after an hour and it's really humid yeah you're just ready to put your hair up same thing whenever you're sewing like you just you need to have an elastic by you at all times so a lot of people wear them on their wrists and newer elastics can dig in and it's really not all that healthy for you right yeah so there was a husband who noticed that his wife was always wearing elastics and how it was leading the indentions on her hand but that she needed to have that elastic on her wrist not in her purse not anywhere else but on her wrist so he invented this bracelet and the bracelet is just a metal bangle that has a little ridge in the center of it that holds your hair elastic and it holds it away from your skin the bangle is what holds it in place and so you are able to still have your elastic on your wrist but it's not hurting you in any way and it's kind of like a decorative element if you had different color elastics you could interchange them and have them match your outfit so this for me is really handy when i'm sewing but also just in like all the time whenever i just need to have an elastic candy um i found myself um just really loving this so love it wanted to share yes so i have this really cool bag i found that is a sewing machine so um i really like these bags i've seen them before they're out of some kind of recycled material um but it's a sewing machine and this is the front it's even got the side of the sewing machine the other side and that you can see there's a little knob and even the bottom um so i really like the shape of this bag it's super boxy and sturdy um and it's got these great handles um so it's really practical but also super cute of course you know i love sewing obviously so anytime i see something sewing related i just get super excited and it's also teal which is one of my favorite colors so it's just really really cute i love this bag where'd you get it um i got it locally but you can find it online through the company it's blue q i went on there blue q dot com that's only 15 bucks and um they had all kinds of different designs so lots of great options i think it also would make a really nice little gift you could fill it up with some cute sewing stuff or you know somebody's birthday coming up or even mother's day somebody that loves to sew so so the other designs they have non sewing yes yes they had all kinds of different designs really cool stuff on there so the zipper is like really yeah really nice heavy zipper well it's kind of like most of these kind of bags don't have zippers so it's really nice that this one zips up or if they do it doesn't have like the um it doesn't it doesn't have like the box top yeah you know like it'll zip closed like that yeah which is annoying this has nice wide openings yeah cute i'm going to get one for yeah they have other colors of sewing machine no but this one's perfect color we'll be twins then yeah perfectly fine wouldn't be the first time no so that is it for some things we've been loving in april i hope you guys um love some of the things we are loving too if you do we'll have a link below yeah we'll have all the link up below so you can find everything um so i hope you like the video of course give us a thumbs up if you did make sure you subscribe to our channel so you don't miss a video and work on all the social media you can find us on pinterest facebook instagram twitter twitter facebook do you say i said facebook there's four even know about the 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