 sew together 21 challenge that I'm doing over on Instagram. If you've missed out on what this is basically when so my style dressed suddenly was no more I decided kind of on a whim that I wanted to pick up where they left off making some modifications just to ensure that it was something that I was going to be able to keep up with as an organizer and so far it's been really great. So every month I pick a category of patterns and then four patterns within that category post them all to Instagram all my Instagram followers vote on the pattern and whichever one gets the most votes wins. So for May I thought it would be fun to do a romper. So I put up some romper patterns everyone had the options of choosing between the made from her maids willow the love notions sundae ready to sew has one that's free and seam work Lucy and everyone voted on the love notions sundae romper today we're going to be talking about the sundae romper I'm going to be telling you all about the pattern I am going to be talking about suitable fabrics showing you three fabrics that I have picked out from my stash I'm encouraging everyone to shop their stash for sew together 21 just as an added bonus it's absolutely not necessary to do but as you can see I have a large stash so I always try to shop my stash first and with little challenges like this I find it easy to kind of just do one stash buster a month so all right so the sundae romper and before you're like I don't do rompers there's also a dress version okay so the sundae romper is the romper that everyone can wear that's what they're claiming the front and back v-neck openings allow for easy on and off front angled pockets are super practical and look great and elasticated casing at the natural waist makes this easy to fit and wear and then you can choose from a tank top or a dolmen bodice five bottom options including kind of a shorts option cropped pants full length pants a maxi skirt and a knee length skirt and then obviously if you wanted to do a mini skirt or a mini skirt you could easily make those accommodations too this romper is meant for knit fabrics there is also a standard bust and a full bust like two separate pattern pieces when you get your patterns printed so that you if you're used to having to do full bust adjustments you may not have to do them with this pattern obviously if you are an a cup you might still have to do a small bust adjustment to the standard version and if you're anything larger than maybe a double d i don't know what their busts include it's written on the pattern pieces though i think if you're bigger than a double d then you might still have to do a full bust adjustment but it's certainly just something for you to check it's really easy to do just measure the difference between your high bust and your full bust and that determines your pattern bust cup and then you can make either standard or full bust options i love that they include that um and then the it's a pdf pattern obviously so it comes in letter size a4 paper size there's the trimless format which if i'm gonna tape together patterns it's gonna be the trimless paper they also have large format file so you can send it off to sublime graphics and have it printed on the tissue paper or the tracing paper if you want and then they also have a projector file so if you're into the projectors you can do that as well so looking through these photos here yeah so looking at the kind of line drawings and looking through what i assume are their tester makes i know that they do a lot of testing there um kind of reiterating the description you do have that front v and the back v so basically the the way that you get into it is you step into it and then those the wide neckline widens up like a big giant mouth and you step in you pull the elastic of the waist out and then you're able to step in and pull it on um it has the dolman option which just is like a kind of like a grown-on sleeve it's kind of just a elongated shoulder or you have the tank option which i think is really cute and then for the bottoms you guys by goodness three different pants lengths so five inch inseam which is a little long that might be something that i look at shortening but we'll get to that then there's the cropped pant version which i absolutely will be making in the fall and the long pants version which i think in a something very neutral and staple like fabric like a cotton jersey black i think you would wear that to death the pants version even if it's just the tank uh pants version where you can throw on cardigans and light jackets i know for me being in the southeast that's how i would do it but if you're in like a warmer climate you could totally make the dolman version and adding a sleeve to a dolman is not that difficult let me know if you guys want a tutorial on how to do that it's very very simple um so those are your options for that i do love the little drawstring so it's elastic plus a drawstring so you can make your elastic a little bit looser and then tighten and loosen the drawstring if you're someone like me that goes through periods of inflammation and belly protuberances and some days are good and some days you're just extremely bloated um you can adjust that accordingly so i really love that and then the square pocket design is really fun as well and then of course if you're not into rompers um then you can make the dress version um the dress is in two lengths it still has the v in the front and the v in the back again that is something you can fill in in the back if you didn't want it to drop down to a v it's not going to show your bra or anything but if you just didn't want that much skin showing you could definitely for the dress since you can pull it over your head and get into it that way you don't need to have the double v opening for the dress just something to think about there um okay so it is meant for knit fabrics just looking through a few of these tester makes here it does look like the front is finished with a band which is really nice the dolman sleeves are hemmed like by turning under and the same thing with the skirt so i am going to encourage you guys to and as i'm looking at some of these tester makes too it seems like the bodice is very blousy that is not something that i love i get having a little bit of wearing ease in the length um but i don't love it to kind of double over i feel like that adds volume to my waist and i'm trying to eliminate that as much as possible so that's something i will look into kind of reducing the length of the bodice i'll measure it put it on my ditto form probably because my ditto form has my waist measurement on it i know exactly where that elastic is supposed to hit and then i can add in i don't know probably cut what they have in half maybe one or two inches i will add in um there are some people who kind of just pulled theirs down like made the elastic a little bit wider pulled theirs down for kind of like a drop waist dress which is also really really cute you can do that with the dress relatively easily with the romper though that is also going to pull down your crotch line so that would look a little bit funny but with the dress you can absolutely do that really beautiful tester makes really really cute um it does look like i'm trying to look at just the shorts versions but it does look like there is like the rise and all of that stuff looks really good in all of the shorts versions i'm not seeing any wedgies i'm not seeing any camel toes um it looks to be just about right so i'll be checking that against my crotch curve and my crotch depth um and see where we go from there so that's what i have to say about fit but i encourage you there are so so so so many tester versions so if you want to see them on a bunch of different body types styled a bunch of different ways dressed up or dressed down solid fabrics print fabrics um you can do that there's someone there's some people who did like so it looks like separates where the top is a solid color and then the bottom is a separate is a different color um that's a really cute idea again if you're using up your stash you only have a little bit of a couple fabrics you can do them that way so go check out the tester makes they all look pretty good um i'll be doing my usual pant adjustments um and then probably shorting the bodice a little bit so also pay a lot of attention to the types of fabrics people are using it doesn't say on there but you can definitely tell what's a drapery or fabric and what is more stable i 100 prefer a more stable fabric in a romper because the short because it is going over your bum through your crotch if it's too thin i almost just kind of feel a little bit naked almost like this feels like i should be wearing it to bed you know it doesn't feel like very comfortable to go out in and then on top of that something else to consider with your thin fabrics is that the pockets are probably going to look a little bit sloppy in a thinner fabric i might be eliminating the pockets altogether i just find that pockets on a knit i just don't really love it unless it's a super super stable knit um especially on my thighs i feel like the pocket bags kind of bunch up and it's just really not a cute look so take a look at these tester makes pay attention to those few details and decide for yourself the kind of alterations that you want to make there are quite a few people who left the um pockets off um so that maybe there it's easy maybe it's even in the instructions on how to do that um but because i have a fuller hip yeah the knit pockets are just really really tough for me um i also want to say there's a little girl's version so if you wanted to do a mommy and me thing that would be so so so sweet okay let's talk about fabrics so i pulled three fabrics from my stash all three in different sort of weights all three different substrates so let's talk about the good, bad and ugly of each of them none of them unfortunately are like an obvious choice so i'm a little bit nervous about that um but i'll talk you through all of them then you let me know in the comment section below which one you think i should use i'll heed your advice consider it deeply and then ultimately make my own decision how does that sound okay so let's start with the one that i think is the least good option and why so this is a really beautiful double brush poly i got it from soso english fabrics a couple of years ago um double brush double brush poly if you don't know it is super super soft super soft hand feel it's soft on the right side and the wrong side double brushed um it is kind of lightweight it's more of a midweight a midweight knit for sure but still has some really beautiful drapes some of my favorite dresses with like circle skirts and things like that are made from double brush poly and it's really really nice the problem with double brushed poly is that in the summer when it is very hot and humid here i don't know that i want to be wearing 100 polyester it's probably not going to be that big of a deal but i say that and then i make this and even if i make the tank top version it's you know one of those things where i would feel like i wouldn't really be reaching for it in the summertime because i would just feel like it's too hot too clingy too stuffy feeling um and so i think i would rather save it in such a beautiful color too um and i'd rather save it for like a fall pattern um something maybe probably even a dress i mean this could be a fall pattern with the um like cropped pant i think that would be really cute in this or maybe i could make the dress version in this and have that for like spring and fall i just don't know that it is what i want to make this sunday romper out of because it's already may and june july august as we know are sweltering um humidity like 70 80 90 humidity um 90 degree temperatures so that's why i think i want to pass on this one for now there will be other versions of this and like i said i might end up making it into like a little dress that i could throw a little jacket on and that now i'm wearing it you know october november february march for for good months aware um and maybe extending that a little bit too depending on you know how the weather fluctuates during the transitional months okay the next one is this um midway cotton jersey from stalmaker fabrics as a substrate this fabric is perfect 100 exactly what i would want to make my romper out of it is stable um it is a look it's a midweight um it doesn't have a ton of drape which we're not really looking for for this pattern um it's really soft comfortable cotton jersey it's like if you made a t-shirt romper it would be that but a little bit wavier than that the problem that i have with this one is that it's the color the color isn't very summery it's kind of like this maroon like almost with like an orange tint to it again super great for the fall i think this will be like as an example when i told you guys earlier the tank version with the pants and a solid color kind of like a neutral you would wear it over and over and over again you could match it up with all kinds of different jackets and cardigans and different cover-ups and wear it on its own and you would have something that you would reach for all the time that's kind of how i see this i don't see this as a summer thing though so both of these actually would be those kind of fall spring transitional types of garments if i made the romper out of either of these in a perfect world i would go to stomaker fabrics and get this in a spring year color they have like 45 000 colors of this not really that many they have a lot of colors in this i think in the 20s um so i could easily find a color that is more springy that's the same fabric that i use for my stalemaker fabrics spring style tour the um little crop top that i made same exact fabric so i know i would love it um in a lighter color but i am really trying to not buy fabrics for sew together that's why it's like an added challenge it's supposed to be like a little bit difficult so the last thing i have is this guy and i don't know where i got this um i think i got it in new york city i don't exactly know where it's a really really pretty print i absolutely love the print i think it's really cool on my skin tone um but the problem is you can see kind of how drapey it is right pretty drapey pretty thin um it's the thinnest of all the options here so i just don't know how that is going to lay over my body as i'm doing stuff like this it's not that bad i just want to make sure that i'm not going to feel naked when i have this on as a romper i want to feel like it's not one of those things that just feels too flimsy you know what i mean you guys go buy the sunday romper from love notions um their patterns are 40 off and until may the 10th um which makes this pattern seven dollars and 20 cents um get it printed shop your stash regarding your fabrics you are going to be looking for something in your stash that is a they say light to medium weight uh uh knits like jersey modal cupra and rayon blends i personally for the shorts for the romper version would stick to midway jerseys for the dress version i think the world is your oyster and you can absolutely use those lightweight fabrics um just consider the pockets consider what happens you know what happens when you wear pockets if they either work for you or they don't that's it that's so together 21 for may let me know if you guys any questions about anything that i went over today if you are a hemsider you can come to the thursday uh zooms and show me there um but that's only open to threads and scissors um hemsiders so join and come chat with us in the zoom you can show me your fabrics and all that kind of stuff i also help with fitting during those so if you have any questions about that um i could answer all of those for you in our thursday zooms but that is it that is going to do it for me today i have a lot of thinking to do but i thank you all so much for watching and i will see you very soon bye