 Hey you guys, Lindsay here, and today we are talking about February sewing plans. So when I sat down to do my plans for February, I was thinking to myself, okay, February is a shorter month. It only has 28 days. You have no days off of work, other than the weekends. Like let's be practical about setting goals and what you can accomplish. For the January makes that I did, I didn't make any of those things. Well, that's a lot. I made this. So this is my toaster sweater out of the cable knit, which is great. This was the Sew My Style project for January, so I was really proud to get that done. But the Navy and White Stripe bowline sweater didn't get done. And the Art Gallery Boyle kimono, or I didn't have the project picked out yet. That didn't get sewn either. I did sew a lot. I just didn't sew those things. I have an excuse for one and no excuse for the other. So we'll get into that in a minute. So I sat down with the hopes of being practical, and then I ended up coming up with one, two, three, four, five projects. So I know that I'm not going to get all of that done. There's just no way. But I'm putting it on my to-do list anyways, because it's like a vision. If I put it out there to the universe, maybe some big storm will come through, and I won't they'll call off work. And so then I'll have all these extra days to sew, and I'll have the projects for it. Honestly, though, a couple of them, most of them actually are spring patterns. So if I don't do them this month, they'll probably roll over into March. If you saw the Instagram story that I did when I went shopping at Joann's, then some of this won't be new to you. If you follow me on Instagram, may not be new to you. But if you haven't, then catch up, catch up with everybody else who's been following me on social media. The first one is M7549. And I feel like this is going to be the pattern for them for the season. I have seen so many people are already finished this. Hello Allie J, who has a cute, adorable little blog. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. She's like my sewing soul sister. I feel like we have a similar style, both Southern girls. Anyways, she's almost done with hers. And here's where I am with mine. I started this last weekend and of course I wanted to do the quilted version. Of course I wanted to do it just like the model because I'm so unoriginal like that. But what I didn't realize is quilting all of that was a really challenging for me. I fumbled through how to find the best way to do it. Quilting takes up a ton of thread. My machine was just like burning through thread. So I had two of the smaller Guderman spools completely gone. And I still have probably four pieces to quilt. Like that's how much thread you go through trying to quilt this jacket. So that's at a standstill till I can get back to Joanne's. It's like a 30 minute drive and I just haven't I'm not going to go out there just for thread. So I've been waiting for like some kind of sale or something else that I needed to go out there. So that project will hopefully get wrapped up in February and update on the Art Gallery Boyle project. So I asked you guys what should I make? I was torn between a tunic Bible top between kind of like a classic button up with like a puffy or sleeve or a peplum top. And the comments started rolling in and people started suggesting kimono top and it was like, duh. Like obviously why didn't I think of that? This fabric has for sure like an Asian flair to it with the with the is I don't know if this is the cherry blossom or not. But it kind of reminds me of cherry blossom cherry blossom buds. So yeah, I was like, yes, 100% this is going to be a kimono top. So the problem and the reason why the kimono top didn't did not get sewn in January is because the pattern that I picked out, which is M7358, my Joanns didn't have it. So I was so again, I'm waiting on a sale because I'm not going to pay full price for my calls pattern at Joanns when they go on sale for $1.99 like every five seconds. But the next sale isn't until the weekend, like this weekend, the weekend of the second through the fifth or something. So I'm going to go back out there and see if they have it. If they don't, then I'll just end up ordering it online. Hopefully the online sale will still be going on right now. It's $2.49. So I don't know. Should I just go ahead and buy it online? I don't know. But then all the other spring patterns are coming out like Butterick. Their spring summer collection just came out. So I wanted to check in that and make sure there wasn't another kimono top that absolutely loved. So this M7358 is a kind of a cross between a tailored button up type shirt with a it just has the tailored sleeve and like a almost like a shoulder yoke, which to me says like tailored button up. But instead of the button up part, it has a wrap and a bow, like a sash with a bow, which I really love. There's also M7200, which is almost like an open cardigan that comes with a belt. I don't know if I would like that because I know I'll have to wear a tank top underneath and I don't really love that feel or the way that that looks. So I'm torn between those two, but I wanted to check out the Vogue's. I wanted to check out the Butterick's. Even simplicity I think has their spring and summer stuff coming out. So I just want to make sure that for sure now that I have the time to spend to make sure that M7358 was the one that I absolutely wanted for sure. So that's where we are with the Art Gallery Boyle. And then some other projects that I'm dying to make are M7253, which is just your basic pleated skirt pattern. I have two really great fabrics for this. One of them is 100% polyester. One of the silky fabrics from Joanne's, but I got it on the clearance when the clearance was on sale, so it was like $2 a yard or something. And I don't know. It's just really pretty to me. I just thought it was pretty and I didn't care that it was cheap or manmade or any of that. I just thought it was pretty. The other fabric is like a Pauly Charmouse and it feels like silk. It feels so rich and expensive. It was not on sale. I did use a coupon, but that was it. So, yeah, I want to make a couple of pleated skirts just for spring that you can know you just tuck in a little t-shirt and, you know, can make a comfortable, but dressy outfit. Also, I am into the sleeve trend. Like I'm all about what's happening with the sleeves right now. And I am 100% into that. So this is gosh, you know, this happened to me before. So when you go to Joanne's, they have some patterns that are set out just for display. And those patterns get a different number. Yeah, I don't really understand it either. So this says MP 252, but that's definitely not what it is. OK, so I found it. It is M 7505 and it's this really cute, just like simple sheath dress, but the sleeves are trumpet sleeves. So it's like fitted through like back down to the elbow and it flares out below the elbow and it's just so, so cute. I made a talk similar to this in January. I'll do a video on that that you guys will see soon. And I'm just totally obsessed with the sleeves. I am I am I am totally on board. And also, I have been seeing the sleeves, especially like this almost flair type of sleeve everywhere. I watched Lifetime did a remake of the beaches movie and then following the movie premiere. They did like a behind the scenes sort of thing where they interviewed the actors and Sarah Haynes was the host. And she had this red peplum top. So, you know, you know what a peplum is with like the little circle skirt and then had those almost like peplum sleeves. And I was like, oh my gosh, that's such a good idea to have the peplum top with the sleeves that kind of like played off of each other. And then I swear, like on Live with Kelly or maybe some other morning show, I saw somebody else with them on. I've just been seeing them absolutely everywhere. So like, you know how the cold shoulder was last year? I feel like these trumpet sleeves are going to be it for this year. It is the the trend that everyone's going to be doing. And I will be there ahead of the game. I've already got one top made. I know my friend Brittany on Instagram. She also has a YouTube channel. She's been sewing up a bunch of sleeve detail tops, too. So catch on. Everybody's doing it. It's not too late to get in on this one. You're going to be seeing them everywhere, I promise. And then the last one is just really one of these loose fitting tops. I've kind of been into looser fitting tops lately. This one has a couple of variations, but I really want to do the one that uses the border print. But I haven't found any woven border prints that I have been into lately. I'm sure that Tellio has some on fabric.com. So I should go check out there and see what they have. Maybe this would be a good option for the Rayon Shally. Was it Rayon Shally that I was going to use for my cold shoulder top? And I asked you guys if I should remake the same cold shoulder dress in the other fabric. Do you remember that? I wonder if they still have that. And that would be a good option for this. It might be a little too lightweight and tricky because this one kind of, you know, flares out and it's supposed to be kind of billowing. I don't know. We'll see. So, yeah, so those are my plans for February. I am very unrealistic in the plan, but I am very realistic in knowing like the expectation. Like, I know that I'm not going to get through all of these, but that's OK because honestly, like, we just never had a winter here. Like this weekend, there's a cold front coming through and the highs are going to be in the 50s. And that's as cold as it ever got. And I don't see it getting cold any time soon. So there's not going to be any more sweater nits. I am just forging right ahead on to spring, continuing to make clothes that you can wear in like 70, 60, 70 degree weather. I'm not complaining. I love it. And you will hear me complain when the summer comes and it's like a million degrees here. But this has been glorious. I've loved every second of it and I'm just in the mood for spring constantly. So my sewing is obviously going to reflect that. And I'm going to make skirts and short sleeve tops in February because that's how we roll here. So let me know what you guys are making in February. If you have a blog or a blog, leave a link down below, promote yourself. Let me know where I can find you so that I can watch and read and see what you guys are all making. If you don't have one of those, that's fine, too. Just leave the pattern name or any information you have about the fabric in the comments. I just love finding new patterns, new ideas on how to use different fabrics. And I just love seeing what other people are doing. So share all of that with me and the other viewers in the comments section. And yeah, that's it. I got to go get sewing. I only have, well, 27 days now to get through these five projects. No, I'm just kidding. I I'm going to run. But I'll see you guys very soon. Bye.