 Happy New Year you guys! If you saw recently I posted sort of my review of my 2021 resolutions and goals and all of that kind of stuff but today's video is dedicated to what I want to accomplish in 2022. I every year pick a kind of word if you guys have probably heard of other people doing this it's not like I invented anything new um but it's kind of like a word that I carry with me a word that I kind of meditate on something I focus on um that try that I try to carry with me through the entire year um this year's word is intention and basically what I hope to accomplish with that word following me with me all year long is to do the things that I have made habits at this point even new things that I have yet to try all with a lot more intention also known as purpose like if I am going to do a new project whatever that is I want to go into it with the right intentions with getting out of it what saying what I want to get out of it right out of the gate you know if I make a new friend being very intentional with them even the relationships that I already have um if I'm going to go hang out with somebody this weekend I want to be super intentional about my time with them I don't want to just spend the time complaining or venting you know I really want to try and use that time to get to know them better to develop a deeper connection you know when it comes to my health and wellness like if I'm going to go for a walk I want to be intentional about that walk not just like moseying on down the sidewalk or whatever it is but I want to go into it thinking okay you know I'm going to get my heart rate up or I am going to walk so many steps I just want to be so much more intentional and purposeful with everything that I do that obviously includes my relationship with you guys and this channel and everything that the inside the hem brand kind of has become you know last year I was able to launch so many new products for you guys that will really help you guys so faster and better and more efficiently and you know that's what I always always want to bring to this channel so I'm thinking about you know the videos that I post and the type of content I post and being super intentional about that making sure that it's not just a video for the sake of posting a video but it's something super intentional that I think people will get something out of so that's kind of the overarching theme of 2022 is intention if you want leave your word if you do like one of the word things leave your word in the comment section below I someone told me recently that oh you are 62% more likely to be successful with your goal if you tell one person and then you're 80 something percent more likely to be successful if you tell four or more people so put it in the comments and you're already like 80 something percent of the way there with completing your goal right is that's not really what it means but you'll be more successful if you tell more people about it which makes sense because it's a little bit of like an accountability type of thing um plus other people might get inspired by your word too and um you know you might help some people kind of focus in on their year a little bit so leave that in the comment section below um my other sort of goals for 2022 and these are kind of a little bit repetitive you know I say them every year but I think it's important to continue to say them out loud and continue to try and be the best so is that I can possibly be right um and the first one is to better align my sewing plans with the makes at the end of the month so I go in I buy film and publish a video that talks about all my sewing plans and you know me I am not at a loss for ideas and inspiration I got a ton of that but when it comes to execution I might fall a little bit flat so what I'm trying to do is rein in the plans a little bit rein in the ideas a little bit and make sure I'm only planning things that I really genuinely believe I can execute so eight things in a month probably not going to happen but one thing a week maybe I could sew that you know so my plans are only going to be including four or five things instead of like every single idea that I possibly have come up with in the last few days you know what I'm saying so better aligning that you guys will be able to help me stay accountable with that because you see plans video and then you see a makes video so you'll be able to tell me Lindsey you have a lot of plans are you sure you're going to be able to finish all of those um the next one is my works in progress has been a resolution probably since I started sewing but I can't help it I am a work in progress a holic I can't help myself and it doesn't just come in the form of like projects that I bail on midway also comes in the form of my next resolution and that um has to do with like refashioning so I'll get something at Goodwill know what I want to do with it bring it home it doesn't go in my closet because like it's not wearable the way that it is so it goes my work in progress because it needs work and so the work in progress gets very very very large I was very good for about a month and clearing out a ton of works in progress I was documenting the process on tiktok which people seem to really resonate with so people were so inspired that they made their own version of my little work in progress been basically I put all my works in progress in a bin because I felt like I was going in to work on a work in progress project and then I would see all the options I had and got totally overwhelmed by the decision making process so I eliminated that and just put everything in a little bin and I draw out a little card and whatever's on the card is what I would have to work on for that day or week or whatever and that really did help a lot I started on and finished some projects that I would have pushed off because they were more challenging than I was ready for um but so I need to start back up with that again and clear out all of my works in progress you think that oh that's only going to take a couple of months no even if I did a project every single week that still would not be enough that's how bad it is you guys I have more than 52 projects more than 52 unfinished projects it's not not okay not okay so we're gonna do that we're gonna clear them all out but with that comes not adding more not adding more so no goodwill refashioning projects none I can't I can't no matter how inspired I am and how much I see something I'm like oh I could totally make that out of something from goodwill no cannot cannot do it also my little habit that I got into let's see if you guys can see all that back there whoop all that back there are sheets and blankets and different um fabric-y type of things that I got from goodwill my little bun is falling um because you know sheets at goodwill are like two or three dollars a piece and I'm like oh this will make a good muslin or oh this would make a good insert whatever project it is so now I've got all this fabric from goodwill and nothing's happening to it so I need to stop buying sheets stop buying refashioning projects and deal with what I've got now before I can move on so that's a big big big one I know that I'm going to be at goodwill wanting but I have to remember a little bit like the Swedish death cleaning that I talked to you guys about where you clean your home in preparation of your death it's a little morbid but it's actually it's got a great silver lining um look it up if you haven't heard of Swedish death meaning maybe this would be a little bit more like Swedish death not buying you know because it's the same idea you bring it home and then if something happens somebody else has to deal with that you know like no one's going to know what to do with 45 different sheets you know what I'm saying like they're just going to all go back to goodwill um so I need to clear those out and also not add two so that's kind of like two in one um and then continue to work through my fabric stash I have I have last year I killed it um because I only used stashed fabric for the sew together challenge so that was 12 different projects well technically 11 different projects um where I used stashed fabric I don't think I don't think I broke the broke the habit I think I stuck with it so you can see woven's are a little bit heftier because I had more woven's and fewer woven projects for sew together but my knits are looking pretty sparse and I'm very very very happy about that so I want to continue that I want to continue to shop for my stash whenever I can um I have certain fabrics in there that I bought for specific projects trying to knock those out and really clear out the stash and get it to a place where I feel like um I can buy a new fabric again I mean I can't even really tell you the last time I bought fabric well that's not true that's not true I go to Joanne a lot so I need to stop doing that well but do I shop my stash first and then when I can't find anything then I go to Joanne maybe I have to really really think about that um the Joanne sales are very enticing I go in there for patterns and then I'm like I can't think of a pattern that I have or a fabric that I have in my stash that would go with this pattern let me just peruse these little silky knits for a second and then I have a cart full of fabric so yeah really really really trying to focus on shopping the stash first it's unrealistic for me to only use the stash but I can shop the stash first and foremost and then if I don't have anything again that goes back to being intentional when I go to Joanne being intentional about my purchase you know I'm not going in here just to buy things that I like I'm going in here to shop for this one specific project because I already shopped the stash and I know I don't have an appropriate fabric for it maybe that's like the mindset and how intention kind of plays a role in that and then the last thing is and I've been thinking about this a lot lately is trying to sew for my personal style and I know that seems so obvious but my style is still evolving so I feel like when I lived in Charleston five years ago I was very much a fit and flare dress kind of girl pre-pandemic in my early to mid 30s I was going to an office you know I worked at an office all of those kinds of things my lifestyle at that time led me to a sort of dressier girlier style but when I moved to Charlotte I quit my corporate job I do YouTube full time then the pandemic hits and my style becomes like the pendulum just swung and it became very much athleisure very much jeans and a sweater very very very casual and the more that I kept trying to dress myself the more I found myself feeling like that wasn't it either you know that maybe the pendulum had swung too far and so I think what my style for 2022 is turning out to be is something that's a little bit polished a little bit tailored but still leaning to the casual side and I know I'm saying all these key words and all these like buzz words but you guys don't really know what that means it's really hard for me to explain but I'm thinking like you know long line trousers with like you know a sweater with a french tuck I'm thinking like you know flare jeans wide-leg jeans maybe high-waisted things even the way that I incorporate like jumpsuits and stuff like that I think that I still will wear all of those things but in a little bit more of a thoughtful intentional purposeful way instead of just throwing things on with a t-shirt thinking about more streamlined and tailored ways to wear that garment does that make sense maybe not but maybe you guys will just see it as I start to make things and wear things and style them for my make and monday videos maybe but I'm focused on sewing for that I also feel like whereas I used to really love a woven print fabric which is why I have so many of them I'm not entirely sure I'm still into that which could be a problem for my stash because there are a lot of patterns in there I just need to think about how to incorporate patterns when you make a dress obviously you have the whole outfit all in one thing um and you don't have to think about matching but whenever you stop wearing dresses and you use that same fabric to make a skirt or a top now you have to think about what you're going to pair that with so I'm not anti pattern and print and color I just am not only that if I even know what I'm saying but you guys get the idea I'm trying to focus a lot on my personal style I'm turning 40 this year so I you know I want to be a 40 year old who feels like I have a personal style like a style that is mine and maybe that's why it's hard for me to explain because it's not like I can just go on Pinterest and say oh I like that outfit and recreate it I mean yes I could but I want it to be mine I don't want it to be like inspired by you know certain blogger or celebrity or whatever it is I want it to be what feels right for me and that's just really hard to explain right um so those are my goals resolutions whatever you want to call them for 2022 specifically within the sewing room obviously I have health and wellness goals I have relationship goals with Dan I have relationship goals with my friends I have business goals for the channel and the inside the hem brand I have you know all of those as well but I didn't want to bore you guys with those so I just wanted to share with you what my sewing goals will be for this year we'll come back at the beginning of 2023 god willing and um kind of evaluate what like how I did hopefully I have no more works in progress hopefully uh my plans better aligned with my makes um I was not over shopping at goodwill for refashioning fabric or sheets or any of that stuff um using up a lot more of my stash here's the before we should be able to see it be smaller at the end of the year um and then really holding in on what my personal style is having outfits and clothes that when people see me coming even if my have a mask on they know that's there goes Lindsay um but let me know if you have any sewing goals um for yourself for this year any resolutions or like I said before let me know what your word for 2022 is leave them in the comments I love reading them I love starting conversations with you guys in there so be intentional I'm going to be intentional in reading the comments you see see how it starts to blend in and start to make its way bleed into everything that you do the words are helpful so you don't have one maybe try and think of one and leave it in the comments but that is going to do it for me today y'all thank you so much for watching I will see you all very soon bye