 so i have seen the five questions one take tag kind of re-emerge here on youtube and i absolutely love that i did this a few years ago gosh six or seven years ago so i'm excited to do it again we've got a whole new set of questions and i can't wait this is going to be one take truly there's not going to be any edits at all so i'm just going to try not to get too rambly um and also not say anything dumb all right the first question is what has your sewing journey looked like when did you start sewing who taught you any breaks etc already the girls are barking normally i would have edited that out but here we are um okay so my sewing journey i moved from columbia south carolina where i spent most of my life to charleston back in 2009 2010 and obviously didn't know anyone didn't have any friends there um kind of moved for work moved with dan you know a bunch of stuff like that so i had always kind of wanted to try sewing but it never it just never presented itself as an opportunity so i went to meetup.com to try and see like how can i make people here in charleston and came across this crafting meetup and the very next meetup that they had was at a sewing store i had like a quilt shop called five eight seams it's still there in charleston and they were going to be making a tote bag so i was like oh okay well this is like perfect i can try out sewing and um then also meet some new people so i showed up there we made tote bags it was great i met friends one of which i am still friends with to this day one of my dear dear friends and the very next day i went and bought a sewing machine i just knew that i loved it i loved the idea of picking out the fabrics and coordinating things and then obviously taking a flat fabric and turning it into something 3d i was just obsessed with that idea so literally took my sewing machine back to that store the next day like in the box because they had everything set up for us and so i was like i don't know how to plug this in i don't know how to turn it on like certainly don't know how to thread it like what's a needle you know all that kind of stuff so they helped me with that and then i continued to take sewing classes there for the next almost two years i kind of kept um graduating from like 101 to 201 to like an advanced class where they had seamstress who did like alterations and stuff she came in once a week and taught like an advanced class so um but once i sort of graduated from the advanced class i was really left to my own devices and so started you know looking at books and blogs and youtube and stuff like that and taught myself everything else from from those resources i have never taken a break but you know i got started later in life i want to say i was 30 by that point probably um so so yeah that's my and of course i've sewn almost every day since which has been completely awesome all right the next question is describe your sewing space where is it is it shared or private messy or clean and etc all right so this we are in my sewing space it has moments of organization and then moments of an organization what's happening back here this all this right here needs to find a home so i go in between being really organized and then spaces that are just like so completely messy but it is in our apartment um we have a two bedroom apartment the second bedroom is exclusively my sewing room and my youtube studio we got it with the intention of doing that like we were looking for a second we wanted a second bathroom anyways because the girls are well back then when we got the apartment we only had sonny and he is litter was litter box trained the new the girls that i have now biscuit and honey they are litter box trained so we wanted a second bathroom for them so we're not sharing bathroom space with dogs um but it's really hard to find a one bedroom two bath anyway so we said let's go ahead and just get a two bedroom two bath and use the second bedroom as your studio exclusively private space this is not used for anything else and i know i am so blessed like i know i i once when i first started sewing i lived in a like 800 square foot apartment where i cleaned out my pantry and used that for fabric storage my entire island all the storage underneath was used for sewing stuff i cut out fabric on my island so i know what it's like to not have a dedicated sewing space i had to put up my sewing machines every single time after i got done using them so i've been on both sides and i can tell you yes i am aware this is a great great great luxury and i am so so so blessed to have it i don't know if i'll have it forever like if we go to our next apartment maybe you know we won't be able to have a second bedroom i'm not sure so um for now i'm loving it taking advantage of it and not taking it for granted at all all right third question what is it like to be a sewing youtuber does it meet your expectations is you have is it how you thought it would be in a reaction from others so being a sewing youtuber is very interesting especially i think i realized it the most when we moved here to charlotte because you know you're meeting new people moving to a new city and inevitably during the course of small talk it comes up well what do you do for work and so then i would tell them oh i have a youtube channel and instantly whatever other conversation was going on everyone's like what and they want to know what the what the youtube channel is for um and i tell them it's about sewing and of course they're like sewing i thought only grandmas did sewing and i'm like no all kinds of people do sewing and well what do you sew i sell my own clothes are you so did you sew what you're wearing yes i did oh my god i can't and they'll come it's it never it's copy paste every single time that comes up that's how the conversation goes so that has been interesting to get used to like people being so interested in what you do for work like before when i was a social media manager it was like oh you know a few questions about like twitter or whatever but this is like a whole other level of interest because it is so unique and not i mean people have told me before oh i always assumed that when someone said they were a professional youtuber that that just really meant they were unemployed and i was like well i mean i guess technically you don't have an employer but you're self-employed um so they just thought that i guess they they sort of i just really hope they survive this biscuit biscuit this is why one take is really bad for youtubers oh my gosh okay um carrying on um where was i oh about yeah so they just kind of discredit it as a job and so i've had to like explain to people several times no no no like i support myself on my youtube channel i explain to them how with the sponsors and the videos and the ads and all that kind of stuff and then they kind of get it which is cool um so yeah so the reaction is broad um and always very interesting which makes for a very interesting conversation about work oh my gosh i'm gonna have to go get them hey hey hey hey hey that's right come on honey come on honey man you say one take and that's what you get um all right so the fourth question is describe your most memorable project big event total fail biggest success so i've told this story before um back when i was taking those sewing classes i was still in the 101 phase and i just had this hair brained idea i don't know if i saw it on pinterest or what but i wanted a pleated skirt first of all what why did i want a pleated skirt no idea but i wanted a pleated skirt and i wanted the middle pleat on the inside to be a different fabric i just thought this was going to be like the coolest skirt in the world and when i took classes at that shop especially in the 101 series they highly encourage you to buy fabric from them to use during the class and it was pretty much i don't know if it was like a hard and fast rule but it kind of felt that way and so i had on top of that decided to use a quilter weight cotton to make this pleated skirt the women that were teaching me had no idea how to construct this concept that i had in my mind and so we were all kind of just winging it and as you can imagine i mean it was wearable in the end i had a skirt that i could wear but it was weird and wacky and like just so strange the concept ended up being strange the execution ended up being strange i don't even know um but that stands out to me as like my most memorable project just because i feel like it was one of those times where i was really like leaning into the creativity aspect of sewing and realized you know yes you can be creative but you can't just like throw all the rules out the window either like you have to have a balance between creativity and the rules they may not survive this video i'm being perfectly honest they were just asleep when i started so i don't even know um good thing is we are on our last question here this one is one is what is one quote saying or piece of advice that you've gotten that resonates with you and your sewing slash youtube success hands down at the top of my head the one that comes to me is to thine own self be true and of course this is relevant in all aspects of your life but whenever it comes to sewing if you are not sewing things that are authentically yourself you're going to make them and no matter how well they're made no matter how beautiful they are they're just going to hang in your closet because they're not uh going to fit into your lifestyle they're not going to be things that you reach for naturally they're not going to be things that you're like really attracted to on a practical level um and so even though i am like googly eyes over some of the really really nice high end fashion design looks i know that that's not what i should be sewing um every now and again i'll take on like a really tailored coat or something like that to help sort of scratch that itch but you know making gowns and things like that just isn't isn't for me um the same goes with like some of these trends that we come across like some of the trends are really really fun and really cool and really interesting um but practically they're not for me which is why i've sat on this channel a thousand times like can i wear this to target like that is my that's how i determine if it is going to fit into my life or not because if i can wear it to target i can pretty much wear it anywhere um i can dress it up i can dress it down and it will fit into my life and the same thing goes for you know being a youtuber you know if you are not yourself your true authentic self people will see straight through you and you guys wouldn't want to watch a channel of someone who you thought was being super fake um so that's why i always trying to bring my i mean maybe it is like the best version of myself for the most part but it is truly me with my messy room and my crazy dogs and everything in between so to thine own self be true has helped me get through so many sort of stress inducing nervous times in my life um trying to figure out who i am being in new cities and going through new experiences and meeting new people if you are always true to yourself then everything else kind of doesn't matter or just falls falls away you know what i mean because if you're yourself then that's all that should really matter what a great way to end the video right are you guys feeling all warm and fuzzy chill bumps maybe i'm so like deep and poetic right um but yeah that's it those are my five questions one take i've seen a bunch of different versions of this kind of popping around so you can search the hashtag five questions one take but i want to personally invite and tag britney j jones to do this with me i know she's very busy with her brick and mortar sewing shop now but britney is real easy to do takes a few minutes no take so i hope that she will participate in this and give us her take on these five questions but that is going to do it for me today y'all thank you so much for watching i'll see you very soon bye