 Hi you guys! It's Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. Today I am so excited because today is my day on the Style Maker Fabrics Fall blog tour. The tour has been going on for a little more than a week now. I think I am the eighth or ninth person on the tour. Everyone that is a part of the tour is really great. They are awesome sewists and make great things. So I felt a lot of pressure to make something really really awesome. I really let the fabric choose the pattern. Style Maker Fabrics has such great quality fabrics. I mean you guys have seen through the swatch videos that I've done and then the two other times that I've been part of her seasonal tour. The fabrics that she brings in really are great quality. And so I thought instead of going in this with a pattern in mind and trying to find a fabric to match it, I would see which of the fabrics spoke to me and then find a pattern to match that. So as I'm looking through the fabrics that we could choose from, I'm noticing that she has these pontinettes that come in so many different colors. Gosh, there was gray. There was like three shades of red. There was this really pretty teal. I think there was like a purple-y color. There were a lot of different colors to choose from. So that got me thinking and I was like, oh maybe I can color block something. That would be really cool. And at that same time a vogue had just come out with their fall or pre-fall patterns. I can't remember which one. And so I found this one from Tom and Linda Platt. I have made a couple of vogue designer patterns before but never Tom and Linda Platt before. So I was interested and you can see that the model definitely has color blocked her dress and it looks a lot like Ponte to me the way it was draping and everything else. So I thought, okay, I think I'm heading in the right direction with this. So I told Michelle that's what I wanted to do and had her help me find the colors to match together because there really were so many. I knew I wanted like a bit of a monochromatic look with an accent. So we decided on, I think her mom was the one who ultimately paired these three together, but we decided on my favorite color which is this like burgundy wine color. And then this like pinky red and then this really pretty teal color. And so that was what was going to make up the dress. But I was really nervous because this is a silhouette that safely I can say I never wear. I think it's because I've never been able to find this silhouette in a store that fit me. It always would fit here and being too small on the hips or fit in the hips and I'd be like drowning in fabric up here. And so it was just never anything that I went for whenever I was sewing. But because of that, I was also really hesitant about making it because I just didn't know how many adjustments were going to be needed. So I had her send me another Ponte, a different kind of Ponte that she had, not the same as this one, but a Ponte number less. And I made a muslin. So I wanted to show you the muslin. It's on the dress form behind me because it's what the dress looks like, it not color blocked as a solid, which I think is just as beautiful. I think that if you made it and maybe did piping in the seams, that would also be gorgeous. But I just wanted you to see in case color blocking wasn't your thing, what it would look like as a solid. I also want to point out that I did cut the muslin. Like I graded out one or two sizes. I think just one size from the waist to the hip and didn't have to make any adjustments to that muslin at all. So that was good because I was worried that it was going to get really complicated if I had to make any adjustments in the bust. But it took a simple grade out and that was all it needed. I will say so the Ponte obviously has some stretch it to it. So that makes it a little bit more forgiving. The lining, it's fully lined and the lining is out of a woven, which isn't stretchy. So I did have to let the front seams and the side seams of the lining out maybe quarter inch each, getting me an extra inch or so around the front. Because when I sat down, like I couldn't sit like this. It wasn't forgiving enough. So I had to let the lining out a little bit. So the pattern really was drafted really really well. Putting together all of these pieces was a little bit like a puzzle. A little bit like a quilter would piece something together. You have to do this seam before you can do the other seams. And if you've got them flipped upside down, which is easier to do than it seems, it would be off. But all the notches, all the everything really lined up beautifully, making it so that if you pay attention and study the diagrams and trusted the pattern, it would come together well. And it really did. It made it much easier than it looks. So yeah, I mean I'm super super happy with how the pattern turned out. Okay, and on a style maker's site, it she has available white, sangria and sangria is like the pinky red that is in the middle section of my dress. There is wine, which is the main part of my dress. There is scarlet, which is a true red. It's like red red. Also there's teal, which is the accent color on mine. There's navy. There is plum, which is like a pretty purple color. There is also two kinds of gray. Yeah, and then there's black. So there are several different colors to choose from. I think it would be really pretty to do a white, black, and charcoal color block dress just like this, where maybe the body was charcoal, and then this stripe was black, and then this stripe was white. I think that would be really pretty. Also navy with just about anything is really pretty. Navy, charcoal, and I don't know, even black, that would be kind of like a dark moody version of the dress. That plum color is really, really pretty. The plum in the navy, or the navy and this wine color, I don't know. There are seriously so many different combinations because she has so many different colors, whether you're doing this dress or whether you're going to color block a different pattern altogether. I mean, they have those really pretty ones now where you could like with the inset panel, and so you could do that like in black and then do everything else in red. That would be really striking. There are just so many really great options for color blocking out there. Combined with all of the colors that she has available in this Ponti knit, I really feel like this is your best opportunity to really make something really striking that you know the fabrics all go together. It's the same weight Ponti. You don't have to have a guessing game as to whether or not one's going to be brushed, or one's going to be heavier, or one is going to be thinner, or lighter, or whatever. Like you know they're all the same kind of Ponti just in different colors. So they are made for color blocking. You know what I mean? They're made to go together. But aside from color blocking, the Pontis themselves were super easy to sew with. I did everything on my regular sewing machine because I didn't need to finish the edges because it's fully lined. I did everything on my regular sewing machine with a stretch needle maybe size 90. Pressing was not difficult. You couldn't go super high heat because it would burn. But with a little bit of pressure and a little bit of steam, the seams did press really well. I mean you can tell here how flat all of the seams are. So I feel like that went in really well. It just behaved when I was cutting it. It just you know laid flat. It wasn't shifty. It wasn't any of those things that you might come across. Things like setting in the sleeve was super easy. It's just you know in general Ponti is a really easy forgiving fabric to work with. So that is probably all I can think to say about the fabric and the pattern. Although it's not a silhouette I'm used to, I feel very comfortable and very confident in it. I think that is largely attributed to the Ponti and maybe even the quality of the Ponti. It just kind of you know just kind of lays and goes over maybe less flattering body parts and kind of smooths everything out a little bit. You know what I mean? So I'm really grateful for that. But I hope that you like this dress as well. If you have any questions about the Tom and Linda Platte pattern or of course any of StyleMakers Ponti's please let me know. I will be reviewing the comments. If you have a question that I don't know I can get Michelle in touch with you. She's superb. Like superb with customer service. She always responds really quickly. So I'll have everything linked in the description box below. This is how you access the description box right here. In the description box I will have links to the pattern and I will have links to the Ponti's that I used. I'll also link to my swatch video that goes over her entire fall collection. And yeah that'll be that. And like I said if you have any questions let me know. Otherwise thank you so much for watching. I hope you like my dress as much as I do and I will see you next time. Bye!