 Hi you guys! Welcome back to Inside the Hymn. I have got a busy month ahead of me. I am going to be re-prioritizing my sewing for 2018 because as part of my sewing resolutions, which you'll see a video on here maybe next week, I have got some plans and some goals and some resolutions that I really want to tackle in 2018. So January is part of the year. You can't just ignore January so I'll be implementing some of that stuff into my makes for January. So without further ado, here are the things that I am going to be working on this month and we're going to start kind of in reverse order maybe. First up is my works in progress and you remember last year this was a huge resolution for me and there were moments where I nailed it and there were moments when I failed like oh that's really cute nailed it and failed it. I have to work on that anyways I digress. So the first two that I'm going to work on in January are really simple because I want to start off with a bang and I want to feel really really confident going into the start of the year. So they're just two mending projects. One of them is on the dress form behind me. All I need to do is shorten the shoulders of it. It's just they're way way way too long and I didn't make a muslin so I didn't know that and I was wearing it and it just starts to hang really low. So I just need to take up the shoulders. I've already unpicked them. Literally all I have to do is zip them through my serger but for whatever reason that's taken me months and months and months at this point so I'm not going to act like that some sort of like gift that it's so simple to do and it's a no-brainer because I haven't done it yet so there are plenty of excuses as to why I haven't gotten to it thus far. The next one is I called this the Charles my Charleston dress because it's made with the art gallery Charleston fabric and I didn't realize this either. I might have even made a muslin of this one and didn't realize it but the center front I needed to take in like a lot. You can see I have like safety pins holding it like tighter now. So I just need to unpick this and gather it more so that I can take in I mean we're talking like maybe an inch and a half or something that needs to come in in this area so that whenever I lean over it doesn't like basically fall to the ground. I mean it is very gapy there. So I just need to do like some afterthought reshaping. I do love this pattern though but with like the little you know roost midriff I guess you call it but yeah I just need to unpick this and tighten this whole thing up so that it doesn't gape so much. So yeah those are those two things that I need to tackle and hopefully I can do that like in a day and be done with it and feel good that you know I am tackling the works in progress slash mending bin. This is one that I am 90% actually 95% of the way done with. I posted this on my Instagram it was the twirly one but I need to hand sew the lining into place right now it's only held down by pins and I just need to sit down watch a movie or some Netflix or whatever and finish that up. Literally the sleeves are on and hemmed the skirt is hemmed like everything is ready to go and this one will be done. I love this fabric so much I got it on our trip to Montreal not last year but sorry not in 2017 but in 2016 or maybe it was early 2017 I can't remember exactly when we went um and it is a I think it's a cotton and silk blend twill um and it's just it was a dream to work with it's a dream to wear um easily one of the most expensive fabrics I've ever worked with it was a gift from my boyfriend I never would have spent that amount of money on fabric myself um but I really love what I made and because they sell in meters and like I'm not too good at that conversion I have like a whole bunch like a yard and a half left over so I think I'll be able to make maybe some shorts if I can tackle those um this summer so I'll have two garments made of like a really cool fun fabric that I really really love so yeah just gotta get that squared away um now we move on to okay so I talked to you guys about this a little bit in my favorites my 2017 favorites video about how I've been really getting into like the home decor thing a little bit um because of my cricket maker so in the in 2018 I want to kind of try and add that into my sewing plans more often little little projects that take a couple of hours at most um and first up is um pillows for my sofa my main sofa in my living room so I got this um I think that it's some kind of linen I got it from Joanne it's navy I have kind of like a navy as an accent color kind of all throughout the apartment not so much in here but in the living room in the bedroom um definitely got a navy accent thing going on so I just want to make some throw pillows my sectional is brand new I got it when I moved here because my itty bitty sofa that was in the itty bitty apartment before this one is now in the sewing room and I needed like a much bigger sofa to fill the space um in the living room because it's like the living room is as big as almost my entire old apartment um and it came with pillows but they suck they're like the same fabric as the sofa itself and just factory and they're lame so um I made some pillows for Thanksgiving and Christmas and now I just want to make some that would be there like year-round um that I use all the time when there's not like a special occasion holiday type thing going on so I got this navy and then I've got this really pretty metallic iron-on vinyl from Cricut and I want to do something on the pillows but I'm not sure if I want to do like symbols like I don't know arrows or I don't really know I have kind of like I'm doing the very cliche kind of farmhouse sort of I've got like um raw wood shelves um with black metal brackets um and then like a lot of like wood like the coffee table is um sort of restoration hardware um what's that like train track trellis um you know big chunky wood um coffee table and then um got some like mixed metals like I've spray painted some things gold the same gold that I used for the um light fixture in here I love that gold spray paint um so yeah I don't it's more like a glammed up version of that because the rug is kind of like um Indian inspired red it's got a hot pink in it and also a little bit of navy so yeah I don't know I don't know what I'm gonna do with this maybe I don't want to do words necessarily so it has to be a symbol of some kind but maybe like arrows or maybe even just like little triangles like make a cute little design with triangles or it might be cute to like juxtapose all of the like manly metals and thick wood pieces with like some kind of florally like design like almost make a print with this that's a thought anyways I'm like brainstorming sitting here on the video that's a waste of your time I apologize but that's how my mind works um so yeah I'm gonna make I think there are four three three four pillows I can't remember three or four pillows out of this um navy linen so that should be fun um I've also got my ginger jeans cut out um ready to go so I'm gonna sew those up in January it'll be like my wearable muslin but I also ordered the ames jeans pattern from cashmere so I kind of want to pull these pieces and look at them side by side with the muslin that I like my final final muslin that I've gotten with the ginger jeans and see how they compare um I might try and make these just to kind of show myself and show you guys um how they compare to my first pair of gingers um because I recognize that not everybody has the same fitting issues as I do and God bless you for that um so I thought maybe I don't know I have this so we'll see we'll see what I end up doing with it I'm only hesitant because I literally spent hours on the ginger jeans muslin and I'm not really feeling up for that again not so soon it's like too early I still have like the PTSD from the from the ginger alterations so but I will have some jeans at the end of the month which will be really cool and really fun and then I've got my co-mails denim that I won from the ginger jeans party so I need to figure out something to make with that stuff because it's so nice so yeah so we'll see where I end up with with jeans at the end of the month um we are also in a brand new year of sew my style um I might have fallen off the wagon there at the end of the year and that's fine I'm okay with that but it's a new year and kind of a whole new sew my style so blue bird fabrics was hosting it last year she cannot take on that responsibility this year and so um Jessica from Little Miss Lorraine is um kind of heading it up and then she's got like a team of girls that are um helping support everything so the first pattern for january is the sunny top which is adorable because my dog's name is sunny but he's s o in and y and this is su in and y but still sounds the same he gets excited when I talk about it um it's a sunny top by friday patterns I'd never heard of them before she's got some really cute stuff um when I went to get the top what's a top or a dress um but when I went to pick that up I was looking at her other patterns and she's got some cute stuff so I want to see how this one works out and how like the instructions are and how piecing everything together is you know just get away the land for her patterns and see if I like it and if I do I will grab some more but um so it's basically a knit top or dress um like a knit a knit t-shirt dress t-shirt dress is that what they're called yeah so I can't wear t-shirt dresses because of my lovely lumps and bumps I just don't feel comfortable wearing such a thin knit over my bottom half so um I'm going to be making the t-shirt the top version um and I've got this gorgeous modal from style maker fabrics I ordered this maybe I think it was around the time of her spring collection release um but it's the perfect t-shirt material perfect t-shirt fabric so I'm excited in this navy and I thought I could wear that with like jeans like and it's not navy this is not navy this is olive um and I thought I could wear it with jeans like olive navy they go really well together and then it would also transition really well into spring um you know all it was basically a neutral nowadays so I thought I'd make it out of that for my first go and see what I think um okay and then lastly I um did an instagram story poll um a few days ago asking you guys what I should make next and everyone voted for this Cynthia Rowley um dress but I'm going to do the two shoulder version not the one shoulder version this pattern is designed for pontinettes which is really cool so you guys have seen this fabric before and I still have yet to decide what to do with it but I think this is going to be it it is the one with the white and gold bows that I got from fabric mart I'm pretty sure it was like a Maggie London print um so I want to make that out of this Cynthia Rowley dress I just think it'd be really cute with like the um circle skirt that it has and the waistband and all that jazz I think it will be really cute so there you have it those are all of my plans for January um I've got a lot of things that I'll be making and I'm really excited to make them I've also got a lot of fun videos for you guys coming up so I'm just really excited to kick off the new year and I hope you are too so thank you so much for watching and I will see you all very soon bye