Hello friends, I am Sanjay Bukta. I welcome you on Sanjay Bukta textbook. In this video, I am going to explain how that insert an item into a link list. So basically in this video, we will tell you creation of link list with the help of C language. So first of all, I am going to tell you how we can create a structure so that we can create room with the help of the structure. Right. So, so this is a data link when name of structure is node. Inside this, I'm taking a variable of integer line and structure node pointer link. So basically this type of structure where the type of structure is also written inside it is known as self-referential structure. So this type of structure is known as self-referential structure. So whenever you will be creating a mapping block or you will be looking at mapping with the help of structure. So what will happen? It will be provided to two memory spaces, one is of integer and one is of type structure node. And that will be a pointer that can hold entrance of another structure that will be related to this data mesh. So what will happen? It will create a node which will be divided into two parts. First part will be known as info. Setting part will be a pointer and it's name will be link. So through this structure, this node will be created. Now, whenever you will be creating one more node, whenever you will be creating one more node. So basically it is known as node number one. This is node number two. So whenever you will be creating this node, so it will also be having info and pointer link. So what will happen? This nodes base address or building address will be stored here. So for example, it's base address is 1001, it's base address is 2001. So this is the information on value part, integer type. This pointer link will be stored here. Let's say it is 20 and this will be having number. So this way if you are on this node, so through this node link pointer you can move to this node. If it is pointing to another node, so you can move to better. So this way basically the concept of link is stopped and to create these nodes we need to reuse this like a structure. So now you might be thinking like how we can create the mapping blocks. So for that purpose, you will be writing a function. So after declaring this structure, you can write a function and name of that function will be get. So get node is a name of function. It's written like a struct node pointer. So basically this get node function will be created in a node. This get node function will be created in a node and this get node function will be regarding the base address of this memory that is allocated to this get node function. That's why its written type is struct node pointer. Now inside this function, I'm creating one more pointer that is struct node pointer t. Now I'm going to allocate memory to this key pointer. So struct node pointer for memory allocation and using add-off function. Inside add-off and passing size of now size of struct node. So we need to create memory for this structure. So it's data type is struct node so I'm passing that. So size of this can be total amount of memory required to this struct node. Then this memory will be allocated at this address will be like ask it to struct node pointer and this address will be assigned to t pointer. And then I can write return t. So wherever you want to insert a particular node at any position in your list. Whether it is first location or it is last location or in the middle of the list. Then before insertion you need to call add-off function. Add-off function will be creating a node and it will get a base address of this t pointer. So this way we can create a particular node in c language. So I hope you understood this function and add-off is used for dynamic memory allocation. So whenever memory is required you can go on this function. And internally add-off will be allocating memory equal to the size of struct node. So this is about add-off. Now we are going to discuss three things. So first I'm going to tell you how to write add-off function. Add-off means whenever you will be calling this function the node will be inserted at the first position of the list. Second will be at last. So in this case we will be inserting node at the last position and third will be at after. So in this case we will be inserting a node after a particular position that is specified by the user. So right now I'm going to write the function for add-off. So I'm going to add these things. So after implementing add-off again I will tell you how this link list will be created. So now I'm going to write add-off function. So it's written I will use that node pointer. It's name will be add-off. Let me write it. So add node pointer. Name of function is add-first. It will receive parameter as struct node pointer. So it will be stored into start and the item that we are going to insert. And then here we will give it its definition. So I am using this as an add-off. So let's assume it is written here. And sign-off right. So we are going to use this case that's why I have modified this. So now what we are going to do? First we need to create a node so that we can insert that node into the link list. And this add-first function will be called from main function. So main function will be having a pointer of add-struct node. So initially that pointer will be like this. So in main function you can create a start node pointer. Let's say its name is start and initially it will be having null. So we are passing that into a start pointer and item that we are going to insert. Then struct node pointer new. So this is another pointer that will occupy memory. So now we need to call this get node function. So new get node. So this get node function will be called it will create a memory block. That memory block address will be added into key. So key will be returning that address and that address will be storing to new. So for example, let's say this is start and this is new. So new will be pointing to an active node. It's base address is 1001. So this way it will be. So new is pointing to this memory block which is divided into two parts info and date. And it is storing into new and start is null. Now what we need to do? We need to insert this pointer to this pointer. So that the new node will be inserted into our actual image. So before that we need to write if new equals null. So if new is null it means memory is not updated. So you can print that. Or whatever message you want to display you can write. So function will be calculated here and the remaining statement will not be executed. But if this condition is false then it means memories are located. And we can insert that a node into the image. So first what we need to do is to fill this information part. So you will write new info equals to item. Now again you need to notice one thing. Whenever you access member of the structure to its pointer. So new is a pointer of structure type and info is the member of structure which is mentioned here. So if you want to access member of structure to its pointer then you need to do this arrow operation. And how you can create this arrow? iPhone and then give the answer. So let's see active scan. So this scan will just go in. Now what we need to do? We need to insert this node into this radius. So let's say this link is blank. So in that case this node will be passed over and its next will be nothing. But if link list is already having some nodes. For example because not enough and if it is having one more node. So what will happen? Its address will be here. So what we need to do? We need to make this node as passed over. So this node's address will be here. And the address of this node will go to here. So that it can become second node. So now we need to write the statement for this. So what I will do? New link equals to start and start equals to here. So this we need to do. So for example its base address is 2001. Which is stored here. This is a node which is already available to link list. And we need to insert 1001 nodes before this. So with this new link will be start. So start is having 2001. So it will move here. And new will go to start. So new is having 2001. So it will move here. So now start is pointing to 1001. And 1001 link is pointing to 1001. So this gives you break. And it will point to this. And this will point to this.  At first position is now on first position in the node which was implicated earlier. And which was on first position right now it is on second position. And this new is temporarily implicated in this function. So it will be of no use right now. And from here you can return start. Because start is now pointing to new location. So you need to return the start. So that it can be received in the beginning. So this way I implemented and first logic. So I hope you understood how we can insert a node at the first position of the node. So after this now I am going to write a second method that is related to add last. So in that case we are going to insert node at the last position of the link is right. So in this we inserted first position now we need to add it to the last position. And then we need to insert the node right. So I am going to erase this. So now I am using a second function that will be inserted at the end of the list. So for our demonstration purpose I already created this. So this is first node base address is 1001. So start second node third node. So first node link is having address of second node. Second node link is having address of third node. Now we need to insert new node at this position right. So written name is struct node pointer method name is add last. And it will be receiving two parameters for struct node pointer, start and end item. So item will be the value that we are going to insert. Now I am going to take care of two pointers for struct node pointer new. And second one will be feature right. So new for creation of new node that will be itself and feature for creating a new. So now new equals to get new. So this method will be executed it will create a new node and its address will be available in the new pointer. So for example this is new pointer new node will be created. Let's suppose it's base address is 4001 and it will be available in the new. Now the address which is available in the new we need to store in the link of 3001. So third node link will be having address of this newly created. That is right now available into new. So before insertion we need to check if new is covering first from now. So we can print overflow later right. So if this happens and this will be created and your method will be terminated. If it is false it means memories are available. So we already know this node will go to last location right. So we can directly write some statements. New of info equals to item and new of link equals to null. Because this node will be placed at last position for its link will be null and its info will be having the item. So let's say item is 14. So 14 will be stored here and this will be null. But these two statements right. Now we have two options. First if your link list is empty. If your link list is empty it means you are inserting this node for the first time. So in that case your start will be null. And second is your link list is already having various nodes right. So after this we can check if start is equal to null. If start is equal to null. So we can directly assign the value which is available to new to start. So you can write start equals to new. So remember this. This is the case where your link list is empty. It is not having any particular address. So we simply assign value to start. Now as if link list is not null. So right now in the case link list is having three nodes. So now what we need to do? We need to traverse each node and we need to move to this location. So that we can assign address of new at this location right. So now I am assigning pdr equals to start. So start is pointing to 1001. So I have one more pointer that is pdr. So pdr will be pointing to 1001. So for example this is pdr and it is pointing to 1001 right. Now I am writing a new by pdr link not equal to null. So if pdr link is not equal to null then we need to iterate pdr equals to pdr link. So this is a loop which will repeat only this line right. So right now pdr is 1001. Its link is not null. So pdr will move to its link. So pdr is 1001 and its link partner is 2001. So next time it will be having 2001. Now check pdr link not null. So pdr link so 200 and its link is 3001. That will be assigning to pdr. So this time value of pdr will be 3001. Again check pdr link so 3001 is null. So this loop will be permanent right. So pdr is pointing to 3001 this loop. Now what we need to do we need to assign a new at this position. So we get simply right after completion of this loop pdr link equals to null. And remember one thing why loop is repeating this line only. And this is separate from the why loop after completion of this loop this statement will be executed. Then you get knows as far and at last 2001 start. So this way I explain you how you can add a node at the last position of the link list with the help of this code. So again we use this get node function so that we can allocate memory. And then with that allocation of that memory we exerted a node at the last portion right. So I hope you understood two methods now. First was at first and second is at last. Now we have third and after right. So before starting that I am going to remove this then we will be at the static test. So now I am going to explain the concept of add after. So I have third method is add after so why add after. So this time it is why because we are not going to change the start. So we don't need to return this to main function. And parameters can be struck node pointer start in item and in position. So position will be the node after that we need to insert a new node. So let's say position is 2. It means after this node after this node here we need to insert a new node right. And in previous method where I created new node which was pointing to 4001 right. So this was the page and its address was 4001. So I didn't mention like this will be holding that as 4001. So new will be removed because new was created to that function. So now when we assign 4001 into this location. So it means this location is pointing to this. And this is the fourth node and it is containing another interlink. So here link list will be done. So this way we can connect that. So now what we need to do we need to insert new nodes but then these two nodes right. So again I need to create new more add. I need to put that nodes address here in between so that that can be inserted in between two nodes. So now I'm going to write the statements for that purpose. So start node pointer new and pointer media. So these two are pointers I created right now. So in this way it was I for I121. So I initialize with 1 and here I am assigning pdr and start. Then condition will be I have an position. So if I is larger position then let's move this way too. Then increment I plus plus and pdr equals to pdr name. I will be implemented by one and pdr will move to next node. Now inside this if pdr there were any questions. So let's say in this link list we have four nodes and you mentioned position as five. So in that case pdr will be pointing to null position at a particular time because fifth node is not available. So if pdr is null at any point of time before moving to a particular position that we are searching here. So you can write an address no such location or position and then you can write data. So this is the loop to which we can move to a particular position after which we are going to insert a particular loop. So let's say position is 2 and pdr equals to start. So this is pdr it is having 1001 this is start position is 2 I is 1 so it is true pdr is not null. So I will be implemented I will be true and pdr will be having pdr name. So pdr is 1001 its length is 2001 so pdr will be pointing to 2001 then I will be true. So this condition which it was it means finally pdr is pointing to 2001. So pdr is pointing to 2001 it means after this code we are going to insert a particular loop. So now after this loop what we need to do we need to create a new node getNode. So getNode will be a new node. So let's suppose this is new this is our new node its base address is 5001 which is available into new with the help of this. And here you can check if new the value equals to null. So again you can write print as 0. So I already explained to you this why we implemented at first and at last. So if memory is not available sufficient amount of memory is not available then new will be 100 null it means new node is not created. So you can write print as 0 and you can validate your method here. Now first we need to fill this. So I am writing new arrow info equals to item. So item let's suppose 50 people sir so 50 people store here new of info. So new is pointing to 5001 it is in position with 350. Now this node will be inserted here so what we need to do this node will become third node and this will become fourth. So this fourth node address will be here and this will become third node. So its address will go to second nodes link part right. So right now this node address is available here and we need to shift it here. So pdr is pointing to 2001 so through pdr link we can assign that address into link of new. So you can write new link equals to pdr link. So pdr is pointing to 2001, 2001 link is 3001 which will store here and this position is new link. So new link is now pointing to pdr link address 3001 it means this node will point to 2001. Now we need to place this node address here so that this will be connected to the link. So this location is pdr link and we need to assign new here. So pdr link equals to new. So new is having 50001 and here pdr link will be having 5000. So this node is disconnected so 2001 link is 50001 so it will move here. After this we are 50001 and 5001 link is 30001 so it will move to this. So this way you can see this node is inserted in this. After second position so this is third node this is fourth node and this is fifth node. So this way your third method is complete which is add after. So we inserted a new node after second node with the help of this node. So this way I hope you understood all three methods like how to insert a node on first position, how to insert a node at the last of the link and how to insert a node in between the link list. So this way I hope you understood all three methods that I implemented in the C language. Now if you want to watch how we can implement all the methods including that structure and with the help of main function. So if you want to watch that complete program so that program is available in another playlist that is related to DSA implementation using ID integrated development environment. And the link of that playlist is available in the description of this video. So you can open that playlist and you will find a video related to complete implementation of link list with the help of ID. So watch that where you will learn how we can execute this complete method. So this was the board explanation and that will be implementation of ID. So if you want to watch that video you can go to the description of this video. And if you want to watch algorithmic implementation of these things add first, add last and add after. So that playlist link is also available in the description of this video. So I hope you understood whatever I explained in this video. Thank you for watching this video.


Hi you guys welcome back to another first impression review video where I take a look at every single pattern in an entire collection and review them for just fit, fabrication, overall design, and just any organic thoughts that pop in my mind as I am looking through the patterns. We'll be taking a look at Simplicity's fall collection today. And if you like these videos I have a ton of them not just for the big four but also for indie patterns just check the playlist that I have this one attached to. Okay first up we have a Mrs. Blouse with collar sleeve and hemline variations. This feels like wow like a lot of just yeah a lot hold on a sophisticated silhouette with corseted waist detail. Okay so they're trying to incorporate the corset trend from spring and summer into fall. It looks like they're also incorporating the peplum trend and it also has a collar and a sleeve cuff. There's just a lot happening in one little pattern here. They're sure it has a button front closure collar or collar band options long sleeves with cuffs or sleeveless and hemline variations. Views B have contrast bodice views A and C has pentucked bodice. Okay so yeah like I said we've got a collared button-down shirt with a ton of pentucks giving sort of the illusion of a corseted top. I mean I actually if I'm only looking at it like this I like this part a lot. I think I don't like this down here just me personally it just feels like another element like collar corset peplum asymmetric hem like one of the things has to go right. Let's see what some of the other variations look like that's her version. The line drawing is super cute you can see it has like a drop shoulder. Here's this version which I'm not entirely sure. I'm guessing that's like a contrasting fabric without the pentucks so it gives the illusion why didn't they make this one? This one's way cooler than the one that they actually made. Here's a version in gingham. The gingham is not translating with the pentucks at all but you can see it's cuter. We don't have the sleeve. We don't have the asymmetrical hem. It's helping a little bit once you start taking away one or two of the elements. That's there's that's a lot that's just a lot a lot. The way it's styled everything about it is just too much. There's the back and then here is the envelope back. I'm curious about B suggested fabrics are cotton blends double gauze shirting fabrics and wall yeah all of your like light to midway sort of stable woven. They don't have separate fabric listed for B though. Notions AB 13 buttons and then C has eight buttons because you don't have the ones for your cuff. So B is not a contrast fabric that's really confusing. Okay we do have finished garment measurements. I'm going to look at the waist. The waist has four inches of ease in it. That seems appropriate. If you're in between sizes I think you can definitely size down. The bust has also four inches so yeah you could definitely size down one to get a little bit closer of a fit but yeah the fact that they don't have B I mean that's definitely a different fabric. I mean but they don't have it listed that way. Was it um the fabric amounts? Oh yeah contrast B, bodice front, side front, bodice back, and bodice side back. Okay but you just kind of have to guess at whatever fabric. I mean to make this super simple make the shirt portion in you know white shirting and then do the corseted part in denim. Use up some denim scraps. That would be really cute. Obviously leather is an option. Yeah I think you could play this is my favorite version I think and then this one. I could see myself no I can't see myself making either one of those versions but I can see myself appreciating your version that you guys make. Okay here is a mrs jacket double breasted lined jacket with shoulder pads and optional contrast lapel or front patch pockets with flaps. All right yeah I mean if you didn't grab one of these at any fall season in the last three years I guess now's a good time as any I'm pretty sure Mimi G has one, Vogue has one, it's your quintessential like long line blazer right so this is really oversized it's just a boxy long line blazer. I will say they did style this very cute that looks very like current um like the woman this age would actually be wearing this you know that kind of stuff but it has your collar your notched lapel your button pocket uh patch pockets not welds so that's super easy the shoulder and the arm like the bicep of this look exceptional one of the best I've seen in a really long time you can see how it's the right length this has some sort of like um oh god not a shoulder pad but like a sleeve um cushiony thing in the sleeve that sounds like a shoulder pad that's not what I'm talking about I'm talking about a oh sleeve oh you guys are screaming at your screens I know it leave it in the comments maybe it'll come to me before I finish reviewing the rest of it um but you do have some shaping going on here you can see this line here is a seam line um oh this is a contrast so they did like a a wool situation or some kind of tweed maybe with satin or something like that to make it a little more tuxedo like oh they show it to us buttoned thank you that's helpful so you can see how it fits over the bust that's super super helpful I love that you can tell but the fit is still really really good yep and how about this plaid matching 10 out of 10 guys I mean even through here that's incredible there's the back the back looks like we have a two-piece sleeve which I love we do not have any well they do such a dang good job at the freaking pattern matching it's hard to tell we have a center back seam and I think we have a seam right here too sleeve head sleeve head sleeve head that's what it's called yay okay um suggested fabrics crepe denim flannel linen types satin and wool types yeah any of your like jacketing type of stuff and then contrast speed so that would be for the collar leather suede or satin and then I think it's fully lined poly blends rayon and silk good on you if you're doing a silk lining that's going to be a very fancy coat and then fusible interfacing and then all you need is buttons a pair of shoulder pads and then polyester fleece for the sleeve heading so they actually have both they have a sleeve head and shoulder pads which is why it looks so so good on her and you really need that I mean think about your body like a hanger right where your shoulder bones are like the hanger itself and then everything hangs off of that we should have a decent amount of ease throughout the hip would be the least and in the hip we have eight inches so the hip actually has some of the most ease the the bust has the least I guess that depends on your body measurements but they put in seven eight inches for the bust and the hip cute that'll do well I think for those that just haven't gotten that pattern just yet we'll do that funky thing where they skip around okay here we go we have a mrs pants and two lengths camisole and cardigan so it's one of those like lifestyle patterns it's like a capsule wardrobe all in one I really really love these so much because it's like a lot of bang for your buck right I mean look at all these patterns we're getting for the one price of some patterns like that jacket only had one view this one has you know four wait one two three patterns and I'm sure you could hack these I'll talk through some of that as we go through it um into even more so just bang for your buck pleated wide like pants and two lengths have wide waistband and belt loops with top stitching side pockets and back welt pocket complete the look with a camisole and short three button knit cardigan with v neckline and patch pockets okay so we have cardigan camisole pants okay it looked cuter from further away but um nonetheless it's still a good basic situation happening the camisole it didn't say it was cut on the bias you could and that would make it I think even elevate it a little bit more you could also lengthen this into a dress and then you would have like a slip dress kind of thing you could make these into shorts you know coolots whatever change up the length of the pants the cardigan I'm a little upset that it's oversized I think I was expecting something a little bit more fitted to kind of balance out the wideness of the pant I think it's going to be hard for a lot of people to pull off an oversized cardigan and a wide leg pant I do like the super wide um belt loops though that's really cool and the flat front top stitched you know waistband that's super cool too there's your camisole cardigan okay here it is without the cardigan thank you for all these photos yeah you can see you get a really clean modern look through here that's that's really the star of the show to me I know it's such a small detail but it's just really clean and updated I really really appreciate that and then the hem I think it's a pretty deep hem yeah a good one inch maybe a little bit more side same pockets yeah it's a really good looking pant from the front that silk cami is really pretty see what I mean this feels linebackery and she's a model right so she's got not the same measurements as most of us um and it just feels like and feels like they don't they don't I don't know I just wish it were fitted I guess the back of the pant looks okay now she is kind of like popped on one hip which is why you're getting these drag lines trying not to let that distract you too much the crotch curb looks decent the length looks good yeah I'm just not liking these two things together but you can absolutely make it and then you know wear them separately of course too oh here's a really good shot of the back of the pants yeah that looks pretty decent right there's no like wrinkling up here thank you for all of these photos simplicity it really does help the cardigan is cute just not with these pants so for the pants cotton blends gabardine linen blends satin stretch wovens twill wool blends yeah a lot of different bottom weights there but if you want to make these for spring you could definitely use like a chambray or a linen if you wanted to make them for winter you could obviously use like some kind of wool or tweed or something like that um see they're recommending silky types like I said it's not cut on the bias if you do cut it on the bias I think that you would be able to open yourself up to some more fabric options still lightweight and drapey like rayons but not just you know silky shiny polyester type stuff and then D it's going to be stretch fabrics like jersey ponty rib knit sweater knit all right and so you have a zipper and hook and bars for the pants and three buttons for the cardigan and then I'm not even sure yes I was like I don't even know how they're going to list the finished garment measurements on this one they're not um there's just too many to go over in one thing so cute though and like I said bang for the buck all right so back to the top I think that that again it's confusing yeah so this is the women's version of that yes okay so we've got this um well I guess I should do that real quick that makes the most sense oh this is so annoying is it me is it them I have no idea and they also have everything listed twice one for paper patterns and one for indy pattern or for a pdf patterns like why like you can just do it here I don't know why they have it listed twice it's very confusing but either way I didn't look through the pictures of the women's version okay so this is a rib knit much draperier than that sweater knit that they used on the mrs version so you can see you get a little bit different of a silhouette here I think that was a smart choice for the women's version I just would have made this shorter and I think that that's a problem that a lot of you full-size people experience right is the length of things when I'm doing my consultations for my fast-fit worksheet most of the time you guys are petite through here and they're keeping the length of all of these patterns which the same as misses and most of you are short-waisted so I wish that they would take a look at that again and kind of reevaluate like today's woman and what her measurements are lengthwise because most of the time you guys are going to chop off like three or four inches maybe even more than that but you could see here if this one was just a little bit shorter I think the proportions would be a little bit better all right let's take a look at the pants look decent she does have her hands in the pocket sort of so I can't fully tell what's happening here because it's happening on both legs you know so I don't know what that is all about saw all of these there she is in the cammy the cammy looks good I think I was checking the arm side depth but that looks okay yeah still a little grandpa-y from the back right like I guess it's what you're going to get with like an oversized cardigan but you have the drapeiness you know I'm fine with that this is twisting again so and doesn't look like she's got her weight distributed like on one hip or the other it's just twisting around her leg so that could be the fabric like not cut on green that could be sewing gone wrong there's a lot of different reasons why that could be happening it could also be fit but um yeah I don't know too many factors for me to determine from here but we've also got sort of a wedgie happening so you know this is this is um I'm sorry that I'm zooming in on her bum but there's just too much fabric um in the curve um so I need to I'm going to say scoop it out don't get mad at me if you're an anti-scoot person but that's that's the goal is to remove that fabric so um that's what you would need to do I'm thinking maybe something with the fabric is off too because look at this dart it doesn't look that great either um so yeah all right that's the women's version okay back up to the top we have this all right men's half is it hoodie no reason why this couldn't be unisex but they want to isolate it for the men okay fine easy to sew half zip hoodie in men's sizes small to 2x has front kangaroo pocket with flap that continues around the back elastic in contrast at slaves and hem band okay so half zip a corduroy half zip that's a that's a choice you've got this really interesting um like hood that's not a hood like did they call that a cowl neck what did they say it was they didn't say so I don't even know what to call this but it's like a really high neck grown on is it grown on no it's sewn on so there's a seam there yeah super interesting design there half zip here's your kangaroo pocket contrast at the wrists but I don't even think that's rib knit I think that that's like leather or something it's a little long on hem which is why it's kind of not you can't really see the bottom hem I do like how wide the cuff is drop shoulder yeah that looks a lot more sporty right show me the back uh oh it is a hood that looks crazy that looks I'm I I I mean that almost literally like my eyes are playing tricks on me it looks like he's wearing it backwards or that his head is literally turned 270 degrees or something it's like playing tricks on my brain if you look at that like squinted eyes it looks like he's doing some weird like weird thing with his head I can't look at that for too long but um but yeah that's a really that's a massive hood because it's corduroy and lined yeah that's a lot yeah you get one view on this it looks like so corduroy cotton blend slantle french terry lightweight denim lightweight wool blends linen blends ponte stretch woven's tweed tweed that's an interesting thought and then they're lining it with cotton blends or polyester blends so they're suggesting mostly midweight stable woven's interesting yeah okay I mean the hood is throwing me off and the fact that this is the back and the front it would be a very easy alteration just to you know make that flat in the back would be that but I get that it's a kind of a cool detail I just don't know if yeah doesn't it doesn't zip away why would it zip away then you'd have a men's crop top that'd be weird crop top half zip corduroy hoodie yeah I don't I mean okay who am I to say maybe it's cool who knows what do I know but I don't think that you know most men in the world are looking for to make themselves that this I don't know I don't know I don't know maybe I'm just not that familiar with menswear I didn't use to review menswear at all for this very reason I don't I don't know if that's cool or not I can't determine I know that my boyfriend would not wear that but that's just him he's very specific too okay so we have mrs pants um create these easy to sew mrs pants in two lengths pants have front pleats back darts belt carriers front pockets front seam details shaped flap at center front what is a shaped flap at the center front that word even flap you zipper and button closure view a has front slits on the leg well they're really working hard oh god they're really working very hard to make these pants extra so this looks like a jockstrap right I mean look at it why this must be some designer like knock off what I don't know why you'd even think to do that do you have to put it on there I guess not but then if you don't then you just have like regular pants I don't know do people like these when you guys saw these were you like yes super cool it's just an interesting place for a flap that is that shape you know ignoring that though the pockets are kind of cool with the pleat and the top stitching like two-piece leg this makes fitting really easy especially if they have that in the back as well here's the one with the slit I don't know maybe it is kind of cool and I'm just getting uncool oh okay so the fit on these if you want to compare good fit and not good fit go look at the other pants that came as part of that camisole set and then look at these this has way too much fabric in the bum because her butt is eating all that extra fabric it's actually counterintuitive when you get a wedgie it's not the lack of fabric there's actually too much fabric it's yeah anyways pants fitting right hashtag pants fitting but we do not have a seam down the center back that's okay but yeah this is this needs to be a dress but the rest of it looks pretty good great pretty long line there denim lightweight wools linen poplin ramblin satin yeah I really don't know what I would have done differently than the sample version I mean it was styled cute I think I would just have to like think think brought more broad like think cooler than I was maybe initially I was taken aback by the words I wonder if I hadn't read the description first if that would have made a difference I don't know but we've got how much ease in the hip it looks like six inches so that's pretty decent they don't have the waist which is the most fitted part of all of this so but you gotta assume it's like one or two inches right you'd hope anyways so yeah I don't know like the styling is cute with the little crop sweater maybe it's because they're so long because they didn't put heels on her no I'm just I'm not I'm trying to just like look at them from like let's just look at them like this is that cool no it's still weird it's weird maybe in this fabric because it's so thick that fabric is maybe that's it's like extra weird I don't know but yeah I'm not understanding it maybe if I see some of your versions in a more like crisp fabric it'll change my mind but for right now that's a I'm gonna pass okay do they have a women's version of that pant I don't think so okay so next we have we're gonna skip the kids clothes although hashtag adorable the girl and the dress we have this little number Mrs knit dress and shrug shrugs you guys there the kids are wearing the shrugs okay they're loving the shrugs so we're bringing those back shrug life was I think I was a little bit like in between age groups when shrugs were really popular so I didn't embrace them as much as I could have I was like a tween and it just was too old or too young but now I think I could get behind a shrug semi fitted dress and two links is slightly flared at the hem and has a back invisible zipper closure a knit dress with a back invisible zip closure that doesn't make any sense why would you put a zipper in a stretchy dress view a is a mini length with draped off the shoulder neckline view B is a strapless long length dress a strapless knit dress how in the world is that staying up unless it's like super tight the shrug has a center front knot with a pull-through tie this feels like the science isn't sciencing like this one staying on that makes perfect sense you've got it you know your shoulders holding it up whatever it's actually really pretty and kind of old Hollywood right way more glamorous than I was initially thinking like probably even too glamorous to where to target I mean look at that that's beautiful like fall wedding all day long this is a tube dress okay this is a tube dress I don't know why you need a zipper in the back unless there's some kind of like stay here at the bus to hold it up we'll have to look at the notions and then there's your little shrug that has a twist front and a pull-through tie so initially this one's a yes for the right event which I just don't have a lot of events like that I will say it really is only suitable for fall because you couldn't really wear a jacket over this maybe like a cape you could put a cape over it this one obviously you could wear the shrug with it but you could also wear other things you could layer it on top of something you could put things over it but I just don't know how she's staying up I also still don't understand the point of the zipper unless this is not stretchy okay so that makes a little bit more sense like if you couldn't get this over your shoulders because that's such a yeah and it doesn't look like there's some kind of like lining or something in there and let me get through the rest of it actually just to the back of the envelope and that should give me a lot more info but look how pretty that line drawing is lovely oh and there's even some ruching okay so all right I guess that makes sense is it lined I need I need the technical information and not just um these pictures stretch knits okay invisible zipper and one and a half yards of elastic so it is stretchy right here the elastic is going through the bust I don't know guys I might try and make that without the zipper and see if you can get it on um but other than that there's nothing holding it up the elastic could be enough there is your fabric and interfacing but only a little bit of interfacing so probably just for the zippered area and then your shrug so nothing is lined there's no how was that finished though if you look at this version there's no seam here so is this doubled up this is two layers it's self lined and then this is where the elastic is all the way around I think interesting interesting let me see what the so we should have like zero or negative ease here yeah and we do okay so that's a little bit helpful yeah you're just gonna have to be really really careful about your fabric choice I mean ponting it and rib knit could not be further away from each other in terms of the stretch that they have so I don't even know that one seems really confusing to me and I feel like you might if you go into it blind without considering these things that I'm pointing out you could end up being really disappointed it just that it's that it doesn't stay up or that it's too loose or that you know I don't know that feels risky it feels like a risky move okay mrs vintage blouse from the 50s simple to make blouse boasts smart raglan sleeves three button closing in front one button closing at sleeve bands loop and button at neck view one has convertible collar and three-quarter sleeves what's a convertible collar converts to what um view two has a convertible collar and short sleeves and view three has short sleeves and is sparked with a tie collar those words are so interesting I don't know what a convertible collar is but this is one and this is one does it mean that you can pop the collar is that what it is and then you have a little bow one I mean a raglan sleeve button down is cute right that's kind of cool I really wish they made a sample out of these like I get that they're like from the past but like I don't know I just would rather see them on an actual human being than a drawing I don't know how this really fits anybody like I would be like oh that dart is way too high but that's not a person that is a drawing of person um so yeah what is wrong with her finger what happened she's missing a finger that's what happened that's supposed to be two fingers oh gosh okay um let's look at the line drawings oh look at these pretty darts in the back too so you know they loved a little fitted fitted waist situation back in the day for tucking so you could leave those out if you wanted it to be loose fitting that's not a problem and then all of your shirtings striped fabric they're saying you can make this out of wool or jersey that's that's broad okay buttons yeah and then the waist has it says it still has nine inches of ease in it I don't know how that's possible but again we're only looking at a drawing so I can't I can't really tell or compare anything I know nothing um I can't base anything off of a drawing it's really just oh that's pretty you know like all right so back up to the top okay Mimi's first pattern is a jumpsuit oh man okay Mrs jumpsuit with snaps or button closure at the center front has pleats of the waist long sleeves with cuffs back bodice yoke front pockets in choice of tapered or wide leg button front closure please the waist okay so okay so it's like a boiler suit right isn't that what this is um a fitted denim long sleeve drop shoulder yeah okay I can get behind that initially this is what's throwing me off here it's too long in the rise for her so I'm gonna look past that um but just just know that you should be checking that measurement regardless of whether I say that the modeled photos have an issue with that or not you know I'm saying but because she's petite and I know just I just know she's petite from looking at her pictures and stuff um that's probably what's happening here is that they had to make the sample size and she's not a sample size so um yeah just a little bit too long through here if you were to pull all that up you know just hike that up to where her crotchline actually is and that would even resolve all of this stuff here um but yeah nice straight leg line otherwise and the top half is really good cool little pleats here that open up into this really full it's like a full blousey kind of top fitted through the waist and hip and then flares back out again so the silhouette is pretty hourglass friendly which is side view which is not super helpful same picture as before here's the back the back looks pretty good which is interesting unless she adjusted this one which I can't tell you've only seen a side view of it but you can see the yoke and all the top stitching she's got a hip popped which is why you're getting these drag lines here's a side view of the okay so that we can compare these so see this this is too long in the rise if we go back to this not the same thing is happening now could that be fabrication yes could that be adjustments made to the pattern also yes we don't know we weren't there when either one of these were made I'm just you know pointing out things that I see in the photos but you can see a distinct difference between this version and the denim version from the side okay the denim one just looks too long all around but it's also a different view because look there's pockets here and on the white one wait there's pleats so they're different some different thing is happening there we'll look at the line drawings here in a second so the white one fits a lot better for sure they look to be the same other than length from the back shally that I was not expecting to see that is that right shally that can't be right they meant chambray shally I mean I guess that's just like uh I get um no that can't be right that can't be right I wouldn't make this out of shally if it were me there are other jumpsuits better suited for shally than this one especially with the top stitching and everything I don't know about shally oh man okay denim linen types microfiber god I haven't seen that in a minute poplin satin twill which is also denim okay snaps heavy duty snaps shally is not right shally is supposed to be something else okay and then body measurements so we've got seven six seven inches in the bust we've got two inches in the waist that makes sense and then oh differences in a and b in the hip I think because one tapers in and one doesn't okay so the tapered one has three inches and the other one has more like five yeah okay here's the difference you can see you have the pleats here with just your kind of simple slash pocket and then this one has the more denomy type of pocket I really like them both the line drawings are so cute I mean I think a lightweight corduroy maybe that's what they meant that's a C fabric corduroy would be super cute really lightweight one almost because it is a little bit drapey on top right you wanted to have like a little bit of drape to it not like a drapey fabric but you know something with a little bit of movement I think would be really cute okay so now we have unisex sweatshirt and pants okay these two look cool front half zip sweatshirt has drop shoulders long elasticated sleeves elastic cord at the waist and front pocket with contrast flap pull-on track pants have tie cord and elastic at waist and hem plus two cargo pockets with zipper yeah this feels like right out of like a catalog or like a some boutiques instagram app right like yeah this little like teddy bear fleece I have some I must I don't know if I got it from joanne or where but I have some so it's not super hard to find and then you have this fabric here which is like a cotton or something so install your zipper and all that is super easy and then there's the flap um elastic here this does feel a little I think I'd make it shorter for me personally to give like a little cropped look but then you have the pull-on pants that have this like I wouldn't we rather that be out of this fabric and not the not the teddy bear fleece I don't know but there's a little zipper in there I guess it depends on like how street wear you want to be very like cool and modern and you know wearable yeah I wish there was some of the orange down here somewhere yeah and I probably futz around with the waistband either making it shorter or a move in the elastic or something just to yeah I'm just not a big fan of this like and even in the white it makes it look even more like a like a marshmallow with a rubber band around the middle of it you know what I mean I'm not the biggest fan of that but um other than that it's really cool yeah okay this is the perfect illustration so they tucked the elastic in here right they turned it under which means to me that they recognized also that the it's too long so if the elastic sat at a different place or if you always tuck it in like this or if you just cropped it and didn't use any elastic you'd get a look more similar to this but yeah I think it's really cool I like it and like I said I have some of this fabric that I need to make some kind of like sherpa type of thing from but fleece micro fleece ponte oh god yeah ponte would certainly be like a sleeker cleaner look and then canvas cotton blends ripstop nylon and twill and then we also have a little bit of lining a ton of notions zippers cording elastic all of that there's even some velcro in there somewhere and then yeah just a quarter yard of that contrast fabric so use up your scraps the lining is I think it says three eighths so use up some scraps for that too and then pretty loose all around the elastic is really the only thing keeping it like fitted so yeah just check the length on that all right so that puts us where here it's one of the little kids oh my gosh okay that's cute all right then we have the pdf version another little kids thing we have neck wear headband dickies and sash belts that's interesting and then costumes wow look at this plushies fabric what you can make like a beehive out of fabric that's kind of incredible more plushies more costumes this everyone once in a while they throw in one of these like little house on the prairie looks or um oh god what was that show with ellie ellie not ellie golding ellie kimper where she was like kept in a she was like a member of a cult she was kept underground for a very long time and then then she was found that reminds me of that that costuming we've got some hats wow those are some serious hats and then more pdf versions okay so not the biggest collection we've also got a madeline um intimates pattern more costumes I mean the bumblebee come on wait is this like a mat and you stick your kid into the mat your little baby goes into the mat you guys is this not child abuse that is sewn on to the mat and then you stick your baby inside that thing look right that's sewn onto there yes so your baby's like trapped can I put my dogs in there they would never stay but that would be really cute it's so it's just for pictures because you can't really like carry the baby around in that thing what does the description say bubble suit costumes it doesn't say anything about them being sewn onto the mat hats and reversible blankies have assorted terms and accents wow that that's something else all right but where's the babies okay there they are then we've got a vintage wedding dress we've got a little sling bag thing happening so a lot of accessories have come out look at this tabletop uh what are they called table covers nope oh my brain's not working um another vintage 70s vintage skirt thing happening some luggage oh hat duffel tote cosmetics case and I lower ashley yeah very much so it's like a little travel set I guess more costumes warm or cool packs wow I want one of those um seasonal wreaths pin cushion dolls um she's crazy no that's creepy it looks like the member the crochet toilet paper covers that's what that looks like to me and then more plushies and pinafore aprons and a tote so some more of that like I don't even know little house in the prairie stuff yeah a mixed bag on this but in terms of um okay a bicycle basket more costumes yeah I guess that's this is the time for the costumes right anyways but in terms of women's wear oh wait and then you've got this buried down in here somewhere well that doesn't make any sense something was telling me to keep clicking around in here so we have this coat why was it so far down in the listings that makes no sense relaxed oversized coat in two lengths have dropped shoulders shaped lapel seven eight sleeves waist with bands at him patch pockets with flaps and button closure so it's like a trench like a soft fuzzy trench look at the big covered buttons those are super cool notch collar yeah it's like a fleece coat right I mean not much to say in terms of like fitting for sure but yeah it's almost like a um like everything's so oversized right the lapel is oversized the pockets are oversized the buttons are oversized like it's almost like you're wearing a cartoon coat that is pretty cool though what fabric boiled wool corduroy denim ponty tweeds velveteen wool types okay well I don't know why I thought that was fleece but fleece is also a good option um yeah okay yeah I think the biggest takeaway from this one is just you know big big big oversized everything I have no need for a coat that that is this warm I just would never wear it but um but yeah it is pretty cool very statement making coat a statement coat there you go all right let me make sure I didn't miss anything else tucked away in here no we've seen all of these before all right I think there's one more page wait here's some pants oh wait this is the um summer collection okay all right so all that to say our fall collection some hits some misses some good basics um some interesting you know trying to branch out a little bit I think the only one that I'm gonna grab is the either this one or I'm gonna find something similar to this somewhere but this is a strong contender too I think this will do well for her I just don't know if I have the time or desire to make up one of those but man it would be super cute I don't know it could be one of those weekends where the weather turns really bad and I'm just like let me just spend 20 hours sewing straight so anyways let me know what you guys think of the simplicity fall collection I'll be back really soon to review the rest of the fall collections from the big four and then we'll be proceeding with envy until they come out with their winter collections but that's gonna do it for me today y'all thanks so much for watching I will see you all very soon bye


Hello and welcome back to my channel. Today it is the 28th of March and I'm planning to get a head start on the Canton Araymo project today. If any of you hear, my name's Jaggy by the way. So to give you an update on where life is at the moment, I have been working from home for the last two weeks and my company has instituted a mandatory remote work policy because of coronavirus and it's been interesting because I've worked from home before. In fact, when I was doing my business full-time, I actually did it full-time from home for three years. So I know that working from home can be really good for focused work. However, I've been struggling with the lack of structure a little bit so I feel like I just feel a bit like a blob in both the physical and mental and metaphorical sense. So because there's no routine, like I don't get up and walk to work in the morning, I can't go to the gym at lunchtime because gyms are closed, I wake up and I lounge in bed reading my Kindle or watching YouTube. Then I transfer to the couch or to the dining table and do more stuff on the computer. Then when I have a break, I stay on the computer so it's all very sedentary, which I don't think is good for my mental health or my creative output. So as of today, I'm going to be turning over a new leaf because even though I'm not going to deny the serious of the current coronavirus crisis, like it is a crisis, it's spreading dramatically. We all know this. However, I think there's opportunity here as well. So I know one of the things a lot of people complain about is, you know, I don't have the time to do the things I want. I don't have the time to write. I don't have the time to learn the language or learn how to sing. And most of us who are staying at home at the moment have more time than ever before. Like I don't have my, you know, hour and a half at the gym taking up time. I don't have my half hour walk to work taking up time. I don't have all of those conversations that happen around the office mean taking up time, which means I can get work done more effectively. So why not use that time to write a book? So today, 28th of March is me getting into a new routine. And one of the things I think is important for me at least is to get out of the house and move a little bit. Fortunately, as you can see, the streets are very quiet at the moment, especially in the morning. So I think I can do that without putting anyone in danger. So I'm going to get out and do a walk each morning and also start the writing process today just because even though it's not technically April yet, it is the weekend, which means I can spend a little bit more time to get into the project. Whereas I think if I wait until April, which is Wednesday, then I'll be back into like I'll be working again. So it'll be really hard to separate my work and my writing given there's no change of environment. So that's the plan for now. So I've just gotten back from my walk and it was really nice to get out, especially since it's a beautiful sunny day. When it comes to COVID-19 restrictions in Estonia at the moment, everything is closed except for supermarkets, pharmacies and post offices. Though even though those things are open, there are measures in place.  There are also like stickers on the floor telling you where you can stand so you're not too close to anyone else. The same thing at the supermarket actually. So at the checkouts and at the deli, there are now stickers on the ground so you can't stand too close to anyone else. Other than that, as of yesterday, we are now not allowed to go out in groups of more than two people and you're supposed to keep two meters of distance between you and other people at all times. So on my walk, I think I passed five or six people and everyone's respecting it. So on the path, we would just go like as far to the side as we could so we maintained social distance. The only place where I saw some more people was Town Hall Square but that's quite a large square and everyone was very far away so not really counting that. So now it's time to start riding. So behind me, you can see where I set up my home office because I've been working from home for the last two weeks. And the way this has developed is on the week of the 16th, I just had my laptop and I was working for the couch or just using the laptop on the dining table. And then the following week, so Monday the 23rd, I believe, my right arm was starting to ache a little bit. So I have had RSI in my right arm in the past. And in this case, it was because I was using the touchpad and the arrows too much with the one hand. So I started trying to do some self massage and I overdid it and everything seized up on Monday afternoon. So I checked with HR whether it was okay to pop into the office and just to grab my external keyboard and mouse. And they said, yes, so went to the office, grabbed my keyboard and mouse. Then when I got home, our boss said that the work at home period was going to be extended probably for another two or four weeks. And I thought, well, it's probably, even though I can work on my laptop, it's not the ideal setup. So I asked, can I go to the office and get some monitors? The office manager was actually nice enough to say, yep, take a couple of brand new ones, they're already boxed up. So I've sent up the dining table with my two monitors and laptop. Unfortunately, one of the monitors I can't actually connect to the laptop because the laptop and docking station are too old. So it's just a decorative monitor. Then the other thing I realized was that the dining table, it's actually the perfect height for me to use as a standing desk. So now I've got everything set up with my laptop propped up on a bunch of books. And one of the monitor that I can connect propped up on a box. So everything's the perfect height for standing desk workings. So for the last few days, I've been mixing up my time with working all standing, sitting at the dining table and working and then removing the laptop and sitting on the couch and moving around. So it's actually been really helpful to have those options and just, you know, good for my back and good for my arm, given that I'm not as active as I usually am in terms of the gym and working out. That does raise a small problem though, in that because there are so many things on the table now, it's going to be difficult and annoying to disassemble the whole setup. Yet I would like to use the table for my camp nano stuff. So I need to figure out the best way to do that. So step one, move the keyboard and mouse. Step two, make a hot chocolate because I'm feeling, I've just got that sort of anxiety procrastination feeling where I don't want to get started on the project. And I know that's just because it's been a couple of, well, three months now since I last wrote. And I know it's going to be like that really awkward phase when you start again and I want to avoid that. But logically, I know that as soon as I get through that phase, hopefully in a week or so, I'll be feeling much better about writing again. So I just need to get through this next week. It has been an hour and a half. And all I have done in that time is create a playlist for my book, which I understand isn't the best start to this project. However, I opened a document to try to start writing and I had some songs on in the background and I found that like I was just stopping and listening to the songs really deeply. And I thought, and as soon as I noticed this, I thought, OK, this could be a really useful exercise for getting into the vibe of this book considering I haven't written anything for it before.  So now I have my playlist. It has 19 songs. I think it's ordered nicely to follow the way the story progresses. But I haven't written anything. So now I've put on some sweet potatoes in the oven for lunch so they should be done in about half an hour. So I have half an hour to get some words written in this story. So wish me luck. I'm not making much progress. So it it's only been 15 minutes since I filmed that last bit. So it does feel like it's a little bit early to be throwing in the towel. But no, I can't seem to I can't seem to settle on anything to write. Like I have all of these images in my head from all of the thinking I've been doing about this story and I've been looking at my spreadsheet which has a number of scenes I could be working on. But yeah, I don't seem to have enough of a scene to start and I don't seem to have enough of an image to write about if that makes any sense. From here I'm going to actually smells like my potatoes are done already so I'm going to get the food before it burns. And I think I might just try doing some like scribbling for a little bit and see where that goes. I mean the good thing is is that what is it now like almost 20 past 12 which is usually usually I'd be getting home from the gym on a Saturday around 12 so even though I haven't achieved much, if this was pre-quarantine I wouldn't have achieved anything at this point on a Saturday anyway. So the benefits of having extra time is that there's extra time to waste and hopefully that is not going to be the model of this video but for day one that seems to be the way it's tracking. Hello and welcome to Teleskivi Creative City, usually one of the most bustling parts of Tillyn which at the moment as you can see it is not for reasons we all know about. So today is April 2nd and my camp and Araymo is not going well which you can probably gather from the fact that I last filmed on Saturday which is what five days ago. So what's been happening? Well on Saturday and Sunday I tried to do a bit of writing each day and just really struggled to write anything and oh nice that there's still music even though there's no one here to enjoy it. Anyway so it was really struggling to just get anything written and part of me wonders if maybe I missed the opportunity to make the most of the enthusiasm I had about this book like just a few weeks ago because I knew that this book would be a struggle. I knew that I probably wasn't a good enough writer to pull it off. I knew that if I wanted to seriously pursue it I would probably need to revisit it in a number of years. I was still really excited about doing it though so I decided to make that my project and then of course I had probably about two weeks after I completed the story clock and when I started to write which was this weekend and it did not go well like I just I don't know like I have these images in my head and then I try to translate them onto paper and they just don't work like I feel like it would be much easier to do this as a film and then there are things where it's like I know a few weeks ago I came up with phrasing that I wanted to use I knew what the first sentence of the book was going to be and now I don't remember what it was like I know it was something that Lace and Kara and how she always wears it but the combination of words isn't working or maybe I have remembered the combination of words but actually seeing them on the page means they're not as good as what I thought they were. When it comes to what I've written the I've done about four or five hundred words at the first meeting which I quite like so far but it's like everything I think of I've got these moments and I don't know where to go from there so I've got this moment when their arms brush and when Cecily is like noticing everything about Kara and like how she bites her lip and the freckles on her nose and the like line of lace from her bralette that she can see when her shirt gates over and all of these details because she's intensely watching her and that's fun to do but when it comes to conversation and what they actually talk about like I don't know and I'm finding that with any time I try to think about and nail down a scene I'm finding the same problem I have these moments but I'm really struggling to flesh them out and part of me thinks I probably should have done that in March when I was preparing and this links back to my last video and how do you know you're done like I thought I was done I completed three plotting methods I had over 30 scenes listed and yet I still feel extremely unprepared and ill-equipped to tackle this book so on Saturday I did about 600 words I think on Sunday I did like 218 maybe and then I haven't written since then and part of it is because I have been in a bit of a slump state for the past few days but I think it might actually be because I've been in a reading slump so rather than reading books as my preferred form of entertainment I've been indulging in a bit too much YouTube and Netflix which I also love but they're a more passive form of entertainment then yesterday I read Recursion by Blake Crouch which was a lot of fun and it got me a bit enthusiastic again so today I'm feeling better and it's a good reminder to myself to keep reading and try to keep reading good books because there are you know books that I enjoy reading like they're not the best quality though and it's you know it's like eating a beautiful healthy salad or grilled vegetables or something that's delicious and you know it's good for you but when you're feeling really bad you just want to get a doughnut even though the doughnut won't make you feel good afterwards so because I'm feeling better today and I don't have any meanings at work today I think I feel more prepared to tackle the book or at least a scene I know which scene I want to work on I'm hoping it'll be easier because it's a Cecily scene rather than a Cecily and Cara scene so I can just focus on one character rather than trying to get the dynamics right we'll see how it goes it is now Friday the 3rd of April and after all of my talk yesterday about how I was going to get back on track I did no writing yesterday the good news is though that I actually did some writing this morning before work and I'm actually quite proud of myself because when I woke up this morning I woke up I was going to go out for a walk and it was raining and it's been like raining and snowing all day and I sort of went oh that's not really conducive for a good long walk so I lounged about in bed for another two hours so it wasn't the best start to the day it wasn't really good for getting motivated and then I got onto my computer and thought well you know most of the office isn't going to be online for another hour and a half to two hours so why don't I just try doing some writing and I did about 40 minutes or so I think I got about 900 words in that time so I've actually made some progress which is good the scene I ended up working on was the one I mentioned yesterday which is Cecily interacting with other characters she has captives and she is interacting with the captives I'm not quite sure like I want her to have a different dynamic with each of them but one of the things that that's difficult is to explain why she's keeping them around given that she's not in the throes of obsession anymore like she's going to be with Kari in this book however that's a question for another time like the goal of this month is to just get stuff written so what that means is now it's a third of april I have a 30 hour camp nano-rimo goal and I've done 40 minutes so that's two hours and 20 minutes behind I don't know how I'm going to go this afternoon so at the moment it's about lunchtime I'm just waiting for my lunch to cook on the stove and then in about half an hour I've got a meeting so I'll see how I feel after this meeting it tends to be the most draining one of the week it's this marketing manager's thing scheduled for an hour but often ends up being an hour and a half last week it was three so I'm always a little bit drained after it so I'll see how I go this afternoon I might have capacity to do some more writing today if not then that means this weekend I need to catch up on an extra two hours and 20 minutes that's four hours and 20 minutes of writing this weekend which I think is doable I think if I keep falling behind it's going to obviously get more challenging to catch up but if I can get a big weekend of working on this book done then I'll be on track for the rest of April and the other thing actually is because it's a time goal rather than a word count goal despite what my camp nano profile says it doesn't actually need to be writing time this weekend it could be like more planning and outlining time which I think will be helpful for hopefully getting me through this really awkward beginning because as I mentioned yesterday even though I have my list of scenes a lot of them I still don't feel like I know enough about what happened what's going to happen so I think I'll spend a couple of hours of my time this weekend just mapping out the upcoming scenes I want to write I mean the other approach is maybe I could just try and do the whole 30 hours this weekend maybe I could try and do the whole 30 hours this weekend I'm not going to do that to myself I'm tempted but no I don't think I'm going to do that to myself maybe I should just try and see how I go anyway stay tuned I will check in again later when I've made my decision and potentially have another video if this weekend turns into some insane camp nano challenge so it's coming up to 5 p.m on Friday and I'm about 90% sure I won't be writing anything else today we just had an emergency communication come up so if you're new here then you probably don't know that I work for a financial trading company which means things are very busy at the moment because the market's all over the place so the oil price is at or a couple of days ago it hit its lowest in 17 years so there's a lot of volatility and they're taking measures to prevent people from losing more money basically and they're expecting more volatility because there's an OPEC meeting like an emergency OPEC meeting coming up so I had my big management meeting then had a few different things happening with my team then had this emergency communication and my brains a little bit fried so I'm just hanging out until we get this thing published and then I can sign off for the week so since this is probably the end of my camp nano activity for the day and I have not yet updated the camp nano website because I haven't done anything in April until today I thought now would be a good time to update the website so let's take a look so this is more of a project spreadsheet rather than just a camp nano RIMO spreadsheet which is why it's going to go beyond April so I did my first two days on the weekend which as I mentioned earlier not much 618 and 231 words and then today was 991 words so obviously not nano levels time is not what I wanted to be doing either but it's an improvement and hopefully it'll keep improving from here what's funny though is if we go to the charts tab with the writing efficiency so you can see there's this big gap already um same thing with my daily words what's a little bit scary is that I've got this set up until the end of May because powerless took me two months I thought let's aim for two months with this as well and just looking at this chart makes me realize the end of May isn't actually that far away like two months isn't that long especially considering how little progress I've made so yeah actually it's a little bit depressing thinking about the lack of progress I've made because when I did nano I think by the time I got to the end of week one I was almost at 10,000 words and this technically is the end of week one and I'm not even at 2,000 words so things do not bode well but anyway let's look at the nano website so I'll add 991 words this session this actually today actually went pretty well better than the weekend at home everything's going to be assuming everyone for the entire month of April will be at home I was writing on a laptop so I've got 991 out of 20,000 words now as I mentioned in my camp nano prep video I don't actually want to do a word count goal for this I really just want to get back into writing which is why I've personally set a 30 hour goal but because of COVID-19 the nano rhymer website people couldn't set up times and lines and other types of goals so everything's translated into words so in theory what I could have done was just 30 words or 1,800 minutes and done it that way so rather than clocking words I'd be doing like each word as a minute but I didn't do that and I can't figure out how to change it so we're doing a 20,000 word count goal as well so that is all from me for today it is 5 20 a.m on Saturday morning and I'm probably not going to do camp nano rhymer this weekend so I was really fixated on the idea and then this morning I woke up at eight past three not intentionally but I woke up and I couldn't get back to sleep so I thought well I might as well get up and start writing and because I was up so early I thought you know it would actually be possible to do 15 hours today and 15 hours tomorrow and achieve that but when I started writing I started to think that that probably wasn't realistic for a couple of reasons one is that I don't know if it's still because I'm not really into this book yet or just because it's a harder book but I'm finding that I can't do writing sessions of the length that I'm used to so in the past whether I'm writing for work or even powerless like I could potentially do a couple of hours at a time of just focused writing whereas with this book for the last week or the four days I've actually written in that week generally I get to 15 or 20 minutes and then I'm done and I need a break which is really unusual so that's element one element two is that I really haven't been sleeping well for the past two weeks I think it's because of working from home and just having the lack of structure and one of the things I've realised is it's different working from home at the moment because when I used to work from home in the past the world was still open so I could go to a cafe or a library I could go to the gym like there were other things I could do to break up the day which other than walking at the moment that really isn't an option so I think the lack of activity probably the amount of food I've been eating lately and just the lack of routine is contributing to me not actually getting enough sleep because I keep going to bed at my normal time which is usually 9 30 10 p.m. but I've been waking up at three or four every day so even though I was up earlier today and had this extra time that could have been put towards my book given that I don't seem to be able to focus or have as lengthy periods of productive time and the fact that I'm feeling quite tired I don't think 30 hours is realistic for this weekend so I'm going to continue with Camp Nano as per normal so I've done two little sessions so far one was from 352 until 404 and that was 319 words so that's a pretty good word per minute ratio in fact let me look up what that is so that's 29 words per minute which is pretty good the next session so I had about a half hour break so from 435 I was writing and I gave up at 520 and then I did 661 words so that's dropping down to what is that 45 minutes so that's like 14 and a half words a minute which is much lower and what's interesting is that so what I've done yesterday today is this sort of series of vignettes where Cecily is visiting each of her captives and the first three weren't too difficult and the last one was that one that took a long time what's interesting is that the last one was the one I knew the most about like that was the one that I thought about the most I had the most in my head yet it was the hardest to write and I'm finding that with this book in general that it's the bits that I'm clear on that are harder to write than the bits I'm just sort of I know something needs to go here and I need to make it up and I think I'm not sure why it is but I suspect it's that when I picture something so clearly in my head it doesn't translate into text and anything I write is a really poor imitation of how I see it in my mind and that's always going to be the case because what you see in your mind is perfect and unexamined and if you're like me cinematic and text is a translation of that and the translation is probably never going to be as good as the original but your job as a writer is to try and get as close as possible so other people can see the same story play out and that's a struggle at the moment the good news is though is that it's coming up to 5.30 I've still got the full day ahead of me so there's plenty of time to write some more and continue chipping away at my camp nanotarget so for now I'm going to have a shower and I think edit some footage from yesterday which is just going to give my mind a little bit of a break and then I think I'll I need to pick some other scenes to outline because I've gotten to the end of this little series I have no idea what I'm going to work on but you're going to find out in about three seconds so I'll see you then it's coming up to 3 p.m and I've now done four little sessions today so two of them were in the early hours then after I had my shower I did like some brainstorming type of writing and then I just had some time off and went for it well I did the grocery shopping all of the weekend chores and I've just finished doing about 45 minutes so all in all I think that brings me to about an hour and a half maybe a little bit more today so let's add this to my spreadsheet and find out I was originally planning to do just one row a day in this spreadsheet however I like the idea of doing individual writing sessions just because once you average it out over a whole day you don't have as much insight into how you're working like one of the things I said this morning was that I did two sessions one of them was put 24 words a minute one of them was 14 words a minute so averaging those out means you don't actually know which time is more effective or which scene was easier to write so I'm going to start doing individual writing sessions which means each day we'll have multiple rows and in the charts each day we'll have multiple columns but I think it'll be more usable for me when I'm looking back at it so Saturday first session was 3.52 to 4.04 am because I'm a crazy person who cannot sleep properly it was 300 productive time was the entire time so that's 12 minutes and 391 words I don't actually know how to so this morning the two sessions I worked on were two more of those vignettes each of them is between 400 and about 700 words so it's not like they're complete scenes on their own but I wouldn't necessarily put them all together as one scene maybe I should just I'm just going to put them all together as one scene so that means yesterday I did 0.5 and then each of the sessions this morning was 0.25 so the reason I'm adding things here is just because all four of these rows were me working on the same scene so the scene length is whatever the sum of these four word counts is and the time to complete the scene is the sum of the minutes spent on this scene yeah I think that's right okay so the next session this morning was okay then the next session today was 7.55 to 8.10 a.m now this session was just outlining so I'm going to put that here productive time was 15 minutes the reason there's a session time column as well as a productive time column is because sometimes I might have a session that lasts for say an hour and a half but I don't spend all of that time actively writing or outlining or doing whichever activity it is for that day so an example of that would be if I attended a live writing those generally go for an hour and a half or two hours but there might only be 45 minutes to an hour of actual sprint time in there when you're focused so that's what this is here for when it comes to the work I've done so far on this project I've only really been counting the focus time just because I haven't really had sessions that go beyond the focus time and when I've been making notes because I'm time tracking generally like I write down the time I start something I write down the time I stop and then I go and do something else it's not like I go and get distracted by Google or something and then I come back to this like I feel like when I stop I've actually stopped the session so I'm curious to see whether that keeps up throughout the rest of Camp NaNoWriMo and then the last one was the one just now so 1815 that's not too bad that would be a possible normal NaNo day now let's go to the Camp NaNo website now one of the annoying things about the NaNoWriMo website is that it does words per session so if I wanted to add my total words for the day I would need to do the session from 3.50am until what's the 2.44pm so that makes it look like I was writing for what 11 hours which obviously I wasn't doing and when it gets to like my word per minute that's going to be less than one but then having to enter multiple sessions is a little bit annoying so what I'm going to do is I'll do my total words for the day and how much time did I spend today in total so it's 116 minutes so basically 2 hours 11.10 I'll make that 3.10 so then we've got 2 hours and update progress so I'm up to 2,806 words that is not particularly good progress for one week of working on a project at least it isn't for me however it is progress and that's the main thing like I'm starting a new project it's been a bit awkward and difficult haven't been sleeping well in fact I feel really jet lagged at the moment so I might have nap this afternoon so circumstances aren't ideal so even though it's not as far as I would like to be I'm still calling that a win and hoping that next week will be better so that is all from me for this week in the comments please let me know are you doing camp NaNoWriMo and if so what's your project and how did your first week go other than that I'll see you next time bye