Menopause and diet. Why what you eat matters more than you probably think. Now interestingly, menopause symptoms often don't occur in other countries. Why in the world would that be? Other countries, women go through menopause. Why don't they have the same problems that we do in the United States? Well, I'm going to suggest to you that it actually comes down to their gut microbiome. So let me explain. Menopause, as most of you know, pretty much is predicted on your period stopping or slowing down or changing. And I follow hormone levels in all my patients, both men and women. And in women, we can usually predict the onset of menopause or perimenopause by watching levels of FSH, follicle stimulating hormone, begin to rise and rise higher and higher. Follicle stimulating hormone is the signal for your ovaries to produce and pop an egg out.  So it's a pretty good predictor that menopause is on the way. Now, one of the things that happens during menopause is that estrogen levels drop and usually drop dramatically. And in some women, that drop of estrogen is accompanied by variously called vasomotor symptoms, better known as hot flashes. In some women, probably less than 5% of my patients, we also see evidence of brain fog, of different personality traits during this time. And interestingly, sometimes very tiny amounts of cutaneously applied estrogen resolves the problem without even having detectable estrogen levels in the blood. But as estrogen falls, this is often accompanied by these periods of hot flashes. Now, why doesn't it happen in some countries? And interestingly, when I interview people in little towns in Italy or France, asking them what it was like going through the change, most of the time I'm greeted with, what are you talking about? One day I was having periods, the next day I didn't, and life goes on. And they really don't complain about our complaints. So why would that be? Well, in the upcoming book Gut Check, I talk quite a bit about the type of gut bacteria that is now classified as the astralbion. That is gut bacteria that are capable of manufacturing various hormones like estrogen, like progesterone, even testosterone, or actually modulating how estrogen is manufactured and degraded. Now, a lot of recent information would suggest that it's the health of the astrabalone that actually determines whether or not you're going to have these vasomotor symptoms, whether you're going to have these potential mental changes, or whether you're not. And it may get more interesting than that. Let's back up for a second and realize that estrogen is crucial for both women and men.  Interestingly, we joke that the older we get, the estrogen levels of men go higher than the estrogen levels of women. And the testosterone levels of men in our society go lower and lower. So the joke is the older we get, the more a man becomes feminized and more a woman becomes masculinized. Now, that's a joke, but we should realize that that fluctuation occurs. Now, one of the reasons that this has occurred, that gut bacteria, can actually produce enzymes that are called glucuronidase, and these enzymes can actually decrease or increase circulating estrogen. The other thing that I find most of my post-menopausal female patients don't realize is that their fat cells are actually capable of producing both estrogen and testosterone. And many of my post-menopausal women are shocked when they have measurable levels of estrogen in their bloodstream, even though they haven't had a period in two years.  And yet it's the estrogen that's produced in fat cells and now modulated by the astrobalome, these estrogen-modulating bacteria in our gut that are controlling all this really kind of silently and out of sight. It may also explain why a lot of women go through menopause without any of these symptoms because they have bacteria that modulate a low dose of estrogen production throughout their lives, and that may be good in one way. Now, in a paper just out this week, there's a fascinating new study looking at flaxseeds and flaxseed lignans. Lignans are compound in flax oil and in other substances that we've known for a very long time modulate both breast cancer and prostate cancer. In fact, many times breast cancer patients and prostate cancer patients are prescribed high lignan flaxseed oil as a part of the treatment or in many cases as a way of preventing, mitigating against breast cancer or prostate cancer. Now, we've never really quite understood what it is about these flaxseed lignans that do the job. Well, in a brand new paper, American study of microbiology journal just this week showed that the gut microbiome eats flaxseed lignans and produces microRNA, sometimes called mRNA. And I spend a lot of time here in Gut Check talking about microRNA that's derived from the gut microbiome. And as shockingly as it seems, we now know that microRNA, the messaging system, telling DNA, telling cells what to do, can come from the microbiome, can be absorbed through an RNA intestinal tract, and then activate or deactivate cells. And the exciting part of this paper was that the gut microbiome uses those flaxseed lignans to manufacture microRNA that then prevents breast cancer cells from developing. So now we have once again a link between a plant compound that we knew was doing something, but we didn't know how it was doing it. And lo and behold, like I keep saying, it all comes back to the gut microbiome. It's just like the polyphenols in plants. We know that polyphenols are very poorly absorbed, and yet we knew how important they were. And lo and behold, it was the gut microbiome that wanted polyphenols as prebiotics that then turned those polyphenols into active ingredients that then communicated to our cells and our mitochondria. So again, hot new topic, flaxseed oil has lignans. If you buy flaxseeds, please buy them whole, get a coffee grinder, put them in whatever you're eating, your sheep yogurt or goat yogurt or coconut yogurt, put them in a smoothie, sprinkle them on salads, or even buy high lignan flaxseed oil. Now, are there other ways that have been found to help with perimenopausal symptoms like hot flashes? Well, as you probably know, there are a number of soy-based ingredients out there that are shown to bind to estrogen receptors. Now, it's a controversial area. There is some evidence that the estrogen-like substances in soy bind estrogen receptors but prevent the activation of estrogen receptors in cancer cells. There are other studies that suggest just the opposite. My advice is, since soy does contain lectins, that there's probably better alternatives out there than soy-based products. One of the ones that I like a lot is borage oil. Now, some of you have probably heard about evening primrose oil as a treatment for hot flashes and menopausal symptoms. That's because evening primrose oil has a compound called gamma-linolenic acid, GLA. But borage oil has two to three times the amount of GLA than evening primrose oil. So for your money, you're much better off using borage oil. Now, borage oil has been shown in some controlled studies to improve vasomotor symptoms of menopause, perimenopause, and in other placebo-controlled studies, it's not been shown to be very effective. Now, gamma-linolenic acid is part of the Omega-6 family. But what's interesting about it is it's used to manufacture prostaglandin E. And prostaglandin E has been shown to mitigate against vasomotor symptoms, also been shown to improve the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. So there is some definite evidence that it's well worth a try. Now, the great news about borage oil is you can buy it in capsules. And what I recommend is you try 1,000 milligrams twice a day. There's some studies that suggest maybe 4,000 milligrams is the magic number. But in my patients, we usually use 1,000 in the morning and 1,000 at night. And see how that does for you. It's not going to hurt you, but you may find there's definitely a benefit. The more we learn about the gut microbiome, the more we learn about how everything that's going to happen to us, even at the hormonal level, is being controlled by minute one-cell organisms that live in your gut. And the secret to a life well worth living is taking care of your gut microbiome and they'll take care of you.


Welcome back to The FeeCast, your weekly dose of economic thinking from your friends at the Foundation for Economic Education. I am Richard Lawrence and we are here with our panel, as always, our wonderful panel, our glorious and beautiful panel, and smart too. Anna Jane Perrell, Dan Sanchez, and Mary Ann March. And today we're going to be talking about something we've noticed more and more of here in our fair city of Atlanta. On the streets, on the Belt Line, even though they're not supposed to be there, are these things. They are these internet and app-enabled scooters. They go by a couple of brands, at least, birds and limes. And we're seeing more and more of them. In fact, right across the street, by our favorite restaurant, many of our favorite restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, there's always, it seems, one of these scooters out there that I would observe people just kind of walking up to, punching a couple buttons in their phone and then going off and scooting to the next place. Zoom, zoom. What are these things, these limes, these birds? Yeah, so they are, I mean, they are essentially ride-sharing for scooters. But they are, and they so quickly cropped up. So it was, honestly, a matter of weeks ago, the first time I had ever heard of one. And now you're seeing YouTube videos that reference them. You're seeing just really funny kind of cultural saturation about these scooters. So basically, you just hop on. You have an app, like everything in this world now. There's an app for that. Yep.  I'm not sure what the actual, you know, charge. I think it's a dollar to unlock it and then like 15 cents a mile or something like that. Yeah, it's super cheap. Yeah. So it's like you end up, I mean, so this weekend I had a friend in town and I was like, let's do a quintessential Atlanta thing, which is get on a bird scooter, which is so weird because again, like this happened so quickly. And all of a sudden, to me, it is such a big part of being in Atlanta is that you see bird scooters everywhere. And that is actually also something that apparently, you know, some metropolitan areas are saying, no, we don't want them here. And bird scooters basically just like dropping them off in the middle of the night. And then people are using them. And it's becoming it really quickly. Like I said, it saturated our culture so quickly, which is interesting to observe. But yeah, so I rode one this weekend. It was terrifying. I am not. Oh, you loved it. Oh, God, no, I am not. I'm not a balance is not my strong skill, not my strongest suit. It was terrifying because you go like 20 miles an hour and I wasn't wearing a helmet. And yeah, now I had one foot close to the ground at all times like this. So you're more of a segue person. Oh, no, I would never. I would never even try a segue. Oh, my God. I only trust my two feet and I fall a lot anyway. So it's yeah, no. Segways are supposed to take over and then they kind of didn't. I think they're pretty much tourist things only at this point. Well, they're huge. They are. And you look dorky. Let's be honest. Oh, yeah. That's what I was kind of saying about the birds. I was like, I think I texted my friend before when I first kind of realized what they were. I was like, I'm popular opinion. Do we all look like nerds when we ride these? And you do. And I was like, I don't want to ride this. Which is how you look cool. I mean, that's a hipster way of looking. That is very true. Where were these when I was in high school, walking home from school, wishing my backpack would turn into a car when there could have just been a scooter on the side of the road? Well, that's what I love about it is the spontaneity of just like you're not planning on taking any kind of transportation. You're walking. Maybe you're walking uphill. You're starting to get really tired. Maybe you're running late and then you see one and it's like, oh, I could get on that right now. And even though, and also just the just seeing, you know, property out there, it's just so interesting that the trust involved that like, OK, well, that looks like something that's eminently steelable and yet no one's stealing it. And that's another point behind this is that they're dockless. So unlike some other types of ride sharing or bike sharing in other cities around the country, they just sit there by themselves. You just walk up to it. They won't work until you activate them. And then as soon as you activate it, you can go. You can leave it anywhere. Right. And so we can think of this as the counterpart to the bike shares, which do have the docks. They are a little more cumbersome. I attempted to use one in DC and from reading on their website, I needed a key. I needed to plan ahead. I was a student. Students don't like to do that. But with the scooters, there's no docks. You just get on go and it's easy. You don't have to return it to a specific place. No hassle. No problem. So we have a couple pieces on our website right now related to this and goes into a little bit more of the entrepreneurial angle of this and some other things as well. Yeah. So we have an article by Tyler Brandt about the electric scooter movement. What's the title of that one? I love it. Sharing economy to electric scootaloo. Yeah. It's a meme. And basically he makes the point that about all the entrepreneurial innovation that went into this because this was a real problem that had to be solved. I mean, a lot of government systems didn't solve these problems and they had to shut down their bike sharing, especially operations because of just rampant theft and rampant vandalism. Baltimore had to shut their docked biking system down because people would just circumvent the security measures of the docks. Just shake them loose. Just shake them loose and then actually ride them and then ride them into the ground. But with these scooters, again, it's just amazing how people, they're just lying around and almost none of them get stolen, partially because they're cheaper, partially because the security isn't about the dock. It's about the wheels itself that the wheels just lock and unlock.  That kind of technology, which those ride sharing bikes don't have. Right. Right. So I think shopping markets kind of pioneered this idea of like, okay, well, we don't want our shopping cart stolen. So they'll put this system where as soon as the shopping cart gets like far enough away from the store, then the wheels will lock. But instead of being location-based, that these are time-based, that you pay to unlock it and it stays unlocked for, I'm not sure if it's a certain amount of time or a certain amount of revolutions. You just keep basically, it's like being in a taxi in the sense that like you just ride and ride and ride and it charges you and charges you and charges you. And when you stop, but it basically like they'll do the dollar and that's why that's how it unlocks and then you get going and then it just continually charges you. So you just kind of make it easier for people to pay to use than it would be to rig it to steel. Yeah. Whereas we're seeing in cities like Chicago where half the fleets are being stolen from the operators of the bike shares and you just make it easy and why would I bother to try to bypass the GPS and fix the wheels when I could just give them a dollar or two? Yeah. It's seriously, it's so cheap and it is super easy. Like just getting on the app the first time took me like two seconds. So it is, there's definitely that like decreased barrier to actually using it that I think would make stealing it less valuable. Anna-Jane, you were saying in our pre-production meeting that the birds need to be turned in and off by a certain time opposed to the lines. Yes. So I have a friend who's actually, he is applying to be a bird catcher, which is what they're called when they, so basically the other question is we just kind of see them all over the city. Where do they go? What do they do? Like who takes care of them? Bird catchers collect. There actually is a GPS where you see where all the birds are in the city. This is a part of the app as well.   So they won't work even if you try to pay.  And then they're actually bird catchers are incentivized to find hard to find birds or birds that are in unpopular places because the longer a bird has been standing still and not being used, the more valuable it is to the bird catcher. And so basically it is a really cool way for profit to encourage people or incentivize people to, what am I saying, to relocate the bird to a popular place. Yeah, so these bird catchers move them either to a new place or back to the bird cage where they can be deployed later on. The bird cage, yeah. And so this is an interesting topic because obviously like Marianne, you just mentioned the city bikes, these rides sharing bikes in places like Chicago where I was reading, or I was in Chicago actually a couple weeks ago and I was thinking, wow, they're really popular because none of them were at the docks. And then I thought, well, maybe they were stolen. In fact, I was looking up a little bit and in fact, in many of these cities, they are being stolen. In New York, they're actually in DC. In New York, I was reading that they're being stolen so often and the value of each one of these bikes is about $1,200 which makes each theft a felony. And so the New York police department is actually trying to get the bikes to be lower in value under $1,000 so that when they're stolen, they can only be misdemeanors. So it helps their crime statistics and everything else. I just thought that was a funny thing. But let's contrast the problem that these scooters solved, transit, right, with what public transit is supposed to solve, right? I mean, because ostensibly, this is the reason we have buses, this is the reason we have trains, is to address these transit issues that people have. Well, I think that also, I don't know if this is, so the problem that has been identified by these kinds of companies, and I don't know exact terminology but they call it something to the effect of last leg problem. It's last mile. Last mile problem, yeah. So it is kind of, okay, public transit can get us to, you know, to a regular stop that people frequent but I want to get just five blocks down the road. Right. And that's the problem that it's solving for people. And so do we think that it could be solved? I mean, that's a market solution. That is a private solution. Is public transit supposed to solve that problem for us? And I think it's just so interesting to contrast with public transit and how filthy public transit often is and how the New York subway system is always on fire and how filthy public bathrooms are, for example, that again, that when there's private ownership, then there's every incentive for entrepreneurs to innovate ways of making their property secure, of preserving it, of caring for it and enforcing it so that it doesn't allow other people to steal or vandalize it. Whereas with public resources, so often that things just fall into disrepair, get stolen, don't get maintained. Well, we are going to segue into a deeper conversation about those incentives about public property versus private property and the rights that are attendant. But we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. Hi, I'm Sean Malone, director of media for fee.org. Of course, you already know about fees, incredible articles and written content, but did you know that you can also watch our fantastic videos and listen to our podcast at our website as well? Visit fee.org slash shows to get the latest content from the series you love, such as Out of Frame, Common Sense Soapbox, How We Thrive, The Words and Numbers Podcast, and, of course, The FeeCast. Once again, that's fee.org slash shows for more great content like this. Thanks for watching. Welcome back to The FeeCast. We were talking before the break about how private ownership actually differentiates these scooters from other forms of urban transit that we have. Yeah, and private ownership is really what incentivizes the owners to come up with innovative solutions of maintaining them, of making sure that they're taken care of and that they don't get stolen and that they don't get worn down. And property rights has been a really important topic of philosophy, even going back to Aristotle. Aristotle had once written, that which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. And he was writing that in opposition to his teacher, Plato, who was basically advocating communism among the elites in his utopia. And this is one of the first times in literature where someone is saying like, okay, wait a minute, would that even work? And Aristotle pointed out that if you have common ownership, that people don't have an incentive to care for it. And it's when you have private ownership that there is. It's just like, I mean, it's like the dishwasher at feet at our work.  I wonder if you were going to bring that up. I mean, we struggle with that every week. That's the tragedy of the comments, right? It is, yeah. The tragedy of the commons is the most common, yeah, most common way to refer to it, but it is, it's the dishwasher problem. It is if you have a shared good like a public restroom, right? It's nobody, the most people that own something, the less somebody cares about it, or the less we individually care about taking care of it. If everybody owns something, no one does. Yes. And it all falls to ruin. So typically when you talk about the tragedy, the commons, the example that people will use is having a shared resource such as, if we were all sheep farmers, there's a common pasture where we can all take our animals to graze. And what happens is that we each try to reap the greatest amount of benefit from that resource. And so what ends up happening is that plot of land gets overgrazed because we're all bringing our sheep and nobody's thinking to grow more grass. That's right. We do these exercises sometimes at our fee seminars where we actually have a game where we actually try to see how people react to fishing, right? So very similarly to grazing. But if you over fish an area, you deplete its population so they can't reproduce. And so there are no more fish. Yeah, I did some work on this in college actually talking about resource management using property rights versus kind of public ownership of land. And I mean, there are obviously caveats to that and specific things like sufficiently small as a concept like we talked about last week. But I think that it's a really interesting idea that private ownership does incentivize, just like with the scooters, it incentivizes security of those scooters. It incentivizes the maintenance of those scooters and also incentivizes access. I think that's really important to understand when you juxtapose it with public transit is that we can try and create a bus system that accesses the most common areas. But when you use the market, which is what birds do, they are relocated by motivated people who are motivated by profit. They're relocated to more popular areas at night. And it's like that, so access alone. It's like this market motivation to make things more accessible to people. The popular areas change. The popular area this month won't be the popular area next month, so having a bus stop everywhere just isn't a reasonable solution. So let's get more into the motivating factors behind all of this. We have someone who is a little more recent in the world, John Locke, who we also have on our Wall of Heroes down in our office. What did John Locke have to say about private property? So John Locke is known as the father of liberalism, or what we know today as libertarianism. Or classical liberalism. Classical liberalism, right. And he had a big influence on the Declaration of Independence, for example. So the line that individuals have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that's derived from Locke's formulation, which was actually life, liberty, and estate, whereas it's often translated as property. But he actually thought of all of those three things as property. So his notion is that we have a right of self-ownership, that we own our bodies, and that we have a right to use our bodies to labor, to sustain our lives. And his way of thinking of property rights in external goods is that when we mix our labor with the land, with nature, that we are infusing those resources with part of ourselves, with part of our personality. And so we transfer the self-ownership, then becomes ownership of that resource. And that's one way of formulating it. David Hume had another way of formulating it. He focused more on scarcity, on the fact that resources and goods are scarce, and that you have to determine that if I use this iPad, then Anna Jane can't use the iPad at the same time. And so there has to be some sort of rules for how to allocate those resources just for conflict avoidance, so that we're not having a tug of war over the iPad. Well, we tend to think of property rights as kind of being a bundle of rights. We have the right to take an income from that. We also have the right to exclude people, and then we are also able to transfer to one another, and we're able to enforce our property rights. Absolutely. Absolutely. And so what you're basically saying, Dan, what Locke's formulation of property was, labor interacting with material creates something that is properly owned by the person who created it. Right. So if you go back to the scooters, I mean, the scooters are made up of certain materials that they're, I don't know what they're made of, probably aluminum and some steel and plastic, which originally came from petroleum from the ground, and all of these were originally just in nature. They were just part of nature. But then someone at some point mixed their labor with it. Someone mined the aluminum or drilled up the petroleum. And by doing that, they've sort of like imprinted their personality on that resource. Humans would say that they actually brought it into use for the first time. And so that gives them the right to dispose of it, which makes sense because if you grant the person who actually brings it into human use, the exclusive right to use that, then you incentivize people to do that, that you incentivize people to bring resources out of nature and into human use. Well, that was going to be my next question. Why do property rights matter? Not only maybe the moral thing to do, the ethical thing to recognize that maybe somebody put their labor, their blood, sweat, and tears into creating something and therefore have property in that thing. But why else does property matter? Firm, strong, divestible, defensible property rights? I think it also incentivizes people to put the most productive use of the property into effect, that it incentivizes them to trade with other people because a big important part of it is not just that you are free to do whatever productive activities you want with your resource, but that you have the right to transfer it to someone else in exchange for what they would like to trade for it. And then that creates the division of labor where we're all connected in trade networks, where we're all producing together, which is much more productive than isolated labor. When I do a game at seminars with our high school students, called the Trading Game, and it is our classic game, and it is something I always say at the end is, all right, it's basically students are given bags of goods, candy, and toys and stuff, and they trade. But at the end, I always say, okay, guys, everybody give me all your toys and candy back. That was fun. Now we're done with the activity, and they're all like, what? Like, no, we want our candy back. And that's kind of the last kind of lesson we go over is, okay, if I told you at the beginning of this activity, if I was going to have to take everything back, what would happen? And they always say, well, then I wouldn't have traded. I would have just sat in my seat, and I don't care what candy I have in my bag because it's not mine. And it's a stabilizing force in society that when we know that the work we put into something isn't just going to disappear the next day. Well, and some people would say, aside from sort of all the benefits that we've mentioned, that property might not always be the best thing to have. Some people who might identify as socialists or communists might say private property isn't necessary for all these things. It doesn't necessarily have to be there to drive people to find productive uses for their resources or materials or behavior. What would you say to that? Well, actually in America, there was an experiment with that kind of communal ownership with, I think it was the pilgrims. I think it was originally the pilgrims, and it was the labor that they put into their crops that then the crops just went into a common storehouse, and then it was just redistributed. And so it didn't matter how much work you put into your crop, you got the same regardless. And very predictably, that caused people to shirk that if there's a great quote by another Greek philosopher called Democratus where he said, income from communally held property gives less pleasure and the expenditure less pain. So it incentivizes everyone to extract as much value as they can. Overconsumption. Right, from the resource and to put in as little work as they can into maintaining and making the resource productive. But then once they abandoned that experiment and went back to the traditional private property of you reap what you sow, then productivity skyrocketed. And thanks to their discovery of the importance of private property and the incentives that come with them, we now have Thanksgiving dinners with lots and lots of sides and corn and all sorts of other things that we enjoy eating. So we're going to come back. We're going to talk a little bit more about private property after we get back from these brief messages. Oh boy, you know, starting out in the music business or just any business, you have to have the carrot dangling. You have to know what your goals are. I think if anybody goes in without a goal, you're pretty much doomed. This is a family business. My daughters, my son-in-law, my brother. We can't walk away from this. This is not something we're going to walk away from. This is something we pass on.  It's just, can you figure out how to go under it, around it, over it? That makes for longevity of a business. You can't give up. You just don't let yourself give up. Watch Mama Gold Tone and more documentaries about women in business in our How We Thrive series at fee.org slash shows. Welcome back to the final segment of Ye Olde Fee Cast. We've been talking about property rights, the importance they're in, as well as maybe some of the history thereof. And we wanted to talk a little bit more now about maybe the limits of property rights. And AJ, you actually were telling us before the show of a recent book that you read that kind of began to think about the limits. Yeah, well, I was, I love David Sedaris. He makes me laugh. I've been a fan of him. He's a native North Carolinian memoirist. He's hilarious. He recently published a book called Calypso. There is an essay in it called Stepping Out. And it was originally published in the, I believe the New Yorker. We're gonna have the link in the show notes. So it's definitely worth a read.  But one of the ways that this is made possible for him is that he lives in kind of the countryside in England and it's apparently a very common activity, much like biking or walking your dog would be long distance walking or what they call in England, roaming, is very popular there. And then I happened to be listening to a podcast about, I think it was the history of the movement that's related to that roaming concept in England. What they call it is the right to roam, which is like, I mean, they really truly believe it's a part of their value system in England that we have a right to walk wherever we choose and that's a part of us as English people is this roaming, this penchant for roaming. And so what that translates to now is, I think it was like the 2000, I forgot what the act is called, but it's basically like the right to walk on people's land. It really just says, yeah, you're allowed to walk on private estates, as long as you are just trying to get from point A to point B, that you don't basically stop in people's houses and you don't mess with their crops and things like that. But yeah, you can basically just wander on, I think this podcast was talking about somebody was walking on Madonna's estate in England. So it's like things like that where you can just walk on people's private property. And so I was so curious about kind of their national pride in the right to other people's land, essentially. So I don't know, yeah, it had me thinking, what's the limitation there in juxtaposing it with what we have in America, I mean, we really do care about property rights here. Is the right to walk on somebody's land, I guess, which is which, should we have a right to our land and say you are not allowed to be here or should we have a right to walk on people's land? People are just trying to go somewhere. I mean, I think there's an argument that those two are not mutually compatible, that like you either have one or the other. Because to the extent that someone has the right to walk on their property, to that extent it's not really their property. Because then in the extreme example, what if they wanted to be walking like in that spot right then and there? Or in the more likely example, what if they just want to be able to look out their window and see nature without strangers walking on. I mean, that is a use of their property and that's one of the reasons people buy and cultivate and own property. And so it just reminds me of this right to roam, it just sounds like a positive right. Like around the New Deal era, people talked about the right to three square meals a day and now they're talking about the right to health care. So that's what philosophers call a positive right, which is a right to be provided something as opposed to a negative right which is a right to be free of something. So property rights are negative rights because it's the right to not be stolen from or to not be murdered, for example. So it's like a protective right versus like, I guess I don't know what the opposite of that, but basically it's like protecting what you already have versus being given something or... Right, but to the extent that someone has a right to health care or a right to three square meals a day, then to that extent then other people are forced to either provide it or fund it. And so that infringes on their property rights of owning the money that they earned or in the case of if it was a farmer who was forced to provide it of owning their crops and their labor and their land. So this is very interesting. This right to roam, this sort of local tradition in England may be unique to them, but it's not the only example that we can think of where property rights are restricted, right? So one way in which you might conceive of a restriction or a limitation on property rights is as an easement, right? Where someone, not the owner, has property in that parcel of land or property, the real estate, right? And so basically the right to roam creates an easement over all of England that says, so long as you're not disturbing the use or the enjoyment, I guess broadly construed of this property, then you should be fine to roam on it, right? But there are other examples other than easements where property rights are limited. Yeah, but I think easements can be integrated with property rights because there has been theoretical work on this where people talk about like, okay, let's say that someone has been using this as a path before the owner started developing this land. And so let's say that these people have already been walking along this path and they haven't been doing other things with it, just walking. Well, since they came first, they've established the right to walk on that. They haven't established the right to prevent other people from doing compatible things with that same area, but they were there first and so they've established what they call an easement. They've homesteaded it in the Lockean sense. They've mixed their labor with the material of the land. There are actually other conversations happening now along those very same lines. In California, for example, there's a law that provides that people should have a right to the coastline and many wealthy people and subdivisions containing wealthy people have property along the coastline and so they're fighting to see if maybe they can prevent people from just entering onto what they consider and what the legal document says is their beach. Well, it's interesting this idea of roaming because I can't be reasonably expected to own every square foot of land that I might need to walk on. I can't own every mile that I need to travel by car or even just swim across the lake. I don't own that lake or to fly on an airplane. I don't own that air necessarily. So we have a system, it's usually a barter system of pay to use, but I think it's interesting because specifically when you talk about water rights, like you were, Richard, there's kind of two main ways that we think about water being owned in the states at least. There's riparian rights, which are more common to the East Coast where if it's next to your property, you basically get the right to it and on the West Coast, it's more of a first use kind of case prior appropriation is what it's called and that's kind of a first come, first served establishment of property rights, but it definitely gets a little murky when you start delving into these specific areas of property rights. And murky not just on water property as well. So there are a couple other limitations that we might hear about in the news or experience ourselves and one of them is eminent domain and this is of course the concept where the government can actually seize private property, pay the owner what they believe to be just compensation and then use that land for any sort of broadly stated public purpose. Yeah, and originally it was largely for government purposes such as building a highway. Right, right. That's what I think of when I think of eminent domain is the roads, it's the roads that we're building. But then famously in a situation where there was a Supreme Court case Kilo versus New London, one government did eminent domain to take someone's house in order to give the property to a corporation, to a private company, arguing that, okay, well the tax revenue that will come from this, that that's a public use. Has eminent domain been used to justify maybe like land purchases around like stadiums? I assume yes. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Okay. Even if it's a private stadium of course. Oh it's always, that's the problem with the stadium situation. It's usually a private. The public use is of course, you know, you get at this new economic development, a lot of new jobs and that was what the Supreme Court ratified. A lot of new jobs. Exactly. And who's to say whether they actually materialize or they're not a net loss on the community. But there are other limitations on private property as well. There are things such as regulatory takings and that is sort of the notion that if you have an endangered species on your land, even if you own it, you can't build onto that land because you would risk disturbing that particular species. Yeah, to that point, the development that the kilo versus New London taking was for never actually happened. Right, right, it's just an empty lot there. I think Pfizer was actually interested in getting that but they never actually did anything. And of course, Suzette Kila who has this little pink house which has been made into a film by the way. I encourage everyone to see Little Pink House. It's all about this story. She's out of her home. She's gone. She no longer lives where she wanted to live. Interesting. I think that for some reason I hear that story and I think that some people might anti-capitalist people would say, well that's Pfizer's fault, not the government's fault. You know what I mean? That's an interesting thing is I feel like I've seen Little Pink House like tossed around in multiple communities that I observe and interact with on Facebook and whatever and I think that it's to me like two different arguments for the same experience that people would say, well that's capitalism is the problem there. Well if you don't have the government going along with it, it's fact. Yes, and that's exactly what I was like, well I mean really the power that's being wielded is not by Pfizer, it's by, yeah. So when you were talking about the right to Rome it reminded me I was eating at Ikea. Not exactly fine dining. But delicious. And I saw this, you know they have Swedish words for everything there and they had this one ad that was Elemenstraten which is the principle allowing Swedes to roam freely in nature. That's also the name we chose for our meatballs, mashed potatoes, cream sauce. Sweden's number one dish because just like nature we believe that all should have access to and enjoy it anytime. To us Elemenstraten is everyone's right to forest field and a fine meal of meatballs. But again it just raises this whole notion of like how can everyone have a right to a fine meal of meatballs because a meal of meatballs is a scarce good.  And the labor that goes into, and the land that goes into. And the meat. And everything that goes into making a meatball is not, yeah it's not, it is scarce. So everyone's right to something that is scarce is impossible to enforce. Well even if our audience can't go out on any private property that they find this weekend maybe everyone should go have a walk. Everyone should go have some Elemenstraten from Ikea. Maybe try a bird or a lime. And we'll see them next week on The Feast.


This study investigates the relationship between meteorological and hydrological droughts in the United Kingdom. It finds that meteorological droughts tend to be more uniform across the country, while hydrological droughts are more concentrated in certain areas. Additionally, it shows that catchment properties can affect how hydrological droughts manifest themselves. This article was authored by L. J. Barker, J. Hannaford, A. Chiverton, and others.


Hi, you guys. Welcome back to another edition of New Indie Patterns. This time we are going to be covering all the indie patterns that were released in November. If you're new here, this is kind of a little bit like a first impression video where I look at the patterns like and assess them, you know, for fit and we talk about different fabrics and just kind of give my general opinion about the patterns themselves, except for this time I have seen some of them on social media, so I have had a bit of a sneak peek and maybe have already formed a bit of an opinion. But either way, it's a really fun way to look at patterns with someone and maybe be introduced to some new pattern companies that you hadn't heard of before. So without further ado, let's get into it. The first one is the Made for Mermaids Pepper Puff Sleeve Top. This is a knit top and sweater full of options. Choose from, and here I'll pull up this photo so we can see some of the options. Oh, that's really cute. Look how, okay, choose from gathered puff banded sleeve in short half, long with, okay, short, okay, what am I saying? Gathered puff banded sleeve in short half and long lengths with a short cuff or with a long cuff. Four neckline options, mock, turtleneck, scoop neck, v neck and bow neck. Wow. Five body options. We have a hemmed slim fit in high hip or top length, so like cropped or regular length. Three gathered banded options, high hip with short band, high hip with tall band, or regular length with a tall band. Wow. Okay, this is really one of those patterns that like you'll never need a puffy sleeve top ever. Again, this is like a one and done pattern. Here's like the mock neck, scoop neck, v neck, bow neck, and then we have the different links with the different bands. Wow, really cute. Let's look at some of the, some of the makes. I know that Made for Mermaids is size inclusive. I think they go up to like five or six X. It might be kind of hard. I don't, I really don't like it whenever they do the three. I get why they put three pictures on, but it's really hard to see at the normal, at the normal thing. This is the long sleeve with a long band. The sleeve still does seem a little bit long, like before we get to the banded part. And also now that I'm looking at it, this might be a little bit long too. Maybe she just made it too big. Here's another. That must be the slim fit. Made for Mermaids always provides a ton of photos. So we're just going to go through a few of them to get an idea of it. You know, what's interesting is the puff is kind of disappearing. Like I'm not really seeing a puffy puff puff, you know what I'm saying? Like I thought it was going to be way puffier, but I'm wondering if people are just using like a drapery or fabric. And so it's not standing up to the puff very well, or if the puff is just, you know, a subtle puff, subtle puff. That sounds funny. Like I wonder if you use like sweatshirting or something, if it would come out puffier. Or if it's really just kind of not meant to be that way. It doesn't really look like the line drawings, which is a little bit disappointing if I'm being honest. Plus, I just don't know about a banded, a banded top, especially if you're wearing it over pants, maybe banded but tucked in or the regular link with no band. Yeah, that's a little bit puffier. I think it's for sure going to depend on the type of fabric that you're using. Yeah, that one holds up to it a little bit more. I think you need a midweight or more kind of fabric. Did they talk about what fabrics they recommend? No, unless it's in this long. No, no, it's not. Yeah, so I would suggest if you want the like puff sleeve to really stand out, maybe use a fabric with a little bit less drape. So not all of your sweater knits are going to be created equal for this pattern, depending on how much of the puff you want to see. Okay, next we have Chaka Notch came out with the Aria. This is a bubble shaped woven top with elbow length sleeves and elastic hem casings on the sleeves. Okay, U.A. includes a high back with bias or face neckline option. UB includes a low back with ties and a square back facing. Both use have narrow or cropped ruffle hem option. Okay, so a decent amount of options there. This feels helpful how it's all just kind of like, you know, bulleted out so you can just really quickly read through and see what is included and especially because the this is linked like hyperlink so you can just click on it and it'll take you right to the hashtag. Same thing with the Pinterest page. I kind of love that. More details in the description. Okay, so view a high back with bias view a high back with facings and I'll show you the difference in those if the illustrations aren't really helping then view below back with facings. Here's the body measurements. The full bus A, B cup, C, D cup that's nice goes up to 58 inches. So pretty size inclusive there. That's also nice choosing fabric designed for a light to medium weight woven. A lighter weight fabric will fall closer to the body and a medium weight fabric will maintain more of a bubble structure. Love that they kind of describe it that way. Explain it medium fabric with yada yada yada okay great and the notions why I don't think we need a lot interfacing and then elastic yeah so this could be one of those what's the yardage all views one and a half two yards hmm oh it's not 45 inch yeah okay what's the 54 one and a half yards yeah it must be a pretty roomy sleeve I was thinking it could be a one yard wonder but still one and a half yards it's a pretty big scrap but it could you know you could make it work out of just like a little bit of leftover from something else I know that I have um one and a half yard cuts lying around so here she is that's the zoomies I'm going to get oh the ruffle hem is really cute oh I wish it zoomed in a lot more um so when you have a bias facing versus a faced facing the bias is going to have a narrow like stitching line and almost like a separate piece let me the top and then it's going to be like bias that you will be able to see from the outside mostly unless it's turned under I don't know how it's finished is it single bias tape or double I don't know a facing is sewn to the neckline turned inside completely sometimes it's top stitched sometimes it's not it does look like they are doing a top stitched um facing and also I'm pretty sure wasn't it grown on sleeves let me see hold on yeah so there's not even a sleeve like seam this is very very vegan or friendly it's basically a dolman sleeve with some gathers so you get a lot of practice at elastic casings there's the low back that's cute great cute yeah everybody's kind of looks the same I do like how on this version without the little ruffle you just tuck in your elastic casing and it kind of gives like a bubble hem that's kind of nice I want to see the hashtag let's see if this pops up easily that oh I was gonna say is that it okay here is the instagram this one looks oh I see yeah I mean hmm probably not everybody's style and it obviously really depends on how you style it I think was something really slim fitting what skirt is this this skirt is so cute the Evelyn skirt adorable um you know I think well here's one with like a flowy bottom that's kind of cute too and look she did make it kind of scrappy by putting this um see bits of left over linen scraps she with this color blocking she kind of did her own thing that's really cool oh it's actually lots of linen scraps that's really interesting there's a little one cute all right one more let me find something yeah I think defining the waist is really important whether it's with a slim fitting bottom or a flowy one as long as it has like a defined waist um I think you're good to go but for sure look through like some of these fabrics that they use this is a double gauze that one feels particularly light and breezy and I like how she left the tie off it doesn't look like if you don't have the tie it doesn't look it's going to fall off your shoulders but I could be wrong but it doesn't seem like it yeah really cute really really cute I love that really sweet and simple um what was the price 18 dollars oh it's hard for me to justify something so simple for 18 dollars I can probably just draft this myself um yeah that's a lot I was thinking maybe closer to 12 13 you again they're allowed to ask for whatever they want you know however they justify their pricing but 18 feels like a lot for something so simple okay next up is notches patterns this is their dilla blouse and dress um this one has plant pleated lantern sleeves dress or top choose from different sleeve and neckline options with this set you can make up to 27 different garments I love whenever they figure that number out it's always so exciting like that first pattern probably has like a gajillion okay yeah really straightforward and to the point with their description here I love that it has English French German and Dutch so worldwide worldwide here all right so you want a ton of pictures let's is this going to make it big yes thank you okay I'll accept your cookies yum yum yum I'm just kidding um okay so we have a high neckline we have this little pleated bodice with a little gather underneath I don't I'm going to look at the others but this feels like is it supposed to hit just below the high boss or is it supposed to be empire waist but then this is the real star of the show this pleated lantern sleeve it really is stunning yeah it looks like it's actually this one hits a little bit more at the high bust but it has a square neckline short sleeves super drapey the fabric that they chose okay keyhole neckline to get you in it because it is such a high closed neckline the pleats carry on to the back as well of the bodice oh okay so high neck square neck v-neck long sleeve short sleeve oh boy oh gosh sorry um what did I say long sleeve short sleeve sleeve less and then I'm sure that there are length options as well yeah like this one was midi length like mid ankle I mean mid what's it called shin knee length so cute I love these photos yeah the details of that one are really really fun it kind of reminds me I was gonna say anthropology at first but it's not anthropology it's free people it reminds me a lot of free people and I think that they probably used a linen on the first one and this is some kind of like rayon maybe but I think it could be really great in so many different types of fabrics I don't think they talked about fabrics but um um so many different types of stable fabrics even like I'm thinking like the double gauze and um like light like uh so structured fabrics but lighter weight than this one this one is very crisp and kind of weighted but I can imagine it like a blend between the orange fabric and the blue fabric where it's structured but still a little bit drapey and you can find that within lots of linen categories some cotton categories maybe like a blend like a like a rayon linen would be really cool I don't know but you definitely want something where that sleeve is going to stand out also so you do want it to be so not a rayon linen that's not what I'm thinking I'm just thinking like a lightweight crisp linen or cotton or like even like a of what an eyelet seersucker maybe that could be really cool something along those lines all right this is the copper creek patterns petty pants and this is a little bit confusing now because it's the do-it-better-yourself club but they also have copper creek patterns so I don't know if they I don't know how these are these people are partnering or if there's just one person now I'm not sure but this is their new pants pattern pays tribute to the fabulous fit and fashion of the 70s supportive bottom weight woven fabrics wide leg um a butterfly or zipper fly ankle capri with a raw edge or capri cuffed hem and optional front slant pockets intermediate sewice and beyond okay I have thoughts already just based on these photos um the fit is not great you can see there's a ton of drag lines um and the drag lines point to the problem area that's how you know where it's stemming from so these are all pointed to the outer thigh and you can see here that her side seam is very very crooked so there's just not enough space for horror bum um so not necessarily the patterns fault but if you're gonna put this as your like lead image I kind of think that we should have something where the fit is pretty spectacular so lots of different testers it looks like can I not scroll through these oh I hate that here's the button there's two on the waistband nice big deep waistband I love that and then four going down these are the optional pockets yeah in general it's feeling oh I don't know I'm not seeing a decent fit on anybody yet hands in pocket so it's really hard to tell I also feel like the mid-rise is not really helping um it feels like it's hitting everybody at a really funky funky spot it's affecting some more than others but it says that there's a high rise option oh no it says they're all high rise that's not true that's not her the high rise for her would be way up here it's not that it can't work right you would just have to put in the time to adjust the rise adjust the circumference of the full hip um to make sure that it was going to be suitable for you this is okay so they do have misses sizes and plus sizes um made for someone who's five five which feels kind of on the short side so you would think a high rise for a five five person would be really really high rise so but it puts the full hip at 34 inches up to 67 so very size inclusive I do love that but yeah you'll need anything to do like you're probably the most um when it comes to your pant alterations I have to do them every time so for me it's not like that different but if you're used to just making patterns and going for it um this one might not be it what was the price on that one too I feel like they're usually pretty affordable um okay it's free oh no $11 yeah I love that they're the price points right under 12 bucks that feels really good to me all right this is the fold lines wait okay again it's confusing it's the fold line pattern shop this is the lina lina line patterns arthur bomber jacket is this how you get to lina line no these are just all of the lina line pattern so I think I'm just on the fold line on accident instead of going to lina lines website my bad okay so 12 to 19 pounds um PDF is probably gonna be the $12 option yeah um arthur bomber jacket sewing pattern comfortable practical um beveled patch pockets on the front and flap flap pocket on the sleeve raglan sleeves that widen at the elbows and top stitch seams okay so for those of you that have been around the channel for several years you know that I have been on the hunt for a bomber jacket with a button front and set in sleeves and I promise you that does not exist yet so if anybody out there is designing patterns please please please please combine the button front with the set in sleeve there's plenty of set in sleeves with zipper fronts there's plenty of raglan sleeves with zipper fronts there's button fronts with raglan sleeves but no button front with a set in sleeve that I have been able to find and people have been on the hunt helping me find this for a long time tagging me and I think this would work and to this date we have not found one yet so just a shout out putting in the universe please help me okay so button these are snaps actually same difference but and then the rib knit little neckline there's the raglan sleeve that's the little arm pocket it's like a two-piece pocket too the top stitching really beautiful and then a ribbed weight hem and then a ribbed wrist cute and it's kind of like a little bit of a cropped length as well let's see yeah a fold line would come through with the right little carousel for the photos there's the back very simple yeah it's definitely going to end at your high hip very kind of standard yeah I mean it's as cute as any of the other bomber jackets I've ever seen bomber jackets are adorable this one just happens to have a little bit more flair with this little arm patch pocket you could definitely leave that off um but yeah nice okay this is UK sizes 6 to 16 which puts us bust wise at 31 and some change to 39 that can't be right is that right I'm not even a 39 inch bust what am I missing what am I missing US sizes 2 to 12 is that it seriously wild that's wild six sizes wow okay well I mean it is roomy but still geez okay this is the sewing patterns by I'm gonna say mason that sounds right this is the Amalfi blouse very small font let me read it for you $15 first of all Amalfi blouse is a romantic raglan sleeve top pattern it features voluminous bishop sleeves with a bound sleeve cuff the neckline of the blouse is gathered into a neckband that flows into a cute button placket this pattern is best suited for intermediate sewage for ambitious beginners it is easy to lengthen this pattern into a dress you can even add side seam pockets and little belts are we noticing a theme for november's indy patterns very kind of like frolic in the field you know lots of gathers lots of big puffy sleeves that end in gathers this one does have the button front which is a nice detail raglan sleeve I feel like we saw a couple like this too in the october indy pattern collection let's get to a different version I was noticing how this was kind of shaping her waist and I think that's just kind of by accident I don't think there's actually that much shaping in it yeah it looks like it's just kind of all pulled to the side and back a little bit I think it's meant to be kind of boxy okay here are some I kind of am really loving a full like lousy top tucked in you would need to make it much longer oh she just tucked into a low rise okay I like it tucked into high rise because I'm a high rise girly but the normal length of it being high hip for me I would bend over one time and and it would come out so I would need to make it much longer or you could even attach this is a hack I've been thinking about putting on the channel for a long time you could attach some little like briefs to the bottom and make it a bodysuit because you have all these buttons you just pull it on no big deal everybody seems to have wanted to tuck it in yeah kind of equally as cute untuckless shorts that's adorable so yeah a lot of fun options cute 15 bucks is a little much but not too too bad especially if you do like she said make it into a dress or you know alter it another way like maybe move the buttons band to the back and keep the front solid you could kind of play around a little bit and give yourself more than just one view I think that's kind of the downside and why I wouldn't if I don't think $15 is fair just because there's only one version I would think around $10 for one version would be good but again they're allowed to charge whatever they want I'm just saying like for me in terms of perceived value 15 seems like a little high okay so house seven they came out with these moon booties okay and I don't know I'm kind of on the fence about them I'm kind of like I are they just meant to be around the house because if so that's kind of okay but I definitely don't need these kinds of shoes to just hang around the house so I don't see the point in me making them but it's kind of fun that there's a pattern like this that just exists um so they are the ultimate slippers poppy coats for your feet um slip-on booties are non foot specific oh meaning no left no right I was like that could be interpreted lots of ways um the lining is slightly contoured I don't even know what goes into making booties like this but there's lots of information here foam sole interstellates your feet maybe just because it doesn't get cold enough here for me to need moon booties but yeah let's see who's making them on the internet they're posting about it oh well the quilted versions wow oh I recently google feet always cold and the results suggested oh wow this actually got serious I thought it was gonna say and google said make these moon booties oh gosh okay oh the little rifle paper company ones of course oh and fleece on the inside wow that's intense I want to see them on someone's feet oh thank you so cute oh my gosh look I mean they do look warm and comfortable I gotta give them that here's a little video oh they look more sturdy than I thought oh she's like walking on the moon wow people are so creative I I guess I didn't realize that the foam was going to be so so sturdy what it is so those are fun and this uh this pattern did come out right before the holiday so maybe it was kind of like a little you know nod to holiday gifts too okay this is the June pattern studio sweetheart neckline blouse how fun and sweet is this so we've got I don't think Etsy does descriptions very well if I'm being honest learn more okay so sweetheart neckline gather bust area three-quarter puff sleeves elastic on the cuff high hip no zipper okay seam allowance is included layered blah blah okay happy sewing thank you all right yeah it's really sweet so it's got this like sweetheart neckline with a little gathered thing would you hear and then these cool like almost like shirt elastic sleeve bands and a little gathered shoulder as well there you have it I would like to see it on a human being and not just this mannequin oh there it is okay here's this hold on what's this okay oh oh oh hold on yeah what is this that's a seam hold on let's keep going there's line drawings coming yeah okay so this seam needs to be a little bit lower right this should be for at least for this woman under her bust right not kind of on top of it I think it is meant to be more of an empire waist at least that's what this photo makes it seem but if you get it to fit like the illustration I think it's really really cute and I've been seeing this little elastic application everywhere and ready to wear I don't know how similar it is to shirring maybe I can look at the notions that are required to see and maybe that will help but I've been seeing a lot of that also I want to point out that even on the mannequin that little seam was a little bit too short easily an inch or two longer here would would really help but yeah there we go lots of photos great okay here's the size guide full bust goes from 32 to 42 and a half inches and she's calling 42 and a half inches three XL that seems a little misleading I would think three XL would be in the 50s 50 inches or at least high 40s right yeah okay yeah and I don't think it says long stretch woven this is how much you need other materials one centimeter wide 200 centimeter long elastic it doesn't say the width of elastic so is it elastic thread is it is it like shirring okay yeah see this person here says I had slight issues with the sizing I can see why I think that if you think you're making a three XL and it's going to be like a three XL the stores no it's way smaller than that you really need to take your measurements and compare it against a finished measurement chart if one of those is even available and that probably goes for all of june pattern companies june pattern studios patterns all right the peppermint magazine pattern for november is the bronte bathers peppermint magazine offers free patterns well they used to be free now they're pay what you want in five dollar increments that's kind of a bummer they used to be free slash pay what you want and so you could pay any increment one dollar zero dollars all the way up this one you have to pick either way it is a swimsuit and before you're like well wait it's november that's so weird um this was developed by swim style patterns and I think that they are an australian brand so it's summer for them and it's australia so I think that it was appropriate for them to come out with a swimsuit but photo wise let's take a look maybe yes so we have high waisted bottoms with kind of like a little bit of a cheeky view I like that it doesn't look like diaper like I've seen in the past and then like a straight kind of bandeau style top with tie straps here are all the girlies this one seems to have some kind of detail in the middle maybe right like a little cincher tie or something same here and whereas this one's kind of flat yeah definitely has that little scoop detail on the bottom and the top so does that one really cute cute ties yep I'm surprised this one doesn't have underwire that looks very supportive okay so this one instead of the ties has the adjustable strap oh I don't know why I'm so surprised it only has wait that is a tie okay that's adjustable straps okay and this one has this little twisty thing in the middle cute and the bottoms are the same front front back cool here is the body measurement chart so in inches we go from 32 inches up to 56 in the bus that's great this is an extra small to 9x for the record their 3x is very similar to june pattern company so maybe I'm the one that's just confused about what 3x means or maybe because it's not a us company I don't know if june is or not but their sizing is just different I don't know but cute little bathing suit for sure keep in mind as the weather warms up here in the states all right Ely and Matt count with three patterns I'm going to go through them quickly this is the adult Yvonne spa day robe pattern it's just your quintessential standard robe not anything too too special um line drawing wise can we make this bigger no we cannot yes we can okay all right so we have the banded front patch pockets a little um tie and then in the back it has like a shawl collar so not hooded but it has like a little oh just kidding there's a hood or a shawl collar great and it also looks like two lengths maybe more than that actually mid thigh knee length and then short and then it looks like two different pockets this little kind of rectangular one and this little scoopy one again since this came out in November it would have been ideal for holiday gifts it does look really cozy comfy but yeah just your standard robe pattern and at nine dollars right yeah their price point is always spot on and I know for sure that they are size inclusive I can't remember what size range they have sewing tutorial here we go so bus is 29 inches up to 67 and they're calling that a 7xl 3xl yeah okay this is more what I thought but Ellie and Mack is a us-based company so maybe that's just where I'm getting confused but yeah a 3xl for a high 40s full bust that feels more familiar to me okay this is the naika sweatshirt sweetheart shirt peplum and dress pattern wow whoops a really beautiful sweetheart neckline very fitted this is probably for knits only yeah really really stunning fit I mean look at this on her but it does have the princess seams with the little strap I guess you can do a flutter sleeve you can do a couple different skirts or a peplum top and then we have an even thinner strap yeah so many options Ellie and Mack is really good at providing all the options that was the top here's the dress you know there's something about a knit twirly dress they are just really comfortable I like how this is giving like um kind of like corseted vibes even though it's not corseted I mean look how on every single body type it looks incredible everyone looks like a million bucks the fit looks really good consistently that's hard to pull off and I mean even the execution of the sweetheart I don't know if this is like a self-lined bodice and that's how these lines are able to be so crisp but I mean everybody's looks good and that I mean that is really cream of the crop in terms of any sewing pattern when it literally looks so good on every single person both in fit and also execution of sewing 10 out of 10 this is great so happy got nothing bad to say I want one and again the $9 price point can't beat it for all those options my gosh okay this is the laquisha crop how am I skipping words laquisha cottage crop top peplum and dress pattern so this is oh a crop top with long sleeves okay and it has this like gathered bust situation happening there's the back or you can do a little cap sleeve with a peplum the long cap sleeve with the long skirt with the ruffle that's what she made super cute we're not entirely sure as to how fashion forward this is per se I mean I feel like I was making these in like the 2010s maybe but there's a reason why they were so popular back then they are really flattering especially in a knit fabric oh she did a little sweet belt yeah I bet it's super comfortable I don't know let's bring them back let's bring back the gathered bodice midriff knit dress it's really kind of cute I don't know I can also imagine it you know for my personal style making it a little bit more like 70s vibes with like some kind of vest or like a corset situation happening on top or one of those like um I don't have one of these personally I don't think I could pull it off one of those like see those like leather it almost looks like snm like strappy leather belted thing all these straps you know what I'm talking about I don't know what they're called but here is this is an interesting thought down here I kind of love the idea of having you know contrasting fabrics where the skirt is sheer that's a fun take on it that feels a little bit more modern yes to these queens rocking these crop tops a crop top is one thing but like a fitted midriff crop top that is like a whole other thing but yeah that is really cute it does look very kind of milkmaid um and that is actually very trendy right now the milkmaid situation so cute cute cute again nine dollars same price or same size range as the others all right this is Veronica Tucker's free free free free free no well pattern now it's not got a lot going on okay it's not going to be the most couture thing you've ever made but it is free off the shoulder flowy dress um wear with or make your own belts designed today into a blouse or dress of any length you can also adjust the length of the sleeve and you need some elastic for this um any opaque mid to lightweight fabric heavier fabric wouldn't work due to the design staying up on the body by the elastic around the shoulder so the fabric is heavy it won't be able to stay up the reason I have your weight fabric wouldn't work is due to the design staying up oh if it's too heavy it'll pull this all down that's what she's saying I thought she was meaning this was going to come up on the shoulder but then she was saying down and that got confusing so if it's too heavy it'll just pull pull pull pull and then you'll be naked if you're using a sheer fabric ensure to line the main body piece okay well okay one of these all right are we going to get anything regarding a line drawing no she does have does that mean Australian dollar a dollar sign um gosh yeah I really would like to see a line drawing but I guess it's literally like squares sewn together with an elastic hmm yeah I need to see more no Instagram hmm okay it is free let's remember that and you can maybe depending on your drafting skills you can figure out a way to take this as a blank slate and I don't know figure out some other stuff but I can't even see the bottom of it so I don't even know what the hem looks like it's just like a lot of it's just like a lot of fabric with elastic at the top all right well if you're into that if that's your style here's a free version for you okay this is the matchy matchy sewing club this is their makers over shirt sewing pattern $14 so they're really kind of like pushing the line there with the pricing um in terms of being near or at the average for an indie sewing pattern company um right these days I feel like we're seeing mostly around the 10 to sometimes 20 so that $15 point really does end up being median all right designing a casual minimalistic boxy style button up layer this easy to sew pattern has a wide shoulder line multiple pockets and simple front button placket the shirt hits below the hips making a perfect piece for layering view b is a bonus view offering fun and playful color block okay so it is a button front colorless little top slash coat the stripes do make it really fun what are all of these those are so cute yeah the the sort of visual interest with the fabric really does kind of elevate it a little bit drop shoulder another thing as well she just piled them on I think she's got three of them on that's pretty cool yep that's fun I could also see it in like a corduroy making it a little bit more structured I think a lot of the fabrics that they're using here are like mid-weight linens and cottons and things but I can see it out about like a really structured denim or a linen and again no line drawings oh fabric shown love this that's really cool so cotton twill linen rayon blend linen cotton linen linen linen sizing and fabric oh here's a line drawing so yeah just one length and then view b offers this one additional seam line where you can do the color blocking below it I wish they would have shaded that in so you could it was really clear what the difference was but their um bust sizes go from 31 inches up to 64 so 2xl 2xs up to 6xl all right this is Friday pattern companies Hoganip pullover 16 bucks perfect layer for all your outdoor adventures online pullover jacket that features welt pockets sport collar snap or button half front placket designed for woven or stable knits have a lot of fun with your fabric choice anything quilted fleece linen packing and carrying the polka nip is a breeze with the fun and optional packable pocket what what let's see that okay hold on okay first of all the design is super cute I love how it's high hip length um with this cute little elastic band the kangaroo pocket I love that the half placket is huge that's like two or three inches two inches probably deep I think that that is so flattering how this super big collar and placket frames the face love that and then has a drop shoulder that you can see here now let's see if I can find this packable pocket they speak of that almost looks like a top oh here's the back this must be the pocket I kind of hate that they lined it in white I don't want to see that but that's neither here nor there with this little button it must all go into here somewhere no they're not going to show us the packable pocket I know that that's it and I'm I don't know I'm assuming I don't know how do you get oh you fold this in fold this in and then fold the top and the bottom and then turn it right side out or turn it inside out so cute not hard to execute on literally any jacket that you have it's just a pouch on the back but like duh like why haven't I thought of that before model fit notes oh love that notions elastic snaps or buttons button and scrap fabric okay that is that cool yeah this is this is a good value to me at $16 I don't know why I can't explain it really it just my heart just tells me okay so Sinclair patterns came out with their Selma knit pleated neckline top and tunic oh I see okay round and square neckline options $11 and then this is how their photo thing works but yeah it's actually pretty hard to see but it's kind of cool how these are all like pleats like box plates that open out into this little flowy situation so that is long sleeve elbow length sleeve a little slim on the fit through here which is why you're getting this if the back hem were a little bit wider all of this would flow naturally over her body yeah there's the square neckline it's cute I'm trying to think of ways to style it other than with jeans or I wouldn't put it with the pencil skirt myself but oh and then a nice big um I guess it's a neckband seeing if anybody styled it with anything other than jeans so when that's the case and I'm just feeling like uninspired by the styling then I'll just start picturing it as a dress and then that solves all my problems and I'm like okay great it's a dress now you know what I mean not that there's anything wrong with tops and jeans I just feel I don't know personally to me that's so uninspired um you know I want to do I want to make clothes that make me feel like I'm pushing the boundaries a little bit you know basics with a twist that's just basic okay closet core came out with their Fran pajama pattern and is it me or doesn't closet core uh who has the oh the other super super super popular pajama set I thought it was closet core but maybe it's like green line or somebody else the um I'm getting all the names confused now I want to say jenny that's wrong those are the overalls I want to say Claire that's wrong that's the coat it's the somethings pj somebody's name oh gosh you guys will tell me in the comments but I thought that was closet core maybe I'm wrong maybe it's somebody else but the Fran pajamas okay 16 bucks and I mean don't get me wrong this is pajamas but I could wear this out I would feel no shame in putting on some shoes kind of like she's got and hit the town in my pajamas um Taylor details with the slouchy fits okay they look just as good in bed as they do glammed up and all in the town yeah I'd say so um shirt collar cuff sleeve back yoke inverted back pleat button loop at the neck the pants are a straight leg slightly paper bag elastic waist optional drawstring inseam pockets and back pocket it's available in alphanumeric sizing a new addition to our size range that's fun extra extra small which is a 31 inch bust up to 4x which is a 60 inch bust loves carolin okay so I'm not going crazy I also was thinking of carolin so I guess this is just like a more fitted version maybe and this is their more boxy version I love silhouettes like this where the hem like flares out a little bit I don't know why I just think that's really kind of chic looking and they put her in this like fendi looking fabric love that super chic again yeah you can see how it buttons up here into your little collar okay yeah hmm this is cute and I think that that's kind of an easy collar I'm going to say simple collar let's watch the video oh just kidding I don't know what happened no video it won't let me go forward either backwards yeah nope that's a bummer oh this is the video nothing's happening that's too bad oh my gosh now the whole thing is breaking okay we're just gonna skip all that anyways yeah cute I am kind of a little bit on the fence only because this isn't anything revolutionary in terms of design right they just do such a freaking good job of making it feel new and fresh like we've never seen this before but if you really just look at the line drawings right just look at the line drawings we've seen obviously elastic waisted pants before and this top is you know a boxier oversized boyfriend if you will fit button down so do with that information what you will okay this is sycamore road the juniper wrap top so I just reviewed all the patterns from sycamore road in my last first impression video I looked at all their patterns and you guys would seem to really really like them as well this is their juniper top I'm not going to talk too much about it because I kind of like I said just covered it but it is a really cute wrap front top with this really great sleeve detail I feel like that's what sycamore roads kind of underlying theme was was these like really big interesting sleeves and this is no exception the wrap top does seem to fit beautifully and you know has a really cute sweet little length to it not a ton of options included with this pattern in fact this might be the only one I'm trying to get to the line drawings while also showing you some of I mean it's a really nice pleated sleeve they have going on here um this is the sizing uh that is a 20 30 inch bust up to 57 and a half nope we're back to the beginning right yeah um so no I remember was I talking about line drawings in the other video I'm sure I was um and it's 14 and a half euros so sort of similar to the dollar these days um I did feel like that price was a little bit high for like the simplicity of the design of the patterns but at the same time I felt like the designs were a little bit out of the box and a little bit fresh feeling so I'd pay a little bit more to have a pattern that's not just basic a pattern that I haven't seen before okay it's to stitch has the andy's jacket pattern 14 bucks versatile and stylish high thigh length jacket designed to elevate your outerwear game crafted especially for fleeced backed soft shell fabric so you guys know what she's talking about with that um it's soft shell on the outside soft shell is like north face it's like it's not necessarily water resistant maybe water is it water resistant and not water repellent whatever one where water can get through oh it's a little bit like that right nylony you know and then has fleece on the inside um this one showcases intriguing seam details for subtle shaping and visual interest lined hood unlined body water resistant properties okay and drizzly or rainy weather all right cool cup size options three piece hood unlined bodice sleeves with diagonal seam lines princess seams from the shoulders ample front pockets exposed center front zip high low hem and then the fabric again okay yeah the slim silhouette is really nice you know for this type of jacket typically like when you think of north face something like that the jackets do feel very kind of like boxy so it's nice to see something with a little bit of shape yeah these are the princess seams I also feel like there's a seam here I think mine drawings are coming up here shortly yes oh cool love the continuation of this seam into the sleeve that just feels really smart and then these are the same um style lines that were in the little windbreaker jacket that I did the sew along for this time last year remember that it's like reddish burgundy fabric I used I loved that detail and for mine the pockets were built into this I want to say it was like a simplicity or a new look pattern she went ahead and just did like zip pockets on the outside but because there's a seam here you could definitely do pockets that would be on the inside of the jacket if you didn't want to do these little sippy things refer to that sew along or that pattern if you want to see what I'm talking about but but yeah this is really really cool and then she yeah she has one with the hood on but not with it all the way zipped for me a hooded jacket it has to stay up like I've made hooded jackets in the past that although are very cute like the moment like the slightest breeze catches it it's falling off which defeats the purpose I'm assuming this little like I don't know it's a little more like enclosed on your face um keeps it up more right I just never made one like that before so really nice very good all right so we've got sizes double zero to 40 it says c size chart tab why can't we just make this a hyperlink size chart tab okay all right well it's not that hard to get to so different cop sizes from a to double d and it's not like a slash b sleep c slash d they're all have their individual pieces that's really nice the hip measurement for this is 33 and an eighth up to 62 really decent size range there and then a cup is eliminated from her plus size uh size range but the b cup goes up to 60 yeah and she's really petite so I think she really honors the double zeros you know and and gives its size inclusive on both sides of the size range on the petite side and the plus size which is nice okay this is the handbuck wrap skirt from daily like canada reversible pleated wrap skirt I love that etsy does this it definitely gives you that feeling of FOMO like oh no six people just bought this like it's definitely like cool and popular I must get it right the video is so good oh nice transition yeah really chic right let's see the sizing and like she gives this to me straight up from the beginning like don't fall in love with the pattern yet check this sizing first all right so it is a wrap skirt right so the sizing at the waist is a little bit there's some wiggle room there in terms of how tight you tie it but the sizing chart is 24 that's what that says 24 inch waist up to a 47 inch waist at the 3xl that's really kind of incredible um yeah that's pretty good I'm surprised by that to be honest now it does require three to four yards of fabric so she is a hog she's a fabric hog but I don't know it's really kind of super pretty so might be worth it I love it with this little batwing lightweight sweater imagine it too with like maybe like the first pattern that had that band right the puff sleeve that had the band where you could tuck your band in or you could even put it on top but this is this is a band and the top would have a band so they'd kind of like blend in together a little bit that could be a really fun styling I like the line drawing has like a little bit of movement to it but yeah just tons of pleats and like your traditional wrap skirt again not revolutionary in terms of design people have been making wrap skirts forever and ever pleated skirts forever and ever but I don't know it just feels like the execution of hers especially this photo um is just super inspiring it looks very clean right there's I mean everything it feels very couture the way that it's sewn so that would give me inspiration and motivation to pay the 11 dollars for it just to see the clean finish now in my mind I'm thinking I know how this is done but um but just to be sure I guess I'm I feel like I would learn something from this pattern based on how it's been executed and I don't know it just feels really chic even though it's kind of basic I like the length of it I don't know yeah I'm kind of like fangirling over this even though it's like the most simple thing that there is okay so Madswick patterns came out with the raida blouse 20 dollars okay raida blouse is a circular yoke with a billowy blouse oh my gosh of course I love it the sleeves are designed to hit above the elbow or wrist and feature three pin tucks right here oh my gosh they work out and gathers into the binding sleeve hem three view options and instructions with two different hem lengths 24 blouses possible with the pattern pieces and instructions provided intermediates includes I love when they do this sewing techniques such as gathering pleat binding buttons buttonholes attaching a collar stitching in the ditch and verb you see ruching I love that they do this because intermediate is such a relative term like what's intermediate to me may not be intermediate to you so you can look through this list of techniques and say yeah I know how to do this and this and this oh I've ever done buttons or buttonholes before so do I feel confident in trying to take that on with this pattern you can assess through yourself based on what you know you're capable of if this is going to be a pattern that you can execute here we go not the ruching that's the view see with the ruching I love this $20 are you kidding me wow super super cute I love the yoke with the gather I love that there's that this plus this pin tuck sleeve plus possibly doing the the ruching oh they're not gonna let me make this big huh oh come on for $20 let me look at it close up I can't read this it's way too small yeah I'm like tap the photo it goes backwards so from what I can tell view e I'm sorry view a is the the roughly yoke pin tucks button front like bias found collar maybe a bit of a Mandarin collar view b is the same without the buttons in the front and so it has a keyhole in the back and then if you see has the ruching that we saw then there's the long sleeve version okay so that's what gives this 24 different options but consider all the different lengths of this you can make consider adding a ruffled skirt that's when you're $20 really becomes like this is such girl math girl math and sewing math combined when you can add because it's such a like from from the bus down is such a blank slate that you could add all these details so the pattern basically becomes free is what I'm trying to tell myself oh gosh okay sizing um this pattern is drafted between a b and c cup five six height generous ease but where's the size chart oh here we go view a oh oh they're going to go through all of them okay here's the body measurement high bust 30 inches to 54 right am I getting that right yeah yeah size range one through 13 gosh it's cute there's view a again except this time this the ruffle has this added a little trim to it again like to me in my in my justifying mind that looks a lot different than the denim version other than the chambray version here's view b without the buttons if you see it's just something else I love it it's a combination of this thing plus this fabric that they chose for it perfect literal perfection I want that I want that I want that so bad okay all right really cool good job mad what Matt what's it called Madswick it's a new pattern company to me um I'll review them for a first impression Friday here shortly if they have I like for the pattern companies to have at least five patterns first mostly so I have enough to talk about for a whole video but also just to get a good understanding of what what they're all about okay this is genuinely ends new maple square neck knit dress square neck kind of columny knit dress 12 dollars um cuba functional I love that this is first person I think that for whatever reason business owners are afraid to talk about their products in first person but to me it says I made this I designed this I'm selling this like this is me one person behind all of this like this really feels like a small business but she says she wanted to make it bra friendly so um flow around my body without feeling too clingy so there's a little bit of ease around the waist and hips um some might even call maple secret PJs or like that's how I feel feel like I have my wardrobe and this dress does that for me super easy to throw in one with steel feeling put together easily hackable into a top there are two sleeve options straight fitted sleeve and a subtle bell um 15 sizes diagrams quick and easy so okay well let's take a look genuinely m square neck line there's a bra in there she said here's the ease that she's kind of speaking of for the waist and the hip yeah it doesn't look like much on the line drawing um but looks really I guess what I'm trying to say is like in the line drawing it feels kind of frumpy looking but whenever you get to the on her body the way that it's like contouring and skimming the body it's actually quite a little bit sexy I do like how from the full hip down it's not clinging on her back thigh you know kind of just floats away from like a bit of an a-line I guess from there which feels nice oh okay there's the top with the bell sleeve super cute size chart is a bust of 32 to 53 and hips is 35 to 56 so pretty decent job there I love the bell sleeve do you see what I mean about the fit of it it is definitely just like a column style knit dress but it doesn't feel like she said it doesn't feel clingy at all it feels really comfortable yeah super cute with the sneakers illustrations great yep mm-hmm yeah for sure I was already gonna say that you could put a belt with it and that would kind of elevate it or like a vest or one of those it's called a harness that little leathery thing I was trying to explain earlier um a harness with it that would really elevate it as well yeah great and $12 yeah does she talk about fabrics I think a midweight fabric would definitely be best midweight knit but I wondered if she discussed that at all I don't see that so yeah for sure for the dress I think you would want something mid to heavyweight in the knit category because it's not I mean because there is positive ease at least in the waist and hip what was it what was the ease in the bust do we get finished measurements no um so I don't know what the ease is in the bust but I know that there's positive ease in the waist and the hip which means that your your knit fabric does not have to be super stretchy you don't have to have 100% stretch not even 50 you could probably get away with 25% again depending on the ease in the bust all right and this is our last one this is the Mary the dressmaker luna dress pattern this is it here okay great okay hold on one second I wanted to see oh that's really cute a line drawing first because the website's a little bit there's a lot of words happening here key features balloon sleeves with an explanation and then so I'm just going to read the key parts of all of this minus the explanation so balloon sleeves fitted silhouette ruffle details instructions and versatile style and then youtube um summer long after okay I said ships that the digital download will be shipped to you through email okay I get what you're saying okay so from what I can tell without there being a line drawing it looks like there's a yoke with a sweetheart neckline a waist seam center front seam all the way down and then this little ruffle detail with a sleeve with a ruffled hem or a ruffled like wrist I think that the color way of this little sample that she made it's definitely plus where's the back she never shows the back of it so hmm I have questions I think it's really cute and I'm very much intrigued but I need more so I was looking for a Instagram or something again I have to do some research to find some more photos but 1164 that's not that bad and then I don't know what these centimeters turned to in inches so I can't really speak on the measurements but knowing it's a US size 0 to 18 I'm guessing 18 probably in somewhere in the 40 inch range for the full list for the bust but the hips on this one are also well all of them are it's fitted throughout so the bust waist and hip are pretty fitted but I do think it has a lot of potential I love the mini I love this little ruffle thing that's happening I just want more information on the website all right so that is going to do it for November's new indies we have a lot of fun new patterns I do think that there's a theme right with the like statement sleeve and the ruffles and the you know all that that's happening but also some really good staples that can become part of your wardrobe that you reach for again and again and again let me know what you guys thought of these patterns leave leave your thoughts in the comment section below and that's going to do it for me I will see you all very soon okay bye


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