I hope the next Deadpool movie has a sewing scene that begins with Deadpool saying "This is for you, Bernadette" and then has a perfectly accurate sewing montage.
Actually... your analysis of Deadpool is accurate. He probably doesn't have much nerve endings in his hands, but also he has healing abilities. So yup.
Also wasn't he a sniper or something like that. I totally believe the character didn't know much/ anything about sewing so wouldn't know to sew stretch material.
@@nikkigriffin6441 He's a mercenary, and a generalist when it comes to weaponry. Mostly close-range because of his power set (he's survived/regenerated from getting limbs cut off, blown up, etc.).
The Grinch scene has big "I have to finish this cosplay before tomorrow morning and I have never sewn in my life before" energy, but the end result is quite different XD I think another iconic sewing scene in film is Michelle Pfeiffer putting together her pleather Catwoman suit. It's brief and chaotic but the detail of using thimbles and seam-rippers as claws for her gloves is delicious.
I had a moment like that... I'd made like, one, maybe two costumes in the past, and had an idea for a new one for a convention that was like nine months out... but the costume wouldn't really have much of a point if I didn't get the main prop for it done. So I spent AGES working on the prop, figuring it out, trying to fabricate everything myself and get it to work, and when I was FINALLY confident in it definitely working out and me managing to pull it off... I realized VERY suddenly that I had absolutely NOTHING started on the actual COSTUME... and I only had three weeks til the convention. I had to figure out how to sew stretch fabric, do full proper pleats on a two layer skirt (Something like 36 folds on EACH layer it was bonkers) and figure out horsehair, and lets just say I ended up packing my sewing machine to the con that year. xD It turned out great though!! Definitely needs some work to fix up a couple problems with it, but I'm really happy with how everything ended up in the end, even though I DEFINITELY had to make some SEVERE edits along the way due to my inexperience and lack of knowledge about proper measurements and pattern adjustments. (Pattern was definitely made for someone much bustier than myself, lol!!)
I am surprised the opening of Coraline when the Other Mother is changing and altering the Little Doll that ends up being Little Coraline is not on this list. We get a lot of tailoring and altering and sewing that scene. Yes, it is animation, but the process works and is apparent. If you are thinking of a Part 2, i would recommend that scene.
This scene is one of the most beautiful ever made in animation if you ask me. You have such a beautiful, clearly studied to SOME degree practice, and it's all to set up so much exposition that you don't realize at first when you're watching for the first time as a child. I was in middle school when I first saw it and was mesmerized, then the Other Mother gently sends it into the sky to float away out the window and it's just the cherry on top to make it that much mor magical. One of my favorite scenes from any movie ever no contest :'0 Laika Animations is probably the most dedicated movie studio for animation if you ask me and it shows
The attention to detail is crazy on that scene alone! Went to the exhibit and saw everything they used for the stop motion sewing scene and the buttons drawer, the table and the tools are so detailed i was mesmerized
The Grinch cutting out the fabric like that is totally a nod to the animated film in which the cartoon Grinch cartoonily cuts out his garment in the same magical way. And I think it's amazing that Claire's 18th century dress magically contains at least three times the raincoat fabric of her original raincoat. I remake a lot of clothes from thrift store garments, and your margins for extra fabric are TIGHT!
I’m so glad you commented on The Grinch! That’s how it was done in the cartoon, and clearly wasn’t meant to be “realistic” at all-I mean the way the “fur trim” on the Santa costume was applied in the cartoon would make your head explode if you were to take it seriously! 😂
"Why does he have an industrial sewing machine if he doesn't know how to sew?" Answer: He lives in a dump. He found it, fixed it, and now uses what he has to the best of his abilities. Recycling!
Yeah that was my though. Plus, the whos probably own industrial sewing machines judging by the town-wide insane outfits, so its not a far jump to assume
He lives on Mt krumpitt and the movie actually had a line about how everyone sends the gifts that they no longer want up to mt krumpitt so you're right on the money. Someone probably got an industrial sewing machine and then tossed it out.
(Also, roast aside, Deadpool has regenerative powers and he's pretty much known for not giving a shit if he hurts himself, so I'd 100% believe he wouldn't bother with a thimble even if he did know what it was and how to use one.)
Yes and he also says in the movie he wears red so the bad guys won't see him bleed, so he's definitely the kind of freak who would want to get a little blood on it.
another important detail is he has cancer and the cancer has regenerative powers and that is why his skin looks so bad. He is not going to care about needle sticks, they aren't important either aesthetically or sensation-wise.
I imagine they left the thimble out because Ryan Reynolds probably started riffing far too many jokes that would have moved the movie from an R rating to NC-17.
I love the corner of UA-cam where someone can say "he's laundering collars, which is really exciting!" and mean it. I really appreciate Bernadette's attitude (present here and in all her reaction videos) which is so good natured and makes it clear that, while she's commenting on inaccuracies, she's not throwing shade at the actors or productions.
I wish you would have taken more time on Deadpool analyzing. He actually goes through a couple trial scenes where he is tweaking the garment because of either functionally or something. I found very interesting to watch because normally when super heroes/vilians/anti heroes make their own costumes it's like 'boom! Master costume maker' not 'well this is garbage'
I totally agree with you! Maybe it was cut in the editing, but I'd loved to have seen a brief comment on the not-final suit(s). Also I think the mockup is worth mentioning! :D
I totally agree! I would also say because of it being realistic Deadpool probably just picked up Sewing to make this uniform I think no thimble is pretty accurate I mean I’ve been sewing my entire life and I’ve never once practically used a thimble
I hand quilted for years. Tried using a thimble and hated it. It never felt natural. The leather ones were better, but still just using the underside of a nail worked fine for me.
@@K_rye I just can't use them. If I can't feel the needle with my fingers while I work, it ends up going all over the place haha. I need to feel it to guide it, I didn't realize that was a strange thing to do haha. I suppose I do have a high pain tolerance though, so giving myself the occasional jab doesn't bother me
I was quite surprised to watch this video and find how important thimbles are to her! I’m very much an amateur sewer so my word means very little, but I can’t imagine ever wearing a thimble, especially with how long my nails often are! Plus not being able to feel the needle sounds so strange, I’ve just gotten used to little pricks at this point
The reason Olive is going through so much of the red fabric in Easy A is that she isn't making just one A; she's stitching one onto every single one of her new tops.
I'm not sure if you're supposed to think "wtf is she doing?" Because for me it wasn't obvious that she was what she was doing until way later in the film.
@@SaraTen I mean, we see her go on a shopping spree, we see her aggressively cut/rip the red fabric, we see her stitching said fabric to different pieces of clothing, and in the next scene she's wearing a top with a scarlett letter on it..... But then again, who actually pays close attention to movie montages, not me, not with this attention deficit
@@eosbeneder977 lol yes let's blame it on the ADD! Years later I am realizing that she probably didn't just make one and swap it between her clothing, because a teacher would probably just tell her to take it off, but not if it's sewed down.
I have DEFINITELY “sewn” for a good long while without realizing my needle had long since become unthreaded, so for me that scene would not be unrealistic! Also love how Bernadette guessed that Deadpool’s thumbs could regenerate from needle pricks!
Also can't see a guy using a thimble, especially a modern one who may have just took up sewing out of necessity. Now I'm imagining him buying a needle and thread in a store. Lol
Lmao I've also sewn a good length before realising I was unthreaded, though admittedly every time that happens it's because I'm sewing at like 4am and am half asleep Also I've worked with so many men in the furniture industry and not once have I ever seen them use a thimble (and that habit passed onto me I've never used one either and I've sewn thousands of handstitched items) my hands and fingers are just really really calloused and used to being pricked at this point
It’s always the friggin bobbin for me. 🤦🏻♀️ Also a lifelong sewer and no one ever taught me how to use a thimble, and my grandma had a collection of them. Lol I eventually picked it up for sewing certain things where I need some omph behind the needle so I’m sure I’m using it wrong but I’ve just been winging it. I also don’t hold my crochet hooks “correctly” either but it works for me.
@@WatashiMachineFullCycle Yup, same. Loosing my thread or a spool becoming empty and I still don't realize it until like half a meter later. 😂 Finishing hems of a ball gown at 2am does that to you...😂😂
I love that you still take into account how movies work (e.g. simple needlework because multiple takes might need to be mixed in post-production). A lot of reaction videos only tear the actors apart for something that's hardly their fault. Wonderful video ♡
As someone who knits and spins and thus notices immediately when my craft is not accurately depicted in ads or other visual media, I always wondered if sewists and other craftsfolk had the same experience. Turns out the answer is yes! =) Also I love that this isn't a roast or even really criticism, just a gentle observation of "this is accurate/realistic, this is not, but here is why that makes sense."
Full-service Beauty Operator, Barber - complete with straight razor shave experience, Med-Surg Assistant, Crocheter, Hobbyist in Wood, Electrical repair, Handicraft Hobbyist in Paper & Cloth, Tailor/ Clothing Designer and Quilter here, and I can attest.
It drives me crazy when crochet is called "knitting" and vice versa. In Call The Midwife they were knitting blanket squares. When the blanket was "put together" it was CROCHET! I'm glad I'm not the only one!
Re: Anne with an E, I have absolutely not realized when the thread has broken etc and there have been times where it's taken me a good 30 seconds to clue in that I'm sewing with no thread. It can happen, especially if you've got a lot on your mind >_>
If it was done deliberately to show Marilla’s state of mine at the time, then I think it’s definitely genius on the part of the production team. Adopting a teenager is absolutely a freaking stressful thing, and in the book Marilla was rushing through making Anne’s first few dresses because she came to the Cuthbert’s house with basically only the badly fitting clothes on her back.
@@ValeriePallaoro especially given Marilla’s mental state at the time. A middle aged spinster who just adopted a young teenager and is rushing to make her some wearable clothes because she has nothing to wear? Even an accomplished seamstress would be a bit distracted under that kind of stress.
Wait you guys I guess technically the Anne scene is canon bc Marilla's eyes are going bad, she didn’t realize the thread came undone, but she probably fixes it later.
Yeah I couldn’t remember if it was a normal scene and just a mistake or if it was during the time when marilla’s health was going and was a nice hint to how out of it she was
@@averyscott9467 I think it's in season 1 when Anne got her period and came back home after school. She storms in, Marilla asked her if she talked to Diana about it and Anne said something along the lines "Of course I did, I talk to Diana everyday" and runs upstairs
As I'm sure most people know, Daniel Day-Lewis is a method actor, so for in preparation for his role in Phantom Thread he studied fashion, learned how to cut, drape, and sew. He also appprenticed with the NYC Ballet's costume designer even making some of the costumes. AND he recreated a Balenciaga dress from scratch. Legend.
I went to school with Raquel Cassidy (Baxter, Downton Abbey) and she definitely learned how to sew. We had Bernina electric machines but we also had the old Singer machines which I loved as I was terrified of the speed of the Bernina 🤦♀️. Having taken up sewing in recent years I’m surprised how much I remember and how much we learned. My daughter is lucky enough to learn Textiles at school but they haven’t made any clothes.
As an amateur seamstress myself, I can say it is highly accurate to start your sewing machine, have it come unthreaded, and not notice until the end of the seam. Same if the thread breaks/bobbin ends mid seam.
As a professional seamstress, this also happens to me. I run out of bobbin mid-seam multiple times a day. Luckily, you can wind a second bobbin while you sew on industrial machines, so I usually have a new one ready to go!
This is like me with knitting in media. I’m obsessed with trying to figure out if the actors can really knit or if anyone at all on the production team even knows what knitting is *flashback to Call the midwife having the girls pretend to KNIT finished crocheted granny squares 😂 *
I could swear there's a Joan Crawford movie where she's knitting (she was known for knitting onset while waiting for her scenes), and maybe in the PBS "Anne of Green Gables" with Colleen Dewhurst as Marilla. Ms Dewhurst wore several sweaters during the series that she had knitted herself.
My favorite example of good knitting is actually in Willy wonka and the chocolate factory. One of the grannies in bed is actually knitting a stocking on DPNs! It was so cool! My favorite example of bad knitting is in Tangled where they’re in the snuggly duckling there’s a guy knitting a sock on straights,,,somehow lmaooo I feel your pain
Omg yes this! In the new sonic movie a lady is "knitting" but it's just a granny square slid onto some needles I laughed so hard every time they showed it
@@katherinemorelle7115 That’s exactly how I made my Jacobite Rose when I was really mad at this English guy who was working at my school temporarily... I mean I wore it cause I was mad but it looked great with my tweed jacket and plaid skirts, so maybe I didn't need to make it as something removable, but it did also look nice attached to my favourite plaid dress. Yes, I really did go about in public wearing absolutely ridiculous amounts of plaid and an obvious Jacobite symbol to spite some English prick. To be fair, he was the type to wear a redcoat uniform in public, which he did once, so at least between the two of us I was the less ridiculously dressed.
@@katanah3195 as an English person, I've never heard of the Jacobite rose. And seeing it, I recognise it, but I wouldn't know the significance. But sounds like the redcoat probably would of known more than this bumpkin!
@@OlieB He definitely did. He liked to rant about Jacobites and blame them for everything, the way American conservatives blame minorities for everything and the British Tories blame the EU and migrant workers for everything.
I can empathize with Marilla as I have continued sewing even when the thread has not been there (in my case, empty bobbin) and not noticed until the end and my two pieces are definitely not attached together as they should be. I'm also so excited that the bookstore I work for will have your book in on it's release date. Huzzah! Thanks again for a wonderful video.
@@jenniferpearce1052 That's true too. In the clip that was shown, she also looked like she was exasperated by Anne (again) so that could be another reason to not catch the broken thread.
I was about to comment that I've definitely had the needle unthread and kept right on sewing. Often on a difficult seam where I've been fussing for ages to get it pinned right 🙄
oh yeah, I top stitched meticulously for the whole trousers leg and discovered the bobbin ran out mid way lol. so mad at myself how could I not notice THAT!
The number of times I'm struggling with the sewing and then it suddenly goes well are almost always the times where the bobbin has finished/snapped really quietly and nothing is actually sewn together.
@@SunnyMorningPancakes Do you iron open your invisible zip before sewing? After 20+ years of home-taught sewing I saw this hint and it changed my life!! I love invisible zips for the finish and ironing along the teeth makes the whole experience so much easier (I find).
The story of the Grinch (my favorite Christmas movie) gives a bit of context as to why he owns the sewing machine. He lives near the end of the garbage pipe for whoville, basically in the town dump, so his whole home is full of stuff the Whos threw away. That's probably where the machine came from :)
I’ll never be tired of appreciating all the details that went into the making of Downton Abbey. Seriously, they put so much effort in it, and the result is incredible.
In Downton Abbey, she’s (Baxter) sewing a white apron, she was just helping Mrs. Patmore with an “apron emergency” that’s why she’s sewing really fast. I just LOVE Downton Abbey, the attention to detail’s so masterful.
a wee tiny bit of insight from a quilter who also loves Alias Grace: typically when you are piecing a block, you do not backstitch. all your seams are concealed within the batting & backing when finishing the quilt, and everything gets very well reinforced during the actual "quilting" part. so while yes, when i hand sew a quilt block, i do knot off my thread, teeeeeechnically you could get away with not doing so :)
This is true. Many of your backstitched seams would be trimmed off when you square your block up anyway. Tiny stitches and the aforementioned multiple stitches on top of stitches hold everything in place!
And wouldn't that serve the theme of the show? There are many "loose ends" to her version of events that she skillfully makes into a beautiful finished product that she hopes you don't look too closely at!
I will say for Easy A, she wears those patches on her clothes for the rest of the film, so I always read that scene as she was patching a lot of corsets and clothes with those scraps. Fabulous video, as always! The cartoon grinch sewing machine scene is why I have been scared to learn how to use one, I must admit 😅
sewing machines have quite a few safeguards to avoid sewing you hands, on the machine i have i'd have to completely forget to put the peddle foot down to even get my fingers near the thing(and can't thread the needle til the needle is at its highest spot with the foot down)
I feel like for all the clips from things Bernadette doesn’t already watch she’s missing a lot of context, like that she’s sewing lots of patches instead of just one, that undermines the critique a bit and while I don’t think she needs to watch all these movies and shows the video would be better if she’d had someone who does know the show give her some of the relevant context
One of my favorite sewing moments in media, and what inspired me to sew, was the scene from Nightmare Before Christmas where Sally sews herself back together from falling down her tower. Coraline's opening with the doll making is cool too, especially in 3-D.
Downton Abbey is a masterpiece, honestly. It's so well done in terms of historical accuracy and all these little details, and I love that you can actually see the gradual progression from Edwardian to 1920's fashion over the course of the series.
In the Phantom Thread the main female lead’s character is a waitress who was “discovered” by DDL’s character as his new model/muse. I think it’s almost on point that she isn’t seen sewing because it reflects her role in that design house as not being one of the seamstresses
I was actually surprised you mentioned thimble usage so much! My spouse, his mother, and both his grandmothers hand sew most things! Quilts and other bedding are their specialty. None of them ever use a thimble, and they chuckle and shake their heads because I use one. I just assumed I was an overly cautious beginner.
I do a lot of hand sewing and don't use one, either. I tried and just couldn't get used to pushing the needle with my middle finger. Maybe, because I don't usually sew sitting at a table, but rather with whatever I'm working on in my lap. I think, that makes the right technique for thimble sewing much harder. And honestly...with most garment weight fabrics, it takes a really long time, before your fingers get sore. And by that point, I'm usually ready to put my work down for the day, anyway. Thimbles might have been a necessity for professional seamstresses or tailors, who spent all day hand sewing...but for most hobbyists, they're optional, imo. And if I really do get a sore spot and want to keep going...I put a little leather circle right over it, fix it in place with a bandaid and boom - instant finger protection. So yeah...just do what works for you!
there are a lot of high quality images available of Claire's outfit from season 3. I was able to zoom in pretty close and it's actually insane how you're able to tell apart her machine sewing, the original industrial sewing of the coat and additional hand sewing. if one was to study the garments up close it would most definitely tell a very detailed story. imagine finding something like that from 1700s. TIME TRAVEL CONFIRMED! haha
@@bunhelsingslegacy3549 I don't remember. but I think she might've bought a dress from a costume shop or something. but I do remember she kept the zipper because I remember Jamie has a reaction to it.
In the movie "The Dressmaker", which is set in the 1950s, Kate Winslett carries a Singer sewing machine like it was a handbag. My grandmother and mother had Singer sewing machines and they weighed a ton. They were made of cast iron and I could barely lift my mother's machine with two hands. The Singer machine that Ms Winslett is sitting at, looks like my grandmother's machine, rather than my mother's, which was new in the early 50s. I would have thought that her character would have had the latest model. It really took me back when her rival appeared, toting a Necchi. I was so curious about them when I was in primary school. They looked modern and technologically superior, compared to the Singers that my family had.
Even my modern sewing machine is heavy enough for me to feel like it’s a months workout if I have to move it. Mad props to her character, who must have serious arm strength💪
My modern Singer machine I could lift easily enough to move it from table to table in my house since I move it to my dining table to work but dont store her there but I def would struggle to carry her a distance outside the house
The thimble thing is interesting. I've hand sewn for more than twenty-eight years, and I don't use a thimble. I have tried several, but I don't like using them.
The best ones imo are the adhesive type: a little reusable circle of leather, metal or plastic that you stick onto your finger where needed. The sticky bit lasts a long time and my set came with replacements
@@alisaurus4224 Yes, I use the leather/suede for quilting. They are the only type that work for me. They seem costly but as you say, the sticky lasts for a very long time. I love them!
@@alisaurus4224 those sound perfect! cause i've been using a little square of fake leather with a felt side and a linoleum-like side but i still get stabbed thru it
I'm relatively new to sewing but I also cannot stand thimbles. My dexterity goes down immensely when I have anything on my hands to the point that even latex gloves drive me insane. I can't count the number of times I've driven the blunt end of the needle into my finger because the fabric was so thick. And I still prefer that over the loss of dexterity.
@@stormylou417 have you tried pliers for tough stitches? I keep a mini pair in my sewing kits for occasional use, and get a full-size set if I’m doing something that’s overall dense, like denim seams or army fatigues
I love how the title of Bernadette's book "Make, Sew and Mend" echoes the WWII British slogan "Make-do and mend". This book is definitely going on my birthday wish list!
This is like me watching artists paint in movies. They always conveniently skip over all the sketching, thumbnailing, base layers, and go right to finished thing (while idly brushing it with a paintless brush of course)
I briefly studied Chinese calligraphy. I’ve yelled profanity at the screen when a character hold the brush like a chopstick or worse, let the tip fray.
“……Is he a villain?” Not roasting, just laughing at how adorable that question was! Certainly Bernadette Banner isn’t required to be familiar with the Marvel universe, (I be surprised as hell if she was), but that was just cute, lol. ❤️
I'm an outlander fan and I just wanna say, Claire did a damn good job on that coat for someone who in the first season basically would only sew battle wounds.
I once worked as a costume designer for a theater play where one of characters is knitting during a scene. The actress asked us, from the costume team, to teach her how to knit so she could actually do something during the scene.
I love that you acknowledge that somebody doesn't actually sew, but never roast them for that. I do have a lot of fun with these videos. And I'm happy for replenishment on videocontent - I found your channel about 2 weeks ago and started binge watching... who needs Netflix and co.
My favorite cinematic sewing scene is from Three Amigos. The Amigos ask the town what they are really good at so that they can use their skills to defeat a gang of violent, murderous bandits and the villagers say that they are good at sewing. Which leads to a montage of them making Amigo outfits for everyone and at one point Martin Short says "sew, very old one...sew like the wind."
A note on the tension of the fabric in The Grinch: My grandma was a sewer and quilter, and she had something she called a quilting frame. Hers could tension a whole King size quilt! They make smaller ones that are quite affordable.
Just a note on the "stopping the treadle machine *before* putting her hand on the wheel" comment. I have a treadle machine that I've used for my sewing for decades. With a two-foot treadle technique, I can stop and restart my machine repeatedly without my hand ever touching the wheel. I just assumed she was doing the same thing. This is one reason I prefer the treadle machine, as it frees up both hands for fabric and thread manipulation.
YES! You took the Outlander scene. :D I jumped up when I watched it because she pointed out to have included pockets in the dress and then I had to explain to my SO for 5 minutes why I found it so funny. I mean: It has pockets!?
What I found interesting, both about the montage and Claire's life once she went back to the 18th Century is that she put _her_ 20th Century practical needs into garments that would "pass" in the time and place she is headed. One sees weirdities like garters being used as corset straps etc.
Oh, what a joy to have a (niche) community of sewers! It makes me feel much less alone and my interests not understood. Thank you to all and especially Bernadette.
My sister and I actually had the ‘where’s the waist’ conversation at work. She was insisting that it was the high-hip point, whereas I was completely certain it’s at that natural, creasy bend spot. Thank you for confirming my point!!
Although if you're short enough that you can only fit like 2 fingers between your hip and bottom rib, it ceases to matter! Anything above the hip bone is the waist! Lol
@@guidetoanything I've only got an inch gap between my ribs & pelvis to call waist and it certainly does matter still. If I measure my waist where I bend side to side its currently 30", but if I measure 2" below that around the iliac crest part (so true high hip) then I measure 44". So a 14" difference. And yes that makes trousers pretty much impossible to get to fit me (without making them and I've not got the skills to do that yet). I stick with leggings as they're stretchy.
@@AlexaFaie oh sorry I misspoke, I was mostly joking about my own experience around height and length of garments, I didn't consider circumference, it is crazy how much modern designers don't consider the actual shape of many people.
You probably already know about The House of Eliott, but if you don't I can recommend it! It's a 90s series about two sisters who starts a fashion house in London in the 1920s. It's all about sewing and beautiful clothes for three seasons straight! (The clothes from the series were on tour back then, I saw them in Stockholm, they were absolutely stunning!)
14:05 Honestly, I would call Deadpool one of the ultimate incarnations of a chaotic neutral moral alignment. A friend from one of my old church groups described him as “he’d help you save the world, but then shoot your kneecap to get to the last cheese puff.”
If you haven't seen it yet, please look up The House of Eliott. It's a BBC series from the 1990's set in the 1920's. Two sisters are left penniless by their spendthrift father. They put their sewing skills (they made all their own clothes) and gift for fashion design to use, first by apprenticing with dressmakers and then starting their own parlor dressmaking business. In time they launch a fashion house with its own collections. The series starts in 1920 and finishes in 1928. There are many sewing scenes of course. Most of the machines are hand operated and not electric. Years ago I loaned the series to the person who handles the costume collection at the local historical society. In her opinion it was the most accurate portrayal of 1920's fashions that she had ever seen. By the way, many costumes used in the series showed up in later seasons of Downton Abbey as well as other period pieces. I would be interested to hear your opinion.
The title of your forthcoming book reminds me that during the age of sail, sailors of the Royal Navy were occasionally given an afternoon off as a "make and mend day". Sailors were not supplied with uniforms at that time so they would make their own trousers and shirts and, of course, mend them as needed. This, and your references to thimbles, also reminds me my father, a veteran of the RCN of WW2, who one day was delighted to find a sailmaker's palm in a surplus story on Cape Cod. Such a device, worn on the hand, allows the user to push large needles through thick fabrics such as sailcloth or leather.
Make & Mend Day was typically Sunday afternoon - a way to keep the Sabbath holy (by not working - i.e. not doing work maintaining the ship.) BTW sailors palms are still made (both left & right handed) and used widely in the sailing (particularly tall ships & traditional, historical sailing world.) Different styles of sailors palms exist, for seaming sails vs roping sails (sewing the reenforcing ropes around the perimeter of the sail.)
Re Deadpool, you can sew spandex, especially doing applique, with a straight stitch. I make stretch cosplay and skating costumes and many involve straight stitch while stretching the fabric slightly. It's usually not an issue unless it's a seam that goes around the body
Yep, was about to say the same thing! If you stretch it and use a Teflon presser foot (hell, I’ve even had luck with using a lower presser foot pressure on knits) then you can totally use a straight stitch! I worked in a shop that did a lot of musical theatre and dance stuff, we had more straight stitch machines than sergers so I basically had to get good at sewing spandex without a serger, hahaha.
I actually made a mini-cat woman costume for my 5 year old, complete with the cutting up of the pattern pieces & sewing them back together. She looked fantastic 🥰
You should absolutely see The Outfit. It’s about a tailor and He was padstitching. The star Mark Rylance spent time with Savile Row tailors and I was fairly convinced.
Another great TV show about tailors is The Laurel Tree Tailor Shop 🥰. It’s a KDrama about a girl wanting to become a tailor and all phases of the tailoring process show up 👍🏻. She does pad stitching for a whole scene while having an internal dialogue, to the point you could use it as a visual aid to teach somebody how to do it 😎
I have accidentally “sewn” without thread in the needle a few times, usually when the thread broke, but I’m pretty much a novice when it comes to sewing machines.
Yay for Downton! I’m so happy to hear that they’re truly that accurate in not only their historical depictions but also their seemingly menial/mundane daily tasks! 🙌🏻
I have never used a thimble as I was not taught to use when I started sewing at 12. I have tried to use one as an adult and find it quite cumbersome and awkward...perhaps I should practice! My grandmother (that I didn't know very well), made patterns from newspaper and modified old wool coats for her children. I wish I could have learned her skills!
It was my great aunt that taught me and I can't afford a thimble that fits so after watching Bernadette for awhile decided to make a leather one. It works quite well, although it still required some practice
I almost never use a thimble, but I made a denim "finger sleeve" for my middle finger so the thread doesn't dig in to the side of my finger when I pull it tight.
Same here, I do a lot of sewing but not so much handsewing, mostly just to finish off things manually, but I never learned to use a thimble properly. I have one, I've tried to get familiar with it, especially when handling harder fabrics but I just can't seem to get it in my system naturally.
" A note of frivolity for our own amusement.". You never fail to deliver. You are an incredibly skilled woman in several, disparate vocations. I mean what skills overlap with video production? Your sense of humor is wonderful as well. I am saddened Mr. Guinea pig was not somehow included. Lol. Seriously, your videos are simply the best.
What I appreciate in the Deadpool movie is the, albeit short, sequence where we move from mock up to bootleg suit and then to the final product. And we see him use a preliminary version of his suit in action, meaning he tries different things to see what works for him.
A lovely little video! Enjoyed all the closer looks, especially the out of left field ones like the Grinch and Deadpool. The awkward fumbling with superhero terminology was amusing! And your sibling's editor's commentary is sublime. lol
💕 For the record, Deadpool is an anti-hero. His superpower is super healing. So yeah, Wade W. Wilson doesn’t need a thimble … unless he named one of his weapons “thimble” 😄
Love these observations of Phantom Thread and Bright Star, two of my favorite films! I was just thinking the other day "I wonder what Bernadette thinks of Fanny's sewing in Bright Star?" and now we know ... someone get Miss Brawne a thimble! My favorite part of this video, though, is Bernadette's very relatable primary worry that she'll be roasted for her lack of Deadpool knowledge, not by The Internet, but by her sibling. Same. Haha.
The very first opening images from Bright Star with the super macro closeup of the needle and thread working through the cloth, accompanied by the men’s choral is my favorite title sequence of all time.
I just watched this episode of Outlander. I have another hypothesis for your comment on Claire sewing things on the fold. I think they were depicting her sewing a number of pockets she put into the dress to conceal the modern contraband she was traveling with.
It's is so exciting that you showed Bright Star. My friend with whom I studied costume design did her internship in the costume department for that film and she is the one sewing in the really close close up of the hands!
One if the things I loved in Deadpool is that his costume has stages, so it shows him trying out different things that don't work and refining based on what he needs. It doesn't ask us believe he just made the best thing the first try. I have to assume there's a pile of failed costumes sitting in the corner that didn't work - perhaps including the one that had straight stitching instead of zigzag 😂
So while normally sewing spandex requires a zig zag stitch, the embellishments put on luchadore masks are usually non stretch and get attached with fabric glue and then straight stitches, so if deadpool has used a luchador pattern as a base maybe using straight stitch in that one shot was okay?
I'm so happy with the way you introduced the subject! Like, yes, I'm here to chuckle at silly things, but, in the end, I have neither the acting skills of the actors, nor usually the sewing skills of their character. Very kind approach, very appreciated
I’m not a professional seamstress at all, but when I’m sewing by hand I sometimes don’t use a thimble. As an actress, I just jotted down mentally to, if needed, use one in any on-camera sewing situation, in case Bernadette watches it ;))
I don’t either. I learned to sew about 35-36 years ago. If I need to get a needle through some layers, I use a hard surface to push it through or hemostats (mom was a nurse who taught me to sew) to pull it through. 🤣
There is a scene where she's shown sewing on the beads of the green dress. But if I recall correctly, the actual sewing is mostly hidden behind a mannequin. And I don't think there was a lot of sewing shown, if any, with any of the background dressmakers either.
Here’s a super odd one that is from 70s tv land: the mother, Olivia, in the series The Waltons. Set in the Depression, the home in that series had her “Sewing room” (machine, ironing board and dress form with WIP) located on the landing of the farmhouse ( pretty accurate when you lived with seven kids and your in-laws in a single farmhouse). Watching that actress (Michael Learned) bake, sew, and iron was always a distinct pleasure-even the way she sprinkled the clothes with her hands when ironing made it clear that she had done these things since childhood ( or closely observed people who did). I watch the early episodes all the time when I’m feeling nostalgic for those simpler dramas.
If you’re looking for more suggestions I’d very much like to see you have a go at the pilot episode of Our Flag Means Death where the pirate crew all sew flags for the ship. Since the show takes place in 1717 I’d also be very interested in hearing your opinion about the show costumes 😄
One of my biggest complaints with “ The Dressmaker” is that in the poster/ promo photos, Kate is carrying her sewing machine by the top handle of the case - which is impossible because the machine is waaay too heavy & you just can’t lift it up like that! I do remember reading that she had her own vintage singer & bought it over here from the UK to film the movie, after practising sewing on it first. Guessing that most of the sewing scenes must have ended up being cut from the film.
They almost certainly had the machine out of the case for carrying cases in the film as it was a genuine vintage Singer 201 - I just happen to know the person who tutored Kate in how to use them. Kate wasn't a seamstress but I've heard her say in an interview since then that she enjoyed learning to sew for the film. (Naturally she'd be learning how to operate the machine and the basics of sewing - she wouldn't learn how to be a full-on dressmaker in that short period of time). :-) We don't carry these machines by their handles today because the cases are rather old instead of brand new - which the model in this film would have been when the film was set - and it was the "top of the line" model at that time too. Just the same, I have about 25 vintage Singer machines that come in a variety of cases. I can very definitely carry them all, weight-wise, but don't trust the handles or catches on most of them so tend to carry them from the bottom rather than by their handles. While the handles on the covers were only meant to lift the covers on and off and were not meant for carrying them about people could, and did, actually carry their machines by the handles. The only cases I have that I still trust to hold up to that are the older "coffin-top" cases and while it isn't recommended I do, I confess, regularly carry it by the handles (it has two, one on each end which does make it easier, if somewhat less elegant, to carry about!).
I noticed that too and i thought yikes 😬. I wouldn’t carry my two machines like that. I’m afraid of the latches not being secure and the curved wood top not being strong enough after all these years. My Hexagon hand crank machine didn’t fair so well in its trip across the pond after I purchased it. It arrived broken….literally. I had to glue the wooden base back together, put one of the curved ends back on. I also had to get some two part JB weld epoxy and glue the machine bed back together. My poor baby spent a month in customs in jersey and i think they kicked her all over the warehouse. They managed to break a hundred year old cast iron sewing machine 😳. She’s fine now and sews beautifully. I have discovered the joy of using a sturdy well made machine. The sound is like nothing els. 💗 i now have two treadle and two hand crank machines. They are hard to resist lol. Sorry if i rambled, bit of a nut when it comes to my machines. 🙃
@@tenaoconnor7510 You're not alone in being so passionate about your machines, it's hard not to be once you've had the joy of sewing with one. :-) Some machines suffer horrific indignities when they get shipped and I was wincing just reading your description. Your heart must have sunk to your knees when you saw her all busted up. Good on you (and clever you!) for rescuing her and getting her sewing again. It sounds like you've done an awesome job. I'm happy to learn about the JB Weld epoxy too, I have a machine that sounds like it could do with exactly that and I had no idea what I was going to do with it. If you have any tips on how you went about that repair I'd love to hear them. (And I'm guessing other people would love to hear more about it too - as gruesome as your description of her injuries is the fact you could fix her and how you did it sounds fascinating.)
@@meganmills6545 perhaps there is an online group for older sewing machines ? Like a Facebook group or a Discord group ? I haven't taken the plunge on an older machine, yet......but I have been "windiw shopping" ! Lol !
In the scene where they were at the work table, what was in the flat green “envelopes” hanging around their necks? (Asking for a friend.) Speaking of work tables, I loved how they used trestles and panels - they could be broken down and stored in a closet during client visits, then quickly set up again for work.
Deadpool info: The character underwent a 'treatment' for cancer that among other things left him unable to feel pain. Hence the lack of a thimble in the sewing scene. He's also an ex-mercenary and never really learned domestic skills, apart from maybe sewing on a button. The scene is totally within character, even if - or especially if- it's bad sewing. BTW, he's the good guy. The villain is the doctor who claimed to have an experimental treatment, but instead just experimented on people.
if you make a part 2 i’d HIGHLY recommend ‘the outfit’ bc it shows some (i think, good) scenes of buttonholes + buttons, pad stitching, etc. and lots of hand stitching it’s also just a super good thriller/crime drama :]
I never in my life thought I'd see such contrasting Fandoms as sewing techniques and.... Deadpool show up in the same edutainment piece. Bless you and this video. 🤣
The Dressmaker scarred me so hard, I though it was going to be just a nice film about someone who sewed- having not seen more than the poster before hand. I cannon stop thinking about the one scene, with the tower/silo, while I wish I could. It's been seven years. Still haunts me.
That's why I hate thrillers! I picked up a nice book about two sisters who were going to start a bed-and-breakfast once -they were both dead by the end:/
@@P0nyl0ve Thrillers can be nice, but I prefer if they’re marked as such, because finding out that you’re reading a thriller partway through must be jarring.
I haven't seen the movie but read the book and I too didn't expect this to happen, I was just so heart broken. but I also did NOT expect her to burn down the whole town as well.
Likewise - was thinking I was getting a romcom, then BAMN - flashback to the day I became a widow. I try to avoid traumatizing myself. OTOH, I loved the campy constable and the vintage machines.
With Alias Grace, I thought it was interesting she was hand piecing without paper piecing. Which you can do, especially when working with rectangles, but you wind up with a scrappier quilt, without the nice, sharp corners and perfectly even, parallel rectangles you see on her finished log cabin blocks. With English paper piecing (which started in the late 1700's), you'd have the various pattern pieces needed to make your finished block cut out of cardstock. You'd then pick a piece of fabric big enough to cover the front of the cardstock and fold over the back to provide a seam allowance, and then baste stich the fabric to the card. The card holds the fabric in the desired shape and correct size, with sharp corners or even complicated curves, and removes the guessing about seam allowances. Then you'd simply use your preferred joining stich to hand sew the fabric shapes together, along the edges of the cards. After a piece is fully stitched into place on your quilt block, the basting is snipped, and the card removed and used again. It would be difficult for her to make some of the quilts she mentions, especially ones with lots of triangles, without paper pieces, or at least far more difficult to make them as nicely as the end results shown.
I don't know what the scene situation is in Anne with an E but know I've had too many threads snap on me at the machine late at night. It's usually the sign that my tension is bad and I should go to bed. And absolutely right; Deadpool wouldn't need a thimble. On another note, who is making everyone the Butterick cycling sweaters? I Love it!
I, too, enjoy scrutinizing scenes wherein the characters are knitting, to determine who actually knows what they’re doing and thus who deserves my respect & admiration 😅
@@imsmolandangery4274 for a minute I thought you were just using the words knit and crochet interchangeably like so many people do but I'm guessing you really mean that the actors were shown knitting and then when the completed blanket was shown it had somehow become crocheted?! That really is some impressive crafting 🤦♀️😅
@@imsmolandangery4274 Hi, I learned to knit in the 1970s and back then knitting and crocheting had already split apart from their common ancestor. It must have changed fast too. Only, lets get generous generous and call it 15 years from the knitted crocheted blanket. I know that they both existed during the same time, as an evil grandmother (I'm not saying that all grandmothers are evil, just one of mine was. My other grandmother was a wonderful warm woman that I love deeply to this day, even though she passed away 1986) a number of textile shop teachers (I don't know if that's the right term. I'm not a native in any kind of English, so to have both wood shop and textil shop (?)) in school might be an experience only kids of my time and place had deal with), and my sister have at one point and another tried to teach me to crochet, but I still can't do it. I find it boring. My crocheting sister is a bit hazy about knitting though, so by that I take it that the complete separation must have taken place at that time.Yours, Ann
I thoroughly enjoyed this! I would love to see a part 2 of this video. I would love to hear your commentary on Pretty in Pink when Andie is making her prom dress out of two other dresses.
Costume stitcher for film/TV here 👋I work on super suits in my day-to-day, and we do indeed use straight stitch for stretch materials. Usually you would use a short stitch and hold a bit of tension on the fabric so it is slightly stretched as it goes through the machine.
The waist measure is rather a point of contention. I've been volunteering with the IEEE to help create standards for body measurement and we have found 8 waist measures, 4 of which are most common. I do get regularly asked for pants-waist measure from makers on Balodana.
I hope the next Deadpool movie has a sewing scene that begins with Deadpool saying "This is for you, Bernadette" and then has a perfectly accurate sewing montage.
This is something Deadpool would totally do.
@@iseydelmar This is also something Ryan Reynolds would do.
How many likes do you think we need to make this a thing?
@@quaryn That was exactly my first thought!
Just imagining the kind of rabbithole that would send MatPat down. . . .
Actually... your analysis of Deadpool is accurate. He probably doesn't have much nerve endings in his hands, but also he has healing abilities. So yup.
Came down here to say that.
Also wasn't he a sniper or something like that. I totally believe the character didn't know much/ anything about sewing so wouldn't know to sew stretch material.
@@nikkigriffin6441 + his costume is the movies looks more like some kind of leather-y material anyway? but not sure
I love that they showed his journey in learning how to sew, it was a very fun montage to see.
@@nikkigriffin6441 He's a mercenary, and a generalist when it comes to weaponry. Mostly close-range because of his power set (he's survived/regenerated from getting limbs cut off, blown up, etc.).
The Grinch scene has big "I have to finish this cosplay before tomorrow morning and I have never sewn in my life before" energy, but the end result is quite different XD I think another iconic sewing scene in film is Michelle Pfeiffer putting together her pleather Catwoman suit. It's brief and chaotic but the detail of using thimbles and seam-rippers as claws for her gloves is delicious.
The grinch sewing: *aggressive Rachel Maksy vibes*
@@TheStrangeloves That is a fantastic and hilarious observation
@@TheStrangeloves 🤣🤣🤣
I just LOL'ed so hard!! 😂
@@TheStrangeloves oh god I can't unsee it now
I had a moment like that... I'd made like, one, maybe two costumes in the past, and had an idea for a new one for a convention that was like nine months out... but the costume wouldn't really have much of a point if I didn't get the main prop for it done. So I spent AGES working on the prop, figuring it out, trying to fabricate everything myself and get it to work, and when I was FINALLY confident in it definitely working out and me managing to pull it off... I realized VERY suddenly that I had absolutely NOTHING started on the actual COSTUME... and I only had three weeks til the convention.
I had to figure out how to sew stretch fabric, do full proper pleats on a two layer skirt (Something like 36 folds on EACH layer it was bonkers) and figure out horsehair, and lets just say I ended up packing my sewing machine to the con that year. xD
It turned out great though!! Definitely needs some work to fix up a couple problems with it, but I'm really happy with how everything ended up in the end, even though I DEFINITELY had to make some SEVERE edits along the way due to my inexperience and lack of knowledge about proper measurements and pattern adjustments. (Pattern was definitely made for someone much bustier than myself, lol!!)
I am surprised the opening of Coraline when the Other Mother is changing and altering the Little Doll that ends up being Little Coraline is not on this list. We get a lot of tailoring and altering and sewing that scene. Yes, it is animation, but the process works and is apparent.
If you are thinking of a Part 2, i would recommend that scene.
This scene is one of the most beautiful ever made in animation if you ask me. You have such a beautiful, clearly studied to SOME degree practice, and it's all to set up so much exposition that you don't realize at first when you're watching for the first time as a child. I was in middle school when I first saw it and was mesmerized, then the Other Mother gently sends it into the sky to float away out the window and it's just the cherry on top to make it that much mor magical. One of my favorite scenes from any movie ever no contest :'0 Laika Animations is probably the most dedicated movie studio for animation if you ask me and it shows
The beginning clip is actually what inspired me to get into sewing as a hobby. I've been practicing with it, but I've still got a lot to learn lol.
The attention to detail is crazy on that scene alone! Went to the exhibit and saw everything they used for the stop motion sewing scene and the buttons drawer, the table and the tools are so detailed i was mesmerized
I would love a part two. I would submit "The Outfit"
@@boojersey13to me it’s on par with the scene of Jack doing all the Christmas science experiments in Nightmare Before Christmas ❤️
The Grinch cutting out the fabric like that is totally a nod to the animated film in which the cartoon Grinch cartoonily cuts out his garment in the same magical way. And I think it's amazing that Claire's 18th century dress magically contains at least three times the raincoat fabric of her original raincoat. I remake a lot of clothes from thrift store garments, and your margins for extra fabric are TIGHT!
I’m so glad you commented on The Grinch! That’s how it was done in the cartoon, and clearly wasn’t meant to be “realistic” at all-I mean the way the “fur trim” on the Santa costume was applied in the cartoon would make your head explode if you were to take it seriously! 😂
"Why does he have an industrial sewing machine if he doesn't know how to sew?" Answer: He lives in a dump. He found it, fixed it, and now uses what he has to the best of his abilities. Recycling!
I agree. He has that sort of energy. Find something, hoard it, then = wham! I have that thing to use!!
Yeah that was my though. Plus, the whos probably own industrial sewing machines judging by the town-wide insane outfits, so its not a far jump to assume
Me : “ I can buy a sewing machine and learn how to use it later”. Until now i have no idea how to use it 😝
I thought this exact same thing! Glad someone else said it too.
He lives on Mt krumpitt and the movie actually had a line about how everyone sends the gifts that they no longer want up to mt krumpitt so you're right on the money. Someone probably got an industrial sewing machine and then tossed it out.
(Also, roast aside, Deadpool has regenerative powers and he's pretty much known for not giving a shit if he hurts himself, so I'd 100% believe he wouldn't bother with a thimble even if he did know what it was and how to use one.)
I accept this 😂👌
Yes and he also says in the movie he wears red so the bad guys won't see him bleed, so he's definitely the kind of freak who would want to get a little blood on it.
another important detail is he has cancer and the cancer has regenerative powers and that is why his skin looks so bad. He is not going to care about needle sticks, they aren't important either aesthetically or sensation-wise.
I imagine they left the thimble out because Ryan Reynolds probably started riffing far too many jokes that would have moved the movie from an R rating to NC-17.
I dont use a thimble. Years of woodworking and metalworking means I have perfectly good callouses.
For the first Downton Abbey scene, is she familiarising herself with the new sewing machine? If so, simple test seams are quite likely.
That's what I was thinking!
She was demonstrating it for the other workers.
I thought she was sewing napkins.
@@Xharaly
Both could be true at the same time.
Whenever my mom got a new machine, she'd use a scrap to practice sewing to see how the machine performed. It makes sense to me.
I love the corner of UA-cam where someone can say "he's laundering collars, which is really exciting!" and mean it. I really appreciate Bernadette's attitude (present here and in all her reaction videos) which is so good natured and makes it clear that, while she's commenting on inaccuracies, she's not throwing shade at the actors or productions.
Bernadette: "She has the thimble on the right finger"
Me who's been sewing my whole life: _"There's a right finger?!"_
I sew every day and when I use a thimble I use it on the wrong finger! It feels more natural to me and I sew faster that way
I crochet and I hold the hook in an odd way. But it feels much more comfortable
I’ve seen actors in scenes wearing the thimble on the ‘wrong’ finger in the sense that it would be totally useless having it on that finger.
I straight up don't use a thimble. I find it hinders me and it's not comfortable.
@@galaxycat9966 do u have magic power fingers? (the video lol)
Do cats even _have_ fingers? meow lol
I wish you would have taken more time on Deadpool analyzing. He actually goes through a couple trial scenes where he is tweaking the garment because of either functionally or something. I found very interesting to watch because normally when super heroes/vilians/anti heroes make their own costumes it's like 'boom! Master costume maker' not 'well this is garbage'
This also with Spiderman, I can't remember if he did sewing or not, but I do remember a few trials and adjustments before getting the final result.
I totally agree with you! Maybe it was cut in the editing, but I'd loved to have seen a brief comment on the not-final suit(s). Also I think the mockup is worth mentioning! :D
@@Bane_Amesta yessss maguire spidey! was about to bring him up as well. ^.^
@@Bane_Amesta ooooo yes him too. Maybe she can make a part two for this!!!
I totally agree! I would also say because of it being realistic Deadpool probably just picked up Sewing to make this uniform I think no thimble is pretty accurate I mean I’ve been sewing my entire life and I’ve never once practically used a thimble
Bernadette: They're not wearing a thimble!
Me, who hand sews regularly and has never worn a thimble: Wait, people do that?
I hand quilted for years. Tried using a thimble and hated it. It never felt natural. The leather ones were better, but still just using the underside of a nail worked fine for me.
@@K_rye I just can't use them. If I can't feel the needle with my fingers while I work, it ends up going all over the place haha. I need to feel it to guide it, I didn't realize that was a strange thing to do haha. I suppose I do have a high pain tolerance though, so giving myself the occasional jab doesn't bother me
I hate thimbles and never use them.
I was quite surprised to watch this video and find how important thimbles are to her! I’m very much an amateur sewer so my word means very little, but I can’t imagine ever wearing a thimble, especially with how long my nails often are! Plus not being able to feel the needle sounds so strange, I’ve just gotten used to little pricks at this point
@@Mimivomi Thimbles don't protect you from jabbing yourself. In fact, I think that they would make it more likely to happen.
The reason Olive is going through so much of the red fabric in Easy A is that she isn't making just one A; she's stitching one onto every single one of her new tops.
Literally came into the comments to see if someone else was gonna say it before I did XD Thank you friend!
Yeah!!
I'm not sure if you're supposed to think "wtf is she doing?" Because for me it wasn't obvious that she was what she was doing until way later in the film.
@@SaraTen I mean, we see her go on a shopping spree, we see her aggressively cut/rip the red fabric, we see her stitching said fabric to different pieces of clothing, and in the next scene she's wearing a top with a scarlett letter on it..... But then again, who actually pays close attention to movie montages, not me, not with this attention deficit
@@eosbeneder977 lol yes let's blame it on the ADD! Years later I am realizing that she probably didn't just make one and swap it between her clothing, because a teacher would probably just tell her to take it off, but not if it's sewed down.
I have DEFINITELY “sewn” for a good long while without realizing my needle had long since become unthreaded, so for me that scene would not be unrealistic!
Also love how Bernadette guessed that Deadpool’s thumbs could regenerate from needle pricks!
Also can't see a guy using a thimble, especially a modern one who may have just took up sewing out of necessity. Now I'm imagining him buying a needle and thread in a store. Lol
Lmao I've also sewn a good length before realising I was unthreaded, though admittedly every time that happens it's because I'm sewing at like 4am and am half asleep
Also I've worked with so many men in the furniture industry and not once have I ever seen them use a thimble (and that habit passed onto me I've never used one either and I've sewn thousands of handstitched items) my hands and fingers are just really really calloused and used to being pricked at this point
It’s always the friggin bobbin for me. 🤦🏻♀️ Also a lifelong sewer and no one ever taught me how to use a thimble, and my grandma had a collection of them. Lol I eventually picked it up for sewing certain things where I need some omph behind the needle so I’m sure I’m using it wrong but I’ve just been winging it. I also don’t hold my crochet hooks “correctly” either but it works for me.
Yeah same. But that was usually panick finishing something at 2am while half asleep😂
@@WatashiMachineFullCycle Yup, same. Loosing my thread or a spool becoming empty and I still don't realize it until like half a meter later. 😂 Finishing hems of a ball gown at 2am does that to you...😂😂
I love that you still take into account how movies work (e.g. simple needlework because multiple takes might need to be mixed in post-production). A lot of reaction videos only tear the actors apart for something that's hardly their fault. Wonderful video ♡
excellent observation.
As someone who knits and spins and thus notices immediately when my craft is not accurately depicted in ads or other visual media, I always wondered if sewists and other craftsfolk had the same experience. Turns out the answer is yes! =) Also I love that this isn't a roast or even really criticism, just a gentle observation of "this is accurate/realistic, this is not, but here is why that makes sense."
As a crafty person and a computer sience student I can tell you that most people have this experience 😂
Full-service Beauty Operator, Barber - complete with straight razor shave experience, Med-Surg Assistant, Crocheter, Hobbyist in Wood, Electrical repair, Handicraft Hobbyist in Paper & Cloth, Tailor/ Clothing Designer and Quilter here, and I can attest.
It drives me crazy when crochet is called "knitting" and vice versa. In Call The Midwife they were knitting blanket squares. When the blanket was "put together" it was CROCHET! I'm glad I'm not the only one!
I’m an artist and I do it to painting scenes all the time 😂
Musician here. Faking piano-playing is HILARIOUSLY BAD.
Re: Anne with an E, I have absolutely not realized when the thread has broken etc and there have been times where it's taken me a good 30 seconds to clue in that I'm sewing with no thread. It can happen, especially if you've got a lot on your mind >_>
Yes. I believe it was done on purpose to show that the character was upset.
If it was done deliberately to show Marilla’s state of mine at the time, then I think it’s definitely genius on the part of the production team. Adopting a teenager is absolutely a freaking stressful thing, and in the book Marilla was rushing through making Anne’s first few dresses because she came to the Cuthbert’s house with basically only the badly fitting clothes on her back.
It was way too obvious a shot to not be deliberate - they would have caught it during editing at the very least, since it was so clearly on camera.
Thank you; yeah me too. I can end up almost to the end of the seam not realising the thread is broken. So realistic is that scene.
@@ValeriePallaoro especially given Marilla’s mental state at the time. A middle aged spinster who just adopted a young teenager and is rushing to make her some wearable clothes because she has nothing to wear? Even an accomplished seamstress would be a bit distracted under that kind of stress.
Wait you guys I guess technically the Anne scene is canon bc Marilla's eyes are going bad, she didn’t realize the thread came undone, but she probably fixes it later.
Yeah I couldn’t remember if it was a normal scene and just a mistake or if it was during the time when marilla’s health was going and was a nice hint to how out of it she was
@@averyscott9467 I think it's in season 1 when Anne got her period and came back home after school. She storms in, Marilla asked her if she talked to Diana about it and Anne said something along the lines "Of course I did, I talk to Diana everyday" and runs upstairs
As I'm sure most people know, Daniel Day-Lewis is a method actor, so for in preparation for his role in Phantom Thread he studied fashion, learned how to cut, drape, and sew. He also appprenticed with the NYC Ballet's costume designer even making some of the costumes. AND he recreated a Balenciaga dress from scratch. Legend.
I went to school with Raquel Cassidy (Baxter, Downton Abbey) and she definitely learned how to sew. We had Bernina electric machines but we also had the old Singer machines which I loved as I was terrified of the speed of the Bernina 🤦♀️. Having taken up sewing in recent years I’m surprised how much I remember and how much we learned. My daughter is lucky enough to learn Textiles at school but they haven’t made any clothes.
As an amateur seamstress myself, I can say it is highly accurate to start your sewing machine, have it come unthreaded, and not notice until the end of the seam. Same if the thread breaks/bobbin ends mid seam.
Especially when the thread is exceptionally well matched to the cloth. )nods(
As a professional seamstress, this also happens to me. I run out of bobbin mid-seam multiple times a day. Luckily, you can wind a second bobbin while you sew on industrial machines, so I usually have a new one ready to go!
I know. I had this happen to me multiple times making hats.
This is like me with knitting in media. I’m obsessed with trying to figure out if the actors can really knit or if anyone at all on the production team even knows what knitting is *flashback to Call the midwife having the girls pretend to KNIT finished crocheted granny squares 😂 *
I could swear there's a Joan Crawford movie where she's knitting (she was known for knitting onset while waiting for her scenes), and maybe in the PBS "Anne of Green Gables" with Colleen Dewhurst as Marilla. Ms Dewhurst wore several sweaters during the series that she had knitted herself.
When I was watching that I was so torn between being worried about the character and wanting to yell at the TV that "Those are Granny Squares!!!"
Oh no. As someone who can crochet but not well and can’t knit I’d be so confused.
My favorite example of good knitting is actually in Willy wonka and the chocolate factory. One of the grannies in bed is actually knitting a stocking on DPNs! It was so cool! My favorite example of bad knitting is in Tangled where they’re in the snuggly duckling there’s a guy knitting a sock on straights,,,somehow lmaooo I feel your pain
Omg yes this! In the new sonic movie a lady is "knitting" but it's just a granny square slid onto some needles I laughed so hard every time they showed it
The fact that she sounds like an important headmistress from a boarding school while analyzing everything just makes this so much better.
To give Easy A a bit of a pass, she is literally sewing a red 'A' to EVERY article of clothing she was planning to wear for the next like month
Wouldn't it be easier to make one applique badge, attach a safety pin to the back and pin it on to a new outfit every morning?
@@katherinemorelle7115 lol probably but she was committed ig
@@katherinemorelle7115 That’s exactly how I made my Jacobite Rose when I was really mad at this English guy who was working at my school temporarily... I mean I wore it cause I was mad but it looked great with my tweed jacket and plaid skirts, so maybe I didn't need to make it as something removable, but it did also look nice attached to my favourite plaid dress.
Yes, I really did go about in public wearing absolutely ridiculous amounts of plaid and an obvious Jacobite symbol to spite some English prick. To be fair, he was the type to wear a redcoat uniform in public, which he did once, so at least between the two of us I was the less ridiculously dressed.
@@katanah3195 as an English person, I've never heard of the Jacobite rose. And seeing it, I recognise it, but I wouldn't know the significance. But sounds like the redcoat probably would of known more than this bumpkin!
@@OlieB He definitely did. He liked to rant about Jacobites and blame them for everything, the way American conservatives blame minorities for everything and the British Tories blame the EU and migrant workers for everything.
I laughed at the scene where someone is sewing with an unthreaded machine because I’ve accidentally done that many, many times
Or worse, the bobbin thread is the one that's broken, and you don't realise it for a few inches of sewing. :P
I can empathize with Marilla as I have continued sewing even when the thread has not been there (in my case, empty bobbin) and not noticed until the end and my two pieces are definitely not attached together as they should be. I'm also so excited that the bookstore I work for will have your book in on it's release date. Huzzah! Thanks again for a wonderful video.
I haven't watched Anne with an E, but Marilla is supposed to have vision problems.
@@jenniferpearce1052 That's true too. In the clip that was shown, she also looked like she was exasperated by Anne (again) so that could be another reason to not catch the broken thread.
Yeah we've definitely all been there! Plus sewing a whole seam without realising that the bobbin's run out!
I was about to comment that I've definitely had the needle unthread and kept right on sewing. Often on a difficult seam where I've been fussing for ages to get it pinned right 🙄
oh yeah, I top stitched meticulously for the whole trousers leg and discovered the bobbin ran out mid way lol. so mad at myself how could I not notice THAT!
The number of times I'm struggling with the sewing and then it suddenly goes well are almost always the times where the bobbin has finished/snapped really quietly and nothing is actually sewn together.
I will unashamedly confess that I've cried most if not all times that happened to me.
oh the trauma
@@mirjanbouma last weekend it was this and an evil invisible zip and many (very ugly) tears were shed.
@@SunnyMorningPancakes those zippers are The Worst™!
@@SunnyMorningPancakes Do you iron open your invisible zip before sewing? After 20+ years of home-taught sewing I saw this hint and it changed my life!! I love invisible zips for the finish and ironing along the teeth makes the whole experience so much easier (I find).
The story of the Grinch (my favorite Christmas movie) gives a bit of context as to why he owns the sewing machine. He lives near the end of the garbage pipe for whoville, basically in the town dump, so his whole home is full of stuff the Whos threw away. That's probably where the machine came from :)
Came here to say this!
Went through comments to find this. 😄👍
I’ll never be tired of appreciating all the details that went into the making of Downton Abbey. Seriously, they put so much effort in it, and the result is incredible.
In Downton Abbey, she’s (Baxter) sewing a white apron, she was just helping Mrs. Patmore with an “apron emergency” that’s why she’s sewing really fast.
I just LOVE Downton Abbey, the attention to detail’s so masterful.
Bernadette trying to find some way to make the Grinch's choices reasonable. LOL.
a wee tiny bit of insight from a quilter who also loves Alias Grace: typically when you are piecing a block, you do not backstitch. all your seams are concealed within the batting & backing when finishing the quilt, and everything gets very well reinforced during the actual "quilting" part. so while yes, when i hand sew a quilt block, i do knot off my thread, teeeeeechnically you could get away with not doing so :)
This is true. Many of your backstitched seams would be trimmed off when you square your block up anyway. Tiny stitches and the aforementioned multiple stitches on top of stitches hold everything in place!
And wouldn't that serve the theme of the show? There are many "loose ends" to her version of events that she skillfully makes into a beautiful finished product that she hopes you don't look too closely at!
I love Alias Grace. That's all.
it's too much work to *not* back stitch or knot the thread lol
@@katjakatt836 Obviously not a quilter LOL
I will say for Easy A, she wears those patches on her clothes for the rest of the film, so I always read that scene as she was patching a lot of corsets and clothes with those scraps. Fabulous video, as always! The cartoon grinch sewing machine scene is why I have been scared to learn how to use one, I must admit 😅
sewing machines have quite a few safeguards to avoid sewing you hands, on the machine i have i'd have to completely forget to put the peddle foot down to even get my fingers near the thing(and can't thread the needle til the needle is at its highest spot with the foot down)
Same! I was like, those are for many patches, not just one. She has many school days worth of patches. Lol
@@prcervi nearly ever lifelong sewer I've met has sewn through a finger, myself included. Also, sewn my own clothing to what I'm making.
@@Skittl1321 so have i but it's a rare occurrence regardless
I feel like for all the clips from things Bernadette doesn’t already watch she’s missing a lot of context, like that she’s sewing lots of patches instead of just one, that undermines the critique a bit and while I don’t think she needs to watch all these movies and shows the video would be better if she’d had someone who does know the show give her some of the relevant context
One of my favorite sewing moments in media, and what inspired me to sew, was the scene from Nightmare Before Christmas where Sally sews herself back together from falling down her tower.
Coraline's opening with the doll making is cool too, especially in 3-D.
And now I need to see Bernadette reacting to Sally's scene, specially when she stores the needle in her hair lol
Downton Abbey is a masterpiece, honestly. It's so well done in terms of historical accuracy and all these little details, and I love that you can actually see the gradual progression from Edwardian to 1920's fashion over the course of the series.
In the Phantom Thread the main female lead’s character is a waitress who was “discovered” by DDL’s character as his new model/muse. I think it’s almost on point that she isn’t seen sewing because it reflects her role in that design house as not being one of the seamstresses
exactly my thought! she’s inexperienced, that’s a part of her character
I was actually surprised you mentioned thimble usage so much! My spouse, his mother, and both his grandmothers hand sew most things! Quilts and other bedding are their specialty. None of them ever use a thimble, and they chuckle and shake their heads because I use one.
I just assumed I was an overly cautious beginner.
Its very much a personal preference that kinda depends on how you push the needle.
I do a lot of hand sewing and don't use one, either. I tried and just couldn't get used to pushing the needle with my middle finger. Maybe, because I don't usually sew sitting at a table, but rather with whatever I'm working on in my lap.
I think, that makes the right technique for thimble sewing much harder.
And honestly...with most garment weight fabrics, it takes a really long time, before your fingers get sore. And by that point, I'm usually ready to put my work down for the day, anyway.
Thimbles might have been a necessity for professional seamstresses or tailors, who spent all day hand sewing...but for most hobbyists, they're optional, imo.
And if I really do get a sore spot and want to keep going...I put a little leather circle right over it, fix it in place with a bandaid and boom - instant finger protection.
So yeah...just do what works for you!
there are a lot of high quality images available of Claire's outfit from season 3. I was able to zoom in pretty close and it's actually insane how you're able to tell apart her machine sewing, the original industrial sewing of the coat and additional hand sewing. if one was to study the garments up close it would most definitely tell a very detailed story. imagine finding something like that from 1700s. TIME TRAVEL CONFIRMED! haha
I seem to recall in the book, she had a dressmaker make the dress, and had the zipper replaced with buttons :)
@@bunhelsingslegacy3549 I don't remember. but I think she might've bought a dress from a costume shop or something. but I do remember she kept the zipper because I remember Jamie has a reaction to it.
In the movie "The Dressmaker", which is set in the 1950s, Kate Winslett carries a Singer sewing machine like it was a handbag. My grandmother and mother had Singer sewing machines and they weighed a ton. They were made of cast iron and I could barely lift my mother's machine with two hands.
The Singer machine that Ms Winslett is sitting at, looks like my grandmother's machine, rather than my mother's, which was new in the early 50s. I would have thought that her character would have had the latest model.
It really took me back when her rival appeared, toting a Necchi. I was so curious about them when I was in primary school. They looked modern and technologically superior, compared to the Singers that my family had.
Even my modern sewing machine is heavy enough for me to feel like it’s a months workout if I have to move it. Mad props to her character, who must have serious arm strength💪
Perhaps it was a Singer Featherweight?
@@hyacinth4368 It was a 201 singer cast iron,eg heavy.
@Ophelia Summer Happens to the best of us.
My modern Singer machine I could lift easily enough to move it from table to table in my house since I move it to my dining table to work but dont store her there but I def would struggle to carry her a distance outside the house
The thimble thing is interesting. I've hand sewn for more than twenty-eight years, and I don't use a thimble. I have tried several, but I don't like using them.
The best ones imo are the adhesive type: a little reusable circle of leather, metal or plastic that you stick onto your finger where needed. The sticky bit lasts a long time and my set came with replacements
@@alisaurus4224 Yes, I use the leather/suede for quilting. They are the only type that work for me. They seem costly but as you say, the sticky lasts for a very long time. I love them!
@@alisaurus4224 those sound perfect! cause i've been using a little square of fake leather with a felt side and a linoleum-like side but i still get stabbed thru it
I'm relatively new to sewing but I also cannot stand thimbles. My dexterity goes down immensely when I have anything on my hands to the point that even latex gloves drive me insane. I can't count the number of times I've driven the blunt end of the needle into my finger because the fabric was so thick. And I still prefer that over the loss of dexterity.
@@stormylou417 have you tried pliers for tough stitches? I keep a mini pair in my sewing kits for occasional use, and get a full-size set if I’m doing something that’s overall dense, like denim seams or army fatigues
I love how the title of Bernadette's book "Make, Sew and Mend" echoes the WWII British slogan "Make-do and mend". This book is definitely going on my birthday wish list!
Wanna bet that's intentional?
Either way, same, I need the book!
@@Tea_and_Crafts yes, I imagine the reference is intentional
This is like me watching artists paint in movies. They always conveniently skip over all the sketching, thumbnailing, base layers, and go right to finished thing (while idly brushing it with a paintless brush of course)
I briefly studied Chinese calligraphy. I’ve yelled profanity at the screen when a character hold the brush like a chopstick or worse, let the tip fray.
@@saraquill wait sorrey english isnt me first language and am kinda having a brain malfunction atm. uh, what does it mean to "let the tip fray"?
“……Is he a villain?”
Not roasting, just laughing at how adorable that question was! Certainly Bernadette Banner isn’t required to be familiar with the Marvel universe, (I be surprised as hell if she was), but that was just cute, lol. ❤️
"Is he a villain?" "It's..... complicated."
Well he is no hero, by his own insistence!
It's not a settled question.
In my head canon, Bernadette Banner is related to Bruce Banner, The Incredible Hulk....😁
@@willmfrank Someone has to sew all his clothes back together.
I'm an outlander fan and I just wanna say, Claire did a damn good job on that coat for someone who in the first season basically would only sew battle wounds.
I once worked as a costume designer for a theater play where one of characters is knitting during a scene. The actress asked us, from the costume team, to teach her how to knit so she could actually do something during the scene.
I’m Kate Winslet’s defense, I’d forget where my waist is too if a Hemsworth was nearly nude in front of me.
LOL! They also wanted to keep the tape in frame with her closeup.
That was a great scene...
I love that you acknowledge that somebody doesn't actually sew, but never roast them for that. I do have a lot of fun with these videos. And I'm happy for replenishment on videocontent - I found your channel about 2 weeks ago and started binge watching... who needs Netflix and co.
My favorite cinematic sewing scene is from Three Amigos. The Amigos ask the town what they are really good at so that they can use their skills to defeat a gang of violent, murderous bandits and the villagers say that they are good at sewing. Which leads to a montage of them making Amigo outfits for everyone and at one point Martin Short says "sew, very old one...sew like the wind."
I love that film so much! It was one of my faves as a kid and I still love it now.
A note on the tension of the fabric in The Grinch: My grandma was a sewer and quilter, and she had something she called a quilting frame. Hers could tension a whole King size quilt! They make smaller ones that are quite affordable.
Just a note on the "stopping the treadle machine *before* putting her hand on the wheel" comment.
I have a treadle machine that I've used for my sewing for decades. With a two-foot treadle technique, I can stop and restart my machine repeatedly without my hand ever touching the wheel. I just assumed she was doing the same thing.
This is one reason I prefer the treadle machine, as it frees up both hands for fabric and thread manipulation.
To be fair, in Easy A she's cutting lots of A's out because she's sewing them to a whole SLEW of outfits, not just the one in the clip!
My favorite part of that whole sequence is that the A she has on her corsets isn't stitched on at all it's glued on lol
YES! You took the Outlander scene. :D I jumped up when I watched it because she pointed out to have included pockets in the dress and then I had to explain to my SO for 5 minutes why I found it so funny. I mean: It has pockets!?
What I found interesting, both about the montage and Claire's life once she went back to the 18th Century is that she put _her_ 20th Century practical needs into garments that would "pass" in the time and place she is headed. One sees weirdities like garters being used as corset straps etc.
Oh, what a joy to have a (niche) community of sewers! It makes me feel much less alone and my interests not understood. Thank you to all and especially Bernadette.
Sewers are what sewage goes in silly, you meant "sewists" I think?
My sister and I actually had the ‘where’s the waist’ conversation at work. She was insisting that it was the high-hip point, whereas I was completely certain it’s at that natural, creasy bend spot.
Thank you for confirming my point!!
Although if you're short enough that you can only fit like 2 fingers between your hip and bottom rib, it ceases to matter! Anything above the hip bone is the waist! Lol
@@guidetoanything I've only got an inch gap between my ribs & pelvis to call waist and it certainly does matter still. If I measure my waist where I bend side to side its currently 30", but if I measure 2" below that around the iliac crest part (so true high hip) then I measure 44". So a 14" difference. And yes that makes trousers pretty much impossible to get to fit me (without making them and I've not got the skills to do that yet). I stick with leggings as they're stretchy.
@@AlexaFaie oh sorry I misspoke, I was mostly joking about my own experience around height and length of garments, I didn't consider circumference, it is crazy how much modern designers don't consider the actual shape of many people.
You probably already know about The House of Eliott, but if you don't I can recommend it! It's a 90s series about two sisters who starts a fashion house in London in the 1920s. It's all about sewing and beautiful clothes for three seasons straight! (The clothes from the series were on tour back then, I saw them in Stockholm, they were absolutely stunning!)
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Honestly, I would call Deadpool one of the ultimate incarnations of a chaotic neutral moral alignment. A friend from one of my old church groups described him as “he’d help you save the world, but then shoot your kneecap to get to the last cheese puff.”
If you haven't seen it yet, please look up The House of Eliott. It's a BBC series from the 1990's set in the 1920's. Two sisters are left penniless by their spendthrift father. They put their sewing skills (they made all their own clothes) and gift for fashion design to use, first by apprenticing with dressmakers and then starting their own parlor dressmaking business. In time they launch a fashion house with its own collections. The series starts in 1920 and finishes in 1928. There are many sewing scenes of course. Most of the machines are hand operated and not electric. Years ago I loaned the series to the person who handles the costume collection at the local historical society. In her opinion it was the most accurate portrayal of 1920's fashions that she had ever seen. By the way, many costumes used in the series showed up in later seasons of Downton Abbey as well as other period pieces. I would be interested to hear your opinion.
Oh, I loved that series! I'd like to find it and watch again.
gosh i used to watch that all the time, and it really got my sewing mojo going.
I found it at my local library. 😀
I loved the series and it's time to watch it again. I watched Enchanted April recently and loved the costumes in it.
The title of your forthcoming book reminds me that during the age of sail, sailors of the Royal Navy were occasionally given an afternoon off as a "make and mend day". Sailors were not supplied with uniforms at that time so they would make their own trousers and shirts and, of course, mend them as needed. This, and your references to thimbles, also reminds me my father, a veteran of the RCN of WW2, who one day was delighted to find a sailmaker's palm in a surplus story on Cape Cod. Such a device, worn on the hand, allows the user to push large needles through thick fabrics such as sailcloth or leather.
Make & Mend Day was typically Sunday afternoon - a way to keep the Sabbath holy (by not working - i.e. not doing work maintaining the ship.) BTW sailors palms are still made (both left & right handed) and used widely in the sailing (particularly tall ships & traditional, historical sailing world.) Different styles of sailors palms exist, for seaming sails vs roping sails (sewing the reenforcing ropes around the perimeter of the sail.)
@@derrith1877 that is interesting! Do they just look like a leather oval ?! I imagine they must be thick ?!
The Disney movie Enchanted has some very interesting 'sewing' scenes...or maybe garment production out of curtains, etc.
I love how Bernadette comments on these movies in a way that speaks highly both on the craft of sewing and the craft of acting!
Re Deadpool, you can sew spandex, especially doing applique, with a straight stitch. I make stretch cosplay and skating costumes and many involve straight stitch while stretching the fabric slightly. It's usually not an issue unless it's a seam that goes around the body
Yep, was about to say the same thing! If you stretch it and use a Teflon presser foot (hell, I’ve even had luck with using a lower presser foot pressure on knits) then you can totally use a straight stitch! I worked in a shop that did a lot of musical theatre and dance stuff, we had more straight stitch machines than sergers so I basically had to get good at sewing spandex without a serger, hahaha.
Michelle Phyffer's catwoman sewing her costume out if her mac in Batman Returns is rage sewing at it's finest.
I wanted to post this, thank you. Its my favorite sewing-scene ever
Michelle Pfeiffer is the actress who played Catwoman/Selina Kyle in 1992.
@@HJKelley47 I think they already know who the actress is...did you only mean to correct the spelling of the name?
I actually made a mini-cat woman costume for my 5 year old, complete with the cutting up of the pattern pieces & sewing them back together. She looked fantastic 🥰
@@teleriferchnyfain you made your 5 year old a latex catsuit? 😳 😳
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You should absolutely see The Outfit. It’s about a tailor and He was padstitching. The star Mark Rylance spent time with Savile Row tailors and I was fairly convinced.
Another great TV show about tailors is The Laurel Tree Tailor Shop 🥰. It’s a KDrama about a girl wanting to become a tailor and all phases of the tailoring process show up 👍🏻. She does pad stitching for a whole scene while having an internal dialogue, to the point you could use it as a visual aid to teach somebody how to do it 😎
Yes, I was going to say this. I believe he trained at huntsman for a few months. Very cool stuff.
I love it when method actors do this kind of work.
I have accidentally “sewn” without thread in the needle a few times, usually when the thread broke, but I’m pretty much a novice when it comes to sewing machines.
don't be lonely, bobbins can't always be full.
Yay for Downton! I’m so happy to hear that they’re truly that accurate in not only their historical depictions but also their seemingly menial/mundane daily tasks! 🙌🏻
I have never used a thimble as I was not taught to use when I started sewing at 12. I have tried to use one as an adult and find it quite cumbersome and awkward...perhaps I should practice! My grandmother (that I didn't know very well), made patterns from newspaper and modified old wool coats for her children. I wish I could have learned her skills!
It was my great aunt that taught me and I can't afford a thimble that fits so after watching Bernadette for awhile decided to make a leather one. It works quite well, although it still required some practice
I almost never use a thimble, but I made a denim "finger sleeve" for my middle finger so the thread doesn't dig in to the side of my finger when I pull it tight.
Same here, I do a lot of sewing but not so much handsewing, mostly just to finish off things manually, but I never learned to use a thimble properly. I have one, I've tried to get familiar with it, especially when handling harder fabrics but I just can't seem to get it in my system naturally.
Same!
I never learned with a thimble either and with my tiny hands find them very cumbersome.
I once rage-sewed a shirt. Worked til like 2am. Worked surprisingly well and you can’t argue with the boost of motivation.
I'd like to see the movie sewing sequence of Scarlett O'Hara constructing an entire outfit out of those green velvet curtains.
Of course you then have to run the Carol Burrnett "Went with the Wind" segment (where she still has the curtain rod in the fabric) :-)
" A note of frivolity for our own amusement.". You never fail to deliver. You are an incredibly skilled woman in several, disparate vocations. I mean what skills overlap with video production? Your sense of humor is wonderful as well. I am saddened Mr. Guinea pig was not somehow included. Lol. Seriously, your videos are simply the best.
What I appreciate in the Deadpool movie is the, albeit short, sequence where we move from mock up to bootleg suit and then to the final product. And we see him use a preliminary version of his suit in action, meaning he tries different things to see what works for him.
A lovely little video! Enjoyed all the closer looks, especially the out of left field ones like the Grinch and Deadpool. The awkward fumbling with superhero terminology was amusing! And your sibling's editor's commentary is sublime. lol
💕 For the record, Deadpool is an anti-hero. His superpower is super healing. So yeah, Wade W. Wilson doesn’t need a thimble … unless he named one of his weapons “thimble” 😄
@@r.carmichael4236 given his levels of snark, it would probably be the sharpened cream cheese knife.
Love these observations of Phantom Thread and Bright Star, two of my favorite films! I was just thinking the other day "I wonder what Bernadette thinks of Fanny's sewing in Bright Star?" and now we know ... someone get Miss Brawne a thimble! My favorite part of this video, though, is Bernadette's very relatable primary worry that she'll be roasted for her lack of Deadpool knowledge, not by The Internet, but by her sibling. Same. Haha.
The very first opening images from Bright Star with the super macro closeup of the needle and thread working through the cloth, accompanied by the men’s choral is my favorite title sequence of all time.
OMG - you made me laugh out LOUD when you said "Maybe the Grinch is making a mock-up!" HYSTERICAL! I lover your commentary!!
I just watched this episode of Outlander. I have another hypothesis for your comment on Claire sewing things on the fold. I think they were depicting her sewing a number of pockets she put into the dress to conceal the modern contraband she was traveling with.
It's is so exciting that you showed Bright Star. My friend with whom I studied costume design did her internship in the costume department for that film and she is the one sewing in the really close close up of the hands!
One if the things I loved in Deadpool is that his costume has stages, so it shows him trying out different things that don't work and refining based on what he needs. It doesn't ask us believe he just made the best thing the first try. I have to assume there's a pile of failed costumes sitting in the corner that didn't work - perhaps including the one that had straight stitching instead of zigzag 😂
Getting paid to roast your sibling on the internet is truly one of the greatest joys in life ✨
So while normally sewing spandex requires a zig zag stitch, the embellishments put on luchadore masks are usually non stretch and get attached with fabric glue and then straight stitches, so if deadpool has used a luchador pattern as a base maybe using straight stitch in that one shot was okay?
Now I understand that other skilled professionals suffer almost as much as us programmers do when watching media 🤣
I'm so happy with the way you introduced the subject! Like, yes, I'm here to chuckle at silly things, but, in the end, I have neither the acting skills of the actors, nor usually the sewing skills of their character. Very kind approach, very appreciated
I’m not a professional seamstress at all, but when I’m sewing by hand I sometimes don’t use a thimble.
As an actress, I just jotted down mentally to, if needed, use one in any on-camera sewing situation, in case Bernadette watches it ;))
*I don’t use a thimble*
Me: “Oh no Bernadette would think I’m not a skilled seamstress” 😂😂😂
I only use one when I absolutely have to, and I have been sewing for 30 years. They don't stay on my finger.
I've been sewing since I was a kid. Never used a thimble unless I really should have pressed through a hole to start with.
Only if I'm trying to push the needle through several layers and need the extra leverage. Otherwise? NOPE, no thimble.
Jane here. I don't either.
I don’t either. I learned to sew about 35-36 years ago. If I need to get a needle through some layers, I use a hard surface to push it through or hemostats (mom was a nurse who taught me to sew) to pull it through. 🤣
I'm now trying to remember if Cruella actually sews in Cruella. I think she mainly walks around with sketchpads and flips to the next drawing.
There is a scene where she's shown sewing on the beads of the green dress. But if I recall correctly, the actual sewing is mostly hidden behind a mannequin. And I don't think there was a lot of sewing shown, if any, with any of the background dressmakers either.
There is a scene in one of the later seasons of "once upon a time" where Cruella is sewing her dress or coat (I forgot) but I haven't seen the movie
I believe there's a few moments in the opening montage once she's switched from child to emma stone but I didn't stop to see how well it went
Yes, there was a scene in which she sews multiple black&white outfits for the guests.
Here’s a super odd one that is from 70s tv land: the mother, Olivia, in the series The Waltons. Set in the Depression, the home in that series had her “Sewing room” (machine, ironing board and dress form with WIP) located on the landing of the farmhouse ( pretty accurate when you lived with seven kids and your in-laws in a single farmhouse). Watching that actress (Michael Learned) bake, sew, and iron was always a distinct pleasure-even the way she sprinkled the clothes with her hands when ironing made it clear that she had done these things since childhood ( or closely observed people who did). I watch the early episodes all the time when I’m feeling nostalgic for those simpler dramas.
If you’re looking for more suggestions I’d very much like to see you have a go at the pilot episode of Our Flag Means Death where the pirate crew all sew flags for the ship. Since the show takes place in 1717 I’d also be very interested in hearing your opinion about the show costumes 😄
Ooooh yes, this!!
One of my biggest complaints with “ The Dressmaker” is that in the poster/ promo photos, Kate is carrying her sewing machine by the top handle of the case - which is impossible because the machine is waaay too heavy & you just can’t lift it up like that! I do remember reading that she had her own vintage singer & bought it over here from the UK to film the movie, after practising sewing on it first. Guessing that most of the sewing scenes must have ended up being cut from the film.
They almost certainly had the machine out of the case for carrying cases in the film as it was a genuine vintage Singer 201 - I just happen to know the person who tutored Kate in how to use them. Kate wasn't a seamstress but I've heard her say in an interview since then that she enjoyed learning to sew for the film. (Naturally she'd be learning how to operate the machine and the basics of sewing - she wouldn't learn how to be a full-on dressmaker in that short period of time). :-)
We don't carry these machines by their handles today because the cases are rather old instead of brand new - which the model in this film would have been when the film was set - and it was the "top of the line" model at that time too. Just the same, I have about 25 vintage Singer machines that come in a variety of cases. I can very definitely carry them all, weight-wise, but don't trust the handles or catches on most of them so tend to carry them from the bottom rather than by their handles.
While the handles on the covers were only meant to lift the covers on and off and were not meant for carrying them about people could, and did, actually carry their machines by the handles. The only cases I have that I still trust to hold up to that are the older "coffin-top" cases and while it isn't recommended I do, I confess, regularly carry it by the handles (it has two, one on each end which does make it easier, if somewhat less elegant, to carry about!).
I noticed that too and i thought yikes 😬. I wouldn’t carry my two machines like that. I’m afraid of the latches not being secure and the curved wood top not being strong enough after all these years. My Hexagon hand crank machine didn’t fair so well in its trip across the pond after I purchased it. It arrived broken….literally. I had to glue the wooden base back together, put one of the curved ends back on. I also had to get some two part JB weld epoxy and glue the machine bed back together. My poor baby spent a month in customs in jersey and i think they kicked her all over the warehouse. They managed to break a hundred year old cast iron sewing machine 😳. She’s fine now and sews beautifully. I have discovered the joy of using a sturdy well made machine. The sound is like nothing els. 💗 i now have two treadle and two hand crank machines. They are hard to resist lol. Sorry if i rambled, bit of a nut when it comes to my machines. 🙃
@@tenaoconnor7510 You're not alone in being so passionate about your machines, it's hard not to be once you've had the joy of sewing with one. :-) Some machines suffer horrific indignities when they get shipped and I was wincing just reading your description. Your heart must have sunk to your knees when you saw her all busted up. Good on you (and clever you!) for rescuing her and getting her sewing again. It sounds like you've done an awesome job. I'm happy to learn about the JB Weld epoxy too, I have a machine that sounds like it could do with exactly that and I had no idea what I was going to do with it. If you have any tips on how you went about that repair I'd love to hear them. (And I'm guessing other people would love to hear more about it too - as gruesome as your description of her injuries is the fact you could fix her and how you did it sounds fascinating.)
@@meganmills6545 perhaps there is an online group for older sewing machines ? Like a Facebook group or a Discord group ?
I haven't taken the plunge on an older machine, yet......but I have been "windiw shopping" ! Lol !
@@m.maclellan7147 Thank you Margaret!
The dressmakers and seamstresses in “The Phantom Thread” are incredible! Bravo Ladies!
In the scene where they were at the work table, what was in the flat green “envelopes” hanging around their necks? (Asking for a friend.)
Speaking of work tables, I loved how they used trestles and panels - they could be broken down and stored in a closet during client visits, then quickly set up again for work.
Deadpool info: The character underwent a 'treatment' for cancer that among other things left him unable to feel pain. Hence the lack of a thimble in the sewing scene. He's also an ex-mercenary and never really learned domestic skills, apart from maybe sewing on a button. The scene is totally within character, even if - or especially if- it's bad sewing. BTW, he's the good guy. The villain is the doctor who claimed to have an experimental treatment, but instead just experimented on people.
"...Is he a villain?" Oh Bernadette, you are so adorable and wonderful and I love our somewhat shared lack of knowledge of Deadpool 😂❤
if you make a part 2 i’d HIGHLY recommend ‘the outfit’ bc it shows some (i think, good) scenes of buttonholes + buttons, pad stitching, etc. and lots of hand stitching
it’s also just a super good thriller/crime drama :]
Having sewn multiple times without noticing my machine came unthreaded, I'll give the "Anne with an E" clip a pass LMAO
I never in my life thought I'd see such contrasting Fandoms as sewing techniques and.... Deadpool show up in the same edutainment piece. Bless you and this video. 🤣
The Dressmaker scarred me so hard, I though it was going to be just a nice film about someone who sewed- having not seen more than the poster before hand. I cannon stop thinking about the one scene, with the tower/silo, while I wish I could. It's been seven years. Still haunts me.
Yes that one definitely caught me off guard during my research for this!
That's why I hate thrillers! I picked up a nice book about two sisters who were going to start a bed-and-breakfast once -they were both dead by the end:/
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Thrillers can be nice, but I prefer if they’re marked as such, because finding out that you’re reading a thriller partway through must be jarring.
I haven't seen the movie but read the book and I too didn't expect this to happen, I was just so heart broken. but I also did NOT expect her to burn down the whole town as well.
Likewise - was thinking I was getting a romcom, then BAMN - flashback to the day I became a widow. I try to avoid traumatizing myself. OTOH, I loved the campy constable and the vintage machines.
With Alias Grace, I thought it was interesting she was hand piecing without paper piecing.
Which you can do, especially when working with rectangles, but you wind up with a scrappier quilt, without the nice, sharp corners and perfectly even, parallel rectangles you see on her finished log cabin blocks.
With English paper piecing (which started in the late 1700's), you'd have the various pattern pieces needed to make your finished block cut out of cardstock. You'd then pick a piece of fabric big enough to cover the front of the cardstock and fold over the back to provide a seam allowance, and then baste stich the fabric to the card. The card holds the fabric in the desired shape and correct size, with sharp corners or even complicated curves, and removes the guessing about seam allowances. Then you'd simply use your preferred joining stich to hand sew the fabric shapes together, along the edges of the cards. After a piece is fully stitched into place on your quilt block, the basting is snipped, and the card removed and used again.
It would be difficult for her to make some of the quilts she mentions, especially ones with lots of triangles, without paper pieces, or at least far more difficult to make them as nicely as the end results shown.
Bernadette giving a genuine breakdown and critique of the Grinch sewing is hilarious to me 😂
I don't know what the scene situation is in Anne with an E but know I've had too many threads snap on me at the machine late at night. It's usually the sign that my tension is bad and I should go to bed. And absolutely right; Deadpool wouldn't need a thimble.
On another note, who is making everyone the Butterick cycling sweaters? I Love it!
I, too, enjoy scrutinizing scenes wherein the characters are knitting, to determine who actually knows what they’re doing and thus who deserves my respect & admiration 😅
Call the midwife had a scene where all the midwives knit a crocheted blanket! I guess crafts were different in the sixties
@@imsmolandangery4274 for a minute I thought you were just using the words knit and crochet interchangeably like so many people do but I'm guessing you really mean that the actors were shown knitting and then when the completed blanket was shown it had somehow become crocheted?! That really is some impressive crafting 🤦♀️😅
@@imsmolandangery4274 Hi, I learned to knit in the 1970s and back then knitting and crocheting had already split apart from their common ancestor. It must have changed fast too. Only, lets get generous generous and call it 15 years from the knitted crocheted blanket. I know that they both existed during the same time, as an evil grandmother (I'm not saying that all grandmothers are evil, just one of mine was. My other grandmother was a wonderful warm woman that I love deeply to this day, even though she passed away 1986) a number of textile shop teachers (I don't know if that's the right term. I'm not a native in any kind of English, so to have both wood shop and textil shop (?)) in school might be an experience only kids of my time and place had deal with), and my sister have at one point and another tried to teach me to crochet, but I still can't do it. I find it boring. My crocheting sister is a bit hazy about knitting though, so by that I take it that the complete separation must have taken place at that time.Yours, Ann
@@emmao6578 yes exactly
I thoroughly enjoyed this! I would love to see a part 2 of this video. I would love to hear your commentary on Pretty in Pink when Andie is making her prom dress out of two other dresses.
I came here specifically to mention Pretty In Pink. 😍
Costume stitcher for film/TV here 👋I work on super suits in my day-to-day, and we do indeed use straight stitch for stretch materials. Usually you would use a short stitch and hold a bit of tension on the fabric so it is slightly stretched as it goes through the machine.
yooo thats such a cool job!!
The waist measure is rather a point of contention. I've been volunteering with the IEEE to help create standards for body measurement and we have found 8 waist measures, 4 of which are most common. I do get regularly asked for pants-waist measure from makers on Balodana.