As fantastic as the sewing is, the one thing that never gets enough recognition is Bernadette Banner's superb editing. The same level of loving attention to detail is evident in the construction of each video as in the projects that they document and sometimes I just like to watch them because they're so beautifully put together. What could be a simplistic tutorial style video full of smash cuts and sped up footage has a wonderful languid, almost meditative pace, and crafts a narrative around the creation of the pieces with an immaculate sense of timing.
I teach a certain amount of optics in various classes at a university. From now on, I am going to use the word "floofs" to describe surface roughness that interacts directionally with light. It rolls off the tongue more easily than "bidirectional reflectance function".
As I watch this I have 4 tiny witch hats that are definitely not a result of watching your first witch bonnet video everyday for a week. No sir. I am more than ever in need of a hat for every occasion- and specifically a bonnet.
I'm in for this but I'll be in more modern clothes because I don't sew at all, but I'll bring my cross stitch and enjoy the lovely other works everyone else is making.
Datura and Henbane were some of the herbs taken in small (safe) portions to assist in "flying" and "astral travel", so good luck getting your broom off the ground without it or something simmilar. See: --'The Witches Ointment' Thomas Hatsis --'Veneficium' Daniel' A. Schulke
I'm not flying anywhere, but i would really like to join the witches ride... so now I just need to find a way to acquire an iceland trained horse 'til dawn.
Bernadette: Mentions there’s a website that does all of the horrible hat math for me Me: HALLELUJAH!!! I may make calculated decisions, but I’m bad at math
I think there is a really low-tech no-math way of doing this without an online calculator. Just take a piece of string the length of the tip of the hat. hold one side of the string down (or pin it in place or something) and with a pencil at the other end start drawing an arc using the length of the string as a guide (like you're going to draw a circle around the pinned down end of the string). Just draw a generous arc, and then measure along the edge until length of arc = size of brim. Draw some straight lines to the pinned end of the string and done.
The honest answer? Because trends started changing and the headmasters/principals (and remember headmasters/principals were all men at the time) decided that shorter skirts and sheerer blouses were 'fashionable' and they were 'keeping up with the times' by allowing women to wear 'what they wanted' when all they were doing were being pervs. Notice how places with school uniforms have only recently allowed males to wear shorts while above the knee skirts have been in place for ages? And there's your reason. Pervs.
Or better yet; why not as every day clothes? No more searching for that one outfit that fits, or that jacket that fits comfortably over your layers of sweaters in winter. Just wear a robe. No more worries about gaining or losing weight, because a robe will fit. No more worrying about maternity clothes when it's needed and what to do with them when they're not, because you can always wear that robe. (Btw, thinking of the robe as clothes in the HP book sense when it was implied that that was all they wore beyond underwear, whereas the movies added regular uniform clothes underneath the robe and used the robe in place of a uniform blazer) Life could be simpler if we let it. (Sigh)
@@jtn2002 if people can beat the heat in layers in the desert (or other such roasting places) I'm sure you could too. (Also layers have been proven to keep you cooler than baring as much legal skin as you can, because it keeps the sun from your skin and allows the heat to dissipate rather than be absorbed)
I don't think one can properly describe a Bernadette. They're just them. You kind of have to just accept it. It's like accepting the fact that you cannot define a meter without knowing what a light-year is, and you cannot define a light-year without knowing what a meter is... And most of our measurements are based off of being able to define a meter.
Introduced my 7yo son to Bernadette with this video. His comments: "I love that she did the sound of the scissors and the old sewing machine. It sounds very cool." Huzzah for videos that can be appreciated by a wide audience!
I agree, I actually pointed her vlogg out to a friend who is interested in beginning her own branding for her business (nothing to do with sewing) as an example.
Indeed! I came to Bernadette for the sewing, costuming, historical methods, and inimitable charm but I am completely slain by the film making. I love her artistry. Ahhhhhh! Oh please, somebody give her a contract to direct the next iteration of Jane Eyre! The close ups! The Boke! The landscapes! I die! Oh, the music she would find.....
@@jls4382 I will be personally offended if there ever will be a new version of Jane Eyre where Bernadette does NOT either design the costumes, direct the move or play Jane. She would do an excellent job it and would become my most favourite movie!
@@jls4382 Oh..lol. I first found her, late one evening & at the time had never even heard of historical sewing. I just felt oddly drawn to click on her video. It was one of her first videos & she was chattering like a magpie. I wasn't sure I had the energy to watch & kept going wtf..? but in an amused way you know? Not a bad way. And I was like wow, this gal is really brave! And she seemed just SO enthused & passionate, so I kept watching, though sometimes I had to slow her audio feed down. So I'd say, I started watching because I was just so thrilled to find someone who was/is so passionate about something. (It had been ages since I'd met anyone in person who was passionate about Anything frankly) Then after awhile I started getting hooked & watching other historical sewists. And I was just amazed at how fast she was changing her branding, persona, or whatever its called. She's clearly really intelligent. I'd been sewing by hand for several years but her videos were a gateway drug to watching other sewists in the historical genre & now I'm working on a few historybounding projects.
The study of Floof Dynamics would be in the Physics department with a side helping of Engineering; but the use and structure would fall under Materials Sciences. If I could write a defendable dissertation on the effects of Hydrogen inclusions in certain metals due to welding then Bernadette could easily write one on the exotic floof particles and their interaction with needle and thread.
@@bernadettebanner Hey Bernadette, I'm a musician and would like to give you some of my music to use in your videos. Do you have a business email I can send this to for your consideration? You inspire me so much in my life and have empowered me to take control of my wardrobe which helped me take charge of my life and I want to give back to you, using my skills to maybe improve your life like you have mine, or at least improve your day.
@@crystalkirlia4553 her business email is in the video description, and her Instagram bio, I can't remember it exactly but it's the one that has the word "lighthouse" in it. And I think your idea is exactly what "business inquiries only pls" is meant for. Good luck, and I hope we get to hear your music soon 😊
Dear Bernadette: I'm a musician and would like to give you some music that I've written to you to use in your videos. I am such a fan of your work and you inspire me so much in my life. Do you have a business email that I can send this to for your consideration?
The great thing is that slowly we are getting all brave enogh to wear whatever we please and at the same time, people is getting more and mor forgiving to what others wear because "we barely go out, we can have a little fun with it" I love that
Why would someone dislike this? Are they just jealous that they don't have a tiny witch hat? They knew what they were clicking on- the title is perfectly clear, so why?
I have pulled out my cape that I made nigh on 15 years ago in sewing class in school and then never used again because I allowed my perceived thoughts on how others would judge me stop me. No longer am I stopped, inspired by you I proudly wear my black cape and have even bought a dark purple one second hand! Cold and dreary times ahead, I am prepared.
Honestly "stop giving a crap and issues regarding preconceived notions about how youwere taught society views you just melt away" people would probs be like "cool cape"
Well, now I'm jealous. I too made a lovely cape in high school, albeit more Rivendell than Hogwarts in style. But alas, I apparently lost my mind and donated it at some point in the last many years. So much regret
As a larper, I can say with confidence that my huge felted wool witch hat is the most immediately recognizable and most complimented-upon part of my garb wardrobe. So yes, make witch hats in vogue, everyone loves them.
Not to be dramatic, but if my witch hat isn't wide brimmed and slouchy enough that you can tell at a glance I'll be showing up to the seance 15min late with starbucks then *what* is the *point* ? Loving your academic vibe tho - your hats are so cute!! 🥰 Great job!
Oh, you want a broad brim? Please sew this broad-brimmed pattern with slight conical slope (but add Bernadette’s pointy top) and post pictures! 🥺 I’m out of interfacing and need to live vicariously. ua-cam.com/video/x4S5zNBGphc/v-deo.html
I will happily ride at dawn, dusk or indeed 'the witching hour', but require further assistance vis-a-vis destination and what exactly I should be riding on. I'd hate to let the side down by turning up on the bus if everyone else had managed to furnish themselves with actual flying broomsticks...
When I was in college we had a millinary department. Our teacher Ms. Spenza had acquired many old french wooden hat forms for steaming wool hats into shapes or even straw hat bodies. By far though the most interesting of her machines was one that had a space for wire to be threaded through instead of thread. With this machine you could sew wire into the edge of the brim of any brimmed hat. It was a great way to make wide brim hats where the brims stood out and you wanted them to stand out straight. You might still use interfacing inside and across the brim but that wire on the edge really stiffened things up beautifully.
Hats are an excellent fashion accessory. When my grandmothers were young, the wearing of hats as everyday fashion was very much a thing. We need to bring this back. I shall begin by making myself a Witchy Hat, a la Bernadette.
@@Luubelaar I know they had such lovely hats (& clothing) back in the 40's & 50's. I always wear a hat whenever I go out in the summertime. I've got a natural olive complexion but in the summer's here in Australia are so bad that. I can get a nasty sunburn in the 5 minutes it takes me to walk down to the mail box & back. I'd love to see Bernadette make a historical summer hat. But she's headed into the wrong season for that in NYC. Oh well maybe next summer........
@@meacadwell My seam ripper never had a light, but Bernadette is even lower tech. She lifts the stitch with a pin, snips it with a scissors, and pulls it out. Imagine the tedium of doing that over yards of fabric. I'd probably go cross-eyed.
I finally understand the dozens of garments in my life I spent so much time in petting myself in an upwards direction and wondering why anyone would think the wearer would rather pet themself in such a fashion - they didn’t want them to be shiny. FOOLS! I long to be SHINY as well as soft!!!
Bernadette, you are too much!! I adore your taste in fabrics, your impeccable stitching, and your colorful narrations ( perfect for going nowhere and meeting no one...insane!!!) OMG!! We watch your videos over and over!!
When one is allergic to lanolin, one learns to LIKE crushed velvet, or like to be a slave to the iron and velvet board. Personally, I vote the crushed velvet. And I love the description and physics of floof.
I was wondering how you got such a non-standard color/shape of a beeswax block for your threads! Clever, clever witchling!! I now need one of these hats on my life. Or twenty. Something like that.
If you look on SCUBA diving website for beeswax they come in little blocks like that. We use them to wax our drysuit zips and they're often cheap. A lot of them are yellow but I've seem paler ones too.
Those wee bird snips that literally everyone seems to have..... Surprised everyone didn't hear my delighted squeee when I found those wee bird snips shaped (and colored) like a flamingo👍
This is perfect winter hat! I absolutely adore that it matches with your cape, and let's not forget, the Bernadette oxfords, I see a pattern here :) With a walking skirt it will look like a beautiful outfit.
The snip of the scissors at 1:36 was amazingly timed, filmed and satisfying. I know you've mentioned that you've been doing courses on cinematography and the like, and I can see how the effort and attention to detail is paying off for you ☺
What cracks me up is that you can always be bothered to sew by hand, or do the extra steps - except when it came to that gorgeous ribbon trim. I wonder what glorious project you are saving it for. It is absolutely drool worthy!
I got a cheap sewing machine to make Halloween costumes, hated the foot peddle, so I moved it by hand. After a week I gave up and ordered an actual hand crank sewing machine from 1879* from Etsy and it arrives tomorrow 😍 You've inspired me so much I want to make all my own clothes *edit from previous date 1910s.
Hmmm. I have a newish machine which has a foot pedal but I have never used it. I prefer to set the machine at it's slowest and use the Start/Stop button. I, when I was a girl, used my mother's treadle singer. My Grandmother had a hand wheel one but I hated it as I didn't have both hands to deal with whatever I was sewing. I wouldn't go back. The only treadling I do now is on my spinning wheel, nice and slow and relaxing. A few years ago I could have bought one of those old sewing machines for £15 or even less but people seem to be charging ridiculous amounts for them now. I must go back to the market where I saw them. Maybe I could make a profit?!!
Bernadette has, I am convinced, single-handedly kept me both sane and human during these times of pestilence. These videos are the single most soothing and entertaining things that I have come across and I am immensely grateful for this.
Another beautiful result! It suits you down to the ground. Sidenote: it delighted me to see that you save the beeswax candle overspill (is that even a word? Eh). Fiendishly useful stuff, which I also use for my beadweaving thread. 'Waste not, want not' is something I feel to the marrow of my bones.
I find your projects so inspiring, your videos aren’t just keeping me happy during quarantine, I’ve even started a sewing journey of my own! I’ve always wanted to make my own clothes because my style is so different from what can be found in the marketplace, and your videos have given me the confidence to give sewing a shot. Thank you so much Bernadette!
You and me both. Without these videos, I wouldn't have known where to start and I'd probably still not be doing more than button and hems. Since June, I've made 3 skirts and am now working on my 2nd pair of pyjamas. (Among other things.) But I must put my sewing away once I've finished this pair. The flat looks a complete mess and I really need to get some housework done instead. Give it a go - you've got little to lose and a whole lot to gain. Start simple, watch loads of how to videos and you'll soon be surprising yourself with what you can make for yourself.
This video never gets old. I am watching it for the sixth or seventh time and enjoying it again on multiple levels. Thank you, Bernadette, for this lovely time away from the difficulties of the world, and the instruction to make such a lovely and magical hat!
You've really made the aesthetics of the video feel very autumnal. I think your Singer is "clunking" which, should it be true and you care, may be the rubber bushing between the finger of the hand crank and the fly wheel. It can be replaced or left in place and covered with leather or fabric and just needs to wrap around it to prevent some of the slop in the mechanism that occurs when the speed of the hand crank varies.
@@penelopefp I'm not a sewing machine whisperer 😂 Entirely by fluke I think I recognise the sound from my own 1910 Singer. There was something off about "chatter-chatter-chatter-clunk". Afterall, the engineering of these older machines is so beautifully functional and elogant one wouldn't expect such an off-putting sound. That said, if you want me to listen to your machine, I'm all ears!
bernadette i don;t know if you realised i needed this because i was feeling so angry and then watched this and immediately calmed right down so thank you for calming me down enough to not do anything rash.
Oh myyyy... that hand turned machine!!!! What a relic piece of history! And candelabra lights... both makes the perfect setting for the craftsman of this witch hat that came out wonderful. “We ride at dawn friends!” Oh yaaaa! 🧹
I got the sudden urge recently to buy a red cardigan and I managed to get hold of a really nice one secondhand, and when I was wearing it yesterday I realised the urge came from seeing you wearing one!
I "drafted" a pattern for a mcgonagall hat two days ago (I think, what even is time anymore?) and put it away again bc I'm to shy and don't want any attention on me in public so I most likely wouldn't dare to wear it outside of october, which is sad but you know anxiety and stuff :/ And also I am definetly going to join you at dawn or whenever you ride, my ad cape is ready, the hat will be made against all odds and the horse is ready too xD God willing, I'm going to meet you after the plaque ♥
Even if you only dare to wear it inside (I know that feeling so well) it's still fun to dress up for staying inside! Especially now we can't go anywhere anyways :) Goodluck on the making of the hat!! I hope it brings you lots of joy
@@happytofu5 I would very much approve of that, the thing is if everyone who wants to wear one would it would probably become more or less normal but instead here I am, sitting in a corner and being afraid xD
I feel you, but as someone with anxiety who wears almost entirely skirts and a lot of hats I recommend trying. I have learned that if I dress in a way that catches attention I am less self-conscious. You get to fully control what people notice about you. You become the person who wears the cool hats, and no one cares about whatever you are scared people will notice. You don't have to dress strangely, but you might feel better if you try doing so. I love when I see people who dress more similar to me, and that is one of the biggest ways I make friends. We might all have anxiety, but at least we have anxiety together.
I literally just made a witch hat and didn’t think to leave the lining free floating to stitch down later and spent way too many years messing around with some bias tape to finish the brim edges🙃 Guess I know for the next seven I make.
I always feel so relaxed from watching Bernadette working on various items of clothing! Thank you for sharing your talents with all of us, Bernadette! 😊🧙🏻♀️
Since we’re all comfortably insane from the isolation by now, the fact that many of us have occupied our time with sewing projects made from what we had on hand or ordered online, this should be a very colourful motley crew.
Rhonda Crosswhite, I have a meme I love using that says, “When you find people who not only tolerate your quirks, but celebrate them with glad cries of ‘Me too!’, be sure to cherish them. Because those weirdos are your tribe.” I think we make a pretty cool tribe.
Go for it!! I'm debating just which other clothes I need, bc I feel like this would look weird with a bulky jack Wolfskin jacket.. guess i finally need to make the ADCape?
"We ride at dawn, friends." Best line ever. Love your videos; the editing is exemplary, the staging divine and your touches of humor ever surprising moments. Thanks so much for posting!
"We are all comfortably insane now." Omg yes.
A truer sentence has never before been uttered.
I had to go back and make sure I heard that correctly and then I couldn’t stop laughing! 😂😂😂
I will be getting a sound byte of this sentence, and I will be using it everywhere. Because it is a mood and I am here for it.
The catch all phrase of 2020.
Think that's my new catchphrase.
Describing velvet pile as floofs is my absolute favorite thing today 😍
Same! Like dust bunnies, but crafter edition
The physique of floof by Bernadette Banner 😉 first tome.
Right?!
Piles and Naps no longer exist. Everything is Floofs.
Bernadette Banner Let us worship the
*F L O O F*
“perfect for going on a stroll to absolutely no-where and meeting up with absolutely no one!” hhghdsshdssff i’m dying
me in a nutshell
Me buying vintage clothing on Depop.
That describes my entire social life during these plague times
I know she is too much..
Tell me again what it was like when we could meet up with people? I've forgotten what it was like....
As fantastic as the sewing is, the one thing that never gets enough recognition is Bernadette Banner's superb editing. The same level of loving attention to detail is evident in the construction of each video as in the projects that they document and sometimes I just like to watch them because they're so beautifully put together. What could be a simplistic tutorial style video full of smash cuts and sped up footage has a wonderful languid, almost meditative pace, and crafts a narrative around the creation of the pieces with an immaculate sense of timing.
I agree! Lovely pace, beautiful images, soothing sounds... Nice!
I was thinking the same when I watched, but not in such eloquent words as you used.
I love that about her videos!
You have to watch with her captions! She adds little quips and comments and descriptions. It makes it even better
@@marissabruno4958 satisfying fabric cutting. asmr sewing noises. wee snip.
I teach a certain amount of optics in various classes at a university. From now on, I am going to use the word "floofs" to describe surface roughness that interacts directionally with light. It rolls off the tongue more easily than "bidirectional reflectance function".
So how’s that going?
I love it. ☺👍
As I watch this I have 4 tiny witch hats that are definitely not a result of watching your first witch bonnet video everyday for a week. No sir.
I am more than ever in need of a hat for every occasion- and specifically a bonnet.
Everyone needs a LBH - Little Black Hat. 🧙♀️
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 trademark that :P
@@withcharmtospare ROTFLMAO! 🤣 I just might. 😝
If you mention bonnet with such passion, then I guess you've also watched Micarah ;)
Not to be dramatic but I would die for this mystical woman
who wouldn't
@@cherubp3447 Seriously. Who wouldn't?
Several times over the course of this 11 minute video "marry me" popped into my brain
I SAW 'ER FIRST!
@@doktorscottdiabolical No I did. 🤣🤣
Would it be safe to hazard a guess that we ride at dawn with our witch hats, pirate shirts and AD capes donned for history, sewing and shenanigans?
yes. 😎
I hope so.
I'm in for this but I'll be in more modern clothes because I don't sew at all, but I'll bring my cross stitch and enjoy the lovely other works everyone else is making.
Count me in 100%
@Jules Herbert Yes! We will make sure all witches are decked out to their prefence.
Hand-turned machine sewing small black witchy hat by candelabra light.
That’s all anyone needs to know.
Bernadette: "We ride at dawn"
Me: [fetches wand, summons the cat, does preflight inspection of broom] 🪄🐈⬛🧹🧙🏻♀️
Me : * PLAYS THE HARRY POTTER THEME *
Datura and Henbane were some of the herbs taken in small (safe) portions to assist in "flying" and "astral travel", so good luck getting your broom off the ground without it or something simmilar. See:
--'The Witches Ointment' Thomas Hatsis
--'Veneficium' Daniel' A. Schulke
I'm not flying anywhere, but i would really like to join the witches ride... so now I just need to find a way to acquire an iceland trained horse 'til dawn.
Hope you've got your herbs and elixirs with you
@James Lee Datura is a ride! Don’t even joke with it.
Dawn seems awfully early, can we ride at lunchtime? Or maybe dusk... :D
Jalea Ward I vote for dusk!
Dusk works for me!
Definitely dusk
Also putting my ballot in for dusk!
Ok, The People say dusk; it's spookier that way anyway. 😎
Bernadette: Mentions there’s a website that does all of the horrible hat math for me
Me: HALLELUJAH!!! I may make calculated decisions, but I’m bad at math
I think there is a really low-tech no-math way of doing this without an online calculator. Just take a piece of string the length of the tip of the hat. hold one side of the string down (or pin it in place or something) and with a pencil at the other end start drawing an arc using the length of the string as a guide (like you're going to draw a circle around the pinned down end of the string). Just draw a generous arc, and then measure along the edge until length of arc = size of brim. Draw some straight lines to the pinned end of the string and done.
Not all calculations are mathematical...
maggPi Prime Truth...
ROTFLMAO! 🤣 🙌👏👍
"Horrible hat math" sounds like an exclamation of despair from Whacky Races or something and I love it
"floofs go NOMMMM,
floofs go weeeee" - Housemate, MPhys, 2020 when discussing velvet pile
You know, that makes perfect sense. . . (but only if the "whee" is the shiny pile)
Margaret Karaba
Definitely. “NOMMMM” is, after all, the pile absorbing the light.
YES. You are all correct. This is now my understanding of physics.
Did anyone else feel a rush of motivation and excitement when she said, "we ride at dawn, friends"?
*Cackle*
Yes but I'm also really glad dawn is like 8:20 now where I live cuz falling asleep on the broomstick is not my prefered way of riding hahaha
Other name "Bernadette torturing herself with velvet ... again" 😂
i have said this before and will say it again: she is exactly what i imagine younger professor McGonagall would look like
Whomsoever postulated that she is NOT Minerva in the flesh!? You know, because time travel.
Jesus loves you!
I think you're in the wrong UA-camr's comment section, Random Person Who Fervently Believes In A Sky Captain.
Real Question: why don't we wear robes as real school uniforms? They're cute and functional? Please I just want to look like a Harry Potter character
The honest answer? Because trends started changing and the headmasters/principals (and remember headmasters/principals were all men at the time) decided that shorter skirts and sheerer blouses were 'fashionable' and they were 'keeping up with the times' by allowing women to wear 'what they wanted' when all they were doing were being pervs. Notice how places with school uniforms have only recently allowed males to wear shorts while above the knee skirts have been in place for ages? And there's your reason. Pervs.
Or better yet; why not as every day clothes? No more searching for that one outfit that fits, or that jacket that fits comfortably over your layers of sweaters in winter. Just wear a robe. No more worries about gaining or losing weight, because a robe will fit. No more worrying about maternity clothes when it's needed and what to do with them when they're not, because you can always wear that robe.
(Btw, thinking of the robe as clothes in the HP book sense when it was implied that that was all they wore beyond underwear, whereas the movies added regular uniform clothes underneath the robe and used the robe in place of a uniform blazer)
Life could be simpler if we let it. (Sigh)
Not functional in Florida summer, sadly.
@@jtn2002 if people can beat the heat in layers in the desert (or other such roasting places) I'm sure you could too. (Also layers have been proven to keep you cooler than baring as much legal skin as you can, because it keeps the sun from your skin and allows the heat to dissipate rather than be absorbed)
Look up the traditional university clothes in Portugal, Coimbra (my alma mater), Lisbon and Oporto especially, still in use today :p
if “because ~✨fashion✨~” doesn’t describe bernadette, then what does?
Bernadette ✨Fashion✨
Rachel ✨Aesthetics✨
Karolina ✨Memes✨
“because ~✨historical accuracy✨~”
I don't think one can properly describe a Bernadette. They're just them. You kind of have to just accept it. It's like accepting the fact that you cannot define a meter without knowing what a light-year is, and you cannot define a light-year without knowing what a meter is... And most of our measurements are based off of being able to define a meter.
Mysterious floofy fashion!
Tea, small floofy pigs, books, and ✨ fashion ✨
Please consider designing a whole witch-casual clothing line, that'd be so perfect.
"We ride at dawn friends"
Me: I'll get my broom
Me too !!! Hahahaha, let’s fly away!
Am I too late? Well I'm here anyway 🧹
Introduced my 7yo son to Bernadette with this video. His comments: "I love that she did the sound of the scissors and the old sewing machine. It sounds very cool." Huzzah for videos that can be appreciated by a wide audience!
"We ride at dawn."
I've been having a lot of bad days. Today is one of them. This made me laugh. I needed that.
Hold on! I wish you the best! With love from the Netherlands.
ditto.
Your cinematography practice and improvements show and look positively splendid, much like your hat.
I agree, I actually pointed her vlogg out to a friend who is interested in beginning her own branding for her business (nothing to do with sewing) as an example.
Indeed! I came to Bernadette for the sewing, costuming, historical methods, and inimitable charm but I am completely slain by the film making. I love her artistry. Ahhhhhh! Oh please, somebody give her a contract to direct the next iteration of Jane Eyre! The close ups! The Boke! The landscapes! I die! Oh, the music she would find.....
It all looks and sounds so cinematic. And the New York skyline backdrop always adds this peculiar "out of time" vibe to the proceedings.
@@jls4382 I will be personally offended if there ever will be a new version of Jane Eyre where Bernadette does NOT either design the costumes, direct the move or play Jane. She would do an excellent job it and would become my most favourite movie!
@@jls4382 Oh..lol. I first found her, late one evening & at the time had never even heard of historical sewing. I just felt oddly drawn to click on her video. It was one of her first videos & she was chattering like a magpie. I wasn't sure I had the energy to watch & kept going wtf..? but in an amused way you know? Not a bad way. And I was like wow, this gal is really brave! And she seemed just SO enthused & passionate, so I kept watching, though sometimes I had to slow her audio feed down. So I'd say, I started watching because I was just so thrilled to find someone who was/is so passionate about something. (It had been ages since I'd met anyone in person who was passionate about Anything frankly) Then after awhile I started getting hooked & watching other historical sewists. And I was just amazed at how fast she was changing her branding, persona, or whatever its called. She's clearly really intelligent. I'd been sewing by hand for several years but her videos were a gateway drug to watching other sewists in the historical genre & now I'm working on a few historybounding projects.
"We are all comfortably insane now." the commentary of the last 30 seconds of this video is so absolutely perfect lol.
Bernadette: "We ride at dawn, friends."
Me: WHERE IS MY BROOMSTICK?!!!
Can't find mine either. Had to borrow mom's vacuum lol.
"Simple, understated, everyday witchery" oh look its a four word description of Bernadette's style!!
University course idea: Floof physics
It'd be engineering. Materials Science
Learning about various weaves is indeed part of material science.
The study of Floof Dynamics would be in the Physics department with a side helping of Engineering; but the use and structure would fall under Materials Sciences. If I could write a defendable dissertation on the effects of Hydrogen inclusions in certain metals due to welding then Bernadette could easily write one on the exotic floof particles and their interaction with needle and thread.
Aaaaand now I wonder whether the velvet floof could be used to display certain statistical algorithms, Markov Chains in particular :D
I hereby enrol.
"The Physics of Velvet Floofs" should be taught in school.
Just 'member that it's a good idea to take Calculus first....or was that Differential Equations...or both....Velvet is just 'that way'.
I believe you can take VFP (Velvet Floofs Physics) in your third year at Hogwarts as an elective.
@@lizackermann2383 Wasn't it fourth year?
Along with "Functions and Theories of Fashion Throughout History"
@@lizackermann2383 I think you meant Ilvermorny in 4th year
"Floofs"
It's canon, now. They shall be forever known... as "floofs".
Bernadette: *announces she wears the plaid hat everywhere, and must therefore have one in black*
Me: "This logic is sound."
SUPER CUTE HAT! :D
I'd love one.Beautifully done!!!A classic.
My personal favorite reaction in this case is "This checks out"
5:25 - this shot's timing with the music is 😍😍
I may or may not have been *unreasonably* proud of that one.
@@bernadettebanner I was going to ask if this was what you were referring to in your Instagram stories. If so... *chef's kiss* indeed! ❤
@@bernadettebanner
Hey Bernadette, I'm a musician and would like to give you some of my music to use in your videos. Do you have a business email I can send this to for your consideration? You inspire me so much in my life and have empowered me to take control of my wardrobe which helped me take charge of my life and I want to give back to you, using my skills to maybe improve your life like you have mine, or at least improve your day.
@@crystalkirlia4553 her business email is in the video description, and her Instagram bio, I can't remember it exactly but it's the one that has the word "lighthouse" in it. And I think your idea is exactly what "business inquiries only pls" is meant for. Good luck, and I hope we get to hear your music soon 😊
I noticed this too, loved it 😁
Dear Bernadette: I'm a musician and would like to give you some music that I've written to you to use in your videos. I am such a fan of your work and you inspire me so much in my life. Do you have a business email that I can send this to for your consideration?
crystal kirlia her business email is in the description!
ooo i’d love to see some fan music in the video
This would be so lovely to experience!
This sounds like a lovely opportunity! I look forward to hearing your music if she chooses to work with you!
What a beautiful gift to share!
The great thing is that slowly we are getting all brave enogh to wear whatever we please and at the same time, people is getting more and mor forgiving to what others wear because "we barely go out, we can have a little fun with it" I love that
Why would someone dislike this? Are they just jealous that they don't have a tiny witch hat? They knew what they were clicking on- the title is perfectly clear, so why?
I feel like this woman knows every word in the dictionary...
I truly wouldn't be surprised if she did.
@@junecampbell2152 Neither would I
Me too....and she uses them too! That is a gift !
I agree completely, she knows all the words and has chosen Floofs.
I have pulled out my cape that I made nigh on 15 years ago in sewing class in school and then never used again because I allowed my perceived thoughts on how others would judge me stop me. No longer am I stopped, inspired by you I proudly wear my black cape and have even bought a dark purple one second hand! Cold and dreary times ahead, I am prepared.
Honestly "stop giving a crap and issues regarding preconceived notions about how youwere taught society views you just melt away" people would probs be like "cool cape"
I would love to see people out and about with a cape!
@@jeanblaaa Life is just so much more fun when you have a cape on, especially on a foggy night!
Well, now I'm jealous. I too made a lovely cape in high school, albeit more Rivendell than Hogwarts in style. But alas, I apparently lost my mind and donated it at some point in the last many years. So much regret
So now you have a dress witch hat and an everyday witch hat.
As a larper, I can say with confidence that my huge felted wool witch hat is the most immediately recognizable and most complimented-upon part of my garb wardrobe. So yes, make witch hats in vogue, everyone loves them.
a larper XDD those rp peopling
I would love to see Bernadette use some of her gorgeous ribbon as the inspiration/ main focus of a project! I never see her use them nearly enough
That black embroidered trim is gorgeous 😍 Bernadette!
Not to be dramatic, but if my witch hat isn't wide brimmed and slouchy enough that you can tell at a glance I'll be showing up to the seance 15min late with starbucks then *what* is the *point* ?
Loving your academic vibe tho - your hats are so cute!! 🥰 Great job!
Oh, you want a broad brim? Please sew this broad-brimmed pattern with slight conical slope (but add Bernadette’s pointy top) and post pictures! 🥺 I’m out of interfacing and need to live vicariously.
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Seance ?
I can't express how badly I want to own a nice and accurate recreation of this beautiful witch hat for spoopy season (the only true season) 🧹🎃🕯️🕸️🪦
Is that a good omens reference I'm seeing?
@@elenanojkovic2554 Tell the whole blessed world, why don't you? ;)
Haha! Comfortably insane is very accurate! Eeeep! What if Cesario had a little matching witch hat-? aaaah I’d die of happiness. 😍🥰😘
I will happily ride at dawn, dusk or indeed 'the witching hour', but require further assistance vis-a-vis destination and what exactly I should be riding on. I'd hate to let the side down by turning up on the bus if everyone else had managed to furnish themselves with actual flying broomsticks...
❤❤❤
I think the Knight Bus is generally acceptable in witchly circles.
Several of us may need to ride the "Night Bus".... Will meet up at the bus stop.... Put out your thumb...
I borrowed my dad's flying carpet, do you need a ride?
Night bus is appropriate transportation, right?
Turning witch hats into everyday fashion is something I am fully ready for. Lets go!
When I was in college we had a millinary department. Our teacher Ms. Spenza had acquired many old french wooden hat forms for steaming wool hats into shapes or even straw hat bodies. By far though the most interesting of her machines was one that had a space for wire to be threaded through instead of thread. With this machine you could sew wire into the edge of the brim of any brimmed hat. It was a great way to make wide brim hats where the brims stood out and you wanted them to stand out straight. You might still use interfacing inside and across the brim but that wire on the edge really stiffened things up beautifully.
Everyone needs a LBH - Little Black Hat. 🧙♀️
Hats are an excellent fashion accessory. When my grandmothers were young, the wearing of hats as everyday fashion was very much a thing. We need to bring this back. I shall begin by making myself a Witchy Hat, a la Bernadette.
@@Luubelaar I know they had such lovely hats (& clothing) back in the 40's & 50's. I always wear a hat whenever I go out in the summertime.
I've got a natural olive complexion but in the summer's here in Australia are so bad that. I can get a nasty sunburn in the 5 minutes it takes me to walk down to the mail box & back.
I'd love to see Bernadette make a historical summer hat. But she's headed into the wrong season for that in NYC. Oh well maybe next summer........
I need a little blanch hat so bad
@@Luubelaar Yeah! 50s hats for women are so pretty! I wish more people would understand people's historical wardrobes.
@@sourlovee33_ While I think the fashions from the 40's are elegant. You just gotta love the 'New Look' that came from Dior after WWII.
Hell is probably a production line of victorian hand sewn velvet sleeves for all eternity XD
😦😦😦 noO
Worse than than would be picking the black stitches back out of the black fabric.
@@nancymontgomery8897 This...and the battery ran out of your seam ripper with a light
@@meacadwell My seam ripper never had a light, but Bernadette is even lower tech. She lifts the stitch with a pin, snips it with a scissors, and pulls it out. Imagine the tedium of doing that over yards of fabric. I'd probably go cross-eyed.
@@nancymontgomery8897 I guess I didn't realize she did that.
My head just exploded!
"Perfect for a stroll to absolutely nowhere and meeting absolutely no one."
I felt that line.
i love how you explained the velvet floofs, talking very calmly and elegant but using the word floof. perfection. 10/10.
her smile is so nice it makes me happy
The sound of the scissors cutting the fabric is so satisfying to me.
I finally understand the dozens of garments in my life I spent so much time in petting myself in an upwards direction and wondering why anyone would think the wearer would rather pet themself in such a fashion - they didn’t want them to be shiny. FOOLS! I long to be SHINY as well as soft!!!
"We are all comfortably insane now" - quote of the year!
Bernadette, you are too much!! I adore your taste in fabrics, your impeccable stitching, and your colorful narrations ( perfect for going nowhere and meeting no one...insane!!!) OMG!! We watch your videos over and over!!
Why do I think Bernadette is an ACTUAL witch?
Like... The vibes, the style... everything. She's just so magical
When one is allergic to lanolin, one learns to LIKE crushed velvet, or like to be a slave to the iron and velvet board. Personally, I vote the crushed velvet. And I love the description and physics of floof.
"we ride at dawn, friends" I'll bring snacks!
May I bring a large thermos of hot water so we can share coffee and tea when we'll take a break from riding our brooms ?
Do I detect...some pirate shirting in some of these shots?
yis 😎
I absolutely love the closing dialogue!
Shout out to that shot of Caesario for looking like something straight out of a nature documentary
I was wondering how you got such a non-standard color/shape of a beeswax block for your threads! Clever, clever witchling!!
I now need one of these hats on my life. Or twenty. Something like that.
Everyone needs a LBH - Little Black Hat. 🧙♀️
If you look on SCUBA diving website for beeswax they come in little blocks like that. We use them to wax our drysuit zips and they're often cheap. A lot of them are yellow but I've seem paler ones too.
Me thinks I shall make 13. One for every moon ride we do lol
Those wee bird snips that literally everyone seems to have..... Surprised everyone didn't hear my delighted squeee when I found those wee bird snips shaped (and colored) like a flamingo👍
I've found some that are very similar but shaped like a cat! I've put them on my Christmas list :)
So cool! Mine are a unicorn.
I have very boring bright green plastic snips, but at least they're easy to spot!
Oh my! My daughter would love those. She’s obsessed with flamingos. Do you mind me asking where you found them?
Hobby Lobby is where I found mine, but Amazon may have 'em too
This is perfect winter hat! I absolutely adore that it matches with your cape, and let's not forget, the Bernadette oxfords, I see a pattern here :) With a walking skirt it will look like a beautiful outfit.
The candelabra! I’m in awe of the whole candelabra bit, from lighting all the way to pealing up the wax. What a masterpiece!
Your commentary on life makes everything so much more enjoyable!
Hurray! Witch hats like these should be more popular!
We can make them popular. People always want to look different and if someone asks, it is the "new" fashion, which it is in a way?
Lets make them popular!
The snip of the scissors at 1:36 was amazingly timed, filmed and satisfying. I know you've mentioned that you've been doing courses on cinematography and the like, and I can see how the effort and attention to detail is paying off for you ☺
We ride at dawn friends..is the greatest line ever.
I want to appreciate the effort you put into your subtitles. "Sewing Machine ASMR Time" and (wee snip) brought me great joy.
What cracks me up is that you can always be bothered to sew by hand, or do the extra steps - except when it came to that gorgeous ribbon trim. I wonder what glorious project you are saving it for. It is absolutely drool worthy!
I got a cheap sewing machine to make Halloween costumes, hated the foot peddle, so I moved it by hand. After a week I gave up and ordered an actual hand crank sewing machine from 1879* from Etsy and it arrives tomorrow 😍 You've inspired me so much I want to make all my own clothes
*edit from previous date 1910s.
Hmmm. I have a newish machine which has a foot pedal but I have never used it. I prefer to set the machine at it's slowest and use the Start/Stop button. I, when I was a girl, used my mother's treadle singer. My Grandmother had a hand wheel one but I hated it as I didn't have both hands to deal with whatever I was sewing. I wouldn't go back. The only treadling I do now is on my spinning wheel, nice and slow and relaxing. A few years ago I could have bought one of those old sewing machines for £15 or even less but people seem to be charging ridiculous amounts for them now. I must go back to the market where I saw them. Maybe I could make a profit?!!
As a dedicated non early riser, could we make it we ride after elevenses?
Do brooms come with cup-holders?
Wait... business-idea!!!!
@@stevezytveld6585 and now I am hungry... at 23.15... sigh.
I see I've found my kindred! I second the motion for post Elevensies riding, provided there is a break for afternoon tea!
@@TheRealKissyRee Absolutely!
You are all my people.
When Bernadette says ‘we ride at dawn friends’ I immediately check the time zones to see when that is for me in the uk: ‘We Ride!!!’
Bernadette has, I am convinced, single-handedly kept me both sane and human during these times of pestilence. These videos are the single most soothing and entertaining things that I have come across and I am immensely grateful for this.
A beautiful hat, a beautiful creator, and a thoroughly entertaining video.
Thank you, and Blessed Be!
Another beautiful result! It suits you down to the ground. Sidenote: it delighted me to see that you save the beeswax candle overspill (is that even a word? Eh). Fiendishly useful stuff, which I also use for my beadweaving thread. 'Waste not, want not' is something I feel to the marrow of my bones.
Waste not, want not. And add more bows
And boring me, use the wax for dresser drawer runners! I'm just way too practical.....
"We're all comfortably insane now." is such a MOOD.
This temporarily but effectively distracted me from my crippling existential anxiety, thank you 🥰🖤⭐️
Same!
I find your projects so inspiring, your videos aren’t just keeping me happy during quarantine, I’ve even started a sewing journey of my own! I’ve always wanted to make my own clothes because my style is so different from what can be found in the marketplace, and your videos have given me the confidence to give sewing a shot. Thank you so much Bernadette!
You and me both. Without these videos, I wouldn't have known where to start and I'd probably still not be doing more than button and hems. Since June, I've made 3 skirts and am now working on my 2nd pair of pyjamas. (Among other things.) But I must put my sewing away once I've finished this pair. The flat looks a complete mess and I really need to get some housework done instead.
Give it a go - you've got little to lose and a whole lot to gain. Start simple, watch loads of how to videos and you'll soon be surprising yourself with what you can make for yourself.
This video never gets old. I am watching it for the sixth or seventh time and enjoying it again on multiple levels. Thank you, Bernadette, for this lovely time away from the difficulties of the world, and the instruction to make such a lovely and magical hat!
You've really made the aesthetics of the video feel very autumnal.
I think your Singer is "clunking" which, should it be true and you care, may be the rubber bushing between the finger of the hand crank and the fly wheel. It can be replaced or left in place and covered with leather or fabric and just needs to wrap around it to prevent some of the slop in the mechanism that occurs when the speed of the hand crank varies.
Wow, will you listen to my machine too please?!! 😃
@@penelopefp I'm not a sewing machine whisperer 😂 Entirely by fluke I think I recognise the sound from my own 1910 Singer. There was something off about "chatter-chatter-chatter-clunk". Afterall, the engineering of these older machines is so beautifully functional and elogant one wouldn't expect such an off-putting sound. That said, if you want me to listen to your machine, I'm all ears!
bernadette i don;t know if you realised i needed this because i was feeling so angry and then watched this and immediately calmed right down so thank you for calming me down enough to not do anything rash.
I am loving the black on black on black! Such classic witch vibes.
Love that smile!! You morph from serious and intense to playful and giggly in naught-point-one second!
Oh myyyy... that hand turned machine!!!! What a relic piece of history! And candelabra lights... both makes the perfect setting for the craftsman of this witch hat that came out wonderful. “We ride at dawn friends!” Oh yaaaa! 🧹
I got the sudden urge recently to buy a red cardigan and I managed to get hold of a really nice one secondhand, and when I was wearing it yesterday I realised the urge came from seeing you wearing one!
your channel is so comforting. there’s a calmness about you and the way you speak and edit that makes your videos peaceful to watch.
That master piece of editing at 5:25 when the placement of the candelabra coincides with the changing of the music???? Chefs kiss
This is peak witch aesthetic, and I love it.
I "drafted" a pattern for a mcgonagall hat two days ago (I think, what even is time anymore?) and put it away again bc I'm to shy and don't want any attention on me in public so I most likely wouldn't dare to wear it outside of october, which is sad but you know anxiety and stuff :/
And also I am definetly going to join you at dawn or whenever you ride, my ad cape is ready, the hat will be made against all odds and the horse is ready too xD God willing, I'm going to meet you after the plaque ♥
I know this feeling really well too
Even if you only dare to wear it inside (I know that feeling so well) it's still fun to dress up for staying inside! Especially now we can't go anywhere anyways :) Goodluck on the making of the hat!! I hope it brings you lots of joy
lets make it a fashion thing, I want to wear a witch hat too!
@@happytofu5 I would very much approve of that, the thing is if everyone who wants to wear one would it would probably become more or less normal but instead here I am, sitting in a corner and being afraid xD
I feel you, but as someone with anxiety who wears almost entirely skirts and a lot of hats I recommend trying. I have learned that if I dress in a way that catches attention I am less self-conscious. You get to fully control what people notice about you. You become the person who wears the cool hats, and no one cares about whatever you are scared people will notice. You don't have to dress strangely, but you might feel better if you try doing so. I love when I see people who dress more similar to me, and that is one of the biggest ways I make friends. We might all have anxiety, but at least we have anxiety together.
"things were beginning to get real thick at this point..."
Me too, ear flap, me too
"It's okay, because we are all comfortably insane now." (BANNER, 2020)
BUMPER STICKERS AND BADGES!!!!!
I literally just made a witch hat and didn’t think to leave the lining free floating to stitch down later and spent way too many years messing around with some bias tape to finish the brim edges🙃 Guess I know for the next seven I make.
I always feel so relaxed from watching Bernadette working on various items of clothing!
Thank you for sharing your talents with all of us, Bernadette! 😊🧙🏻♀️
As I was already suffering from a severe case of "Harry Potter mood" (because: October), I will definitely be making this...
This and the wrap cape with house corresponding lining,, would be perfect
@@erinbathie-moore8478 oohh true....
Now I have got to make a fun witch hat to wear all fall and winter. They will think I’m nuts unit who cares. Me being me.
Yes. You do you, and nothing else matters. 🎉
But how about this hat pattern with a yuletide twist? Hmmm... Green velvet, floof trim, evergreen decorations circling the crown?
Since we’re all comfortably insane from the isolation by now, the fact that many of us have occupied our time with sewing projects made from what we had on hand or ordered online, this should be a very colourful motley crew.
Rhonda Crosswhite, I have a meme I love using that says, “When you find people who not only tolerate your quirks, but celebrate them with glad cries of ‘Me too!’, be sure to cherish them. Because those weirdos are your tribe.”
I think we make a pretty cool tribe.
Go for it!! I'm debating just which other clothes I need, bc I feel like this would look weird with a bulky jack Wolfskin jacket.. guess i finally need to make the ADCape?
I now have a mighty need to make one (read: several...) of these! 😍
"We ride at dawn, friends." Best line ever. Love your videos; the editing is exemplary, the staging divine and your touches of humor ever surprising moments. Thanks so much for posting!
I don't know which is more amazing, your sewing skills or your cinematography.
I love that you took the time to explain velvet floofs and to even consider which direction they should be facing on a given witch hat