"They didn't expect one piece of fabric to do it all." Best quote ever...and we are just like that...working together and helping each other...turns out some pretty beautiful stuff!!!
If you/Abby aren't interested in selling a pattern from this piece, I beg of you to please share photos with scale references so we can try to draft our own! 🙏
I know it’s been a while, Etsy has one that’s a start. It’s the 1908 ladies coat with body and sleeves from vintage pattern girl, pdf. And NO, it won’t stop me from buying this lovely pattern if it ever gets released. If not, you have one.
I deeply appreciate the mic sensitivity and quality on the hand stitching. It's sewing ASMR and I would happily listen to an hour of just quiet fabric sounds.
I've been living hearing your voice on your own channel more. Costube is becoming bigger by the day, but I think you bring a unique voice and aesthetic to the table. Thank you!
Oooh, it's gorgeous! And you "historybounding" ending showed me that my plan of pairing Victorian/Edwardian blouses and jackets with 40's skirts and trousers will look quite nice.
I think this is a timeless piece and you can mix and match it with allmost anything as long as it doesn't have a flower pattern and is preferably made out of the same type of fabric. Personally, I don't dig the sleeve length but that's just preferance.
The reveal with modern fashion at the end is just perfection. Had to send the video to my Mum because I'm pretty sure she'll get a kick out of the way it updates so well. Particularly smitten with the way the jacket plays with not only the stone-coloured trousers, but also the cherry red straight skirt. 😃
I was surprised by how well the jacket goes with so many different things, but I think it looks best with the most modern of the garments shown, the black jeans.
I loooooove the choice of shell buttons instead of the more decorated ones of the original garment. I think it really tones down what we see today as the more garish and over the top elements of Edwardian style.
THAT WIG GETS ME EVERY TIME!! You turn into a person who just stepped out of the era you recreate. The styling of the wig always looks so natural and real, and the way you get the silhouette to look perfect... *chef's kiss*
Uhhh...I kept my fingers crossed for the history bounding part. I think it works especially well with the front open.👌🏻 Thanks for sharing your process (and yayy for friends who share their treasures).
will you consider making a pattern draft for this available? I'm envisioning either steele blue or Mallard with seal brown braid and buttons, with possibly a matching walking skirt, tea length. or almost identical to the one you just did in a golden mustardy brown. hmmmmm
I was literally drooling throughout this video, I could almost feel the fabric and weight of the garment through the screen, and the finishing is so eye-droppingly beautiful! A second to those who want a pattern of this jacket!
Love how you showed sewing the hook and eyes. My mom showed me that way in the early 60's and I had forgotten about it. Thanks so much for those little details ☺️
I am so happy to have found the historical sewing videos on RUclips. It has changed the way I look at construction and finishing techniques, and affirmed my own inclinations to do things differently from the way I originally learned (for modern garments).
How beautiful! Those full three-quarter length sleeves are to die for Such lovely fabric (that cream silk satin is too lush for words), and such marvelous pattern-making and sewing. Just discovered your channel and am very impressed! When you pair it with the more modern black dress or trousers I'm actually reminded very much of the linen business-casual jackets my mother wore in the 1980s' in the UK - so many of the things she wore had those style of big sleeves and ribbon ties/pussy-bows at the front (although hers had some serious shoulder-pad action going on too...)
i have been so eagerly waiting a better look at this jacket! i'm so glad you did so much exposition on the inner workings and tailoring, it's been something i've been pushing to learn more about this past year and new/different techniques build a better tailor. i know i'm gonna end up rewatching over and over for those, as well as to try to glean the pattern from some of the wider shots. my inspiration to tackle something like this is through the roof!
I love watching your videos as well as Bernadette's because you both take so much care in breaking down the step by step construction process of these wonderful pieces, and watching you sew is so relaxing 😌
Oh, excellent! Especially love the historybounding at the end - I have neither the budget nor the closet space to make historical pieces just for their own lovely sake, so I need anything I make to be wearable in a real-life context. Any chance that you and Abby will be releasing this as a pattern for sale? Pretty please?
My brain can't comprehend being smart & talented enough to not only be able to figure out how something like this had been made but then to also turn around & be able to make it. I told her she does her best & to go back to bed.
Oh yes, thank you for including that amazing *scritch scritch* of the shears cutting through fabric. ASMR happiness. Ok, after more watching, all the beautiful sewing noises are delightful and soothing to my soul. Thank you!
What a FANTASTIC job with this video! The close ups of the sewing and hearing the thread pulled through the cloth gave me the sensation of actually sewing it myself. (Hard to explain) Add in the lovely music and your detailed explanations... How could one ask for more! Thank you for a most enjoyable 25 minutes!
Very interesting video. I enjoyed the detail of the hand VS machine sewing, and the insights on construction - your lessons learned. The line of not expecting one luxurious fabric to do all the work was an epiphany for me. And yes, love the bounding...
Wow, love it. I am not a tailor at all, ( lastvtimevi ever sewed something was in middle school in 1978) but thanks for the interesting details. Ty Abby for sharing your piece.
Oooh it's so beautiful! I adore all the little details of Edwardian women's suits! The collar zig zags are so delightful, and the shape reminds me a bit of those weird transitional 17th century doublets.
Absolutely fantastic! Would purchase a pattern in a heartbeat! This is the perfect historybounding jacket; it looked great with every single outfit you paired it with. Thank you so much for this delightful video! 🥰♥️
Exquisite! I learned that women’s tailoring hits me in all the good feels and is worth paying a lot of money to acquire. As always I so enjoy your content. It just helps brighten my day and inspire my creativity. Thank you
Oh wow! That jacket is so beautiful! Love the colour. Love the sleeves. And the decorative stitching under the collar. Oh! Love the whole thing! Personally, i like the the heavy front binding which replaced the silk binding. But, as you said, being plainer it did make it more wearable.
That style is totally stunning!!! 😍 I was about to say that I think it could work really well with modern fashion, and then you did that!!! Absolutely love, thanks for sharing Nicole!
I learned so much from this video! Simply sublime!!!! Beautiful construction!! 1930s is my favorite era, but lately I have been appreciating the elegance of Edwardian, early 1900s. I really want to make a few Edwardian blouses to go with walking skirts and structured blazers/jackets... Thank you!!
I absolutely adore the shape of the garment, the only thing I would change would be the sleeves for my personal preference to wear it. Amazing job, and the jacket looks fabulous!
Oh my goodness so beautiful your hand sticking is just perfect. And pls can there be a pattern!!! My tayloring skills are so not at that lv but I would love to just dive In and try it.
I agree it's a beautiful jacket. I can imagine you wearing it with Edwardian or Belle Epoque Citrines or Topaz pins and rings. The crimson skirt in th3 history bounding portion is TDF
Elegant and bold! Yes please add my count for a pattern 😊 I'm very broad across the shoulders and have busted out so many back shoulder seams in fitted coats and jackets, that I have been wearing loose jumper style things for years. The arm setting here would give me all the space I need. Superb work, looking forward to what comes next. Catch you then ☕
I love the music you chose for this video so very much. Also, I'm grateful for the detail footage of sewing in the eye and hooks. It's something I really struggle with.
Awesome this is my great grandma’s era, my grandmom had lovely clothes as a 16 yr old! and they went back to Italy for a few years on a ship to visit and then came back to the United States and she was traveling quite a lot. I have wonderful pictures of some of the shirts and the styles this brought it to life for me thank you so much and I love watching Abby Cox. I just found you and your shoe making video and I’m really in thralled and enjoying your channel
I adore the jacket you made and how it goes with so much "modern" stuff. I would also like to say that I love your videos, everything you make and do, and especially your choices in music to back your videos. It/They are so relaxing and match perfectly with the timbre of your voice the lovely sounds that you sometimes hear when you are handstitching. I must say it is a blessing i live in Australia or I would pinch your beautiful little baby, even though i can no longer physically care for a baby of my own. Thank you and God bless you
I love watching you line up the pleats and interfacing when you're hand stitching. I am so glad you did a little pairing with other pieces in your collection, that was really neat.
Wow, just wow... I was memorized from beginning to end, and appreciate what you do and share, i thank you for being you so very much through these videos 💞
A multi sized pattern of this would be highly prized by me. If you include those fashion reference images for inspiration on trim variations it would delight. For THIS garment I’d pay for a video tutorial too. Watching again....
Wow! It goes well with everything!! You are going to get so much wear out of this and look distinctive and stylish too. Yes to more of these - I love watching construction - I always learn something. Thank you 😊
I am in love. I love how the jacket looked with dress slacks and jeans. I have to try and make one. I have gained a ton of weight and I always say when I the weight is off I will make this. But the time I want to make it now. I think it will be very slimming with the way it is cut.
I am as crazy about these sleeves as everyone else, but I also love the stitching on the collar! I want to experiment with decorative topstitching that functions like padstitching. The wheels in my mind are turning!
I decided to go back to the beginning, and watch everything you've put on here, Nicole - and this jacket really caught my eye! What I love most about it, is that it looks absolutely amazing with black jeans! In fact, it looked amazing no matter what you wore with it! :) I so admire your skill, in bringing these historic pieces to light once more, as it's really shown me just how much our fashions often rely on what came befre - and soemetimes quite far back in the past - it's all really wonderful :)
I absolutely love this jacket! I wish I could see the layers of the front and the closures once you finished. Can you imagine how many ways you could wear this made up in black fabrics too?😏😳 You did a fabulous job!
What a beautiful jacket, I ADORE the sleeves!!! 😍 I will think about layering different kinds of fabric to get structure when I start to make a 1950s coat the next days. We can apply these techniques on several fashion periods. 😊
Nicole, I love that I have discovered your channel! Your knowledge and impressive skills, as well as your love and passion are inspiring and so entertaining!
Wow...a lot of people want a pattern of this jacket...🤔🤔🤔
are we... not supposed to?
Oh my goodness, yes!
A merch opportunity, perhaps? A pattern as merch, why not? Lol
Yes we do!
Yes plz
"They didn't expect one piece of fabric to do it all." Best quote ever...and we are just like that...working together and helping each other...turns out some pretty beautiful stuff!!!
With the black jeans is brilliant... i would totally wear that.
Stopping in to say that I adore the sound of the thread going through silk... It is calm and luxurious at the same time.
OMG. I just learned I’ve been applying my hook and eyes incorrectly my entire life!! 😱
Yeah, I've got to go fix some now!
Same here! I have always hated hooks and eyes passionately because I’ve been doing them wrong lol
Me too!!!
Same!
Same! It looks so much prettier doing it the right way!!
If you/Abby aren't interested in selling a pattern from this piece, I beg of you to please share photos with scale references so we can try to draft our own! 🙏
I know it’s been a while, Etsy has one that’s a start. It’s the 1908 ladies coat with body and sleeves from vintage pattern girl, pdf. And NO, it won’t stop me from buying this lovely pattern if it ever gets released. If not, you have one.
I deeply appreciate the mic sensitivity and quality on the hand stitching. It's sewing ASMR and I would happily listen to an hour of just quiet fabric sounds.
I agree 100% Just hearing the thread run through the cloth made me feel as if it were in my own fingers
I've never wanted a pattern so bad in my life
☺️
A M E N!!!!
Oh yes please
Yes! It's way above my current skill level but I'm already picturing it in a more me color (imagine navy or hunter green)
@@NoadiArt way beyond mine too, but that's the whole point ! it'll serve as motivation until i can finally use it !
I've been living hearing your voice on your own channel more. Costube is becoming bigger by the day, but I think you bring a unique voice and aesthetic to the table. Thank you!
Oooh, it's gorgeous! And you "historybounding" ending showed me that my plan of pairing Victorian/Edwardian blouses and jackets with 40's skirts and trousers will look quite nice.
Rachel Maksy does a lot of pairing of Edwardian style blouses with 40s skirts and trousers, and it looks awesome.
I think this is a timeless piece and you can mix and match it with allmost anything as long as it doesn't have a flower pattern and is preferably made out of the same type of fabric. Personally, I don't dig the sleeve length but that's just preferance.
The reveal with modern fashion at the end is just perfection. Had to send the video to my Mum because I'm pretty sure she'll get a kick out of the way it updates so well.
Particularly smitten with the way the jacket plays with not only the stone-coloured trousers, but also the cherry red straight skirt. 😃
Totally agree! It ages so well into modern fashion. ❤
I was surprised by how well the jacket goes with so many different things, but I think it looks best with the most modern of the garments shown, the black jeans.
I loooooove the choice of shell buttons instead of the more decorated ones of the original garment. I think it really tones down what we see today as the more garish and over the top elements of Edwardian style.
THAT WIG GETS ME EVERY TIME!! You turn into a person who just stepped out of the era you recreate. The styling of the wig always looks so natural and real, and the way you get the silhouette to look perfect... *chef's kiss*
Props to you on the sleuthing and patterning - it's truly a gorgeous piece, and you pulled it off excellently both in creation and styling
Uhhh...I kept my fingers crossed for the history bounding part. I think it works especially well with the front open.👌🏻 Thanks for sharing your process (and yayy for friends who share their treasures).
will you consider making a pattern draft for this available? I'm envisioning either steele blue or Mallard with seal brown braid and buttons, with possibly a matching walking skirt, tea length. or almost identical to the one you just did in a golden mustardy brown. hmmmmm
It's kinda like a poet's shirt for jackets. Has a definite feel it adds to every outfit, but that just makes it better.
LOVE “history bounding” more please!!! 🙏😍 would love to see that from Abby Cox, too 😊
I was literally drooling throughout this video, I could almost feel the fabric and weight of the garment through the screen, and the finishing is so eye-droppingly beautiful! A second to those who want a pattern of this jacket!
Love how you showed sewing the hook and eyes. My mom showed me that way in the early 60's and I had forgotten about it. Thanks so much for those little details ☺️
This jacket has lived rent free in my head for two weeks now, I'm begging you for a pattern!
I always find it fascinating how structured tailord garments are. It just amazes me how much time is put to all the little detiles 😍
I love the rosette button detail. Its soo cute.
The zigzag pattern on the collar is something I've learned to do on modern tailoring pieces as well, so was not surprised to see it!
I am so happy to have found the historical sewing videos on RUclips. It has changed the way I look at construction and finishing techniques, and affirmed my own inclinations to do things differently from the way I originally learned (for modern garments).
Love how this jacket turned out so versatile. Would love a Pattern of it. I would so make this in miniature. :}
How beautiful! Those full three-quarter length sleeves are to die for Such lovely fabric (that cream silk satin is too lush for words), and such marvelous pattern-making and sewing. Just discovered your channel and am very impressed!
When you pair it with the more modern black dress or trousers I'm actually reminded very much of the linen business-casual jackets my mother wore in the 1980s' in the UK - so many of the things she wore had those style of big sleeves and ribbon ties/pussy-bows at the front (although hers had some serious shoulder-pad action going on too...)
Love the detailed hand stiching and I have to say I am in love with the black cami and jeans combo with your fabulous jacket!!
i have been so eagerly waiting a better look at this jacket! i'm so glad you did so much exposition on the inner workings and tailoring, it's been something i've been pushing to learn more about this past year and new/different techniques build a better tailor. i know i'm gonna end up rewatching over and over for those, as well as to try to glean the pattern from some of the wider shots. my inspiration to tackle something like this is through the roof!
Yes! Please make more! I love watching you make beautiful things and reveal so many little secrets of historical garments.
Perfection!!!!!!! Your study and construction of this garment have let me without words!!!
It boggles my mind that my grandmother, born 1901, must have remembered clothes like this, but also lived to see the mini dresses of the 1960s.
I love watching your videos as well as Bernadette's because you both take so much care in breaking down the step by step construction process of these wonderful pieces, and watching you sew is so relaxing 😌
When you got to the history bounding part I was thinking "Show it with jeans!" And then you did and it was beautiful!
Oh, excellent! Especially love the historybounding at the end - I have neither the budget nor the closet space to make historical pieces just for their own lovely sake, so I need anything I make to be wearable in a real-life context.
Any chance that you and Abby will be releasing this as a pattern for sale? Pretty please?
😉😉😉😉
Remaking exant garments then making the pattern available for sell would be a cool series :)
I love the ways you can history bound in that awesome jacket.
I love the history bounding bit at the end! This jacket simply looks so good with everything!
Great detail, and this jacket is S T U N N I N G! This is a must have pattern for everyone's wardrobe!
My brain can't comprehend being smart & talented enough to not only be able to figure out how something like this had been made but then to also turn around & be able to make it. I told her she does her best & to go back to bed.
This is so beautiful! And I’ll add my voice to the chorus asking for a pattern.
Wow, the fabric, the construction, the fit, it's all so gorgeous!!!
I loved learning how the jacket was constructed by watching you make it. And it's gorgeous. Yes please to more like this!
Oh yes, thank you for including that amazing *scritch scritch* of the shears cutting through fabric. ASMR happiness.
Ok, after more watching, all the beautiful sewing noises are delightful and soothing to my soul. Thank you!
What a FANTASTIC job with this video! The close ups of the sewing and hearing the thread pulled through the cloth gave me the sensation of actually sewing it myself. (Hard to explain) Add in the lovely music and your detailed explanations... How could one ask for more! Thank you for a most enjoyable 25 minutes!
Watching your video today I learned a lot about putting in hook and eyes. Thank you 😊
You: this sleeve dated at 1907
My brain: TITANIC
Me @ my brain: no, you fool, 1907
My brain: ... TITANIC
So funny!
Why not Titanic? Back in those days people wore their nice clothes more than one season. So your brain is right to shout TITANIC!
It just cracked me up
How did you get the pattern of this jacket? I would love to see more of the pattering process for such a complicated garment.
Wow! I am going to watch this a few times. I am not a sewer at this level but I so love watching you recreating this elegant fashions.
Very interesting video. I enjoyed the detail of the hand VS machine sewing, and the insights on construction - your lessons learned. The line of not expecting one luxurious fabric to do all the work was an epiphany for me. And yes, love the bounding...
I have never thought to stitch down the ends of hooks & eyes! I will now! The jacket turned out very nice.
Wow, love it. I am not a tailor at all, ( lastvtimevi ever sewed something was in middle school in 1978) but thanks for the interesting details.
Ty Abby for sharing your piece.
The stitching on that collar is freaking gorgeous!!
Oooh it's so beautiful! I adore all the little details of Edwardian women's suits!
The collar zig zags are so delightful, and the shape reminds me a bit of those weird transitional 17th century doublets.
Absolutely fantastic! Would purchase a pattern in a heartbeat! This is the perfect historybounding jacket; it looked great with every single outfit you paired it with. Thank you so much for this delightful video! 🥰♥️
Exquisite! I learned that women’s tailoring hits me in all the good feels and is worth paying a lot of money to acquire. As always I so enjoy your content. It just helps brighten my day and inspire my creativity. Thank you
Wow, gotta love that Jacket! Love it with jeans and with the wide legged pants! Very Chic.
Oh wow! That jacket is so beautiful! Love the colour. Love the sleeves. And the decorative stitching under the collar. Oh! Love the whole thing!
Personally, i like the the heavy front binding which replaced the silk binding. But, as you said, being plainer it did make it more wearable.
That style is totally stunning!!! 😍
I was about to say that I think it could work really well with modern fashion, and then you did that!!! Absolutely love, thanks for sharing Nicole!
I have finally learn how to do hook and eyes properly and how to finish them off correctly. Thank you NICOLE!!!!
Nicole, this is lovely! Thanks for bringing us along.
I learned so much from this video! Simply sublime!!!! Beautiful construction!! 1930s is my favorite era, but lately I have been appreciating the elegance of Edwardian, early 1900s. I really want to make a few Edwardian blouses to go with walking skirts and structured blazers/jackets... Thank you!!
Your work is so neat and precise. You are informative and an inspiration. I love the Edwardian era. Yes, do more of these videos
I absolutely adore the shape of the garment, the only thing I would change would be the sleeves for my personal preference to wear it. Amazing job, and the jacket looks fabulous!
Oh my goodness so beautiful your hand sticking is just perfect. And pls can there be a pattern!!! My tayloring skills are so not at that lv but I would love to just dive In and try it.
What a glorious piece of sewing! I am in love with the fancy machine stitching on the under collar. That needs a revival.
I agree it's a beautiful jacket. I can imagine you wearing it with Edwardian or Belle Epoque Citrines or Topaz pins and rings. The crimson skirt in th3 history bounding portion is TDF
Elegant and bold! Yes please add my count for a pattern 😊 I'm very broad across the shoulders and have busted out so many back shoulder seams in fitted coats and jackets, that I have been wearing loose jumper style things for years. The arm setting here would give me all the space I need.
Superb work, looking forward to what comes next. Catch you then ☕
I love the music you chose for this video so very much. Also, I'm grateful for the detail footage of sewing in the eye and hooks. It's something I really struggle with.
Awesome this is my great grandma’s era, my grandmom had lovely clothes as a 16 yr old! and they went back to Italy for a few years on a ship to visit and then came back to the United States and she was traveling quite a lot. I have wonderful pictures of some of the shirts and the styles this brought it to life for me thank you so much and I love watching Abby Cox. I just found you and your shoe making video and I’m really in thralled and enjoying your channel
I adore the jacket you made and how it goes with so much "modern" stuff. I would also like to say that I love your videos, everything you make and do, and especially your choices in music to back your videos. It/They are so relaxing and match perfectly with the timbre of your voice the lovely sounds that you sometimes hear when you are handstitching. I must say it is a blessing i live in Australia or I would pinch your beautiful little baby, even though i can no longer physically care for a baby of my own. Thank you and God bless you
Wow this is such a gorgeous piece. I really enjoy the sleeves. It's so interesting to see how it can pair so well with modern clothes.
I think @Abbycox and Nicole should start a pattern line, just inch square versions of their originals!
seeing historical fashion.... I have to say we don't have enough fun with sleeves any more these days.
I love watching you line up the pleats and interfacing when you're hand stitching. I am so glad you did a little pairing with other pieces in your collection, that was really neat.
Wow, just wow... I was memorized from beginning to end, and appreciate what you do and share, i thank you for being you so very much through these videos 💞
A multi sized pattern of this would be highly prized by me. If you include those fashion reference images for inspiration on trim variations it would delight. For THIS garment I’d pay for a video tutorial too. Watching again....
It looks amazing! I particularly love it with the black top and trousers. I’ll bet that lining feels awesome against the skin
It is beautiful! It looks great with black pants! What a stunning piece.
Mesmerising! This jacket is from my grandmother’s era!
Wow! It goes well with everything!! You are going to get so much wear out of this and look distinctive and stylish too. Yes to more of these - I love watching construction - I always learn something. Thank you 😊
LOVE the historybounding at the end!! More please!
I am in love. I love how the jacket looked with dress slacks and jeans. I have to try and make one. I have gained a ton of weight and I always say when I the weight is off I will make this. But the time I want to make it now. I think it will be very slimming with the way it is cut.
This style is very wearable for now. And I love the buttons you used.
It's so beautiful! I neeeed this pattern. ❤
I am as crazy about these sleeves as everyone else, but I also love the stitching on the collar! I want to experiment with decorative topstitching that functions like padstitching. The wheels in my mind are turning!
You make it look soo simple! But in fact there’s A LOT of hours and love ❤️ gone into that!! So very beautifully made!
So much detail! Thank you so much for this unique video, the amount of knowledge, craftsmanship and artistry is extraordinary! :)
What a gorgeous jacket!!! Thank you for the walk through of its construction.
I decided to go back to the beginning, and watch everything you've put on here, Nicole - and this jacket really caught my eye!
What I love most about it, is that it looks absolutely amazing with black jeans!
In fact, it looked amazing no matter what you wore with it! :)
I so admire your skill, in bringing these historic pieces to light once more, as it's really shown me just how much our fashions often rely on what came befre - and soemetimes quite far back in the past - it's all really wonderful :)
Love this jacket, I would love the pattern. I also would love it in a dark blue ❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕 beautiful work !
Gorgeous! I love how it works with all sorts of clothing items.
What a lovely jacket! and I think you recreation out shined the original! It does go great with modern clothes!
Absolutely loved today's video 💚 ESPECIALLY the historybounding segment 😍🤩🥰
Ich bin begeistert !!! Großartig 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💕
Love seeing how versatile the jacket is! Yay for history bounding
I absolutely love this jacket! I wish I could see the layers of the front and the closures once you finished. Can you imagine how many ways you could wear this made up in black fabrics too?😏😳 You did a fabulous job!
What a beautiful jacket, I ADORE the sleeves!!! 😍 I will think about layering different kinds of fabric to get structure when I start to make a 1950s coat the next days. We can apply these techniques on several fashion periods. 😊
I've repro'd a 1950s jacket as well and the hem interlining was almost exactly the same! It's how they got that Dior New Look hip shape.
Love love love. Please do more like this. I am learning so much from you, thanks :)
Nicole, I love that I have discovered your channel! Your knowledge and impressive skills, as well as your love and passion are inspiring and so entertaining!