Answering Your Questions While Making My Wedding Dress (and Cleaning my Sewing Studio) | AMA
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- A little AMA mixed with some frantic wedding dress sewing & sewing studio organizing! (Warning: extremely cute dog footage also included) - From how I started my career in costume history, what kind of software I use to edit my youtube videos - I answer your questions as best as I can while I sew the By Hand London Hannah Dress for my wedding! (Warning: Extremely sentimental doggo footage is in this video. You might need a tissue.)
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This week was busy y'all. In the week leading up to my wedding, I had an actual wedding dress to make, a Patreon to launch, a video (this one) to film and edit, another video to plan (next week's & it's going to be an epic collaboration with @NotYourMommasHistory), a third video to release on my Patreon (it's almost done!), and I needed to clean my sewing studio because it was (and still is) a disaster. So, in honor of the chaos that was Mercury entering retrograde and Venus finally stationing direct, this week's video is about answering your questions for me - whether they're about me, how I run my youtube channel, the doggos, historical costuming and dress history advice, and also a bit about cosplaying Howl's Moving Castle!
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Thank you for all the love! 😍Here are some more links to my pattern & fabric!
My Wedding Dress Pattern - By Hand London Hannah Dress: byhandlondon.com/products/hannah-dress-pdf-sewing-pattern
Burnley and Trowbridge Fabric (the same linen I used for the dress: www.burnleyandtrowbridge.com/6534.aspx
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Congratulations on your marriage! May you have many happy years together.
Thank you!
Congratulations!
@@AbbyCox the link to your patreon is not working and giving a 404 error message.
Mine too 😂 If I dont clean the floor my cats get in, and I don't want them finding and play with pins.
Pins on the floor is a combo of "where's Waldo" and The Floor is Lava. Only Waldo is going to stab you if you don't find him lol.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just grab a magnet wand and walk in with shoes and have it do the work. I had the accident dump of pin darts because my cat was rubbing against the open container thanks cat.
@@midenightsparkle3 YES, big magnet ftw
I sew while sitting on my bed, do I've woken up with long scratches or from from being poked by a pin or needle I forgot about.
Fishing magnets are a underrated addition to one's sewing kit
Finally, someone else with carpet and pins for their sewing room floor! 😂 /virtual high five!
I have an almost shag in mine. It so needs to be replaced but the other half is kid playroom, so I'm waiting until they aren't so gross anymore.
I am a begginner and got into this habit. I find so many pins lying around, amazing i have not been stabbed.
Girl! I hope you have all invested in a magnet on an extension stick. I worked for an upholster/drapery workshop for 15 years. Magnets on sticks & mechanic magnetic “dishes” will save your lives!
Those plastic pin magnets fall & break a lot. The metal mechanic ones are a better investment. Just saying
Story of my life!!! I need to get a big magnet to run over the carpet or not have carpet on the floor
there's no better way to find stray pins or glass shards on the floor than by walking on it barefoot- it is a scientific fact!
Murphy's law
LOL I was thinking a magnet would work better I know NOTHING Jon Snow. 😂
It's funny my mom and I never find them, but my dad is practically a magnet!
Kathryne Hiersche m
I managed to step on glass shards for three months after breaking a glass. I'd vacuumed many times and laid on the floor with a flashlight looking for and collecting shards, but magical hidden shards kept appearing in my feet.
Abby: Answering questions, cleaning room, playing with dogs MAKING HER WEDDING DRESS
Me: Her “cluttered” sewing room is cleaner than my house, I feel so lazy. 😁
in the books Howl is from like 1990's wales and have dimension hopped into sophie's world, so he's meant not to fit in.
He also played rugby, so he's also probably pretty buff
Who is Howl? You mentioned he's from 1990, where & when did he go?
Historical dress & BOOKS are as close as we can come to time travel. Wouldn't it be fun to live somewhere & somewhen where time travel was a fact of life & generally enjoyable? (As in avoiding plague & war....) Our own wormhole.... Kind of like marriage! 😉
I totally forgot about that! I need to re-read the book for sure
Jenn Hill He is a character from the book and animated film Howl’s Moving Castle.
Medaline thank you!!! That’s so awesome
You need an extendable magnet stick to hunt wayward pins. Help save your fingers from pokes when picking them up. 😊
I have one! I just...don't really know where it's at....😂
😂 I stick mine to my refrigerator so I can't lose it.
😂😂😂
Or a really strong magnetic pincushion and just hold it close to the floor. That’s what I’ve always done 😊
And congrats Abby! On the wedding and the dress, hope you had an awesome wedding day 😊
Or just a neodymium magnet glued to a stick.
The bit about time travel with the clip from Doctor Who with Ten saying, "And I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!" made me sigh and think, "Ah, don't we all wish..."
The captions read "I just stopped Madame Pompadour" your version makes so much more sense 😆
Fun fact, Howl's Moving Castle is set in a fantasy version of the German Empire. Some of the background posters are even in German.
Yes, I could read the German signs - reminded me of Kiki’s delivery service too!
oh about the pins my mom would miss them in quilts. otherwise get a nice strong magnet on a string sort of magnet fishing.
DAYBROK3 ooooouch in the middle of the night?
I constantly misplace my needles when I'm sewing on the couch.
Once I was just lounging, watching netflix and I feel a s h a r p stab. I immediately knew it was one of my needles but for the sake of my life I could not find it. I tried just a visual search, quite bravely pressing heavily down on the softness, calculating approximate location by where I was sitting and where the stab wound was, but nothing
Until I remembered that I have a metal detector.
I pulled her out(the smaller stick you use for precise location, not the actual vacuum :D ) and immediately found the culprit, ever so slightly diagonal but otherwise horisontal, just at the perfect angle to shank me
A really foolproof method, if you can get your hands on one :)
Harpuny I had that happen just recently! Eyeball found it, don’t have a metal detector just sharp eyes & strong magnet. And tough fingers & feet 😂
I'm addicted to wonder clips (I bought the fakes ones on Amazon)...I get annoyed when something I am making requires pins now. ;)
Harpuny - last year I thought I had a hernia, it turned out to be a tiny betweens needle that had grown a hard callous around it, so had probably been there for years!
I never felt it going in, I definitely felt it coming out, especially the last two stitches without anaesthetic!
Congrats on you Wedding. Also just remember to the untrained what looks like mess in a sewing or craft room is really creativity. Your not messy just very creative.
Steampunk Pixie I must be amazingly creative 😂. I like this, though, I’m going to borrow it, if you don’t mind. “No, that’s not a mess. That’s the evidence of my creativity.”
Recommendation: get the “hairpin pal” to help you with the pins on the floor situation. I am a dancer and I use it both for my Bobby pins and also if I need safety pins to be pinned into a costume. Since it’s magnetic, you can just wave it over your floor and it will pick up the pins for you! :)
Jimmie (or is it Jimmy?) is one lucky guy. And that Camille Clifford dress in eggplant or deep red would look even more amazing on you (as if that was possible)
I love that in every video there’s a certain point that your hair stands up and asserts itself.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I feel like this could have been my youtube video. I also am a short haired, unorganized, vintagey sewer with a wedding dress in the works, half done projects, tons of masks, and pins all over my carpet. Its a beautiful disaster, and I'm so glad I'm not the only one with these problems. Makes me feel more put together
Just gotta love your honesty. As a Dutchie (we're known for being dead honest with our way of talking) I really liked your answers to the questions!
Also, fluffy goofballs are ÜBER cute * _ *
thank you (and I agree - they're super freaking cute...also annoying, but very cute!) 😂
Glad I’m not the only one using the “holy (random word/phrase) Batman!”...pretty sure no one knows what the hell im referring to
A simple homemade linen wrap dress for your wedding, that sounds so pleasant and inexpensive and stress free and usable in so many other places too.
I am 64 and have sewn most of my life, I finally bought a magnet wand for gathering up those darn dropped pins and needles!
Love the Camille Clifford dress. I have somehow managed to set my YT so it always has subtitles, and they are about 50/50 on accuracy. This came up with American Duchess as American detritus!
Yeah, my caption service really screwed that one up, but I am also lazy and haven't gone in to fix it manually myself 😂
I feel like we're the same person.
My brother bought me a pincushion for Christmas cause he was finding pins all over his house when I was living with him.
Time travel on Tuesday. Haha. I feel like someone has been time traveling and messing things up which is why this year is so full of random things happening!
I know that meme and I agree with that meme. 😂
Abby: I wish you & Jimmy (?) the very best of lives together! &, when clouds come, always remember the sun will soon come out & life will be better. (As Hubster & I have been married 43 years, I get asked all sorts of marriage questions, I apologize for just giving you "stuff" unasked!)
Love your four foots. They're completely adorable. I'm sure our 3 would be all goofy & drool all over them!
So, may flowers & rainbows & attendant unicorns accompany you, at least now & then. 😉
God bless you in both areas of your life & may regrets be small & few in number.
Jennifer
Congrats on getting married! And thanks for the adorable dog content!!!
My son bought me a wonderful magnet with a long handle that resembles a push broom, so when I finish sewing for the day I just "sweep" the floor with the magnet. I have not stepped on a pin since I have had it :)
Pins on floor....yeppers & when we were cleaning out my parents house after Dad died (it’s ok, he was healthy until 2wks before & 92yo) I took his desk mat. I used it so my sewing chair will roll but also it makes picking up stray pins easier. Some still end up on the carpet which I think I will remove. Carpet & sewing don’t mix. Nice on the feet, until you or the dog or grandkids step on a pin.
Love your room! So organized! I took over a kid’s room after he left (abandoned us) but never really did a proper job setting it up for sewing & crafting. I also apparently hoard fabric. 4 large bins. And found more in our basement storage space.
Ooh a wedding? Wow! Congratulations!
Can't wait to watch this hehe ❤
I don't allow shoes in my sewing room (even slipper have a way of being worn outside or to the chicken coop) but luckily I have wood floors so pins are easy to see. I may purchase some house shoes for my sewing space only.
Abby, I am venturing into costuming. I have my favorite time periods. 1890, 1950's, 1970. There are others. I was a teenager in the 70's. I won't be able to afford historical fabric's but my garments will be historically stitched. I am an experienced seemstress. I took all the sewing classes offered in middle and high school. I have no books of any kind on historical clothing. I will be setting up my sewing room in the next few weeks. I have a large family room to use. I watched Bernadette Banner set up her studio. I am looking forward to getting started. I have a petticoat that was given to me years ago. It has removable steel bands. The total width is 120". I cannot wait to wear it again. I also like the dress during the civil war. Congratulations on your wedding.
How is your sewing/costuming journey going? I saw your comment just now and had to ask! I was also inspired by Bernadette's sewing studio creation videos :)
@@rj3892 , I haven't started yet. Need to straighten up the room so I can get everything set up and ready. I am so ready to make me a corset.
It's my head canon now that Howl is a secret/proto J- or K-POP idol.
Congrats on the wedding!
Organizing and dogs. It's like this video was made just for me. I feel seen.
My grandmother once forgot a pin in a pillow when flipping the fabric to right sides out. So the pillow ended up with essentially a bee stinger that we had to pull out with pliers.
Congratulations on the wedding. Somehow I missed that part. Ah yes pins and floors with carpets... The bane of my sewing life... Your puppies are adorbs.
I have a metal gift card holder that I attached magnets to where I put the lid on the other side. I use that to pick up all my pins on the lid side so when I'm done, I can just slide the lid off and have all my pins again! 😁
Crafter hack: use a strong fridge magnet to pick up your pins. Run it across the floor and you’ll pick them (and some other weird shit) up off your carpet!
You are an amazing human Abby 💓 ps I always get in trouble with my husband for loosing needles and pins everywhere 🙈 we have 4 small kids, thankfully they are well trained to bring me anything sharp they find 😂 as well as to not touch my sewing or knitting
In my current sewing space, I find, if I drop a pin that I don't immediately see, I kind of shrug, and say, I guess I'll find it the old fashioned way! So far I've seen them later. Mostly.
Congrats on your wedding!
Congratulations on your wedding! I wish you and Jimmy many happy years together.
We won’t talk about the swearing and stupid things I did when I made my wedding dress almost 27 years ago...over the school winter break...for my January 8th wedding. Yes, I was hand sewing fabric roses at school while I supervised the kids working on their computer assignments a few days before the wedding. But I get it done!
Ahahahahah!!!!!! My mother was a sewer and I learned as a kid to never be barefoot when she was sewing. The carpet was a mindfield of pins.
I love going to colonial Williamsburg it’s about 20 minutes away form where I live. I want to take my daughters his summer. I think she will love the clothing from that time period. She like to watch your videos.
Abby, get a magnet bowl from the hardware store. I have a bunch of these because....my floor is a a pin collector. These are used by men to keep screws on the work bench. They are so good.
My mother made my wedding dress. I picked the pattern, we found all the fabric, and she worked so hard and it was absolutely beautiful!💖 I hope you’ve had a great nearly 2 years of marriage 😊
Aww, I'm glad I didn't click away and miss Suba's tricks! 😍 Also, I love your beautiful, simple dress!
Thank you! And yes, I had to save the real show for the end 😂😂😂
Congratulations!! How exciting! Wishing you both well as you start your new adventure ❤️
This got me motivated to pull out a modern sewing project and work on it!
Love the dress, hoping you had a wonderful, stress-free wedding day!
Congratulations on your wedding! I wish you two many years of good health and happiness.
Congratulations on this Happiest of Occasions! Here's to many years of love and support between you and your husband.
When we were kids in the seventies my sister stepped on a needle in our gran's sewing room. The needle broke off in her foot and she had to have surgery😢 No shade Abby🤗, just sharing an anecdote😛
Oh yeah..I know those stories. I didn’t need surgery for this but one time I was cleaning my couch cushions and a pin went freakishly deep into my finger. 😬 sewing is not for the faint of heart 😂
I had surgery for a needle in the foot too! It was really horrible crutches are horrible too. My grandmother caught me biking to a friend’s house with my crutches over the handlebars of my bike!! I was in a world of trouble but it really made sense to my teenage mind. Use a magnet to help you get all the pins it’s really easy.
I, too, had surgery from a needle in my foot... Drs said it could travel up the vein to the heart and I still have the scar 30 years later....So I won't say anything else!
Same horror story here. Except that the Doctor thought I was making it up and sent me home without even an xray. Fortunately I stubbed that toe 2 weeks later which pushed the needle sort of out the side. Removed it myself. Healed up fine but it could have ended very differently.
Me tooo. Still have a scar lol. No one believed me for a week before I finally got x-rays. I was a touch dramatic as a child.
Loved the cleanup inspo, sewing inspo, and adorable dog tricks!
The sped up cleaning footage is SOOOOO satisfying!
Congratulations! Being married is just about my favorite thing! I love it! I'm so happy for you! The dress is lovely! And so are you! I enjoy your videos very much!
Congratulations On Your Wedding Ms.Abby - Thank you for sharing so much with all of us, It' is so nice to know you a bit better..
Oh my gosh I love the angle and lighting and backdrop (yes, messy sewing table and everything!) when you talk about the Camille Clifford dress. It’s such a wonderful blend of cinematic and artful messiness.
Good wishes for your future. Like most people I am desperate to see your dress!
Birdy
Congratulations! What an adorable couple and family you guys have become with your beautiful pups. Your dress is just stunning and I hope you share some photos of the two of you on your special day. Really take the time to enjoy the precious moments of joy together. It is so magical to be a young couple at the beginning of your adventure together. Best wishes to you both!
Belated congrats, and I hope everything is still going well for you. Thank you for sharing!
Hey Lady... thanks for answering my question. Guess I'm a gonna be playing about with DaVinci Resolve for the rest of the summer... tee hee.
- Cathy (&, completely accidentally, Steve - because I started subscribing to things whilst under his password and can't be arsed to set up my own account because there is no in-house-Millennial to shame me into proper interwebs protocols), Ottawa/Bytown
Dear Editing Abby, I had a giggle when you closed the wooden sewing box and picked up the tissue box, and then they appeared behind you on the shelf without the lid and tipped over. It was so cute.I love your dogs. They are awesome 😊
Congratulations on your wedding! I hope it was a wonderful day for you both. Your dress is beautiful
Congrats!! 💗
Lol, we've all had the pins on the floor fun!! Strong magnet is the best!! I found one in a quilt she made like 10 years later!! Lol
Thanks for another great video! I waited to watch it until today so I could watch it on my Birthday as a little treat to myself 😊💕
Abby! Congratulations on getting married! I love the videos when you're talking abd sewing! I super love your show!
So happy for you - congratulations to you both. You have two gorgeous fur babies - we really need a doggo or two to complete our family ❤️
Congratulations on your wedding 🎉♥️ and many happy years to come x
Yay! I just remembered that it's Sunday and I get to watch another Abby video :) Congratulations on your wedding!
Legos, needles, glass -- bare feet are the best way to find these things. Science.
So, you and I have a very similar background as to how we got into historical dress! Everyone else I know who sews has been doing it since practically the womb and I'm over here like, "ayyy how y'all doing". It warms my heart to know there's someone out there who had a non-traditional/theatre kid route to this, too!
Thanks for a clutter clean up video. Also congratulations on your wedding. Suba and Gryffy are adorable.
Congratulations! The dress turned out beautiful. Saw your post on IG. Such a Happy Couple. Many Blessing sent your way.
Everything about this video is so great. I loved the dog naming stories!!
You need a big magnet attached to a stick to get the pins off the floor. Strip magnets work well too.
Much love! Watching this as I frantically sew pin tucks because it's the 22nd and I want the bloomers finished (to wear with the skirt I have made) for christmas lunch.
Congrats! This was such a pleasant video to be listening to while I was taking care of animals out in the rain this morning. The dress looks gorgeous!
Too fun! I love watching & listening to you... the history, fabrics and fashion satisfies my interests, shutting off the sound and just “enjoying the show” of “YOU” is ( no exaggeration ) just like watching my own personality daughter, Joy. You truly could be her dark haired twin! Quirky humor and all!! ❤️❤️
Happy Wedding!
Congratulations, I wish you both all the best
i finally got to the end of the video! XD thanks for the cute pupper footage! xoxoxo
also please include more worn photos of your wedding dress next week--it looks lovely!! and, again, congratulations!
Omg! Congratulations on your wedding! 💕 I hope everything went splendid~ Thank you for sharing the pup stories. The baby Suba photos just made my heart explode into a million butterflies! SHE'S SO CUTE AND SMALL! Griffy is indeed brave and I'm glad he has found a forever home with you. Pup pups deserve all the love in the world. 😭💕
She was smol tato - only 4 lbs! 😭😭😭😭
You can get super strong magnets on a long stick (some even have wheels) from any hardware store to use in your sewing room!
Roofers use them to pick up nails from grass 😀
You're sooo interesting to watch, love your sense of humor ❤️
Congratulations! I wish you a very happy married life!! Keep having fun!!
Congratulations Abby!!! Wishing you all the best! Virtual hugs
I have lost needles. I need to go and find my magnet fun thing from when I was a kid. I think we all need a kid magnet. 😂
Congratulations!! I wish you both years of happiness and understanding. ❤️
I love that you are going to reuse your wedding dress. I wish I knew hot to sew when I got married and did that.
Congratulations on your wedding,your dress was beautiful, and may you enjoy many happy years together, I don't know how you managed to get everything done in time.
I sew barefoot, messy S. Room, AND 20,000 ,current projects. Magnet on a stick. BTW, made my wedding dress too. Had 2 mos to get it together. 44 years ago! (And 10 kids) The kids are a great way to learn and hone my sewing skils.
Congratulations on your wedding! Loved this video and I've often wondered about your editing (which I love). I am downloading DaVinci Resolve as I type this. Thank you! It's very exciting to follow your journey.
Congratulations 🎉
Your dress is lovely and the pups are adorable.
I need to clean my sewing room as well. Maybe I'll try to start on that over the weekend. Project planning is just much more fun than cleaning....
Feeling the pins on the floor. Made my first garment last week and had so many stabs. Like: let me turn this fab-OWwwChiEs :( but super happy it worked out. And congrats!!! Also Howel's moving castle is my favourite film ever x
I have determined that no garment is complete without at least one drop of blood somewhere. It’s like a blood sacrifice to the clothing gods, and it must be made! 😂
Such a wonderful story how you guys saved poor Griff
Love the doggo tricks!!! And you and your content ❤️
Howl's Moving Castle - EXCELLENT!!! Love that movie. And who doesn't swoon when girl meets boy for the first time?!?!?! He's gorgeous as a blonde, and that voice. I mean, as a grandmother I do realize this is animation. But a good movie for young girls that proves love comes from within and not how you look. And Belated Congratulations.
We used to have magnetic pin "cushions" that were sort of oval shaped plastic box with the magnet inside. It was very easy to sweep it across the table and gather all needles with it.
My Dad gave me a tool from his toolbox years ago that is a telescoping magnet. It is used for picking up dropped screws when doing mechanical work but works like a dream for picking up lost sewing pins. You don't even need to see the pin, just wave the magnetic tip over the carpet or floor.
Congratulations! Also, I, too, have a carpet and, interestingly pins. I bought one of those big magnets on a stick (it looks like a metal push-broom with no bristles) from the car part store. I glide that sucker across the floor, under tables and shelves -- all the pins (and needles) are picked up.
Congratulations on the wedding! The puppers are adorbs too!
Ahh! Looks amazing - Congratulations! Hope it was a lovely day! Stay safe and thanks for sharing
I am enjoying some of your videos as I clip antique beaded trim from strips of fabric it was originally sewed to. It was just cut off of the garment.
Oh my gosh! Congratulations!!!!
Congratulation! That dress is amazing! Also that is two very good doggies! They're so cute!!!
Time travel Tuesdays!! Woot!
Mazel tov on your wedding! And I just want to say that I LOVE your eyebrows! I aspire to shape mine like yours ... just perfect!
Congrats on the wedding! Many blessings!